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[Up] [Dromo's Den] James Fields Biography FIELDS,
James Thomas (1817-81). An American author and publisher. He was born in
Portsmouth, N. H., and was educated in the public schools of that place. In 1834
he removed to Boston, and in 1839 he became junior partner in the publishing
firm of Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, in which he later became the controlling
partner. His charming personal qualities, his sympathy, his liberality to all
with whom he dealt, and his sound literary judgment drew to him most of the
best-known American, authors of the time, and he became the publisher of
Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emerson, Holmes, Whittier, and Lowell, besides
introducing Tennyson and Browning to American readers even before their true
worth was recognized in England. He edited the Atlantic
Monthly from 1862 to 1870. The last 10 years of his life were spent in
authorship and lecturing. His own published works include: Poems
(1849; 2d ed., 1854); A Few Verses for a
Few Friends (1858) Yesterdays with
Authors (1872; 2d ed., 1900) In and
Out of Doors with Charles Dickens (1876); Underbrush
(1877), a volume of essays. He also edited, with Edwin P. Whipple, a Family
Library of British Poetry (1878). Consult: Annie Adams Fields (his wife), Memoir
of James T. Fields, by his Wife (Boston, 1881); also her Authors
and Friends (ib., 1896)--Annie Adams (1834-1915), his wife, was born in
Boston Mass. Her publications include: Asphodel
(1866); Under the Olive (1880), a collection of verse; How to Help the Poor (1883); A
Shelf of Old Books (1894); The Singing Shepherd, and Other Poems
(1895),; the Life and Letters of Harriet
Beecher Stowe (1897); Nathaniel
Hawthorne (1899); Orpheus, a Masque
(1900); Charles Dudley Warner (1904). The New International
Encyclopaedia, Vol.
VIII
(New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920)
532.
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