Of American birth, but has lived many years in England. His work published in the time of the Yellow Book was especially admired by the English critic, Edward Garnett, who maintained that Mr. O’Sullivan should rank high among our writers. American editions of The Good Girl and Sentiment were published in 1917.
Bibliography
- A Book of Bargains. 1896. (With frontispiece by Aubrey Beardsley.)
- Poems. 1896.
- The Houses of Sin. 1897. (Poems.)
- Green Window. 1899.
- A Dissertation upon Second Fiddles. 1902.
- Human Affairs. 1905.
- The Good Girl. 1912.
- Sentiment and Other Stories. 1913.
See Book Review Digest, 1917.
Thomas Nelson Page—novelist, short-story writer.
Born on a Virginia plantation, 1853. Studied a short time at Washington and Lee University. Many higher honorary degrees. Practiced law in Richmond, Virginia, 1875-93. Ambassador to Italy, 1913-9.
Mr. Page is one of the pioneer writers in negro dialects. His first collection of short stories, In Ole Virginia, 1887, is his best-known work.
For bibliography, see Cambridge, III (IV), 668. For biography and criticism, see Halsey, Harkins, Pattee, Toulmin, and the Book Review Digest, especially for 1906, 1909, 1913.
Josephine Preston Peabody (Mrs. L. S. Marks)—poet, dramatist.
Born in New York City. Educated at Girls’ Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe, 1894-6. Instructor in English at Wellesley College, 1901-3. Her play The Piper obtained the Stratford-on-Avon prize in 1910. Died in 1922.