Fred Whishaw
Fred Whishaw | |
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Born | Frederick James Whishaw 14 March 1854 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Died | 8 July 1934 Slapton, Devon, England | (aged 80)
Pen name | Fred Whishaw, Frederick J. Whishaw |
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Nationality | British |
Genre | Historical fiction, adventure fiction, children's literature |
Spouse | Ethel Charlotte Moberly |
Children | Gwendolen Elsie Moberly Whishaw |
Relatives | Winifred Moberly (sister-in-law) |
Frederick James Whishaw (14 March 1854 – 8 July 1934) was a Russian Empire-born British novelist, historian, poet and musician. A popular author of
He was a prolific
Whishaw was also one of the first translators of Fyodor Dostoevsky.[1] He had several of the Russian author's novels published between 1886 and 1888.[2]
Biography
Frederick James Whishaw was born in
At age 16, Whishaw left school and returned to St. Petersburg to work for an office firm. He spent much of his recreational time running and rowing. He also had a collection of verses, Loves of the Flowers, published in 1878. Unhappy with his occupation, Whishaw left Hills & Whishaw and eventually emigrated to England after his marriage to Ethel Charlotte Moberly on 30 March 1880. Their first and only child, Gwendolen, was born on 13 January 1884. Returning to his childhood home of Paignton, he began a career as a musician and soon became a well-known and successful tenor.[4]
During this time, he also began translating the work of
Whishaw was soon inspired to try his hand at writing and had his
His schoolboy stories were a mix of gentle humour and more serious themes of public school life such as theft, house matches, and other common behaviour of the time. It was his Russian-themed children's adventure stories and
Bibliography
- Loves of the Flowers (1878)
- Out of Doors in Tsarland: A Record of the Seeings and Doings of a Wanderer in Russia (1893)
- Boris the Bear-Hunter (1895)
- A Lost Army: A Tale of the Russians in Central Asia (1895)
- The Romance of the Wood (1895)
- My Terrible Twin (1896)
- Harold the Norseman (1896)
- The Emperors Englishman (1896)
- Lost in African Jungles (1896)
- A Boyar of the Terrible: A Romance of the Court of Ivan the Cruel, First Tsar of Russia (1896)
- A Tsar's Gratitude (1897)
- The Adventures of a Stowaway (1897)
- Elsie's Magician (1897)
- The White Witch of the Matabele (1897)
- A Russian Vagabond (1898)
- Bates and His Bicycle (1898)
- A Race for Life (1898)
- Called Back to Tsarland (1899)
- The Three Scouts: A Story of the Boer War (1900)
- Gunpowder Treason and Plot, and Other Stories for Boys (1901, co-written with Harold Avery and Richard Townshend)
- A Forbidden Name (1901)
- The Lion Cub: A Story of Peter the Great (1902)
- A Secret of Berry Pomeroy (1902)
- Mazeppa (1902)
- The Diamond of Evil (1902)
- Near the Tas, Near Death (1903)
- The Yellow Satchel (1903)
- A Splendid Impostor (1903)
- Lost Sir Brian (1903)
- Lovers at Fault (1904)
- The Tiger of Muscovy (1904)
- Countess Ida (1904)
- A Grand Duke of Russia (1905)
- Moscow: A Story of the French Invasion of 1812 (1905)
- The Informer (1905)
- Her Highness (1906)
- King by Combat (1906)
- The Boys of Brierley Grange (1906)
- The Competitors: A Tale of Upton House School (1906)
- A Russian Coward (1906)
- The Great Green God (1906)
- The Secret Syndicate (1907)
- The Madness of Gloria (1907)
- The Persecuted (1907)
- A New Cinderella (1908)
- The Revolt of Beatrix (1908)
- A Royal Hoax (1908)
- The Luck of the Czar (1908)
- The Vortex (1909)
- The Degenerate (1909)
- A Village Temptress (1909)
- Sons of Freedom (1987)
- An Empress in Love (1910)
- The Heart of Noel (1910)
- The Caxborough Scandal (1910)
- Clutterbuck's Treasure (1910)
- Peter the Great: A Novel (1911)
- Gubbins Minor, and Some Other Fellows (1913)
- Nathalia: A Tale (1913)
- A Bespoken Bride (1914)
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.
- ^ ISBN 0-8108-2572-4
- ^ ISBN 0-7546-5829-5
- ISBN 0-902672-70-3
- ^ ISBN 0-7546-0083-1
Further reading
- Whishaw, James and Maxwell Studdy Leigh. A History of the Whishaw Family. London and Oxon: Lindsay Ross International, 1992. 1935 edition. LCCN 36012015.
External links
- Works by Frederick Whishaw at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Fred Whishaw at Internet Archive
- Works by Fred Whishaw at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)