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Francis Channing Woodworth
Born1812
Colchester, Connecticut
DiedJune 5, 1859
NationalityAmerican
Other namesTheodore Tinker
OccupationWriter

Francis Channing Woodworth (1812 – June 5, 1859) was a printer, vicar and a writer.

He was born at Colchester, Connecticut, the nephew of Samuel Woodworth,[1] and began his career as a printer. After eight years he became a preacher, but quit because of health issues.[2] Thereafter he became a writer of juvenile literature,[3] sometimes using pseudonym Theodore Tinker.[3] He was editor of a magazine called The Youth's Cabinet, which his brother D. Austin Woodworth published.[4] Francis died while sailing to New York from Savannah, Georgia.[3]

Bibliography

  • Stories for little folks[1]
  • Stories about birds and beasts (1850)
  • Stories about the country (1850)
  • A wheat-sheaf: gathered from our own fields (1850)
  • Our own fields[2] (1850)
  • The peddler's boy, or, I'll be somebody (1851)
  • A peep at the beasts (1851)
  • Stories about birds: with pictures to match (1851)
  • Uncle Frank's home stories[1] (1851) 6 volumes
  • Youth's book of gems[2] (1851)
  • The boy's story book (1852)
  • A budget of Willow Lane stories (1852)
  • The little mischief-maker: and other stories (1852)
  • A peep at the beasts: with twenty engravings (1852)
  • The poor organ-grinder: and other stories (1852)
  • Uncle Frank's peep at the beasts (1852)
  • Uncle Frank's picture gallery[2] (1852)
  • The wonderful letter-bag of kit curious: with tinted illustrations (1852)
  • First lessons in botany (1853)
  • Wonders of the insect world: with illustrative engravings (1853)
  • The boy's and girl's country book: with illustrations (1854)
  • The boy's story book (1854)
  • Buds and blossoms from our own garden (1854)
  • Jack Mason: the old sailor (1855)
  • The young American's life of Fremont (1856)
  • Stories about the country: with illustrations (1857)
  • The boy's and girl's country book (1858)
  • The picture A.B.C. book with stories (1859)

References

  1. ^ a b c Adams, Oscar Fay (1904), A Dictionary of American Authors, Houghton, Mifflin, p. 435.
  2. ^ a b c d Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889), Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, vol. 6, D. Appleton and Company, p. 609.
  3. ^ a b c Cushing, William (1885), Initials and pseudonyms: a dictionary of literary disguises, vol. 1, T. Y. Crowell & co., p. 201.
  4. ^ Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations, vol. 65, 1961, p. 566.
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