Author:Edward Eggleston

Edward Eggleston
(1837–1902)

Edward Eggleston

Works

Novels

• The Hoosier School-Master: a novel (1871) (transcription project)
• The End of the World. A Love Story (1872) (start transcription)
• The Mystery of Metropolisville (1873) (start transcription)
• The Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age (1874) (start transcription)
• Roxy (1878) (start transcription)
• The Hoosier School-boy (1883) (start transcription)
• The Graysons; a story of Illinois (1887) (start transcription)
• The Faith Doctor; a story of New York (1891) (start transcription)

Stories

• Mr. Blake's Walking Stick: A Christmas Story for Boys and Girls (1872) (start transcription)
• The Schoolmaster's Stories, for Boys and Girls (1874) (start transcription)
• Queer Stories for Boys and Girls (1884) (start transcription)
• Duffels (1893) (start transcription)
• Stories of American life and adventure, third reader grade (1895) (start transcription)
• Stories of great Americans for little Americans; second reader grade (1895) (start transcription)

Historical works

• Tecumseh and the Shawnee prophet. including sketches of George Rogers Clark, Simon Kenton, William Henry Harrison, Cornstalk, Blackhoof, Bluejacket, the Shawnee Logan, and others famous in the frontier wars of Tecumseh̕s time (1878), co-authored with Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (start transcription)
• Pocahontas, including an account of the early settlement of Virginia and of the adventures of Captain John Smith (1879), co-authored with Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (start transcription)
• Brant and Red Jacket: including an account of the early wars of the six nations and the border warfare of the revolution (1879), co-authored with Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (start transcription)
• The aborigines and the colonists (1883) (start transcription)
• Montezuma and the conquest of Mexico (1880), co-authored with Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (start transcription)
• Blaine vs. Cleveland : a letter from Edward Eggleston (1884) (start transcription)
• A history of the United States and its people: for the use of schools (1888) (start transcription)
• A first book in American history (1889) (start transcription) (Expanded edition (start transcription))
• The household history of the United States and its people, for young Americans (1889) (start transcription)
• The story of Columbus (1892), co-authored with Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (start transcription)
• The story of Washington (1893), co-authored with Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye (start transcription)
• The beginners of a nation; a history of the source and rise of the earliest English settlements in America, with special reference to the life and character of the people (1896) (start transcription)
• The transit of civilization from England to America in the seventeenth century (1900) (start transcription)
• The new century history of the United States (1904), co-authored with George Cary Eggleston (start transcription) (Revised, (start transcription))

Religious works

• The infant class: hints on primary religious instruction (1870), co-authored with Sara Jane Timanus (start transcription)
• Christ in art: or, the Gospel Life of Jesus. (1874), illustrated by Alexandre Bida (transcription project)
• Christ in literature : being a treasury of choice readings, in prose and verse, from writers of all ages, illustrative of the acts and words of Jesus Christ (1875) (start transcription)
• Life studies in the story of Jesus (1900), co-authored with Louisa T. Cragin, illustrated by Alexandre Bida (start transcription)

Other

• A New Dictionary of Americanisms : being a glossary of words supposed to be peculiar to the United States and the dominion of Canada (1902), by Sylva Clapin, with article reprints from Eggleston as well as Brander Matthews, Edward Burnett Tylor, and William Hickman Smith Aubrey (start transcription)
• Letter to Carl Schurz (February 22, 1881)

Works about Eggleston

• "Eggleston, Edward," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Eggleston, Edward," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)