Page I: Bibliographies, Scholarly and Popular Studies, Anthologies, Multi-Century Sagas, 17th Century and 17th-18th Centuries
Page II: 18th Century and 18th-19th Centuries
Page III : 19th Century and 19th-20th Centuries
Page IV a: 20th Century A – Q authors Page IV b: 20th Century R – Z authors
Page V: 21st+ Century (and 20th-21st Centuries)
Abbott, Jacob. The Boston Boys: or, Caleb at Home (London: T. Allman, 1848) —. Caleb in Town: A Story for Children (Boston:
Crocker & Brewster, 1839 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Christian life; Boys — Conduct of life; Conduct of life; City and town
life; Uncles; Quarreling; Responsibility; Boston (Mass.) — Description and travel) (Google Books)
—. Marco Paul’s Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge: City of Boston (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845 [Google
Books]) (Juvenile) (tourist Boston and history)
Adams, Henry. (See McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner.) The Radical Club: A Poem, Respectfully Dedicated to
“the Infinite” ([Boston: 1875 or 1876]) (Radical Club (Boston, Mass.); Religious disputations — Poetry)
Adams, John S. Sam Squab, the Boston Boy: Containing a Sketch of his Early Life, and Wonderful Adventures (Boston:
Printed by Justin Jones, 1844) (48 pges.; “Founded on fact”))
Adamson, Mary Jo. The Blazing Tree: A Michael Merrick Mystery (New American Library, 2000) (detective, a
Boston police newspaper reporter) (Reporters and reporting — Massachusetts — Boston; Shakers —
Massachusetts — Boston; Murder — Investigation — Massachusetts — Boston; Arson investigation —
Massachusetts — Boston; Boston (Mass.) — History)
—. The Elusive Voice: A Michael Merrick Mystery (New American Library, 2001) (Reporters and reporting
— Massachusetts — Boston; Psychic ability; Murder — Investigation — Massachusetts — Boston; Boston
(Mass.) — History)
African Society (Boston, Mass.). Grand and Splendid Bobalition of Slavery, and “Great Annibersary Fussible,” by the
Africum Shocietee of Bosson ([Boston: Flying Booksellers, 1822] [Donald M. Jacobs, ed., Courage and
Conscience: Black & White Abolitionists in Boston (Indiana U P, 1993: 53) [Google Books]) (2nd ed.; This and the
following Broadside are racist satiric attacks.) (African Society (Boston, Mass.); African Americans —
Massachusetts — Boston; African Americans — Societies, etc.; African American wit and humor; Antislavery
movements — United States; Boston (Mass.) in literature; English language — Dialects — United States; Festivals —
Massachusetts — Boston) (Elizabeth Rauh Bethel, Brief Note, The Roots of African-American Identity (Macmillan,
1998: 197 n. 15) [Google Books])
See Reply to the Grand and Splendid Bobalition of Slavery, Contained in a Letter … (s.n., 1817 [one Reply, Library of Congress; accessed 4 Apr. 2008]). See also Blubberlip, Cesar.
—. “Reply to Bobalition” (Shane White, “‘It Was a Proud Day’: African Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North,
1741-1834.” The Journal of American History 81.1 (1994): 13-50. Academic Room. Web. 28 Aug. 2013: 37)
(“a broadside in the genre of ‘Bobalition’. . . defend[s] Boston’s African-American celebration. July 17, 1821”;
American Antiquarian Society)
ob Neu Englunt, and commonwet of Bosson in de country of Massa-chuse-it ([Boston: African Society of Boston,
1819?] [Brown U, accessed 4 Apr. 2008]) (Phillis; African Society (Boston, Mass.); African Americans —
Massachusetts — Boston; African Americans — Societies, etc.; African American wit and humor; Antislavery
movements — United States; Boston (Mass.) in literature; English language — Dialects — United States; Festivals
— Massachusetts — Boston) (Google Books)
Aïdé, [Charles] Hamilton. A Voyage of Discovery: A Novel of American Society (Harper, 1892 [Google
Books]) (two main characters, Harvard professor and a Boston woman) (Brief Summary, Literary News Jun. 1
892: 183 [Google Books])
Aiken, Albert W. Crowningshield, the Sleuth, or, Pitiless as Death (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1885 [Northern Illinois U])
(Series: Beadle’s New York dime library, no. 363) (Attempted murder; Fortune hunters; Missing persons —
Investigation; Revenge; Boston)
Aiken, Albert W., and Nathaniel Orr, The Winning Oar, or, The Inkeeper’s Daughter: A Story of Boston and of Cambridge,
of the college boys of Harvard, of the great boat-race, of woman’s love, man’s treachery, and sisterly devotion
(New York: Beadle & Adams, 1880) (Beadle’s New York dime library, no. 91) (Schoolboys; Harvard College (1780- )
— Rowing; Yale College (1718-1887); Brothers and sisters; Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Sports —
Corrupt practices; Hotelkeepers)
Aimwell, Walter. The Aimwell Stories. Clinton: Or, Boy-life in the Country (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853 [Internet
Archive 1859 ed]) (Juvenile) (Massachusetts. — State Reform School (Westborough, Mass.); Children’s stories;
Boys — Conduct of life; Brothers and sisters; Country life; Farm life; Prisons; Juvenile detention homes;
Runaway children; Seafaring life; Boston (Mass.); Maine) (Google Books)
—. Oscar, or, The Boy Who Has His Own Way (Boston: Gould and Lincoln; New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman,
1855 [Internet Archive 1856 ed.]) (Juvenile) (Boys; Obedience; Conduct of life; Boston (Mass.))
Alcott, Louisa May. “Kitty’s Class Day” (1868) In Kitty’s Class Day; Aunt Kipp; Psyche’s Art (Boston: Loring, 1868
[Google Books 1888 ed.]) (Harvard; Bail 224-25) (Summary, Gregory Eiselein and Anne K. Phillips The Louisa
May Alcott Encyclopedia (Greenwood, 2001: 167) [Google Books])
—. May Flowers (Little, Brown 1899 [Google Books]) (Opens “Being Boston girls”) (Young women — Conduct of life;
Girls — Societies and clubs; Girl volunteers; Charity; Working poor; Child labor)
—. An Old-Fashioned Girl (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870 [Google Books 1896 ed.]) (Country girl comes to the city)
(Children; Conduct of life; Courtship; Friendship; City and town life; Happiness; Wealth) (Amazon and
—. Work: A Story of Experience (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873 [Google Books 1875 ed.]) (1873) (Genteel working
woman in Boston) (Young women–employment) (Amazon and Google Books)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. “An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, May Thirty-First, 1897.”
(The Cruise of the Dolphin, Baby Bell, and Other Prose and Verse, Houghton Mifflin, 1898: 28-30)
—. “A Sea Turn” (Boston couple summering at Marblehead Neck) (Humor and satire; Fog, Yachts and yachting) —. “A
Struggle for Life” (starts on Boston Common) (ROMANCE; SUPERNATURAL AND GHOST STORIES; DEATH;
FUNERALS; GRAVES)
Alexander, David. “The Man Who Went to Taltavul’s” (1956). Rept. in Murder and Mystery in Boston, ed. Carol-Lyn
Rössel Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, and Frank McSherry, Jr. (Dember Books, 1987): 150-63) (19th century;
Barnaby’s Tavern, Milk Street; narrator influenced by Horatio Alger; John Parker, bodyguard who left
unguarded Lincoln’s Ford Theater box to get a drink from Washington bar Tatavul’s)
Alexander, Sigmund Bowman. A Moral Blot: A Novel (Boston: Arena Pub., 1894 [HathiTrust] (“interesting glimpses
of Bohemian life” Book News, vol. 12, no. 143, July 1894, p. 448) (opens “walking along Tremont Street” 1)
Alger, Horatio. Charlie Codman’s Cruise: A Story for Boys (Boston: Loring, 1867 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (1860s;
Charlie based in Boston) (Misers; Kidnapping; Ships; Criminals; Conduct of life; Adventures and adventurers;
Boston (Mass.) — History — 1865) (Google Books)
—. Do and Dare, or, A Brave Boy’s Fight for Fortune (New York Book Company, 1909 [Project Gutenberg/UPenn text])
(Washington Street; Old South Church; Parker House; Bunker Hill Monument; Tremont Street) (Conduct of life;
Adventure and adventurers; Friendship; Colorado) (Amazon and Google Books)
Allen, Luman. Dane Walraven: (A Tale of Old Boston) (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry, 1892 [Internet Archive]) (Opens
in Boston, 29 Oct. 1829)
Allen, Nancy Campbell. Faith of Our Fathers: A House Divided: A Novel (Covenant Communications, 2001) (One brother
in Boston) (Civil War; Mormon families; Plantation life; Southern states)
—. Faith of Our Fathers: Through the Perilous Fight (Book 3) (Covenant Communications, 2003) (United States — History
— Civil War, 1861-1865; Mormon families; Plantation lives; Southern States; Boston (Mass.); Christian fiction; War
stories — Mormon authors)
Allen, Willis Boyd. The Northern Cross, or, Randolph’s Last Year at the Boston Latin School (Boston: D. Lothrop,
1887 [Google Books]) (Christian life; Brothers and sisters; Cousins; Students; Friendship; Diligence; Success;
Military education) (Summary, pub. ad [Google Books])
—. Silver Rags (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1886 [Internet Archive] (mainly summer vacation in Maine, but some Boston) Allston,
Margaret (pseud. of Anna Farquhar Bergengren). Her Boston Experiences: A Picture of Modern Boston Society
and People (L. C. Page, 1900 [Google Books]) (fiction?) (Bergengren, Anna (Farquhar); Boston (Mass.) —
Description and travel) (Google Books)
Ames, Nathan. under pseud. Senor Alguño. Childe Harvard, a Romance of Cambridge (Boston: Redding, 1851
[HathiTrust]) (poetic parodies)
Anderson, Catherine. Cheyenne Amber (HarperPaperbacks, 1994) (romance; heroine Boston-born) (Cheyenne
Indians; Colorado)
Anderson, Gabriella. A Matter of Convenience (Zebra, 2000) (historical romance in Boston; 1st vol. in Destin
Coin trilogy) (Boston, Massachusetts)
—. A Matter Of Honor: The Destiny Coin (Zebra, 2001) (romance; heroine stowsaway on ship to Boston)
(Boston, Massachusetts — History — 19th century; Historical romances, American)
Anonymous. The Affecting History of Emily Hammond, An American Lady, Who in the Full Bloom of Youth and Beauty,
Fell a Victim to the Arts of the Seducer ([Boston?]: Printed for the Booksellers, 1813) (12 pgs.; “a Boston setting”
+ brief summary The Quarto, no. 108. March 1975, pages 3-4)
—. Appeal of the Old Elm on Boston Common ([Boston: 1860]) (Trees — Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry; Boston
(Mass.) — History — Poetry)
—. Baffled Schemes: A Novel (Boston: Loring, 1867 {Wright American Fiction]) (murder mystery, some scenes in Boston,
e.g., 74-76)
—. Bob Brooks in Boston: Or, The mystery of the Signet Ring. Bob Brooks Library 1893 (published by Lou H.
Ostendorff, Jr.) (Gary Hoppenstand The Dime Novel Detective, Bowling Green University Popular Press,1982:
198 [Google Books])
—. The Boston Calamity ([Boston, 1872]) (Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872 — Poetry; Fires — Massachusetts — Boston
— Poetry)
—.The Bradys’ BOSTON DOUBLES; or, TRAPPING THE FAKE DETECTIVES,” which will “be the next number
(566) of “Secret Service.” SPECIAL NOTICEï All back numbers of this …(Hoppenstand 226)
—. The Bradys and the Stolen Bonds; or, A Tangled Case from Boston. In Secret Service: Old and young King Brady
Detectives 469 (Hoppenstand, 245)
—. Carriers’ address: To the patrons of the New-England palladium. Boston, January 1, 1829 (1 page praise of Boston,
incorporating names of newspapers) (Boston: s.n., 1828) (Boston (Mass.) — Poetry)
—. City Scavenger’s New Year’s Address, for 1831 ([Boston, 1830] [p4A.com; accessed 4 Apr. 2008]) (broadside)
(New Year in literature; Refuse collectors — Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry)
—. City Scavenger’s New Year’s Address, for 1837 ([Boston, 1836]) (New Year in literature; Refuse collectors —
Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry)
—. The Devil’s Levee in Boston ([Massachusetts? 184- -186-]) (Temperance — Poetry; Poetry of places; Boston (Mass.)
— History — Poetry)
—. The Dream Fulfilled; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Moreland Family (Boston: James French, 1848 [Google
Books]) (happy ending as “The sounds of the carriages may be heard rolling on to a noble mansion in one of
the first streets of Boston” 187)
—. The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-dressing and Urban Vice in America’s Early Republic.
Ed. Daniel A Cohen (U of Massachusetts P, 1997) (West End; African Americans; Lucy Brewer, fictional
character) (War of 1812; Women merchant mariners; Didactic fiction; Women sailors; Transvestites; Prostitutes)
—. Globe ‘Surprise’ Party, July 31st, 1875. The bill of fare, chart of Boston Harbor the poem, essays and lectures,
and report of the cruise (The Globe 2 Aug. 1875) (Boston Harbor (Mass.) — Poetry; Boston Harbor (Mass.)
— Description and travel)
—. Grand Celebration of Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1843 ([Boston? 1843]) (includes poem(s) and Webster
address) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 — Poetry; Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) — Poetry; Webster,
Daniel)
—. The “Hub of Hell” (Boston?: 186-?) (Boston (Mass.) — Poetry; Boston (Mass.) — Humor) (1 page) —. The Imitators: A
Poem of Boston Life (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1886) (152 pages) (Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — Poetry)
(Brief Des., Biblio.com [accessed 2 Apr. 2008])
—. “In a Fog”. Atlantic Monthly 5.32 (June 1860): 649-57[Making Of America, Cornell U]) (crime/police, Boston 1857) —. The
Jenny Lind Mania in Boston; or, A Sequel to Barnum’s Parnassus, by Asmodeus (Boston, 1850) —. Jocko Kelly’s
Escape: A Story of Boston (Boston: Hub Publishing, 1891) (Series: Hub ten cent novels, no. 1) (Escaped prisoners)
America’ (Boston: Redding, 1844 [Google Books]) (56 pages)
—. Luke Lovell, the Widow’s Son; or, The Adventures of a Young Gentleman from the State of Maine Who Went to
Seek his Fortune in Boston (Boston: W. R. Davis, 1848) (City mystery stressing sexual and other traps)
—. The Pennimans; or, The Triumph of Genius (Gardner A. Fuller, 1862 [Google Books]) (starts with “leaves . . .strewn
over the Common” 5; later Beacon, Tremont, Court, Hanover streets 100) (Families; Social classes; New England)
—-. Rambles about Boston; or, Efforts to Do Good (Boston: Heath & Graves, 1857) (Social life and customs; Christian life)
—.”Remarkable Case of Poisoning in Boston.” The Fireside Companion 21 Oct. 1868: 4 (Leroy Lad Panek, Probable
Cause: Crime Fiction in America [Madison, WI: Popular Library, 1990: 16 (Google Books)]
—–. The Scavenger’s Address to his Employers (Boston, 1826) (1 page) (New Year in literature; Refuse collectors —
Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry; Boston (Mass.) — Officials and employees)
—. Squantum Festival! Or, Bobalition No. 2.: A dialogue between Scipio Smilax, Barber, & Mungo Meanwell,
Bootblack ([Boston: African Society of Boston, 1821]) (satire by African Americans or satire against African
Americans?) (African Society (Boston, Mass.); African Americans — Massachusetts — Boston; African
Americans — Societies, etc.; African American wit and humor; Antislavery movements — United States; Boston
(Mass.) in literature; English language — Dialects — United States; Festivals — Massachusetts — Boston;
Wood-engraving — 19th century — United States)
—. With My Heart’s Wish (London: Edwin J. Brett, 1892) (“Series: The English ladies novelettes, no. 56” WorldCat)
(Boston (Mass.))
—. Young Sleuth’s Boston Haul; or, The Keen Detective’s Great Find (Short story? listed The Dime Novel Detective
(Hoppenstand, 1982: 147)
Ashby, Professor. Helen Howard, or The Bankrupt and Broker.: A Mysterious Tale of Boston (Boston: F. Gleason,
1845) (Bankruptcy; Brokers; Boston (Mass.); Women)
Asmodeus in America, pseud. The Millerite Humbug; or, The Raising of the Wind!! A comedy in five acts, as performed
with unbounded applause in Boston and other parts of the Union! (Boston, Printed for the publisher, 1845) (Old
Howard)
Austin, Jane G. Mrs. Beauchamp Brown (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880 [Google Books]) (Boston high society; Plum
Island; Mt. Desert; Beacon Hill) (Google Books)
Austin, William. “Peter Rugg, the Missing Man” (1824) and “Further Account of Peter Rugg” (1826) (“Some account of
Peter Rugg, the missing man, late of Boston, New-England: In a letter to Mr. Herman Krauff. Some further account
of Peter Rugg the missing man late of Boston, New-England: To the Editor of the Galaxy.” New-England Galaxy Sept.
10, 1824 & Sept. 1, 1826 [WorldCat] [Gaslight] See also 1910 Edition with intro. by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
connecting style and influence of the story to Hawthorne) (Boston Massacre, 1770; present time 1820) (Google
Averill, Charles E. Adelaide, the Avenger; or, The Fearful Retribution! (New York: Robert M. De Witt, 1869) (Series: De
Witt’s ten cent romances, no. 17) (Disguise; Jewish women; Jews; Male impersonators; Moneylenders; Pirates;
Revenge; Sailors; Shipwrecks; Women; Bermuda Islands; Massachusetts — Boston)
—. The Secrets of the Twin Cities, or, The Great Metropolis Unmasked: A Startling Story of City Scenes in Boston and
New York. (Boston: Williams, 1849)
Avery, Anne. The Snow Queen (Love Spell, 1996) (Boston heroine; Colorado Springs; romance)
Axelrod, Mark. “Seven Card Stud & the Scarlet Letter Writers” (Dante’s Foil & Other Sporting Tales. Black Scat Books, 2015)
Babcock, J. M. L. The Dawning a Novel (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1886 [Google Books])
(opens “The pride of Boston is Beacon Hill” 3) (Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — 19th century)
Baily, Sydney Jane. An Improper Situation (ePublishing Works!, 2014) (partly “Boston in the late 19th century”;
Brahmins [Amazon]) (Love; Man-woman relationships)
—. An Intriguing Proposition: Defiant Hearts Series Prequel (ePublishing Works!, 2014) (1880s; “story stays firmly in
. . . Boston”; “heroine’s home . . . Beacon Hill”; “hero works in” “financial district,” author interview (Internet
Wayback Machine) (Boston (Mass.); Man-woman relationships)
Baker, Madeline. Prairie Heat (Leisure Books, 1991) (Boston-bred heroine in wild west; romance) (Frontier and
pioneer life)
Ballou, Maturin Murray. Albert Simmons: Or, The Midshipman’s Revenge (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845) (West End
sordidness) (DEATH; FIGHTS; JUSTICE; SACRIFICES; THIEVES; TRIALS) (Findlit.com)
Balmer, Edwin. “Billings of ’49.” (Baker’s Published Manuscript Readings, no. 18) (Boston: W.H. Baker, 1926) (7
pg. short story) (Harvard College)
Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter: A Novel (HarperFlamingo, 1998) (John Brown; some scenes in Boston) (Brown, John;
Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) — History — John Brown’s Raid, 1859; Antislavery movements; Abolitionists; Slavery:
Brown, Owen)
Barbour, Ralph Henry. The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf (D. Appleton, 1899 [Project
Gutenberg]) (Juvenile) (Harwell = Harvard, Yates = Yale, Sailors’ Field = Soldiers’ Field; Bail 279)
—- The Land of Joy (Doubleday, Page, 1903 [Google Books]) (romance at Harvard) (Bail 278-79) Barker, Benjamin. Mary
Moreland or The Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Orphan (Boston: Gleason’s Pub. Hall, 1845 [HathiTrust]) (much of
the action in Boston) (Kidnapping; Orphans)
Barrows, Albert Bradburn. Jim Bullseye in Boston: A Dialect Poem (Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1890) (55 pages)
(English language — Dialects — Southern States; Boston (Mass.) — Poetry)
Bates, Arlo. In the Bundle of Time (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1893 [Google Books]) (much Boston, third ch. opens “in the
Union Club House, on Park Street, Boston” 49)
—. Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 [Google Books]) (The Country Club) (Google Books)
—. The Pagans (in part Italian Americans; North End) (Paganism) (Holt, 1884 [Google Books]) (Google Books)
—. The Philistines (Ticknor, 1889) (in part Italian Americans; North End) (Google Books)
—. The Puritans (Houghton Mifflin, 1898 [Google Books]) (Google Books)
—. A Wheel of Fire (Scribner’s, 1885 [Google Books 1889 ed.]) (in and around Boston; wealthy class; hereditary
insanity) (Author’s Synopsis, Author’s Digest: The World’s Great Stories in Brief, ed. Rossiter Johnson
(Authors P, 1908: 348-57 [Google Books])
Bates, Fanny B. My Sister Kitty: A story of Election Day (Lee and Shepard, 1881[HathiTrust]) (partly in Boston during
session of Mass. legislature)
Bauman, Natasha. The Disorder of Longing: A Novel (Putnam, 2008) (Boston (Mass.) — History — 19th century; Brazil; Self-
realization; Sex — Religious aspects — Tantrism)
Bean, Helen Marr. The Widow Wyse: A Novel (Cupples, Upham, 1885 [Google Books]) (in part Boston high society)
Begiebing, Robert J. The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton; Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant
Life: A Novel (U P of New England, 1999) (with the transcendentalists, utopians, and abolitionists in greater Boston
and Europe; 1830s-40s) (Women — New England; Americans — Italy; Women travelers; New England; Italy; Self-
realization; Widows; Young women; New England — History — 1775-1865; Fiction. Italy — Social life and customs — 19th
century; New England — Social life and customs — 19th century)
Bellamy, Edward. Equality (Appleton, 1897 [Google Books]) (sequel to Looking Backward) (Two thousand, A.D.; Social
problems; Utopias; Socialism)
—. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (Ticknor, 1888 [Google Books 1889 ed.]) (Two thousand, A.D.; Social problems;
Time travel; Utopias)
Bender, Karen E. “The Fourth Prussian Dynasty: An Era of Romance and Royalty.” The New Yorker 13 Sep. 1999:
88-96 (heroine, “American-born member of a Russian immigrant family in Boston in 1920” Abstract) (Keywords:
Marriage; Salesmen; Teeth; California; Immigrants, Immigration; Stores – General; Schools, Teachers; Hotels
– Hotel Essex)
Bennett, James W., and Donald Raycraft. Old Hoss: A Fictional Baseball Biography of Charles Radbourn (McFarland,
2002) (played in Providence 1881-85 and Boston 1886-90) (Radbourne, Charles Gardner; Pitchers (Baseball);
Providence (R.I.); Boston (Mass.))
Berry, Martha E. under pseud. Mrs. Eugenia St. John. Bella, or, The Cradle of Liberty: A Story of Insane Asylums
(Boston: N.D. Berry, 1874 [HathiTrust]) (Asylums) (heroine wrongly committed by her wealthy Boston family,
pp. 193-200)
Bigelow, Jacob. “The Jingko Tree on Boston Common” (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature,
edited by James Thomas Fields, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, pp. 96-99 (poem; Boston)
Blackburn, Tom Wakefield. Sierra Baron (Random House, 1955) (1958 film; hero starts off as tough seaman from Irish
slums of Boston; mainly California; 1840s) (Gold mines and mining; Landowners)
Blake, John Lauris. Evenings in Boston (Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 1827 [Google Books]) (short stories for
children told during evenings in Boston; mainly (all?), not Boston; some in Cuba and Europe)
(Children’s stories; Education; Family; Coffee industry; Cuba — Description and travel)
Blubberlip, Cezar,and Cuff Crookshank [satirical invented names]. Grand Jubelum!!! Order 12f Annebersary ob Affricum
Bobalition. Copy of a letter from Cezar Blubberlip to his brother Cuff Crookshank, in the country ([Boston: African
Society of Boston, 1827] (?)) (Phillis; African Society (Boston, Mass.); African Americans — Massachusetts —
Boston; African Americans — Societies, etc.; African American wit and humor; Antislavery movements — United
States; Boston (Mass.) in literature; English language — Dialects — United States; Festivals — Massachusetts —
Boston; Wood-engraving — 19th century — United States) (Google Books) (For similar racist Broadsides, see
under 19th Century, African Society.)
Blythe, Bianca. A Most Murderous Wedding (2024) (“scandal in Gilded Age Boston” WorldCat) (urder most GildedBoland, Ellenor Fitzpatrick (under pseud. Alethe). A Lament for the Church of the Holy Cross, in Franklin Street, Boston
(Charlestown, Mass., 1859) (Church of the Holy Cross (Boston, Mass.); Catholic Church — Massachusetts —
Boston — Poetry; Church buildings — Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry) (Background, Records of the American
Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 33 (1912): 59) [Google Books])
Bondurant, Mark. Red Jacket: The Autobiography of Calista Antoine (Camarillo, CA: Bongo Books, 2014) (alternative
history; “1892, the fourth and nastiest year of the Civil War” back cover, WorldCat) (Merchant ships; Schooners;
Teenage girls; Congo (Democratic Republic); Boston)
Boz, Jr. The Moral City! Or, Glances at Social Life in Boston (Boston: John A. French, 1849) (city mystery)
Bradbury, Osgood. The Eastern Belle:, or, The Betrayed One! A Tale of Boston and Bangor (Boston: H. L. Williams, 1845)
—. Eliza Mead: The Female Roue.: a full development of the mysteries of Boston (New-York, 1845?) (Prostitution; Single
women — Sexual behavior)
—. Ellen Stuart, or The Rescued Heiress (Boston: Purdy & Bradley, 1845) (“a 40 page novel set in Boston,” Marcus A.
McCorison, “Report of the Librarian 1965-1966,” American Antiquarian Society 254).
—. The Empress of Beauty: Second Series of Mysteries of Boston (Boston: J. N. Bradley, 1844) (64 pges.) (class;
sexual seduction)
—. Frances Carleton: or, The Boston Blacksmith (Boston: H. L. Williams, 1846 [Google Books]) (79 pgs.)
— Helen Clarence (Boston: H.L. Williams, 18??) (Young women; Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — 19th century)
(66 pgs.)
—. Isabelle, or, the Emigrant’s Daughter: a tale of Boston and the West (Boston: F. Gleason, 1848) (Immigrants)
—. Julia Bicknell: or, Love and Murder! Founded on a Recent Terrible Domestic Tragedy (Boston, 1845 [HathiTrust])
(based on Boston murder)
—. Louise Kempton, or, Vice and Virtue Contrasted (Boston: F. Gleason, 1844 [HathiTrust]) (60 pgs.; Boston, Brookline,
elsewhere) (Man-woman relationships; Women — Conduct of life; Women — Social life and customs)
—. Mysteries of Boston, or, Woman’s Temptation (Boston: J. N. Bradley, 1844) (40 pges.) (class; sexual seduction;
lesbian suggestions)
—. The Rival Lovers; or, The Midnight Murder (New York: Robert DeWitt, 1857) (“a girl visiting Boston is lured into a
brothel masquerading as a boarding house,” Paul Joseph Erickson. Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of
City-Mysteries Fiction in Antebellum America, 2005. U of Texas, Austin. Ph.D Diss., page 545)
Bradford, Benjamin. Around the Hub in Rhyme (Boston: Published for the author by Charles D. Cragie & Co., 1900)
(wealthy view of Boston) (Poetry) (Brief Summary, New York Times 9 Feb. 1901: BR 15 [accessed 31 Mar.
2008])
Brainerd, Thomas H. (pseud of Mrs. John R. Jarboe]) Robert Atterbury: A Study of Love and Life (New York: Cassell, 1896
Internet Archive]) (Marriage; Boston)
Bretton, Barbara. Midnight Lover (Pocket Books, 1989) (Boston heroine in wild west Nevada; romance)
Brown, Alice. The Day of His Youth (Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 [Internet Archive]) (“located partly in Boston” 478, Joseph
Edgar Chamberlin, “Boston in Fiction II,” The Chap-Book, vol. 8, no. 1, 1 May 1898, pp. 476-78)
—. Fools of Nature: A Novel (Boston: Ticknor, 1887 [Google Books]) (West End; fake spiritualism) (Google Books
and Summary/Review Literary News Jan. 1888: 23 [Google Books; accessed 7 Feb. 2008])
—. Margaret Warrener (Houghton Mifflin, 1901 [Google Books]) (“Bohemian Boston” Helen Winslow, Literary Boston
To-Day, Page, 1902, p. 76; set in “Boston lodgings” and “a suburban house”; middling middle-class intellectual
and spiritual strivers) (Google Books)
Brown, E[mma]. E[lizabeth]. The Children’s Hour at the Old South (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1881) (Juvenile; title introduction
and seven short stories, including “Boston Rosebuds”) (Old South Church (Boston, Mass.))
Brown, Samuel E. illus. Fernando Edwards Worcester. The Boston Cries, and The Story of the Little Match-boy (New York:
J.C. Riker, 129 Fulton-Street., 1844) (13 pages) (Children’s stories; Children’s poetry; Picture books for children;
Child labor; Occupations; Cries — Massachusetts — Boston; Peddlers and peddling)
Browning, L. M. The Castoff Children (Homebound Publications, 2016) (1850) (Orphans; Boston (Mass.) — Social life and
customs — 19th century)
Brownson, O[restes]. A[ugustus]. The Spirit-Rapper; An Autobiography (Little, Brown; London: C. Dolman, 1854 [Google
Books]) (more fiction than autobiography; many Boston references/scenes) (MESMERISM; REFORM AND
REFORMERS; SOCIALISM; SPIRITUALISM) (Occult fiction) (Google Books)
Brudno, Ezra S. The Tether (J.B. Lippincott, 1908 [Google Books]) (Jewish Americans; Intermarriage; fictionalized
autobiography; hero “from the slums of Boston” [Baker]) (Brief Summary The Bookman 28 (Sep./Feb., 1908-09):
287-88 and Ernest Albert Baker, A Guide to the Best Fiction in English (Routledge, 1913): 452 [Google Books]
Bunner, Henry Cuyler. “Our Aromatic Uncle”. In Love in Old Cloathes, and Other Stories (Scribner, 1896: 187-217 [Internet
Archive]) (“when Boston was so frankly provincial a town”) (Impersonations; Uncles) (Google Books)
—. “Mr. Wick’s Aunt.” More “Short Sixes.” (New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1894: 84-108) (“the Boston branch of
the family” 84)
Buntline, Ned. pseud of Edward C. Z. Judson. Love at First Sight, or, the Daguerreotype (Boston: Jones’s Pub. House,
1848) (“studio is located in real life, just as it was in the preceding romance, at 91 Washington Street” 42,
Marcy J. Dinius, The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype,
of Pennsylvania P, 2012, pages 40-44 [Google Books]) (Romance)
—. The Red Privateer, or, The Midshipman Rover: A Romance of 1812 (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1890 [Northern
Illinois U]) (Boston (Mass.); Privateering; United States — History — War of 1812; Navies — Officers; Naval
deserters; French)
Burgess, Gelett. “The Bohemians of Boston and Their Ways; a Memory of the Jacobean Craze.” (The Burgess Nonsense
Book; Being a Complete Collection of the Humorous Masterpieces of Gelett Burgess, Frederick A. Stokes, 1901:
169-72 [Google Books]) (poem with illustrations)
Burkhart, Rebecca. “Follow Your Heart” (October 2000) (Boston episode fan fiction of T.V. series Dr. Quinn Medicine
Woman) (accessed 3 Mar. 2008)
Burnham, Clara Louise. A Great Love (Houghton, Mifflin, 1899 [Google Books]) (opens “In his bachelor apartment in
Boston” 1)
–. Next Door (Ticknor, 1886 [Google Books]) Burnham, Geo[rge] P[ickering] (pseud. of George Pickering). The Rag-Picker;
or, Bound and Free (New York: Mason Brothers, 1855 [Internet Archive]) (anti-slavery; fugitive Slave Law; partially set
in Boston) (Poor; Reform and Reformers; U.S. – History)
Bush, Gary R. Sail into Treachery (Forty P, 2016) (“1803, Jamie Sharpe, a cocky Boston boy,” shanghaied; mainly at sea)
(Slave ships; Slave trade)
Butterworth, Hezekial. Jack’s Carrier Pigeons: A Tale of the Times of Father Taylor’s Mariners’ Home (Boston: A. I. Bradley,
1900 [Internet Archive]) (“North Square, Boston” 9; North Street newsboy)
—. Up from the Cape: A Plea for Republican Simplicity (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1883 [Google Books]) (partly Boston, e.g.,
Chapter IX Carrie’s “Boston” Story -“Dot” 87-103; Music Hall)
Bynner, Edwin Lassetter. Zachary Phips (Houghton Mifflin, 1892 [Google Books]) (Boston boy starts roughly but ends up
pillar of society; Aaron Burr; Boston wharves) (Google Books)
Byrne, John. To the Beau Monde ([Boston, 1809]) (Merchants — Massachusetts — Boston; Boston (Mass.) — Commerce —
Poetry; Advertising — Massachusetts — Boston)
Cable, George Washington. John March, Southerner (Scribner’s, 1894 [Google Books]) (mainly the South during
Reconstruction, but some Boston, e.g., Chapter “LXIX. IN YANKEE LAND”) (Corruption – political; Innocence;
Race relations; Swindlers and swindles; U.S. – Reconstruction (1865-77); U.S. – Southern States; Vigilantes)
(Amazon and Google Books)
Cahan, A[braham]. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (D. Appleton, 1896 [Google Books]) (mainly New York, but opens
with a contrast between Jewish experience in Boston and New York; basis for 1975 film Hester Street) (Culture
conflict; Immigrants; Jews in the United States; Love; Marriage – forced; New York City – 19th century; Working
class) (Google Books)
Callender, E[dward]. B[elcher]. The Leg-pullers, or, Politics as She is Applied: A Tale of the Puritan Commonwealth
(Boston: Pemberton Square, 1895 [Internet Archive]) (opens with opening of annual session of Massachusetts
General Court)
Calvi, May. If a Poem Could Live and Breathe: A Novel of Teddy Roosevelt’s First Love (St. Martin, 2023) (Meet
Cambridge and Chesnut Hill 1878) (Roosevelt, Alice Lee, 1861-1884; Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919)
Cambridge, William G. The Mechanic’s Bride, or, The Autobiography of Elwood Gorden (Boston: Shepard, Clark and
Brown, 1857 [HathiTrust]) (partly Boston, e.g., Chapter XXXII “scene . . . changes to a pleasant little chamber in a
retired street of the city of Boston” 274)
Camden, Elizabeth. Against the Tide (Bethany House, 2012) (19th c. Boston translator for Navy) (Women translators;
Boston (Mass.) — History — 19th century)
—. From This Moment (Bethany House, 2016) (murder in late 19th c. Boston; Chap. 1 “Boston, Massachusetts
March 1897″)
Campbell, Helen. Ballantyne: A Novel (Little, Brown, 1901 [Google Books]) (entitled Bostonians) (Google Books)
Campbell, Jane C. “Farmer’s Daughter.” In The Money-Maker, and Other Tales (New York: J. C. Derby; Boston: Phillips,
Sampson & Co., 1854: 274-309 [Internet Archive] (title character marries wealthy, pampered Bostonian with
disastrous consequences) (Tragedy; Love; Money; Wealth)
Campbell, Scott. Union Down: A Signal of Distress (Boston: Arena Pub., 1893 [Google Books]) (partly in Boston, e.g., Chapter
IX starts in “Boston. That ill-famed quarter known as the North End” 41; murder mystery) (Man-woman relationships —
19th century)
Carleton, George Washington. See Freelance, Radical.
Carlisle, Lindsay P. Art School Girls (Lindsay P. Carlisle, 2015) (Senior H S) (1892; School of the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston) (Art schools; Women — Education; Art students)
Carpenter, Harvey. The Old South or The Sanctuary of Freedom (Boston, 1876) (3 pages) (Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)
— Poetry)
Carroll, M. [pseud. of Martha Brooks]. How Marjory Helped (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and
Dillingham, 1875 [Internet Archive]) (country girl goes to Boston) (Sunday school literature; Brothers and sisters;
Parent and child; Schools; School girls; City and town life; Picnicking; Charity; Boston (Mass.)) (Summary/Review
Old and New 10 (1874): 512 [Google Books])
Carter, Marilyn. The Reluctant Debutante (Warner, 1987) (“Lady who studied at an exclusive school in England
tutors a rakish gambler in Boston.” Good Ton [accessed 3 Mar. 2008]) (Google Books]
Casanñas, Gloria V. La Salvaje de Boston (Plaza & Janes, 2016) (in Spanish; Capítual 2 Ciudad de Boston,
Massachusetts) (Women teachers)
Cassara, Ernest. Murder on Beacon Hill (Anne Miniver P, 1995) (detective/minister is historical; 19th century)
(Ballou, Hosea; Beacon Hill; Clergy; Dogs) (Amazon)
–. Murder on Boston Common: A Father Ballou and his Dog Spot Mystery (Cambridge Cornerstone P, 1998) (Dog
owners; Clergy; Dogs)
Cavanaugh, Jack. The Colonists (Victor Books, 1995) (splintered Boston family; Christian faith across generations)
([Bostonness?]
Chapone, Mrs. [Hester] (WorldCat] [or Nancy Sproat (Google Books) or Rebecca Warren Brown, Museum of Fine Arts,
accessed 31 May 2010)] (under pseud. Lady of Boston) . Isabel and Louisa: Some Account of Two Little Girls
Who Lived in Boston (Boston: Printed by Thomas B. Wait and Co., 1813) (Children’s stories; Conduct of life;
Girls; Friendship; Orphans; Aunts; School children; Girls — Education)
Charters, Jeanne. Lace Curtain (Tantor Media, 2024) (Series: Daughters of Ireland 2) (“daughter of Irish immigrants and the
son of an African slave forge their own destiny in Boston” in 1870s, WorldCat)
—, Silk Stocking (Tantor Audio, 2024) (“Irish American women seek better lives in Boston . . . in the late nineteenth-century
Gilded Age” WorldCat) (Women Boston 19th century)
Chester, Evelyn. Miss Derrick: A Boston Society Girl’s Diary (New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1894 HathiTrust) (“a true picture of
Boston fashionable society . . flirtations with married and unmarried men verging upon indecency, skirt-dancing,
cigarette-smoking, and champagne-drinking . . . eloping with a married man” The Annual American Catalogue 1894
37) (Upper class — Massachusetts — Boston)
Chesnutt, Charles W. Evelyn’s Husband. 189?. (first published U P of Mississippi, 2005) (African American writer,
white characters: jilted Boston “husband” and “wife”‘s lover marooned on deserted island) (Triangles
(Interpersonal relations); Rejection (Psychology); Carribean area; Married people; Older men; Islands)
—. “The Passing of Grandison.” In The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of The Color Line (Houghton Mifflin,
1899: 167-202 [Internet Archive] (slave and slave-owner in abolitionist Boston; section III) (Freedom; Northern
States; Slavery)
Chiaverini, Jennifer. Christmas Bells: A Novel (Dutton, 2015) (Part Christmas 1863; part Christmas c. 2015; Craigie House;
Watertown) (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, — 1807-1882; Women teachers)
Child, Lydia Maria. A Romance of the Republic (Ticknor and Fields, 1867 [Google Books]) (in part, interracial marriage of
male Bostonian; mainly set elsewhere) (Boston; Mulatoos; New Orleans; Racism; Slavery; Social reform)
(Amazon, Google Books, and Detailed Summary, Blog at WordPress.com 7 Mar. 2007 [accessed 11 May 2008])
Chip. The Radical Club: A Poem Respectfully Dedicated to an Atom (Boston: William F. Gill, 1876 [A Sherwood Bonner
Sampler, 1869-1884, ed. Anne Razey Gowdy (U of Tennessee P, 2002: 419-24) (“Written in reply to: The Radical Club
/ by an atom [i.e. Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell]” [Google Books]; 27 pages)] (See McDowell, Katherine
Sherwood Bonner.)
Chu, Doris C. J. That Gentleman from China (1997) (in That Gentleman from China and America America. International
Society P, 2012) (play set in Boston and Malden 1850-1878; wealthy Chinese tea merchant marries white
American girl, returns to China after her death and 28 years in U.S.)
Churchill, Winston. Coniston (Macmillan, 1906 [Google Books 1907 ed.]) (Andrew Jackson’s presidency; some Boston)
(New Hampshire– Politics and government) (Amazon and Google Books)
Clark, Susie C. Pilate’s Query (Boston: Arena Publishing, 1895 [Google Books]) (partly Boston, e.g., heroine’s “old home
on Newbury Street” 141)
Clark, Thomas M. John Whopper the Newsboy (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1871 [Internet Archive]) (Science fiction;
Roxbury; Jamaica Plain; hole to China) (“424 JOHN WHOPPER, THE NEWSBOY”, Everett Franklin Bleiler.
Science-Fiction, the Early Years [Kent State U P, 1990: 139 (Google Books)])
Clarke, James Freeman. “The ‘Old South’ Speaks.” In Poems of the “Old South” (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 31-35
[Google Books]) (Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) — Poetry) (Edwin D Mead, Context, The Old South
Leaflets (Boston: Old South Meeting House, 1903: 16) [Google Books])
Cobb, Brothers [Cyres and Darius]. The Veteran of the Grand Army: A Novel (Boston: Cyres and Darius Cobb, 1870)
(several scenes in hero’s “native town” 195; clash between union veterans and southern sympathizers)
Cocke, James R. Blind Leaders of the Blind: The Romance of a Blind Lawyer (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1896 [Internet
Archive]) (includes trial and conviction for murder of North End Italian)
Coe, Marian. Rachel’s Story: A Southern Girl in Pre-Civil War Boston (High Country Publishers/Ingalls Pub. Group,
2005) (Elizabeth Peabody; Alcott; Thoreau) (Indian girls; Racially mixed people; Mothers–Death; Plantation
life; South Carolina; Cherokee women)
Coffin, Charles Carleton. Caleb Krinkle A Story of American Life (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard,
and Dillingham, 1875 [Internet Archive]) (some Boston, e.g., Chapter XXII In Boston; boardinghouse)
Cohan, Tony. Opium: A Novel (Simon and Schuster, 1984) (part, 19th-century Lodges and Cabots in opium trade; part 1960s)
(Opium trade; Lawyers — Boston, Massachusetts; Drug traffic; Men/women relations; Women artists; Medical students;
Boston, Massachusetts)
Coleman, Wim, and Past Perrin. Anna’s World (Chiron Books, 2009) (Juvenile: elementary and junior high; 14 year-old in part
in “upper-class Boston life” WorldCat; (Shakers; Massachusetts — History — 1775-1865)
Collard, Paul Fraser. The True Soldier (Headline, 2017) (Boston CW unit) (Lark, Jack — (Fictitious character); Soldiers; Civil
War, 1861-1865)
Collins, Laurel. Jordan’s Heart (Zebra, 2000) (romance; starts Boston 1887; mainly Colorado) (Women college teachers —
Massachusetts — Boston; Ranchers — Colorado)
Colman, George, and Charles Dibdin. Thimble’s Scolding Wife. Together with the Boston Beau and the Cow (Boston: N.
Coverly, Jr. [1810-1814]) (Husband and wife — Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc.;Humorous poetry; Dandies in
literature)
Colville, William Juvenal. “The Newest of New Women: A Boston Incident” (Boston: Banner of Light Publishing, 1897)
(34 pgs.) HarryHoudini Collection (Library of Congress) (short story)
Conlon-McKenna, Marita. illus. Donald Teskey. Wildflower Girl (Holiday House, 1992) (Juvenile–ages 9-12) (1850s;
thirteen-year-old girl emigrates from Ireland to Boston) (Irish-American girls; Thirteen-year-old girls; Ocean
travel — History — 19th century; Child labor exploitation — Boston, Massachusetts; Teenage domestic workers
— Boston, Massachusetts; Separated friends, relatives, etc; Irish immigrants; Teenage immigrants; Ireland —
Immigration and emigration)
Conway, Moncure Daniel. Pine and Palm (Holt, 1887 [Google Books]) (1861, “A pair of friends, Northerner and Southerner,
at Harvard, quarrel on the slavery question” [Ernest Baker, A Guide to the Best Historical Romance, Sagas, Novels,
and Tales, Dutton, ? (Internet Archive)]
Coolidge, Susan [pseud. of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey]. What Katy Did Next (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889 [Bibliomania])
(Juvenile) (Chapter 3 takes place in Boston) (Amazon and Google Books)
Copeland, Lauri. Angel Face and Amazing Grace (Fawcett, 1997) (historical romance; small town outside of Boston; single
men have girlfriends in Boston; 1870s) (Pinkham (Lydia E.) Medicine Company; Physicians — Massachusetts;
Wedding dress; Massachusetts — History — 19th century; Women’s rights)
—. Marrying Walker McKay (Avon Books, 2000) (Boston socialite marries Wyoming rancher; mainly Wyoming with Boston
scenes) (Mail order brides; Ranchers — Wyoming; Wyoming)
Coulter, H. D. Saving Grace (2021) (“Beacon Hill, Boston. 1832” WorldCat) (Abolitionists; Man-woman relationships;
Motherhood; Pregnancy)
Coverdale, Henry Standish. The Fall of the Great Republic (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1885 [Internet Archive]) (Chapt. XIII
Capture of Boston) (Imaginary wars and battles)
Coverly, Nathaniel. The Strong Fast, or Hypocrisy in the Suds (Boston: N. Coverly, Jr. [1812]) (1 page) (Political satire;
Boston (Mass.) — History — Humor — Poetry; United States — Politics and government — 1812-1815 — Anecdotes,
facetiae, satire, etc.; Strong, Caleb) (Brown U Library)
Crandall, Dawn. Enchanting Nicholette (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2018) (Series: The everstone chronicles,
5) (widow “returned to Boston after two years of mourning in Europe” to seek “love”; “late 1800s” WorldCat)
Crawford, Francis Marion. The American Politician: A Novel (London: Chapman and Hall, 1884 [Google Books]) (see Louise
Hall Tharp, Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner [Little, Brown, 1965): 85; Jamaica Pond; disputed
election of 1876) (Politicians) (Google Books)
Creamer, Hannah Gardner. Delia’s Doctors, or, A Glance Behind the Scenes (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852 [HathiTrust])
(some Boston doctors) (Depression; Women — psychology; Depression in women; Physicians; Self-actualization
(Psychology); Young women; Massachusetts)
Creyton, Paul [pseud. of John T. Trowbridge]. “The Adopted Son: or, The Reward of Charity.” In Maturin Murray Ballou, ed.,
Albert Simmons: Or, The Midshipman’s Revenge (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845) (set in Boston) (Generosity; Poor)
(Litfind.com)
Crosby, Tanya Anne. Happily Ever After (Avon, 1999) (Romance; late 19th century; heroine, Boston heiress)
Cummins, Maria Susanna. The Lamplighter (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1854 [Google Books]) (“sentimental domestic fiction”
in Boston, Providence; Orphans) (Amazon and Google Books)
Curtis, Ariana Wormeley. The Spirit of Seventy-six: or, The Coming Woman, a Prophetic Drama, followed by A Change
of Base, and Doctor Mondschein (Little, Brown, 1871 [Google Books]) (3 plays written 1868; 1st starts in railroad
station in Newton Corner 1876; characters named “Backbay” in 3rd play)
Cushing, Paul (pseud. of Roland Alexander Wood-Seys ?). Dr. Caesar Crowl: Mind-Curer (London: John & Robert Maxwell,
1887) (“opens in Boston”; psychic healing) (Brief Summary/Review The Academy 16 Apr. 1887: 270 [Google Books])
Cushman, Corinne. The War of Hearts (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1877) (Series: Fireside library (Beadle and Adams
(1872-1898)), no. 9) (Boston (Mass.); Teachers; Murder — Investigation; Wills; Inheritance and succession; Adultery;
Social classes)
Dall, Caroline Wells Healey. Patty Gray’s Journey: From Boston to Baltimore (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869 [Google
Books 1876 ed.]) (“Series: Patty Gray’s journey to the Cotton Islands: a series of books for children” WorldCat;
mainly Baltimore) (African Americans — Social conditions — 19th century; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877))
Dalton, Donna. Irish Destiny (The Wild Rose P, 2007) (1870s; South Boston; Irish Americans) (Homicide investigation; Man-
woman relationships)
Damon, Norwood. The Chronicles of Mount Benedict.: A Tale of the Ursuline Convent.: The Quasi Production of Mary
Magdalen.: [Nine lines from Shakespeare] (Boston: Printed for the publisher., 1837 [HathiTrust]) (Ursuline Convent
(Charlestown, Boston, Mass.); Convents; Devil; Ursulines)
Davis, Ethel. When Love Is Done: A Novel (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895 [HathiTrust] (romance, partly in Boston, mainly
Back Bay)
Davis, Suzannah. The Master’s Bride (Avon, 1993) (Romance; hero, Boston shipbuilder) (Shipbuilding industry — employees —
Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.))
Deford, Frank. Casey on the Loose: What Really Might Have Happened (Viking, 1989) (inspired by Ernest Thayer’s
“Casey at the Bat”; partly set in Nantasket/Boston in 1888; John L. Sullivan among others)
Dell, Floyd. Diana Stair (Farrar & Rinehart,1932) (1840s; Boston intellectuals; exploitation of women factory workers;
slavery; abolitionism)
Denison, Mary A. Edna Etheril, the Boston Seamstress: A Narative [sic] of Facts (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1847)
(Downward mobility and fear thereof)
Diaz, Abby Morton. Bybury to Beacon Street (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1887 [Internet Archive]) (“busy Beacon Street
woman[‘s] . . . days . . . painfully subdivided by the conflicting claims of home, society, charity, and shopping”
New York Nation qtd. in publisher’s ad)
Dier, Debra. The Sorcerer’s Lady (Love Spell, 1999) (Series–Timeswept: Love Spell Time-Travel Romance) (fantasy;
time travel; Boston in 1880s) (Vikings; Magicians)
Dixon, Thomas. The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden–1865-1900 (Doubleday, Page, 1902
[Google Books 1906 ed.]) (in part, a southern racist’s view of Boston; Dixon wrote the pro-Ku Klux Klan novels
D.W. Griffith’s film Birth of a Nation is based on) (Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)) (Google Books)
Dixwell, Epes Sargent. Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the School: Thursday Evening
April 23, 1885 (Boston: Boston Latin School Association, 1885) (3 pages) (Boston Latin School (Mass.) —
Anniversaries, etc.; Boston Latin School (Mass.) — Poetry)
Dodd, Christina. Treasure of the Sun (HarperCollins, 1991) (heroine from Boston, but mainly California) (California
— History — 1846-1850)
Dorsey, Anna H[anson]. Nora Brady’s Vow (Boston: Donahoe, 1869 [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875]) (“recent
immigrant to Boston . . .befriended by publisher Patrick Donahoe” [Charles Fanning, The Irish Voice in America,
2nd ed. (U of Kentucky P, 2000: 79) (Irish)
Doughty, Francis Worcester [under pseud. A New York Detective]. The Bradys and the Boston Special, or, The Man
Who Was Missing from Wall Street (Buffalo: Frank Tousey, 24 Oct. 1919) (Secret service: Old and Young King
Brady, detectives, no. 1083) (Doughty died 1917, so another writer might be responsible.)
—. The Haunted Churchyard: Or, Old King Brady the Detective and the Mystery of the Iron Vault (New York: F. Tousey, 1890)
(The New York Detective 371 [4 Jan. 1890]; rpt. The Dime Novel Detective, ed. Gary Hoppenstand [Bowling Green U
Popular P, 1982: 7-34]) (wealthy Boston leather merchant and poor clerk; King’s Chapel burial ground; Charles Street
Jail; Cambridge Bridge) (Google Books)
—. The James Boys in Boston: Or, Old King Brady and the Car of Gold (New York: F. Tousey, 1890) [Check Hoppenstand
as p. 64 lists D. W. Stevens as author.]
Douglas, Amanda Millie. A Little Girl in Old Boston (Dodd and Mead, 1898 [Internet Archive]) (Juvenile) (early nineteenth
century) (Brief Summary Literary News, Nov. 1898: 345 [Google Books])
Doutney, T. Narcisse, pseud. R.L.B. [Harriet G. Storer Doutney?] An Autobiography: Being Passages from a Life Now
Progressing in the City of Boston, an interest in which is not excited simply because founded on fact, but that the
incidents therein related are themselves the facts (Cambridge, Mass., 1871 [HathiTrust Digital Library, 1872 ed.])
(Various later editions, with variations on title; included in Wright American Fiction collection despite title;
Temperance)
Drake, Samuel Adams. The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904
[Internet Archive]) (starts in Boston; main character, Boston orphan, framed for embezzlement, goes to California
to clear name) (Google Books)
Driscoll, David A. From the Melting Pot into the Mold (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1923 [Hathi Trust]) (1870s,
1880s; opens at “gloomy old 43 Fort Hill Square”) (Emigration and immigration; Immigrants)
Du Bois, W.E.B. “A Unique Vacation” (c. 1889) (Shamoon Zamir, Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought,
1888-1903 (U of Chicago P, 2003) (fragment in Du Bois papers) (white [with skin darkening] and black Harvard
students tour as two Harvard African Americans geek show)
Duganne, Augustine J. H. The Knights of the Seal; or, The Mysteries of the Three Cities (Philadelphia: Colon and Adriance,
1845) (City Mystery, one-third set in Boston; “nativism, anti-slavery beliefs, and anti-imperialism” Streeby 21)
(Shelley Streeby, American Sensations: Class, Empire, and the Production of Popular Culture (U of California P,
2002: 21-22 [Google Books])
Dunbar, Noel. Number One, the Dead-set Detective, or, The High Roller’s Dual Game: A Story of the Invisible League
(New York: Beadle & Adams, 1895 [Northern Illinois U]) (Beadle’s New York dime library, no. 858) (Murder–
Investigation; Pirates; Fortune-tellers; Household employees; Disinheritance; Orphans; Heiresses; Forgery;
New York (N.Y.); New York (State); Long Island Sound (N.Y. and Conn.); Boston (Mass.); Maine)
Durivage, Francis Alexander. Angela; or, Love and Guilt. A Tale of Boston and its Environs (Boston: Charles H. Brainard,
1843)
—. Edith Vernon or, Crime and Retribution. A Tragic Story of New England, founded upon fact (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845
[HathiTrust]) (Chapter 1 Boston Thirty Years Ago.. . . Rencounter in Hanover Street) (Retribution; Crime)
—. The Gold Fiend, or, Shadows on the Hearthstone: A Story of Boston and New York (Boston: Elliot, Thomes & Talbot,
186-?) (Series: Novelette, no. 87) (50 pgs.)
—. Life Scenes, Sketched in Light and Shadow from the World around Us (Boston: B.B. Mussey, 1853 [HathiTrust]) (short
stories; some Boston, e.g., “The Water Cure,” starting with “the introduction of the limpid waters of Lake Cochituate into
the goodly city of Boston” 244-47)
—. The Phantom of the Sea: or, The Red Cross and the Crescent: A Story of Boston Bay and the Mediterranean (Boston: M.M.
Ballou, 1858)
Dusenbery, B. M. City Sights for Little Folks (Philadelphia: Smith & Peck., 1845) (Juvenile) (Children’s poetry: City and
town life; Occupations; Boston (Mass.) — Description and travel; New York (N.Y.) — Description and travel)
Dye, Ginny. Gateway to a New Beginning : September 1873 – January 1874 (Bregdan Publishing, 2024(in part “Frances
and Felicia encounter challenges and adventures in Boston” WorldCat) (Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877))
—. Journey to Joy: March – August 1872 (Bellingham, WA: Bregdan, 2021) (in part “Elizabeth and Peter marry in Boston
– welcoming everyone North during the springtime” WorldCat) (Families; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877))
Edes, Robert T. The Story of Rodman Heath, or, Mugwumps (Boston: Arena Pub., 1894 Google Books]) (starts “A Late
December Day in Boston” 1; brief summary, JAMA 6 Oct. 1894;XXIII(14):560. doi:10.1001/jama.1894.
02421190038014)
Edwards, Selden. The Lost Prince: A Novel (Dutton, 2012) (1890s Boston young woman; clairvoyance; Sigmund Freud)
(Wives; Family secrets; Time travel)
Elkins, Kimberly. What Is Visible: A Novel (Twelve, 2014) (Includes Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe; Perkins
Institute) (Bridgman, Laura Dewey, — 1829-1889; Deafblind women; American Sign Language)
Ellsworth, Oliver (under pseud. Timothy Thistle). A Single Gentleman (Boston: O. Ellsworth, 1867 [Google Books])
(opens “A SINGLE GENTLEMAN, engaged in a highly respectable business, desires three or four rooms,
situated on one floor, unfurnished, and located at the South End,” an ad giving Boston P.O. Box address)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo. “O Boston City Lecture-Hearing Hearing” (Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1904:473 [Google Books])
(moral weakness on slavery of pre-war Boston)
Emery, Sarah Anna. Three Generations (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York, Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872
[Hathi Trust] (Chapter VI Boston Sixty Years Since)
Emmons, William. An oration on Bunker Hill battle, delivered on the battle ground, in Charlestown, 18th of June–1827.:
Together with a caucus speech, delivered at Faneuil Hall, May 9th. Respectfully dedicated to the eight hundred
and thirty eight independent citizens who honoured him with their suffrages as representatives of the city of
Boston, the past year (Boston:Printed for the author., 1827) (includes poem) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston,
Mass., 1775 — Anniversaries, etc; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 — Poetry; Massachusetts —
Politics and government — 1775-1865)
English, Rachael. The Letter Home (London: Headline Review, 2022) (part, Irish immigrants in 19th century Boston), part 21st c.
descendants) (Ireland, West of; Boston (Mass.))
English, William B. Hazards of the Heart, or, Woman’s Wrongs, and Woman’s Revenge (Boston: J.N. Bradley, 184-?
HathiTrust]) (opens in “one of the larger hotels of Boston” 1; ends in “a large brick house in Beacon street” 40)
(Vice)
—. Rossina Meadows, the village maid or, Temptations unveiled; a story of city scenes and every day life (Boston:
Redding, 1843) (Chapter II Rosina’s arrival in Boston)
For play adaptation, see Saunders, Charles Henry.
Erdby, Detective-Sergeant. Old Ironnerve’s Clever Assistant or Petie Moore in Boston (New York: Munro’s Pub.
House, 1896)
Evans, Abigail A. (Mrs. Peleg Newsby, pseud). Aunt Nabby (Boston: Rand Avery, 1888 [HathiTrust]) (Jordan and
Marsh’s, State House, R.H. White, Cambridge, Dorchester, etc.)
Farquhar, Anna. An Evans of Suffolk (Boston: L. C. Page, 1904 [Google Books]) (mild satire of Beacon Hill social life)
(Brief Summary/Review The Literary World Mar. 1904: 73 [Google Books])
—. A Singer’s Heart (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892 [Google Boooks]) (“music and musicians in Boston” 477 Joseph
Edgar Chamberlin, “Boston in Fiction II,” The Chap-Book, vol. 8, no. 1, 1 May 1898, pp. 476-78)
Farrell, Steven G. Boston Knuckles: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan: America’s First Pop Culture Hero)
(Bookstand Publishing, 2008) (Play) (Sullivan, John Lawrence, — 1858-1918; >Boxers (Sports) — United
States; Boxing — History — 19th century)
Faulkner, Armytage. “Friday Afternoon at the Boston Symphony Hall.” A Satire Anthology. Ed. Carolyn Wells.
Scribner’s, 1905: 332-36 [Google Books]) (satire)
Fern, Fanny (pseud. of Sarah Payson Willis Parton). Rose Clark (New York: Mason Brothers, 1856 [Google Books])
(set in part in Boston, e.g., Chapter 13 “A Chapter on Boston, Its Inhabitants and Environs”) (Google Books)
—. Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale or The Present Time (New York: Mason Brothers, 1855 [Google Books]) (author lived
in Boston for part of her life, characters–satirical portraits of family members, but no explicit references to Boston,
Beacon Hill, Harvard, Cambridge, etc.; widow supports herself and children by writing for newspapers) (Married
women) (Amazon and Google Books)
Field, Caroline C. Two Gentlemen of Boston: A Novel (Ticknor, 1887 [Internet Archive]) (two lovers of orphan girl)
(Summary, The Publishers’ Weekly 2 Apr. 1887: 479 [Google Books])
Field, Elinor Whitney. Try All Ports (Longmans, Green, 1931) (Juvenile) (young English boy comes to Boston in the days
of the clipper ships to search for family records) (Boston (Mass); Shipping — Massachusetts — Boston)
Fields, James T. “The Fountain, Boston Common” (Poems William D. Ticknor, 1849, pp. 65-66)
Finch, John. The Soldier’s Orphan. A Novel ( New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1812) (“pages 64-69 . . .a description of a
visit to Cambridge and Harvard” [Bail 343])
Fitch, Albert Parker (Harvard 1900). None So Blind (The Macmillan Company, 1924) (Bail 305: “the development of the
character, morals, mind, and body of Dick Blaisdell during his senior year at Harvard, presumably at the turn of
the century”) (Bail 305-308)
Fitzjames, Phoebe. Silver Angel (Zebra Books, 1994) (Boston heroine in Arizona)
Flandrau, Charles Macom. Diary of a Freshman (Doubleday, Page, 1901 [Google Books]) (College students; Harvard
University; College stories) (Google Books; Bail 266-71)
—. Harvard Episodes (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897 [Google Books]) (focuses on vices) (Harvard University;
College students; College stories; Short stories) (Google Books; Bail 255-64)
Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot. Sketches of Married Life (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, rev. 1847, 1838 [Google Books]) (opens
in Boston) (Independence; Sickness; Women’s Rights)
Forbes, Esther. O Genteel Lady (Grosset & Dunlap 1926) (19th century; Boston-Concord-English literary figures)
(Women authors)
Foster, Frank. Evolution of a Trade Unionist (Boston: Allied Printing Trades Council], 1901) (South End boarding
houses, etc.) (Sarah Deutsch, Women and the City: Gender, Space, and Power in Boston, 1870-1940 (Oxford
U P, 2000: 93-94) and Michael Kazin, The Populist Persuasion: An American History (Cornell U P, 1998: 307
n. 21) [Google Books])
Frank (“pseudonym used by Edward W. Stratemeyer and Frederick A. Stearns”). Swipes in Boston (New York: Street &
Smith, 1891) (The Nugget Library, no. 92) (Edward T. LeBlanc Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections,
Northern Illinois U) (Humor; 16 pges.)
Franklin, Augustus. Anne Melbourne; or, the Return to Virtue. A Tale of Boston (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1846)
Freelance, Radical [pseud. of George Carleton, the publisher]. The Philosophers of Foufouville (New York: G.W.
Carleton, 1868 [Google Books]) (Utopias; Satire, American; Cooperative societies; Cooperative societies;
United States — Social conditions — To 1865; Brook Farm Phalanx (West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.))
Friedland, Jacqueline. The Stockwell Letters: A Novel (SparkPress, 2023) (Anthony Burns” WorldCat) (Abolitionists;
Antislavery movements; Boston (Mass.); Fugitive slaves; Phillips, Ann Terry Greene, 1813-1886)
Frisch, Karen. Murder Most Civil (Mainly Murder P, 2010) (Murder in 1860 Boston; abolitionists; Harvard professor)
(Boston, Mass.)
—. What’s in a Name (Avalon, 2011) (Avalon historical romance) (In part North End; Yankee-Italian romance)
(Runaways; Orphans)
Frothingham, Charles H. With the Compliments of Chas. H. Frothingham (Boston: C.W. Grant, printer, 143
Washington St., 1873) (Streets — Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry; Street addresses — Massachusetts
— Boston — Poetry; Boston (Mass.) — Poetry)
Frothingham, Charles W. The Convent’s Doom: A Tale of Charlestown in 1834 ; And, The Haunted Convent
(Boston: Graves & Weston, 1854 [5th ed.]) ( [Catholic U of America])
—. Six Hours in a Convent, or, The Stolen Nuns!: A Tale of Charlestown in 1834 (Boston: Graves & Weston, Office
“American Union” …, 1855 [Google Books 8th ed.]) (Google Books)
Frothingham, Eugenia Brooks. The Turn of the Road (Houghton Mifflin, 1901 [Google Books]) (Boston people mainly
abroad; career woman and blind suitor) (Literary News March 1901: 80 [Google Books])
Frye, Ralph. “I Went to See a Queen.” The New Yorker 6 May 1944: 72-77 (wild trip to Boston 1886) (Keywords:
Children; Captains; Prostitutes; Uncle ‘Lish; Queen Liliuokalani)
Fuller, Edward. The Complaining Millions of Men: A Novel (Harper, 1893 [Google Books]) (“sinister sides of
socialism” New York Times) (Labor unions — Massachusetts — Boston; Working class — Massachusetts —
Boston)
—. Forever and a Day (J.B. Lippincott, 1882) (business men commute into Boston)
Fulton, Justin D. illus. Henry M Snyder. Show Your Colors, or, A Story of Boston Life (New York: American Baptist
Publication Society, 1875) (Juvenile) (Christian life; Friendship; Students; Children of clergy; Temptation;
Boston (Mass.))
Gallagher, Kevin. Loom (Madhat P, 2016) (Poems; ante-bellum Boston; speakers “white Americans who position
themselves in relation to ‘slave power’ and cotton as ‘lords of the loom’ and ‘lords of the lash’. Boston is
central to the story. . . ” Fanny Howe, Pub. web page)
Garland, Hamlin. Jason Edwards: An Average Man (Boston: Arena, 1892 [Google Books 1897 ed.]) (“Boston
mechanic takes his family West, drawn by advertising circulars. But he finds that all land within 30 miles of a
railroad has been taken up by speculators. He struggles for five years to pay off a loan and get title to his
farm, and then a storm destroys his wheat just before harvest.” Howard Zinn, ” History Is a Weapon:
Robber Barons AndRebels“) (Summary/Review Glen A. Love, New Americans: The Westerner and the Modern
Experience in the American Novel (Bucknell U P, 1982: 73-75) [Google Books])
—. A Member of the Third House: A Dramatic Story (Chicago: F.J. Schulte, 1892 [Google Books]) (political corruption
in fictionalized Boston)
Garwood, Julie. Prince Charming (Pocket Books, 1994) (romance set part in Boston, part in Montana) —. Rebellious Desire
(Pocket Books, 1986) (romance; set in England 1802; heroine raised in Boston)
Gear, W. Michael. The Morning River (Forge, 1996) (1825; main character is a Harvard philosophy student suddenly thrust
on his own to struggle and grow on the western frontier) (Young men; Indian women; Shoshoni Indians; Indians of
North America — Great Plains; Frontier and pioneer life)
Gentry, Georgina. Apache Tears (Zebra, 1999) (romance; heroine attends finishing school in Boston, but mainly Arizona) (
Apache Indians)
—. Cheyenne Captive (Kensington, 1987) (Great Plains; Cheyenne Indians)
—. Cheyenne Splendor (Zebra, 1994) (romance; heroine forced to leave Native American husband and return to Brahmin
Boston; sequel to Cheyenne Captive) (Indians of North America; Cheyenne Indians; Native American men; Interracial
romance; Ethnic romances; Sensual historical romances)
—. To Tame a Savage (Kensington, 2002) (Boston Brahmin cavalry officer fathers Sioux son as adult brought to Boston)
(Indians of North America–mixed descent; Governesses; Inheritances and successions)
—. Warrior’s Prize (Zebra, 1997) (romance; finishing school in Boston, but mainly Colorado) (Arapaho Indians;
Indians of North America; Colorado)
Gerritsen, Tess. The Bone Garden: A Novel (Ballantine, 2007) (modern and 1830 mystery combine; Oliver Wendell
Holmes) (Medical examiners (Law); Forensic pathologists)
Gibbons, Kaye. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (Putnam, 1998) (1842-1900; takes place in South, not Boston;
Civil War era southerner marries Boston surgeon, one of the Lowells)
Gilman, Caroline Howard (under pseud. Clarissa Packard). Recollections of a Housekeeper (Harper, 1836 [Google
Books]) (More commonly titled Recollections of a New England Bride) (New England — Social life and customs;
Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs; Domestic fiction; Women as authors)
Gilmore, James Roberts. See Kirke, Edmund.
Goodger, Jane. Anything for Love (Topaz, 1997) (also 20th c.; Irish Americans; Immigrants; Romance; “pregnant Irish
maid in 1898 Boston” [Kathe Robin]) (Time travel; Women domestics — Massachusetts — Boston; Boston
(Mass.)) (Brief Summary, Kathe Robin, RT Book Reviews [Internet Wayback Machine])
—. Dancing With Sin (Topaz, 1998) (catalyst woman character from Boston; Springfield (Mass.); romance; late 19th
century; French-Canadian Catholics)
Goodman, Jo. My Reckless Heart (Kensington, 1998) (Boston and England; 1840s) (Ship captains; Seafaring life;
Brothers)
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. The Adventures of Billy Bump in Boston, California, Etc.: Being the Life of a Boy in
America (Rev. ed. Darton, 1862 [Internet Archive]) (Juvenile) (starts with “Billy Bump in Boston” but mainly
California) (Children — Conduct of life; Conduct of life — Early works to 1900; Adventure and adventurers;
Voyages around the world; Mothers and sons; Uncles; Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs)
Goodwin, James S. A Day in the Boston of the Future (Boston: William B. Clarke, 1879) (with illustrations) (Social life and
customs; Humor)
Goodwin, Lavinia S. Vultures; or, The Secret of a Birth. A Story of Boston (Boston: Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, 1866?)
(Series: Novelette, no. 119)
Gordon, Noah. Shaman: A Novel (Dutton, 1992) (Boston, 1839, immigrant and medical world, Oliver Wendell Holmes,
pp.19-43) (Frontier and pioneer life)
Gouge, Louise M. Hannah Rose (River Oak, 2005) (Capt. Ahab’s widow in Boston; Christianity; Abolition) (Widows;
Slavery; Boston (Mass.); Mothers and son; Whalers’ spouses; Ship captains’ spouses; Women; Ahab, Capt.)
Gow, Ronald. A Boston Story: A Comedy (1966) (English Theatre Guild, 1969; P.A.C.T., [1961? [WorldCat] 1964 title
Watch and Ward) (Three Acts; based on Henry James’s first and later rejected novel Watch and Ward [1871])
(Brief Summary [Josef Weinberger (accessed 27 Dec. 2011)])
Graham, Brendan. The Element of Fire (HarperCollins, 2001) (Widows; Immigrants; Irish — Massachusetts — Boston;
Boston (Mass.); Ireland — History — Famine, 1845-1852)
Graham, Heather. Runaway (Delacorte, 1994) (1830s; mainly Florida, but heroine runs away from false murder
charges in Boston) (Seminole Indians — Florida; Florida)
Grant, Robert. The Chippendales (Scribner’s, 1909 [Google Books, Grosset and Dunlap, 1909]) (Brahmin vs. robber
baron values; 1880s-1900) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. The Dark Horse: A Story of the Younger Chippendales (Houghton Mifflin, 1931) (sequel to The Chippendales set 1880s
-1900; 1912-1920s; Beacon Hill; Massachusetts gubernatorial election; women’s jury service)
Harvard Lampoon) (Cambridge, Mass.: Charles W. Sever, 1879 [Google Books]) (Boston (Mass.) — Social life
and customs — Drama; Mount Desert (Me.) — Drama)
Grasso, Patricia. To Tame a Duke (Kensington, 2001) (War of 1812; spies; heroine, Boston English spy catcher)
(Kidnapping; Boston (Mass.) — History — 19th century)
Greenwood, Leigh. A Texan’s Honor (Leisure Books, 2006) (romance; family business in Boston; heiress in Texas)
(Orphans — United States — History — 19th century; The Eighties (19th century); Texans — Boston,
Massachusetts; Single men — Boston, Massachusetts; Family businesses — Boston, Massachusetts; Quests;
Young women — Texas; Heirs and heiresses — Texas; Homecomings — Texas; Ranches — Texas — History —
19th century; Cattle stealing — Texas; Helpfulness in men; Interpersonal attraction; Men/women relations;
Boston, Massachusetts — History — 19th century; Texas — History — 19th century; Western romances;
Historical romances, American)
Gresham, G. R. Official 17th Sept[ember] Programme: Containing Full Particulars of All Arrangements for the
Dedication of the Soldiers’ Monument (Boston: C.W. Calkins & Co., 1877) (Dedication services; Army and
Navy Monument (Boston, Mass.); Poetry of places — Massachusetts — Boston — 1877; War memorials —
Massachusetts — Boston)
Griffiths, Paul. Mr. Beethoven (New York Review Books, 2021) (Beethoven in Boston 1833; “rigorously researched
depiction of early-19th-century Boston,” Alida Becker, “Historical Fiction” NY Times Bk. Rev. 5 Dec. 2021:
68-9) ) (Beethoven, Ludwig van, — 1770-1827; Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Mass.); Music —
Classical influences)
Grove, S.E. The Crimson Skew (Viking, 2016 (Elementary and junior high school) (“In a world transformed by 1799’s
Great Disruption–when all of the continents were flung into different time periods, Sophia Tims journeys home
to Boston. . . .”) (Maps; Fantasy; Visionary & Metaphysical)
—. The Glass Sentence (Viking, 2014) (Elementary and junior h.s.) (In part, alternative 1891 Boston) (Fantasy;
Maps; Kidnapping)
—. The Golden Specific (Listening Library (Audio), 2015) (Elementary and junior h. s.) (Sequel to The Glass Sentence;
1892) (Maps; Missing persons; Voyages and travels)
Grumbine, J. C. F. “A Bit of Old Boston.” The Great Secret and Other Stories (Boston, Mass.: Published by the Order of
the White Rose, 1906) (1860s; Immigrants; West End) (Ghost stories) (Amazon and Google Books)
H. “Remonstrance of the Cows at Quitting the Boston Common.” Ladies Magazine and Literary Gazette July 1831: 317
(1830 ordinance banned cows from Boston Common; poem) (Forgotten Chapters of Boston Literary History: An
Exhibition at the Boston Public Library and the Massachusetts Historical Society March 28-July 30, 2012
[Internet Wayback Machine])
H. B. C. The Round Table ([Boston, 1885]) (Parker House (Boston, Mass.) — Poetry; Hotels — Poetry)
H. M. On Bunker Hill Monument,–Finished June 23d, 1842 ([Charlestown, Mass., 1842]) (1 page) (United States —
History — Revolution, 1775-1783 — Poetry; Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.))
Haeger, Diane. Angel Bride (Pocket Books, 1994) (romance; immigrant heroine marries Boston Brahmin) (Immigrants;
Rich families; Poor families; Classism; Men/women relations; Brothers and sisters; Accidents; Secrets; Marriage;
Sisters-in-law; Social acceptance; Independence in women; Courage in women; The Seventies (19th century);
New York City — History — 19th century; Boston, Massachusetts — History — 19th century)
Hale, Edward Everett. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories (Little, Brown, 1899 [Electronic Text Center, U of Viriginia
Library; Internet Wayback Machine]) (Many Boston settings,including South Boston, Roxbury, and Dorchester)
—. “Christmas Waits in Boston, a Christmas Story”. In His Name and Christmas Stories (Little, Brown, 1899): 206-232.
—. “How They Live in Boston, and How They Die There.” In Workingmen’s Homes: Essays and Stories (Boston: J.R.
Osgood, 1874), pp. 155-77.
—. If Jesus Came to Boston (Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895 [Google Books]) (45 pages)
—. “The Old South Meeting-House.” In Poems of the “Old South” (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 21-30 [Google Books])
(Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) — Poetry) (Edwin D Mead, Context, The Old South Leaflets (Boston: Old
South Meeting House, 1903: 16) [Google Books])
—. “One Cent.” Christmas in Narraganset (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1884: 43-47 [Google Books]) (East Boston
trolley; lesson to rich about poverty) (Google Books)
—. Susan’s Escort (Boston: Lend a Hand Society, 1895 [Internet Archive]) (Susan constructs male-looking dummy so she
can walk around Boston)
Hale, Edward Everett, and Lucretia P. Hale. The New Harry and Lucy: A Story of Boston in the Summer of 1891 (Boston:
Roberts Brothers, 1892 [Internet Archive]) (Juvenile) (uses Maria Edgeworth characters and epistolary format to
show off 1891 Boston) (Youth — Conduct of life; Conduct of life; Clerks; Cousins; Boardinghouses; Courtship;
Mothers and sons; Voyages and travels; Boston (Mass.)) (Informative eview, Literary News, Jun. 1892: 184
[Google Books])
Hale, Lucretia P. The Peterkin Papers (Ticknor, 1886 [Google Books 1914 ed.] (children; “Bostonians’ penchant for self
improvement”; 1870s–about one hour from Boston by train) (Family; Humor) (Google Books)
—. [or Florence Warton]. The Wolf at the Door (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877 [Google Books]) (“women join ‘classes’
in all sorts of things that they have no interest in, in a manner eminently Bostonian” 434 Joseph Edgar
Chamberlin. “American Cities in Fiction I: Boston I” The Chap-Book, vol. 8, no. 11, 15 Apr. 1898)
Hale, Lucretia Peabody, and Edwin Lassetter Bynner. An Uncloseted Skeleton (Ticknor, 1888 [Internet Archive])
(epistolary novel, many from Boston, 1830s)
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell. “Boarding Out.” A Tale of Domestic Life (Harper, 1846 [Google Books]) (attack on boarding
houses; “a headstrong Boston wife . . . move[s] her family from their own comfortable house to avoid becoming
a ‘mere drudge'” [Ruth Graham, “What Happened in the Boarding House,” Sunday Boston Globe 13 Jan. 2013.
K 4]) (Home economics; Housekeeping)
Hardy, Charles. Ecce signum!: Effigies of Charles Hardy, for Several Years a Sweeper of Streets in Boston ([Boston,
1824]) (New Year in literature.; Street cleaning — Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry; African Americans —
Massachusetts — Boston) (26 lines)
Harris, Francis A. Class Day: A Farce in One Act (Boston: Geo. M. Baker, 1877 [Internet Archive]) (“the room of an
undergraduate at Harvard College”)
Harris, Joel Chandler. Azalia. In Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches (Scrinner’s, 1887: 138-236 [Google Books
1901 ed.]) (opens in Boston 1873; Boston woman in the South) (Neighbors; Northern States; Slavery –
United States; U.S. – Southern States) (Google Books)
Harris, Lisa. Massachusetts Brides: Three Old-fashioned Romances Bloom in the Heart of New England (Barbour
Pub., 2007) (Series: Romancing America) (one heroine, Boston seamstress) (Single women; Man-woman
relationships; Massachusetts — History — 1865; Christian romance)
—. Rebecca’s Heart: An Old-Fashioned Romance Blooms in the Heart of New England (Barbour Pub., 2006) (same as
above?) (Series: Massachusetts Brides, bk. 2) (Boston seamstress) (starts 1883)
Harrison, Maria E. My Dearest Jane (1stBooks, 2002) (before and during Civil War; Boston mental asylum) (Adult
child abuse victims; Massachusetts; Historical fiction; Love stories)
Hart, Catherine. Mischief (Avon, 1995) (Boston debutante takes over father’s saloon in Dodge City) (Jill Brager,
Summary/Review, RT Book Reviews)
Hart, Derek. For Love Or Honor Bound (Xlibris, 2001) (some Boston, e.g., “Chapter 3 Planned Interception Boston
Harbor December 1, 1863″ and “Chapter 6 Busy Dance Card Boston December 16, 1863”; romance) (United
States — History — Civil War, 1861- 1865; Countesses — Brazil)
Hatchet, Sam [psued. of Mayhew B. Cleveland]. From Boston, Mass., to Sodom, N.B., on a Bicycle (Salem, Mass.,
1887) (Cycling)
Hawthorne, Julian. Idolatry: A Romance (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1874 [Google Books]) (partly Boston, e.g. opening
sentence refers to Tremont House 7 and “IV A Brahman” 42-50)
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852 [Google Books]) (West Roxbury;
Brook Farm) (Collective farms; Communal living; Farm life) (Google Books)
—. “The New Adam and Eve” (1854) (Mosses From an Old Manse. vol. 2. New ed. Ticknor and Field, 1857. 6-25
[Google Books]) (Adam and Eve return and visit peopleless Boston, identified by named “Beacon Street,”
“State Street,” Harvard, “Mount Auburn”) (O’Connell, Boston: Vision and Voices, 11)
—. “Sights from a Steeple.” Twice-Told Tales (Boston: American Stationers, 1837: 273-82 [Google Books])
(O’Connell, Boston: Vision and Voices, 11)
Haynes, Emory J[ames]. Dollars and Duty (Boston: J.H. Earle, 1887 [Google Books]) (some Boston) (Clergy;
Conduct of life)
Hazel, Harry [pseud. for Justin Jones]. The Belle of Boston, or, The Rival Students of Cambridge (Boston: F.
Gleason, 1844 [Google Books]) (“first Book of Harvard fiction” [Bail 219]; June 1820s; Fresh Pond;
romantic rivalry) (Brief Summary, John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, Robert Shenton, Harvard A to Z
(Harvard U P, 2004: 125) [Google Books])
—. Big Dick, the King of the Negroes; or, Virtue and Vice Contrasted. A Romance of High & Low Life in Boston
(Boston: “Star Spangled Banner” Office, 1846) (main character African American irregular policeman leads
attack to clean up “Nigger Hill” [north slope, Beacon Hill] red light district) (African Americans; upper-class vice and
virtue) (see Alan Thomas Lipke, “The Strange Life and Stranger Afterlife of King Dick . . .” Diss. U of Southern
Florida. 2013. Academic Commons, U of Southern Florida. Web. 8 May 2014; Simon Mayo, Mad Blood Stirring,
Pegasus, 2019, England’s Dartmoor prison, 1814, in part, King Dick directs Romeo and Juliet; Nicholas Guyatt,
The Hated Cage, Basic, 2022, Part Four Big Dick at Boston)
—. Fourpe Tap: or, the Middy of the Macedonian. In which is contained the concluding incidents in the eventful career of
Big Dick, King Of The Negroes (Boston: Jones’s Publishing House, 1847. microfilm: Wright American Fiction
vol. 1, reel J-2, no. 1489) (mainly elsewhere, but “Chapter IV. Fourth of July twenty years ago. Scenes on Boston
Common”)
—. Hasserac, the Thief-Taker: or, The Rival Sisters of Tri-Mount. A Tale of Tricks and Traps, and of Misery and Mystery
(Boston: Jones’s Publishing House, 1849)
—. The Nun of St. Ursula, or, The Burning of the Convent. A Romance of Mount Benedict (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845
[American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Catholic University of America])
(Charlestown) (Ursuline Convent (Charlestown, Boston, Mass.); Nuns)
—. Tom, Dick & Harry; or, the Boys and Girls of Boston. A Tale Founded on Metropolitan Adventures by Moonlight!
Starlight!! Gaslight!!! Lamplight!!!! Electric Light!!!!! Northern Lights!!!!!! and Total Darkness (Boston: F.
Gleason, 1845)
Hemyng, Bracebridge. Jack Harkaway Around the World (New York: Federal Book Co., [1904?]) (Juvenile) (Fathers
and sons; Boston (Mass.); New York (N.Y.); Adventure stories; Dime novels; Popular literature)
—. Jack Harkaway and His Son’s Adventures Round the World (New York: F. Tousey, 1879 [Internet Archive
Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 19-? ed.]) (Jack and son use inheritance to travel world; Cuba; some Boston,
e.g., murder in Boston in “CHAPTER XL A VERY BLACK BUSINESS. NIGHT! All Boston was buried in
sleep” [62]) (Ocean travel; Adventure stories)
Henke, Shirl. The Endless Sky (St. Martin’s, 1998) (romance; illegitimate/Indian upperclass Bostonian outcast male
and blueblood Bostonian woman in Boston and mainly in the Valley of the Little Big Horn) (Little Bighorn, Battle
of the, Mont., 1876; Indians of North America — Mixed descent; Cheyenne Indians — Wars, 1876)
Hermann, Spring. Seeing Lessons: The Story of Abigail Carter and America’s First School for the Blind (Holt, 1998)
(Elementary and junior high school; 1832; Perkins School for the Blind) (Carter, Abigail; People with
disabilities; Schools)
Hersey, William H. Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of American Independence, July 4th, 1876 ([Boston]:
William H. Hersey, 1876) (United States — Centennial celebrations, etc. — Humor; Humorous poetry; Boston
(Mass.) — Centennial celebrations, etc. — Humor; Fourth of July celebrations; Lampoons)
Heti, Sheila. Ticknor (House of Anansi P, 2005) (Ticknor, George; Prescott, William Hickling; Jealousy;
Self-perception)
Hewes, Agnes Danforth. illus. Armstrong Sperry. The Codfish Musket (Doubleday, Doran, 1936) (Juvenile; starts in
Boston) (Young men — Juvenile; Illegal arms transfers; Firearms; Thieves; Frontier and pioneer life; Jefferson,
Thomas, 1743-1826; Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1809) (Summary, John Thomas Gillespie and Corinne
J. Naden, The Newbery Companion, Libraries Unlimited, 2001: 87 [Google Books]
—-. illus. N.C. Wyeth. Glory of the Seas (Knopf, 1933) (Juvenile) (East Boston; Donald McKay) (Clipper ships;
Boston (Mass.); California — Gold discoveries)
Hildreth, Richard. The White Slave or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1854 [HathiTrust])
(pp. 384-88 prejudice on Beacon Hill against daughter of wealthy southerner presumed to be child of a slave)
Hilfinger, Robert. Fred (BookBaby, 2024) (“young college graduate . . . must stay in Boston to save his life” WorldCat) (Crime)
Hill, George Canning. Amy Lee (Higgins and Bradley, 1856 [Internet Archive]) (some Boston, e.g., Chapter XXVIII
Back to Boston 314) (Social control; Deviant behavior; Stigmatization; Crime)
Himes, S. J. A History of Trouble (Old Saybrook: Tantor Audio, 2019) (1897) (Magicians; Vampires; Boston)
Hobbs, Valerie. illus. Jennifer Thermes. Maggie and Oliver, or, A Bone of One’s Own (Holt, 2011) (Juvenile
–ages 9-12) (Orphans; Dogs; Homeless persons; Poverty; Boston (Mass.) — History — 1865)
Hockett, Kathryn. River of Passion (Kensington, 1993) (prim and proper 19th-century Boston woman physician
on the Congo River searching for long-lost brother; romance) (Women physicians; Congo River)
(Summary, Perfect Variety Bookstop, accessed 27 Dec. 2011)
Holly-Rosing, Madeleine. Art by Emily Hu, Gloria Caeli, Fahriza Kamaputra. Boston Metaphysical Society (2012+; Special Edition, 2024)
(“Six-Issue Mini-Series Web Comic”; 1895 alternative Boston run by steam technology; demon from parallel universe faced by three
heroes; accessed 5 Jan. 2015) (Boston (Mass.) History 19th century; Demonology; Irish Americans; Paranormal; Spirit photography;
Spirits; Steampunk)
—. The Demons of Liberty Row: A Boston Metaphysical Society Story (Smashwords Edition, 2014) (Mediums;
Photographers; Demonology; Boston (Mass.) — 19th century)
Holmes, John. “A Cambridge Robinson Crusoe” (in “The city and the Sea”, with other Cambridge contributions, in aid
of the hospital fund, ed. Helen Leah Reed, J. Wilson, University P, 1881, pp. 13-49)
Holmes, Mary Jane. Rose Mather: A Tale of the War (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868 [Internet Archive]) (Title
character Boston Civil War wife/widow[?]) (United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Auotocrat of the Breakfast Table (Atlantic Monthly 1857-58; Boston: Phillips,
Sampson, 1858 [Google Books 1859 ed.] (“less a novel than a collection of short, idiosyncratic musings disguised
as breakfast-table discussions (lectures might be a more accurate description) between the eponymous
autocrat and his [semi-captive] audience – the other boarders at his lodging-house in Boston” [Jeremy Dibble,
PhiloBiblos 30 Jun. 2007 [accessed 21 Apr. 2008]) (Google Books)
—. “Boston Church Bells” (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by James Thomas
Fields, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, pp. 9-10) (poem)
—. “The Brave Old South.” In Poems of the “Old South” (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 8-11 [Google Books]) (Old South
Church (Boston, Mass.) — Poetry) (Edwin D Mead, Context, The Old South Leaflets (Old South Meeting House,
1903: 16) [Google Books])
—. Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny (Ticknor and Fields, 1861 [Google Books]) (Introduces term Brahmins for
upper-class Bostonians; one major character, a doctor, is a Bostonian, but action takes place in small town)
(Women — United States — 19th century; Abnormalities, Human; Physicians; Cousins; Triangles (Interpersonal
relations)) (Google Books)
—. Iris. The Little Classics, ed. Rossiter Johnson Vol. 7: Romance. Houghton Mifflin, 1875: 7-82 [Google Books]
(Boston boarding house)
—. “The Last Leaf” (1831) (The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ed. Horace E. Scudder (Houghton Mifflin,
1896: 4 [Google Books]) (Major Thomas Melville, aged Tea Partyer)
—. “Poem for the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard College” (1886). In The Poetical Works of Oliver
Wendell Holmes, ed. Horace E. Scudder (Houghton Mifflin, 1896: 277 [Google Books])
Holt, Arthur F. The Ocean Drift, or, The Fight for Two Lives: A Sea and Shore Romance (New York: Beadle & Adams,
1889 [Northern Illinois U]) (Series: Beadle’s New York dime library, no. 542) (Abduction; Heiresses; Inheritance
and succession; Orphans; Shipwrecks; Wills; Boston; Newfoundland and Labrador)
—. Wideawake, the Train-Boy Detective; or, The Boston Team’s Big Strike (March 21, 1893; Found in: Beadle’s Weekly/
Banner Weekly (various title changes), no. 292; Half-dime Library,817 [Beadle’s Half-dime Library, Northern Illinois
U Libraries {accessed 25 Mar. 2008}]) (listed The Dime Novel Detective – Page 174 by Gary Hoppenstand 1982)
(short story?)
Hooker, John. Love and Beans ([Boston?: ca. 1880]) (three stanzas) (Courtship — Poetry; Beans — Poetry; Boston
(Mass.) — Poetry)
Hooper, Elise. The Other Alcott (Harper Collins Publishers, 2017) (partly Boston) (Alcott, May, — 1840-1879;
Artists; Sisters)
Hooper, Judith. Alice in Bed: A Novel (Counterpoint, 2015) (In part, “the James family’s dinner table . . .
listen[ing] to the intellectual elite of Boston” Summary) (James, Alice, — 1848-1892; James, Henry, — 1843
-1916; James, William, — 1842-1910; Intellectuals; Mental illness)
Hopkins, Alice Kimball (pseud. Lowell Choate). The Romance of a Letter (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1887 [Google Books])
(Series: Choice works of American authors; The round world series) (Chapter II Jessie in Boston)
Hopkins, Pauline E. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Boston: The
Colored Co-operative Publishing Co., 1900; copyright 1899 [HathiTrust]) (Chapters 1-4 Bermuda, North Carolina.
and New Hampshire c. 1800 and closing chapters New Orleans 1896-1899, but main story Boston, 1896; first
novel by African American set in Boston; rape of African-American women) (African Americans; African American
women; Lynching) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. Of One Blood (Colored American Magazine Nov. and Dec, 1902, and Jan. 1903; 1902-03; Washington Square P.,
2004) (main character, medical student from Boston; starts in Boston) (African Americans; African American
women; African American medical students; Blacks — Race identity; Americans — Ethiopia; Ethiopia) (Amazon
and Google Books)
Hopkinson, Deborah. Fannie in the Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented
Recipes with Precise Measurements (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2001) (Juvenile: ages 4-9) (fictional
account of young Fannie as cook for Shaw family; Victorian Boston) (Farmer, Fannie; Cookery)
Horowitz, Anthony. The House of Silk (Orion, 2014) (in part “teeming criminal underworld of [1890s] Boston”
WorldCat) (Holmes, Sherlock; Watson, John H. — (Fictitious character))
Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue [pub. anon.]. Boston and Boston People in 1850 (Boston, 1850 [Google Books]) (“one
nineteenth century American’s viewpoint on how wealthy Bostonians treated the relationship between art,
acquisition, and money” [Lucia Knoles, Assumption College Internet Wayback Machine]) (Poetry)
Howard Athenaeum. Temple. … From the Howard Anthenaeum. The thrilling play and life-like panorama called
Boston Before the fire!–On fire!–After the fire! … (Boston, 1872) (Farce; Drama; Comedy; Music; Panoramas;
Theater programs; Boston (Mass.) — In art)
Howatch, Susan. Cashelmara (Simon & Schuster, 1974) (three generations Irish/Irish-American; partly Boston) (Irish
American families)
Howe, Julia Ward. “The Old South.” In Poems of the “Old South” (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 12-15 [Google Books]) (Old
South Church (Boston, Mass.) — Poetry) (Edwin D Mead, Context, The Old South Leaflets (Old South Meeting
House, 1903: 16) [Google Books])
Howells, William Dean. April Hopes (Harper, 1887 [Google Books 1888 ed.]) (Boston society; first seven chapters
Class Day at Harvard in 1880s [Bail 344]) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. A Chance Acqaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1873 [Google Books]) (Male Boston snobbery away from from
home ruins romance) (Young women; Upper class; Saint Lawrence River; Boston (Mass.)) (Review/Summary
The Galaxy 16 (Jul.-Dec. 1873): 139-40 [Google Books] and Google Books)
—. An Imperative Duty (Harper, 1892 [Google Books 1893 ed.]) (North slope of Beacon Hill, African-American
community) (Racially mixed people) (Google Books)
—. A Hazard of New Fortunes (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1889 [Internet Archive] (starts in Boston as main
character moves from Boston to New York; mainly New York) (New York (N.Y.); Middle-aged persons; City
and town life; Moving, Household; Married people; Social classes) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. The Lady of Aroostock (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1879 [Google Books]) (some Boston, but mainly
elsewhere) (Google Books)
—- The Landlord at Lion’s Head: A Novel (Harper, 1897 [Google Books]) (partly Boston, partly mountains; Harvard
University; country folk; society people) (Artists) (Google Books and Synopsis Charles Dudley Warner, ed. ,
Library of the World’s Best Literature, Ancient and Modern 44 (New York: The International Society,
1897: 234) [Google Books])
—. The Minister’s Charge or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker (Houghton Mifflin, 1886 [Google Books]) (Protestant
working class rural New England immigrants in Boston) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. A Modern Instance (Houghton Mifflin, 1881 [Google]) (Boston journalist and divorce; commercial values in the “city
on a hill”; West End) (Married women; Journalists’ spouses; Boston (Mass.)) (Google Books)
—. The Rise of Silas Lapham (Ticknor, 1885 [Google Books]) (Businessmen; Rich people; Socialites) (Google Books)
—. The Shadow of a Dream (Harper, 1890 [Google Books]) (Begins in a Nahant-like cottage near Boston)
(Psychological fiction; Triangles (Interpersonal relations)) (Summary/Review The Book Buyer Jul. 1890: 249-50
[Google Books] and Google Books)
—. Suburban Sketches (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside P, 1871 [Google Books]) (New and
Enlarged Ed., 1872+) (Italians; Irish; Immigrants; African Americans; Cambridge disguised as Charlesbridge)
—. Their Wedding Journey (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1872 [Google Books]) (Boston couple; starts and ends in Boston
[later editions add last chapter return to Niagra 12 years later]; Niagra Falls) (Marriage — 19th century; Spouses —
Travel — 19th century; New York (State) — 19th century; Canada, Eastern — 19th century) (Google Books)
—.The Undiscovered Country (Houghton, Mifflin, 1880 [Google Books]) (spiritualism; opens with seance in Boston;
western Massachusetts; Shakers) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. A Woman’s Reason (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883 [Google Books]) (“study of feminine nature and of social
values in Boston”) (Google Books) (Baxter, Sylvester. “Howells’s Boston.” The New England Magazine
N.S. 9.2 (October 1893): 129-52)
Hubbard, Coleen. illus. Sandy Rabinowitz. A Horse for Hannah: The Story of a Boston Girl and her Journey to England,
Where She Meets her Dream Horse, a Gentle Hackney (Gareth Stevens Pub., 1999) (Juvenile; Elelmentary and
junior high school) (Horses; England)
Hubbard, Elbet [Green]. Forbes of Harvard (Boston: Arena, 1894 [Google Books]) (Bail 252-54: despite title, only slight
Harvard connection; Class of 1852; mainly west)
Hyde, Thomas Alexander. Won by a Bicycle or, A Race for a Wife (Boston: Greater Boston Pub., 1895 [Google Books])
(Ch. XIII Copley Square) (Bicycles — 19th century; Massachusetts — 19th century)
Inglee, K. B. “Murder in a Posh Hotel: Boston, November, 1894” Orchard Press Mysteries, Short Fiction & Poetry 2007
([Internet Wayback Machine])
Ingraham, J[oseph]. H[olt]. Alice May, and Bruising Bill (Boston: Gleason’s, 1845 [Google Books]) (Harvard; two
separate stories; “Alice May, or, the Lost of Mount Auburn” starts at “a fashionable boarding school in
one of the handsome streets crossing Mount Vernon”;”Bruising Bill,” town-gown fights 1840; Bail 222-23)
—. The Brigantine, or, Guitierro and the Castilian: A Tale Both of Boston and Cuba (New York: Williams Bros., 1847)
—. Charles Blackford. Or, the Adventures of a Student in Search of a Profession (Boston: Pub. at the ‘Yankee Office’,
1845 [HathiTrust]) (starts Yale, much Boston) (Students — 19th century; Vocational guidance — 19th century)
—. Grace Weldon, or, Frederica, The Bonnet-girl: A Tale of Boston and its Bay (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1845)
(millinery trade)
—. Harry Harefoot; or, The Three Temptations. A Story of City Scenes (Boston: H.L. Willimas, 1845) (“a blacksmith and
a carpenter . . . meet with success in Boston” Paul Joseph Erickson. Welcome to Sodom: The Cultural Work of
City-Mysteries Fiction in Antebellum America, 2005. U of Texas, Austin. Ph.D, dissertation , page 351, note 71)
falsehood (Boston: Brainard, 1843 [HathiTrust]) (Boston (Mass.))
—. Jennette Alison; or, The Young Strawberry Girl A Tale of the Sea and the Shore (Boston: F. Gleason, 1848
[HathiTrust]) (starts on a wharf in North End 7) (Girls; Seafaring life)
—. Lame Davy’s Son, with the Birth, Education, and Career, of Foraging Peter. A tale of Boston Aristocracy (Boston: G.
Roberts, 1843)
—. Marie: or, The Fugitive! A Romance of Mount Benedict (Boston: Published at the ‘Yankee’ Office, 1845 [HathiTrust])
(Fugitives from justice)
—. Mate Burke, or, The Foundlings of the Sea (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1846) (Boston (Mass.); Sailors)
—. The Odd Fellow: Or, the Secret Association and Foraging Peter (Boston: United States Pub. Co., 1846 [Google
Books]) (two stories, both partially set in Boston) (Independent Order of Odd Fellows)
—. Paul Deverell, or, two judgments for one crime: a tale of the present day (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1845) (Boston
(Mass.) — Social life and customs — 19th century; Prisoners; Manners and customs)
—. Paul Perril, the Merchant’s Son, or, The Adventures of a New-England Boy Launched upon Life (Boston : Williams &
Bros., 1847 [HathiTrust]) (2 vols.; prbly autobiographical; some Boston, mainly South America)
—. Rodolphe in Boston: A Tale (Boston: E.P. Williams, 1844) (48 pges.; hero’s economic struggles)
—. The Steel Belt, or, The Three Masted Goleta! A Tale of Boston Bay (Boston: Yankee Office, 1844 [Google Books])
(takes place almost completely at sea; Chapter I Boston Harbour) (Sailors; Young women; Boston Bay; Cuba)
(Amazon and Google Books)
Ingraham, Prentiss. Dick Doom in Boston, or, A Man of Many Masks: A Romance of Ferrets and Felons (New York:
Beadle and Adams, 1892 [Northern Illinois U]) (Series: Beadle’s half dime library, no. 788) (Private investigators;
Disguise; Criminals; Escaped prisoners; Robbery; Jewel thieves; Dueling; Deception; New York (N.Y.); Mexico)
—. The Rover’s Retribution, or, The Evil Spirit of the Deep: A Companion Story to “The Ex-buccaneer” (New York:
Beadle & Adams, 1891 [Northern Illinois U]) (Beadle’s New York dime library, no. 640) (Escaped prisoners;
Jews; Kidnapping — Investigation; Murder — Investigation; Navies — Officers; Pirates; Ransom; Romanies;
Smugglers; Maine — Atlantic Coast; Boston)
“The Wizard Sailor” (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1890 [Northern Illinois U]) (Series: Beadle’s half dime
library, no. 679) (Sweegan, Clifford — (Fictitious character); Bahamas; Caribbean Sea; Boston (Mass.); Brazil;
United States — History — War of 1812; Pirates; Mutiny; Smugglers; Treasure troves; Abduction; Inheritance
and succession)
Jacobus, Russell P. An Escape from Philistia: A Novel (Boston: J.G. Cupples, 1893 [Google Books]) (“novel of Boston
life”; Copley Square; Trinity Church) (Brief Review, The Literary World 17 Jun. 1893: 103 [Google Books])
James, Henrietta (pseud. of Celia B. Whitehead). Another Chapter of “The Bostonians” (Bloomfield, N.J.: S.M. Hulin,
1887) (27 pages; happy feminist ending to Henry James’s novel) (Husband and wife — Fiction; Women — Social
conditions; Marriage; Feminists — Massachusetts — Boston; Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs) (Detailed
Summary, Dan McCall, Citizens of Somewhere Else, Cornell U P, 1999: 96-98 [Google Books])
James, Henry. The Bostonians: A Novel (Macmillan, 1886 [Internet Archive]) (New York; Cape Cod) (Triangles
(interpersonal relations); Young women; Feminists; Cousins) (Amazon and Google books)
—. The Europeans: A Sketch (Macmillan, 1878 [Google Books 1879 “New Edition”] (1830s; Boston and environs)
(Brothers and sisters; Morality; New England; Europeans — Travel — Massachusetts — Boston; Upper class
— Massachusetts — Boston) (Google Books)
—. The Portrait of a Lady (Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 [Google Books 1908 ed.; Vol. II. 1909 ) (some Bostonian characters,
esp. Caspar Goodwood) (Archer, Isabel (Fictitious character); Triangles (Interpersonal relations); Inheritance and
succession; Fathers and daughters; Americans — Italy; Married women; Italy — Fiction) (Google Books)
—. “A New England Winter” (1883). Tales of Three Cities (Boston: James Osgood, 1884: 269-359 [Internet Archive])
(on shift from Beacon Hill to Back Bay) (Introduction and Text Adrian Dover [Internet Wayback Machine])
—. “The Patagonia” (1888). In A London Life, The Patagonia, The Liar, Mrs. Temperly (Macmillan, 1889): 161-240
[Google Books]) (Beacon Hill in summer) (Google Books)
—. Watch and Ward (1871 Atlantic Monthly) (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878 [Google Books]) (partly in
Boston) (Erotic love; Love; Patriarchy) (Google Books and see Gow above for a play version)
James, Samantha. Just One Kiss (Avon, 1996) (Starts Beacon Hill, 1854; romance) (Massachusetts — History
— 1775-1865)
Jamison, C[ecilia] V[iets]. Something to Do. A Novel (J.R. Osgood, 1871 [Wright American Fiction]) (partly in Boston;
educated working women discuss women’s rights, politics, Darwin)
Janvrin, Mary W. Peace or, The stolen Will! An American Novel (Boston: E.O. Libby, 1858) (some Harvard/Boston.
e.g.. pp. 88-94, 140)
Jenkins, Beverly. Before the Dawn (Avon, 2001) (heroine, African-American Boston tavern owner; action mainly
Colorado) (African Americans; Colorado; Boston (Mass.); Inheritance and succession; Man-woman
relationships)
Johnson, Nancy. A Sweet-Sounding Place: A Civil War Story of the Black Regiment (Down East Books, 2007)
(Juvenile: ages 9-12; only fiction about the 54th listed in WorldCat!) (Bakeries; Freedmen; African
Americans; Orphans; Soldiers; Massachusetts Infantry. — 54th Regt., 1863-1865; United States — History
— Civil War, 1861-1865)
Johnson, Shirley Everton. The Cult of the Purple Rose: A Phase of Harvard Life (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1902
[Google Books]) (“coded homage to Oscar Wilde” [Stone and Wofsey 1996]; semi-closeted gay men; 1890s)
(Harvard University; College students) (Google Books; Bail 276-78)
Johnson, Susan. Blaze (Bantam, 1986) (Boston heiress kidnapped by Indian chief in land dispute) (Absaroke Indians;
Boston, Massachusetts — History — 19th century; Historical romances, American; Love stories, American;
Sensual historical romances; Ethnic romances)
Johnson, William Lyman. From Hawthorne Hall: An Historical Story, 1885 (Dorchester: The Homewood P, 1922
[Internet Archive])) (Christian Science)
Johnston, Norma. Lotta’s Progress (Avon, 1997) (Elementary and junior high school) (1838; 1840s) (German
immigrants helped by Alcotts) (Alcott, Louisa May; German Americans; Immigrants)
Johnstone, William W. The Last Gunfighter: Avenger (Pinnacle, 2007) (Series: The last gunfighter) (pursuit to
Boston; 1890s)
—. The Loner (Kensington, 2011) (Trail of Blood #8) (Juvenile) (mainly Kansas, but hero goes to his hometown of
Boston to find trail of his twin children that takes him back to Kansas) (Westerns; Kansas)
—. Rage of the Mountain Man (Kensington, 1996) (Kidnapping in Boston; most of the action in the west)
(Rocky Mountains; Kidnapping) (Amazon Back Cover)
Jones, Joseph Stevens. The Silver Spoon, or Our Own Folks: A Joiner’s Job in Four Parts [ a.k.a. The Silver Spoon: A
Character Sketck in Four Parts (“Revised and Reconstructed” Walter H. Baker, 1911 Google Books)] (play; first
“produced in1852″; ”satirized the [Massachusetts] state legislature” [Adam Tomasi, “Dr. Joseph Stevens Jones,”
WEM, Apr. 22, 2022])
Jones, Melissa. Emily Hudson: A Novel (Pamela Dorman Books-Viking, 2010) (British ed. The Hidden Heart of Emily
Hudson] (1862; would-be artist; Bostonness?) (Young women — England — London — Social conditions — 19th
century; Cousins; Orphans; Boston (Mass.) — History — 19th century; London (England) — History — 19th century;
Rome (Italy) — History — 19th century) (Summary, HarperCollinsCanada [Internet Wayback Machine])
Joyce, Brenda. Captive (Avon, 1996) (Romance; 20th and early 19th c.; starts “Boston, 1996”) (Time travel; Harem;
Boston (Mass.)–History; Africa, North–History–1517-1882)
Judd, Sylvester. Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before
Described, Called Mons Christi (Boston: Jordan and Wiley, 1845 [Google Books]) (Christian utopianism; some
Boston) (Social problems) (Google Books)
Kane, James Johnson. Ilian; Or, The Curse of the Old South Church of Boston: A Psychological Tale of the Late Civil
War (Lippincott, 1888 [Internet Archive]) (supernatural) (The Literary World 28 Oct. 1888: 356, brief summary
[Google Books])
Kauffman, Reginald Wright. Jarvis of Harvard (Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1901 [Google Books]) (Undergraduate
students) (Harvard University) (Google Books; Bail 271-76)
Kay, Alan N. On the Trail of John Brown’s Body: Young Heroes of History (White Mane Kids, 2001) (Juvenile–Elementary
and junior high) (starts in Boston, but mainly Kansas and elsewhere; Irish-American family and John Brown)
(Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) — History — JohnBrown’s Raid, 1859; Abolitionists; Fathers and sons; Cousins)
—. Send ’em South (White Mane Kids, 2000) (Juvenile) (abolitionists; Irish Americans; escaped slaves in pre-Civil War
Boston) (Underground Railroad; Fugitive slaves; Slavery; African Americans)
Kelleher, Lawrence R. The Lads: Erin’s Far-Flung Exiles (iUniverse, 2005) (Civil War; Irish immigrants from same family
from Boston fight others from New Orleans)
Kelly, Florence Finch. Frances: A Story for Men and Women (New York: Sanfred, 1889 [Internet Archive]) (Man-woman
relationships; Married people; Boston)
Kent, Winnifred. Sell Not Thyself: A Novel (Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1894) (Mate selection; Boston)
Kettel(l), Samuel. “Boston Lyrics” (Yankee Notions 196-97) (humourous poem)
—. “Horace in Boston” (Yankee Notions 221-24) (humorous poem)
—. “Horace in Boston [2]” (Yankee Notions239-41) (humorous poem)
—. “Mount Auburn” (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher,
Light & Stearns, 1837. pp. 228-34) (short story; thoughts in a cemetery with a view of Boston)
—. “The Two Moschetoes” (242-55) (one-act satirical play about Boston business practices and scandal mongering)
—. “Voyage of Discovery Through the Streets of Boston” (Yankee Notions: A Medley, edited by Samuel Kettell. pseud.
Timothy Titterwell, Boston: Otis, Broaders, 1838, pages 158-64 [Google Bpooks]) (humorous short story)
Keyes, F. Evan Dale (Boston: A. Williams, 1864 [HathiTrust]) (in part romance in Boston, involving portrait in Boston
Athenaeum)
Keys, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Mary Lou Frank and Susan C Stevenson). The Darling (New York: Zebra, 2002)
(romance; young society woman flees proper Boston for Maine; nineteenth c.) (Young women — Massachusetts
— Boston; Physicians — Maine; Man-woman relationships — Maine)
Kilpack, Josi S. Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton (Shadow Mountain,
2016) (“seven-year courtship [starting 1836] through Europe and Boston”) (Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, —
1807-1882; Longfellow, Fanny Appleton, — 1817- 1861; Courtship — United States — History — 19th century;
Boston (Mass.))
King, Basil [pseud. of William Benjamin King]. Let Not Man Put Asunder[: A Story of Modern American Life {Cover but
not title page}][: A Novel {1901 ed.}] (Harper, 1901 Google Books 1902 ed.]) (anti-divorce; four divorced
couples; main heroine “old Boston name of Faneuil”; settings Boston, New Hampshire, London, Italy) (Google
Books and Brief Summary, The Literary World 1 Oct. 1901: 155 [Google Books])
King, Karen L. The Wedding Runaway (Zebra, 2005) (heroine Boston heiress in England; romance) (Men/women
relations; Single women; Heirs and heiresses — Boston, Massachusetts; Women gamblers; Disguises;
Fiances; Nobility — England; Earls — England; Dueling — England; Pistols; Marriages of royalty and nobility
— England; Independence in women; England — Social life and customs — 19th century; England — History
— 1811-1820; Great Britain — History — 19th century; Great Britain — History — George III, 1760-1820; London,
England — History — 19th century; Love stories, American; Historical romances, American; Regency romances,
American; Marriage)
Kirke, Edmund [pseud. of James Roberts Gilmore]. My Southern Friends (New York: Carleton, 1863 [Google Books])
(partly set in Boston)
Kirwan, Thomas. In Fetters: The Man or the Priest? (Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske, 1893 [Google Books]) (“majority of the
novel . . . devoted to . . a freethinker in 1840s Boston, and his attitude towards organized religion in general, and
the Catholic Church in specific” Goodreads)
Kittredge, Daniel Wright. The Memoirs of a Failure: With an Account of the Man and his Manuscript (Cincinatti: U. O.
James, Bookseller, 1908) (Harvard, Chapter 2 [Bail 344]) (Google Books and Brief Summary, The Bookman
(Mar. 1909: 103) [Google Books])
Klaassen, Mike. Backlash: A War of 1812 Novel (Bookbaby, 2016) (Chapter Seventeen — September 1812, Boston –)
Knox, Jackson, Old Falcon’s Foe: or, The Matchless-detective’s Swell Job. A Romance of the Cosmopolitan Express
Car Mystery (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1889-01-30 [Northern Illinois U]) (Series Beadle’s New York dime library; vol.
XLII, no. 536) (Old Falcon (Jack Falconbridge) (Fictitious character); Cosmopolitan Express Company; Grand Central
Terminal (New York, N.Y.); Murder–Investigation; Express trains; Lookalikes; False imprisonment; Scots; Female
offenders; Boston (Mass.))
Kratman, Tony. Dirty Water: A Journey Through Time Back to Boston (Baen, 2023) (1688 with witch hanging on
Boston Neck; 1965 Boston toy store; 2022 Boston grandfather and granddaughter WorldCat) (Christmas;
Time-travel)
Kraus, Jim & Terri. The Quest: A Novel (Tyndale House, 2001) (Series: Circle of destiny, 4) (Harvard student
needs/seeks/finds Christ; class of 1845) (Harvard University — Students; Nineteenth century; Cambridge,
Massachusetts — History — 19th century; Christian love; Coming-of-age)
Krensky, Stephen. Sisters of Scituate Light (Dutton Children’s Books, 2008) (Juvenile–ages 4-8) (Massachusetts —
History — War of 1812; Lighthouses; Sisters; Scituate (Mass.) — History — 19th century; United States — History
— War of 1812)
Kronau, Denice. The World Is Decorated with Stars (Wheatmark, 2015) (Couple in 1800s and 2008; 2008 wife
businesswoman in Boston) (Man-woman relationships; Reincarnation; Boston; Nantucket)
Kuhns, Eleanor. Murder, Sweet Murder (Holland, Ohio: Dreamscape Media, 2022) (1801) (“Rees accompanies his wife to
Boston . . . in early nineteenth-century America” WorldCat) (Rees, Will — (Fictitious character); Maine — History
— 1775-1865)
Lander, Sarah W. Spectacles for Little Eyes (Boston: Walker, Wise, 1862 [HathiTrustDigital Library]) (Juvenile) (“good
account of the sights of Boston and the vicinity, with pretty illustrations” (by Winslow Homer, etc.) [The Monthly
Journal of the American Unitarian Association 1861: 583] (City and town life; Friendship; Children — Conduct of
life; Conduct of life — Early works to 1900; Boston (Mass.) — Description and travel; Museums — Massachusetts
— Boston)
—. Spectacles for Young Eyes: Boston (Boston: Walker, Wise, 1864 [Google Books, 1868 ed.]) (Juvenile) (same as
above)
Landis, Jill Marie. Come Spring (Jove, 1992) (starts in Boston in 1890s; Wyoming; Romance)
Langton, Jane. The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg (Thomas Dunne Books, 2003) (Harvard “deserter”) (Kelly, Homer
(Fictitious character); Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863; Military deserters; Gettysburg (Pa.); College
teachers; Concord (Mass.))
—. Steeplechase: A Homer Kelly Mystery (St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2005) (1868; fictional Nashoba, Mass.) (sequel to The
Deserter) (Kelly, Homer (Fictitious character); Middlesex County (Mass.))
Lasky, Kathryn. Daughters of the Sea: Hannah (Scholastic, 2009) (1899; wealthy Boston and Maine coast; three
mermaid sisters; first of trilogy) (Mermaids; Identity; Social classes; Household employees; Orphans; Boston
(Mass.) — History — 1865; Maine — History — 19th century)
—. Illus. David Catrow. She’s Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! (New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1995)
(Juvenile: ages 9-12) (1896; fictional account of founding of Massachusetts Audubon Society in response to
women’s hat fashion using dead birds) (Hemenway, Harriet; Hall, Minna; Massachusetts Audubon Society;
Birds — Protection)
—. True North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad (Blue Sky P, 1996) (Juvenile: grades 6-9) (one main character
is a Beacon Hill socialite; “Chapter 27 June 16, 1858 Boston, Massachusetts”) (Abolitionists; Grandparent and
child; Fugitive slaves; Slaves; African Americans)
Lathrop, George Parsons. Somebody Else (Roberts Bros., 1878 [Google Books]) (Boston (Mass.) — Social life and
customs — 19th century)
Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley. My Wife and My Wife’s Sister (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881 [Google Books]) (Series: No
name series, 2d ser., v. 10) (Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — 19th century)
Lear, Annah L. One Little Woman (Boston: James H. Earle, 1893 [Google Books]) (Life-changing visit to Boston) (Families —
Massachusetts — Boston; Motherless families; Teenage girls; Young women — Conduct of life; Bildungsromans,
American; Man-woman relationships)
Lee, George Hyde. What Was His Duty? (Washington: Neale, 1900 [Google Books]) (main character, “senior editor of a
Boston evening newspaper” 1) (Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — 19th century)
Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer [pub. anon.]. Rosanna; or, Scenes in Boston. A Story (Cambridge: John Owen, 1839 [Google
Books]) (temperance; Irish immigrants) (Google Books and Summary The Christian Examiner, Mar. 1840: 116-18
[Google Books])
Lee, Linda Francis. Blue Waltz (Jove, 1996) (romance; Boston, 1893) (Widows) (Review RT Book Reviews [Internet
Wayback Machine])
—. Dove’s Way (Ivy Books, 2000) (Boston-born heroine grows up in Congo; on return tries to become proper lady)
(Congo; Society manners; Romance; Upperclass)
—. Nightingale’s Gate (Ivy Books, 2001) (Romance) (Prostitutes — Massachusetts — Boston; Serial murderers —
Massachusetts — Boston; Women lawyers — Massachusetts — Boston)
—. Swan’s Grace (Ivy Books, 2000) (Sequel to Dove’s Way, Boston 1892; Romance)
Leland, Anna. Home (New York: J.C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856 [HathiTrust) (Chapter XIX The Journey
and Visit to Boston and Chapter XX Boston as It Was)
Leon, Bonnie. The Heart of Thornton Creek: A Novel (Fleming H. Revell, 2005) (romance; Boston socialite heroine
moves to Australia in 1871; mainly Australia) (Pioneers; Queensland; Americans — Australia)
Leslie, Eliza. “The Escorted Lady.” In Pencil Sketches: Or, Outlines of Character and Manners (Philadelphia: Carey,
Lea and Blanchard, 1833: ?-? (opens at the Tremont Hotel; pampered woman escorted from Boston to
Philadelphia) (Boston; Man-woman relationships) (Litfinder.com)
Leslie, Madeline J. Hyde. Sophia and the Gipsies (Boston: Andrew F. Graves, 1870) (Romanies; Farmers; Travelers;
Diseases; Children — Conduct of life; Christian life; Boston (Mass.))
Lester, Julius. “A Christmas Love Story.” This Strange New Feeling (Dial, 1982: 73-149) (Juvenile) (three short stories;
escaped slaves in Boston; Fugitive Slave Bill 1850; based on real William and Ellen Craft) (African Americans;
Slavery; African Americans; Love)
Lewis, Alfred Henry. The Boston Boy (Boston: Graves and Ellis, 1872 [HathiTrust]) (Young men — Conduct of life;
Honesty; Parsonages; Christian life; Death; Robbery)
Lidstone, James Torrington Spencer. The Bostoniad Giving a Full Description of the Principal Establishments, Together
with the Most Honorable and Substantial Business Men, in the Athens of America (Boston: Published under
universal patronage, 1853) (60-62 pages) (Poetry) (Brief Des., John Corrigan, Business of the Heart: Religion
and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century (U of California P: 43) [Google Books])
—. The Third Bostoniad: In Two Parts [i.e. Parts 2-3] (Boston: Pub. under universal patronage Hollis & Gunn, prs, 1853)
Lindsey, Johanna. Paradise Wild (Avon, 1981) (romance; mainly Hawaii, but Boston heroine and Boston scenes; 1890s)
Lindsey, William. Cinder-path Tales (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896 [Google Books]) (sport short stories, partly
Boston) (Track and Field)
Litton, Pamela. Scoundrel (Jove, 1994) (romance; mail-order bride from Boston; Brides of the West series) (Bride price;
New Mexico)
Locke, David Ross. The Struggles (Social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby (Boston: I.N. Richardson, 1872
[Wright American Fiction]) (political satire; Ch. XXLIV The Boston Excursion)
Locke, Jane E. Boston: A Poem. (Boston: W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1846) (46 pges.) (Boston (Mass.) — Description
and travel; Poetry of places — Massachusetts — Boston)
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. “The Bridge.” 1845. (The Belfry at Bruges, and Other Poems. 3rd. ed. Cambridge: John
Owen, 1846. 61-65 [Google Books]) (Longfellow Bridge)
Lord, Mary N. Mary Milton; or, The Conquests of Grace. A Brief Account of the Life, Experience and Labors of a Humble
Servant of Christ (Claremont, N.H.: Printed by the Claremont Manufacturing Co., 1876 [Google Books])
(Christian message; Perkins Institute for the Blind; South Boston) (Google Books)
Loring, Frederic W[adsworth]. Two College Friends (Boston: Loring, 1871 [Internet Archive]) (“a romantic friendship set
at Harvard. Not explicitly gay, but coded in Whitmanesque language” [Stone and Wofsey 1996]; Civil War) (Axel
Nissen, Chapter 8 Passing the Love of Women, The Romantic Friendship Reader: Love Stories Between Men in
Victorian America (Northeastern U P, 2003: 85-87) [Google Books]; Bail 231-32)
Lowry, Elizabeth. Dark Water (London: Riverrun, 2019) (1830s, Boston and at sea) (Sailors; Secrecy; Psychiatric
hospitals; Boston (Mass.) — History — 19th century)
Loyster, Sara Jane. The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit: A Novel (Berkeley, CA: She Writes P, 2021) (Secondary
(senior high) school) (Sargent, John Singer 1856-1925 — Daughters of Edward Darley Boit; Sisters; Time travel;
Painting, American –19th century; Paris (France) –History – 1870-1940; Boston — History –20th century)
Lunt, William P. Poem: Recited by the late Rev. William P. Lunt, on the occasion of laying the corner stone of the
Sailors’ Snug Harbor, July 14, 1856 (Boston: J.M. Hewes, Printer, [1857?]) (Sailors’ Snug Harbor (Boston, Mass.)
— Poetry. | Sailors — Poetry)
A. S. M. Rob Rockafellow: A Boston Society Man’s Diary (New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1894) (Diaries; Fathers and
daughters; Single men)
MacGowan, Alice. The Last Word (Page, 1902 [Google Books]) (Texas/New York/Boston; young women; romance)
(Google Books and Brief Review The Bookbuyer, Oct. 1902:251-52 [Google Books])
MacLane, Mary. My Friend Annabel Lee (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1903 [Google Books]) (friendship in Boston)
(Author’s Comments, The Literary News Aug. 1903: 255 [Google Books])
Maclean, Anna. Louisa and the Country Bachelor: A Louisa May Alcott Mystery (Signet, 2005) (Mainly New
Hampshire; Henry Thoreau; Beacon Hill) (Alcott, Louisa May)
—. Louisa and the Crystal Gazer: A Louisa May Alcott Mystery (Signet, 2006) (Medium; December 1855; P.T. Barnum)
(Alcott, Louisa May),
—. Louisa and the Missing Heiress: A Louisa May Alcott Mystery (Signet, 2004) (Beacon Hill; Pinckney Street;
Commonwealth Avenue; 1854) (Alcott, Louisa May)
Madden, Sandra. Comfort and Joy (Zebra, 2001) (romance; Brahmin amnesiac marries Irish serving girl; stolen art;
Christmas) (Amnesiacs — Boston, Massachusetts; Art — Collectors and collecting — Boston, Massachusetts)
Mahony, Dora [pseud.]. Six Months in a House of Correction, or, The Narrative of Dorah Mahony Who Was Under the
Influence of the Protestants about a Year, and an Inmate of the House of Correction, in Leverett St., Boston,
Massachusetts, Nearly Six Months in the years 18– (Boston: B.B. Mussey, 1835 [Harvard U Library]) (parody
of Rebecca Reed’s Six Months in a Convent, turning Protestant controlled prison into version of Protestant
hysterical view of Charlestown convent) (Background/Summary, Charles Fanning, The Irish Voice in America:
250 Years of Irish-American Fiction (U P of Kentucky, 1999: 22-23 [Google Books])
Mann, Rufus [pseud. of Sophia Penn Page Shaler]. The Prelude and the Play (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 [Google
Books]) (Harvard University) (Google Books and Pub. Summary The Book Buyer, Apr. 1899: 168 [Google
Books])
March, Nev. Peril at the Exposition (Minotaur, 2022) (Newly-wed detectives “settling into their new home in Boston”
[WorldCat], but mainly set in Chicago of 1893 Exposition) (Murder Investigation; Newlyweds)
Mayo, Connie Hertzberg. The Island of Worthy Boys: A Novel (She Writes P, 2015) (Boston Harbor) (Boston Asylum
and Farm School for Indigent Boys; Juvenile delinquents)
McBride, James. The Good Lord Bird (Riverhead Books, 2013) (some Boston, including “abolitionist rally where
‘everbody got to make a speech about the negro but the Negro'” Baz Dreisinger, “Marching On,” NYTimes
Book Review.” 18 Aug. 2013: 16) (Fugitive slaves — United States — Fiction; Brown, John, — 1800-1859;
Abolitionists)
McCall, Sidney (pseud. of Mary McNeil Fenollosa). Truth Dexter (Little, Brown, 1901 [Internet Archive 1906 ed.])
(Southern wife, Boston husband; critique of Boston society) (Amazon and Google Books)
McCartney, J. W. The Fenians, or, Neil O’Connor’s Triumph: A Story of Old Ireland and Young America. Issue 26 of
Ten cent novelettes (Boston: Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, 1865) (Fenians; Dime novels — Massachusetts —
Boston; Ireland)
McClymer, Kelly. The Infamous Bride: Once Upon a Wedding (Kensington; Zebra; Mallard, 2001) (Romance; 1840s;
Boston merchant family; London) (Capitalists and financiers; Marriage) (Brief Summary, AllReaders.com
[Internet Wayback Machine])
McCorry, Peter. [also sometimes attributed to Con O’Leary]. Mount Benedict, or the Violated Tomb: A Tale of the
Charlestown Convent (Boston: P. Donahoe, 1871 [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U]) (based on
the burning of a convent and desecration of a graveyard in 1834 by an anti-Irish, anti-Catholic mob)
(Jenn Schaff, “Catholic Womanhood as ‘True Womanhood’: The Dilemma of Moral Suasion at the Center of
Peter McCorry’s Mount Benedict” (Abstract) 27 Mar. 2004 [Internet Wayback Machine])
McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner [under pseud. “By an Atom”]. The Radical Club: A Poem Respectfully
Dedicated to “The Infinite” (Boston Sunday Times, May 8, 1875) (“parody of Poe’s “The Raven” [Google
Books]; 14 pages in 1876 ed.) (Satirical poetry; Humorous poetry; Radical Club (Boston, Mass.)) (Introduction.
A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1869-1884, ed. Anne Razey Gowdy (U of Tennessee P, 2000): xlv-xlvi and
Kathryn McKee, “Southern Women Humorists”, in Carolyn Perry, Mary Weaks-Baxter, and Mary Louise Weaks,
The History of Southern Women’s Literature (Baton Rouge: LSU P, 2002: 178-79 [Google Books]). See above
Chip for text.
McGinnis, Mindy. A Madness So Discreet (HarperCollins, 2015) (Juvenile–high school) (starts with early 19th c.
escape from Boston insane asylum) (Criminal investigation; Physicians; Ohio — History — 19th century)
McGlone, Elizabeth. Words Left Unsaid (Smashwords Edition, 2015) (Irish immigrants, partly, in Boston; heroine, “the
loveliest girl in Boston”) (Man-woman relationships)
McKay, Ari. Finding Forgiveness (Dreamspinner P, 2014) (Starts Boston 1888, but mainly Texas) (Gay men; Texas
— Social life and customs — 19th century)
McKinstry, L. C. The Burning, Commemorative of the Destruction by Fire of “The Scriptural Tract Repository …”: During
the Great Fire of Nov. 10 and 11, 1872 (St. Johnsburg [Vt.]: C.M. Stone & Co., printers, 1873) (44 pages)
(Scriptural Tract Repository (Boston, Mass.) — Fire, 1872; Fires — Massachusetts — Boston — Poetry)
McMahon, Kay. Chase the Dawn (Jove Books; Berkley, 1992) (romance; heroine, Boston doctor; Civil War; mainly
in South)
McMahon, Thomas. McKay’s Bees (Harper & Row, 1979) (Boston Brahmin in 1855 Kansas) (Frontier and pioneer life; Bee
culture; Bee keepers; Kansas)
McNamara, Frances. Molasses Murder in a Nutshell (Level Best Books/Historia, 2023) (Series: Nutshell murder
mysteries, 1) (“January 1919 a tank bursts in Boston’s North End” WorldCat) (Crime scenes; Criminal
investigation; Forensic sciences; Lee, Frances Glessner, 1878-1962; Medical jurisprudence; Murder
Investigation)
Mead, Lucia True Ames [pub. under maiden name Lucia True Ames]. Memoirs of a Millionaire (Houghton Mifflin, 1889
[Google Books]) (Boston heiress puts philanthropy into practice) (Utopias) (Summary/Review, The Literary World
26 Oct., 1889: 367-8 [Google Books])
Meadows, John. The Brinley Shell; or, The miser and his niece A thrilling tale of love, witchcraft and mystery (Boston:
F. Gleason, 1848 [HathiTrust]) (Salem and some Boston, e.g. Chapter X Boston. The Tavern at the North End
44)
Merrick, Mark. Detective Jack; Or, the Night Hawks of Boston (New York: N. Munro, 1884) (Number 94 in series; Dime
Novel) (Check Hoppenstand; listed p. 104)
Merritt, Christopher C. Faneuil Hall: “The Cradle of Liberty” ([Boston, 1895) (4 pages) (Faneuil Hall (Boston, Mass.)
— Poetry)
Meyer, L[ouis]. A. Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and
Fine Lady (Harcourt, 2004) (Elementary and junior high school) (Boston 1803) (Orphans; Sex role; Schools;
Friendship)
—. In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber
(Harcourt, 2006) (Elementary and junior high school) (Boston girls’ finishing school class kidnapped by North
African slave traders; starts “Boston: December 1, 1805”) (Orphans; Seafaring life; Kidnapping)
M’Glenen, H. A. The Ray. Boston, October, 1882. New England edition (Boston: H.A. M’Glenen, 1882) (The Ray was
a series of theatre programs.) (Meritt, Paul.; Harris, A.; Boston Theatre (Washington Street, Boston, Mass.);
Theater — United States — History — 19th century — Sources; Theaters — Massachusetts — Boston. Concrete
poetry)
Mills, Anita. Comanche Moon (Topaz Books, 1995) (heroine returns from Boston finishing school to Texas; mainly
Texas; 1873) (Comanche Indians)
Moffat, A. S. Cedar Brook Stories; or, The Clifford Children. / Vol. 1. The Young Seed-sowers (Boston: Graves and
Young; New York: Sheldon; Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard, 1864) (Children’s stories; Family; Children —
Religious life; Conduct of life; Roxbury (Boston, Mass.))
Montague, Charles Howard, and C. W. Dyar. Written in Red; or, The Conspiracy in the North Case. (A Story of
Boston) (Cassell [1900 ed. Internet Archive 23 May 2013]) (newspaper reporter; “strong local color”
Transcript; opens “THE private office of North & Stackhouse, State Street, bankers and brokers,
contained on the morning of Friday, June 16, 1887″)
Montague, James D. Doomed, or, The Secret League of Boston (New York: F. Tousey, 1883 [Northern Illinois U])
(Series: Five cent wide awake library, v. 1, no. 583) (Attempted murder; Secret societies)
Moody, Charles C.P., William B Tappan, and George Russell. Celebration Hymns, on the Introduction of the
Cochituate Water in Boston, October 25, 1848 ([Boston] Old Dickinson Print. Office, 1848) (Boston (Mass.)
— Cochituate reservoir; Water — Poetry) (Google Books])
Moody, William Vaughn. An Ode in Time of Hesitation (1900). In Gloucester Moors and Other Poems. Houghton
Mifflin, 1901. 12-21 [Google Books] (Robert Gould Shaw/Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment Monument;
Phillippines; Civil War)
Morgan, Henry. Boston Inside Out! Sins of a Great City! A Story of Real Life (Boston: Shawmut Pub. Co., 1880
[Google Books 1895 ed.]) (anti-Catholic diatribe against Catholic-Brahmin conspiracy) (Google Books and
Brief Summary, Margaret Lamberts Bendroth, Fundamentalists in the City: Conflict and Division in Boston’s
Churches, 1885-1950 (New York: Oxford U P, 2005: 79) [Google Books])
—. The Fallen priest. Story founded on fact. Key and Sequel to “Boston Inside Out” (Boston: Shawmut, 1883 [HathiTrust
3rd ed.]) (Catholic Church; Boston; Social conditions)
—. Ned Nevins, the News Boy, Or, Street Life in Boston (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867 [Internet Archive]) (Brief
Contemporary Review The American Farmer (Jul. 1867: 223) [Google Books])
Morpurgo, Michael. Twist of Gold (Farshore, 2024) (Juvenile; “poverty on the streets of Boston,” Irish children immigrants
[WorldCat]) (Ireland; Siblings; Voyages and travels)
Morrison, William A. Josh Canzy’s Experience: What He Saw and What Use He Made of It (Boston: The Barta P, 1897
[Internet Archive] (chapters 3-6 Cambridge, Boston, Charlestown)
Morrow, Victoria. The Eagle and the Dove (Leisure, 2007) (romance; Boston heroine; railroads; gold mines; class
snobbery)
Morton, Sarah Wentworth. “To the Mansion of My Ancestors.” My Mind and Its Thoughts, in Sketches, Fragments, and
Esays (Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1823, pp. 30-31) (poem “upon seeing the Apthorp house, her birthplace on State
Street, converted into a bank” Jeffrey Klee, “Building Order on Beacon Hill, 1790-1850,” Diss. U. of Delaware,
2016, pp. 152-53)
Moulton, Louise Chandler. “Brains.” Some Women’s Hearts (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874: 131-57 [Google Books])
(dressmaker on Summer Street)
—. “A Letter, and What Came of It.” Some Women’s Hearts (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1874: 289-320 [Google Books])
—. Miss Eyre from Boston: And Others (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889 [Google Books]) (short stories) (Google Books)
Mullan, William. Furrows Through Brook Farm (Boston: William Mullan, publisher, 1899) (31 pages) (Brook Farm
(Boston, Mass.) — Poetry)
Mulligan, Gina L. From Across the Room (Five Star, 2016) (Epistolary novel; hero, Boston author, mentored by Henry
James; mainly elsewhere) (Commercial crimes; Deception; Fathers and daughters; Young male authors; California;
Massachusetts; New York)
Mullin, Kevin. Amy Collins: A Boston Adventure (Written Word, 2024) (YA) (heroine “leav[es] her rustic Louisiana home for an
exclusive Boston neighborhood after finding out she was switched at birth,” 19th c. ?, eccentrics, murder, Scarlet Fever
[WorldCat])
Murphy, James R. They Were Dreamers: A Saga of the Irish in North America (Atheneum, 1983) (Irish-Canadians migrate to
Boston; 1832-74) (Irish-Canadians; Irish-Americans — Boston; Irish in Canada; Family sagas, Irish-American)
Murphy, Susie. A Class Reunited (2022) (Series: A Matter of Class 5) (in part, “Back in Boston, the family . . . left behind”
but mainly Ireland WorldCat) (Ireland Social life and customs 19th century; Manners and customs)
Naslund, Sena Jeter. Ahab’s Wife, or, The star-Gazer: A Novel (HarperCollins, 2000) (Chapter 13 “Boston”) (Ahab, Captain
(Fictitious character))
Nelson, Henry Loomis. John Rantoul (James R. Osgood, 1885 [HathiTrust]) (“modern life . . . in the best Boston society”
title page)
Nelson, Truman John. The Passion by the Brook: A Novel about Brook Farm (Doubleday, 1953) (Brook Farm Phalanx
(West Roxbury, Boston, Mass.)) (Kirkus Reviews; accessed 27 Dec. 2011)
—. The Sin of the Prophet (Little, Brown, 1952) (African Americans; 1854) (Parker, Theodore; Burns, Anthony;
Fugitive slaves; Boston (Mass.) — History — Anti-slavery movement, 1830-1863) (Google Books)
Nickerson, Susan D., pseud. A Lady of Boston. Bread-winners (Boston: Nichols and Hall, 1871 [Wright American
Fiction]) (Chapter II New Hampshire girl arrives in Boston) (Female friendship; Young women)
Oak, B. B. Thoreau on Wolf Hill (Kensington, 2014) (1847; in part “the backstage world of a Boston theater” WorldCat)
(Thoreau, Henry David, — 1817-1862; Vampires)
O’Brian, Patrick. The Fortune of War (Collins, 1979) (“lead characters . . . prisoners in Boston during the War of 1812
. . . volume 6 in O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series of historical novels” [Jeremy A. Stahlin, email]) (Aubrey, Jack
(Fictitious character); Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character); Great Britain — History, Naval — 19th century;
United States — History — War of 1812; Ship physicians; Ship captains)
O’Connor, William Douglas. “The Ghost.” Little Classics, ed. Rossiter Johnson. Vol. 8 Mystery. Houghton Mifflin, 1875: 7-70
[Google Books]. (West End; Beacon Hill; Bowdoin Street; Hanover Street; a Boston version of Dickens’ “A Christmas
Carol”)]
— [pub. anon.]. Harrington: A Story of True Love (Boston: Thayer & Eldridge, 1860 [Google Books]) (Begins in Boston in 1852
with racist mistreatment of African Americans and worsening conditions because of the Fugitive Slave Act) (Google
Books and Review, The National Quarterly (Dec. 1860: 156-59) [Google Books])
—. Netty Renton, Or the Ghost (G.P. Putnam, 1869 [HathiTrust] (same as “The Ghost”)
O’Donnell, Terence. The Lenore: A Maritime Chronicle (Houghton Mifflin, 1926) (opens on the Boston docks, 1857, but most
of the action happens at sea) (Google Books) (fiction?)
Olds, Bruce. Raising Holy Hell: A Novel (H. Holt, 1995) (John Brown with some key Boston scenes with radical
abolitionists) (Brown, John; Harpers Ferry (W. Va.) — History — John Brown’s Raid, 1859; Antislavery
movements; Abolitionists; Slavery; Hate crimes)
O’Leary, Con. See above McCorry, Peter. Oliver, Lauren. illus. Ethan Aldridge. The Magnificent Monsters of Cedar Street (Harper Collins, 2020) (Juvenile, ages
8-12) (“Boston at the end of the nineteenth century”, also New York and Canada WorldCat; Beacon Hill?)
(Monsters; Missing persons)
Optic, Oliver [pseud. of William Taylor Adams]. Fighting Joe or, The Fortunes of a Staff Officer. A Story of the Great
Rebellion (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1865 [Google Books]) (Series: Soldier boys series, 3) (Boston hero;
ends with wedding in Boston)
—. Living Too Fast; or, The Confession of a Bank Officer (Boston: Lee and Shepard and New York: Charles T.
Dillingham, 1876) (Juvenile) (Children’s stories; Banks and banking; Young men; Young women; Debt;
Money; Marriage; City and town life; Domestics; Temperance; Theft; Boston (Mass.); Uncles) (Pub. adv.
[Google Books, accessed 30 May 2009])
—. Make Or Break: Or, The Rich Man’s Daughter (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869) (Juvenile) (Barbers; Poor; Banks
and banking; City and town life; Physicians; Temperance; Child labor; Pets; Courts; Boston (Mass.))
—. Now or Never; or The Adventures of Bobby Bright: A Story for Young Folks (Boston: Brown and Bazin, 1857
[Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Fishing; Widows; Mothers and sons; Book industries and trade; Money; Child
labor; Runaway children; Theft; Boston (Mass.); Maine)
—-. Poor and Proud, or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn: A Story for Young Folks (Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 1858
[Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Poor; Conduct of life; Temperance; Mothers and daughters; City and town life;
Child labor; Boston (Mass.))
O’Reilly, John Boyle. Complete Poems and Speeches. Ed. Mrs. John Boyle O’Reilly. James Jeffrey Roche. Life of
John Boyle O’Relly (New York: Cassell, 1891 [Google Books]) (poems include “Crispus Attucks” 408, “The
Fame of the City” 443, “Wendell Phillips” 449, and “The City Streets” 513)
Otis, Eliza Henderson Boardman, Mrs. The Barclays of Boston (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1854 [Wright American
Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U]) (Review, Putnam’s Monthly (Apr. 1854: 446) [Google Books])
Otis, James (a.k.a. J[ames]. O[tis]. Kaler). After Dark in Boston. A Working Girl’s Faith and Fate (Loring, 1880 [Hathi
Trust]) (New Hampshire girl alone in Boston) (Women)
Page, J. W. Uncle Robin in his Cabin in Virginia and Tom Without One in Boston (Richmond, Va.: J. W. Randolph, 1853
[Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U]) (benevolent southern slavery vs. harsh northern wage slavery;
southern response to Uncle Tom’s Cabin; Chapters XIII A Trip to Boston 240-56 and XIV Cruel Mercies 256-65 set
in Boston) (Slavery)
Paisley, Rebecca (pseud. of Rebecca Boado Rosas). Barefoot Bride (Avon, 1990) (romance; Boston and North
Carolina)
—. Heartstrings (Dell, 1994) (comedy; romance; Boston-intellectual in Texas wants to bear child for barren sister from
man who resembles physically/intellectually her Harvard-professor brother-in-law) (Surrogate mothers —
Texas; Texas)
Palfrey, Sarah Hammond [also under pseud. E. Foxton]. Agnes Wentworth (J.B. Lippincott, 1869 [Internet Archive])
(much Boston/Cambridge)
—. Old Times and New (Boston: W.B. Clarke Company, 1899) (49 pages) (Boston (Mass.) — Poetry) (Google Books)
Parker, Theodore. “A Picture of War” (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by James
Thomas Fields, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, pp. 225-30 ) (short story; imagined war between Suffolk and
Middlesex counties)
Parshley, Frank E. The Voice of Cambridgeport ([Cambridgeport, Mass.?, 1876]) (Merchants — Massachusetts —
Cambridgeport; Merchants — Massachusetts — Boston. Merchants — Poetry; Business enterprises — Massachusetts
— Cambridgeport; Business enterprises — Massachusetts — Boston; Business enterprises — Poetry; Cambridgeport
(Mass.) — Commerce. Boston (Mass.) — Commerce)
Parton, Ethel. Melissa Ann: A Little Girl of the Eighteen Twenties (E.M. Hale, 1931) (Juvenile) (“Melissa Ann, who
lives in Boston with her grandmother and four aunts, is always getting into difficulty because of her thoughtless
actions.” WorldCat) (Family life; Boston (Mass.))
Pastore, Clare. Fiona McGilray’s Story: A Voyage from Ireland in 1849 (Berkley Jam, 2001) (Juvenile–grades 5-8)
(teenager and her family emigrate to Boston) (Irish-American girls — Boston, Massachusetts; Irish immigrants
— Boston, Massachusetts; Ireland — History — Famine, 1845-1852)
Pataki, Allison. Finding Margaret Fuller: A Novel (Ballantine, 2024) (in part, “Boston: WorldCat) (Feminists; Fuller, Margaret,
1810-1850; Women Social conditions 19th century; Women intellectuals; Women journalists)
—. The Death of Colonel Mann: A Beacon Hill Mystery (Doubleday, 2000) (death of gossip publisher/blackmailer in Victorian
Boston) (Beacon Hill; Brothers and sisters)
—. Murder at Bertram’s Bower (Doubleday, 2001) (“Jack the ripper” in Boston 1892) (Beacon Hill; Brothers and sisters)
—. White Crow: A Beacon Hill Mystery (Doubleday, 2002) (spiritualist; seances; William James) (Brothers and sisters)
Pearl, Matthew. “The Adventure of the Boston Dromio.” Sherlock Holmes in America, ed. Martin Harry Greenberg, Jon L
Lellenberg, and Daniel Stashower (Skyhorse Pub., 2009: 251-74)
—. The Dante Club: A Novel (Random House, 2003) (Dante scholars seek killer in Boston 1865) (Dante Aligheri; Holmes,
Oliver Wendell; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth; Lowell; James Russell; Authors; Insects)
—. The Last Dickens (Harvill Secker, 2009) (trans-Atlantic murder mystery; 1870) (Dickens, Charles, — 1812-1870 —
Death and burial; Dickens, Charles, — 1812-1870 — Homes and haunts; Osgood, James R. — (James Ripley), —
1836-1892; Publishers and publishing — Massachusetts — Boston; Unfinished books; Publishers and publishing
— Employees — Crimes against; London (England) — Social conditions — 19th century)
—. The Technologists (Random House, 2012) (in part, 1868 mad scientist thriller) (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology — History — 19th century; College students — Massachusetts — Boston; College students —
Massachusetts — Cambridge)
Pearson, Ridley. The Initiation (HarperCollins, 2017) (Elementary and Junior H.S.; 19th century) (Moriarty, — Professor
(Fictitious character); Holmes, Sherlock; Roommates; Boarding school students; Heirlooms; Brothers and sisters;
Secret societies; Boston (Mass.))
Pentz, Albert Du Verney. “The Big Stranger on Dorchester Heights.” Boston Transcript. The Best Short Stories of 1916, ed.
Edward Joseph Harrington O’Brien (Small, Maynard, 1917: 72-74 [Google Books]) (South Boston; 1860; Abraham
Lincoln)
Perkins, Peppermint [pseud. of Joe Perkins?]. The Familiar Letters of Peppermint Perkins (Ticknor, 1886) (Begins “Boston,
January, 1885″) (Young women — Conduct of life; Humorous stories; American wit and humor; Boston (Mass.) — Social
life and customs)
Perry, Nora. “In a Street Car” (The Tragedy of the Unexpected: And Other Stories, Houghton Mifflin, 1880, pp. 232-53 [Hathi
Trust]) (starts at “the corner of State Street” 232)
—. “In the Red Room” (pp. 160-200 Tremont Temple, Music Hall)
Pettis, Samuel. Boston and Its Environs as They Appear from the Cupola of the State House: A Poem (Boston: L.C. Bowles,
1832) (47 pages) (Poetry)
Phelps, Elizabeth Stuart. Doctor Zay (Houghton, Mifflin, 1882 [Google Books]) (some Boston; starts with “Waldo Yorke,
of Beacon Street” 5) (Sex role; Women physicians)
—. Fourteen to One (Houghton Mifflin, 1891 [Google Books]) (Short stories, many set in Boston, e.g., “Mary Elizabeth” 370-80:
beggar girl on Washington Street and Parker House [?]) (Google Books)
—. Friends: A Duet (Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 [Google Books]) (opens “It was a February day in Boston”)
— (under pseud. H. Trusta). A Peep at “Number Five” or A Chapter in the Life off a City Pastor (Boston: Phillips, Sampson,
1852; Internet Archive) (“a city minister in the Boston of the 1850’s” [George Arthur Dunlap, The City in the American
Novel, 1789-1900. Philadelphia, 1934: 82 n.])
—. The Sunny Side: Or the Country Minister’s Wife (Philadelphia, Pa.: American Sunday-school Union, 1851)
(consequences of low pay for ministers) (some Boston, e.g. Chapter “CHAPTER VIII. VISIT TO BOSTON”)
(Domestic relations; Social classes – United States) (Brief Des., Joanne Dobson, Dickinson and the Strategies of
Reticence: The Woman Writer in Nineteenth Century (Indiana U P, 1989: 34-35 [Google Books]) (Litfind.com)
—. The Silent Partner (Boston: J.R. Osgood; London: Samson Low, 1871 [Google Books]) (Boston heiress unsuccessfully
tries to help factory workers who work in her mills) (Amazon and Google Books)
Phillis, Pompey or Pompey Smallhead or Christian Brown [various ed.]. Bosson Artillerum election, or The African’s
Reply to the Burlesque on their Late Celebration of the Abolition of the Slave Trade ([Boston: African Society of
Boston, 1828]) (response to racist broadsides) (Phillis; Pompey; African Society (Boston, Mass.); Ancient and
Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts; African Americans — Massachusetts — Boston; African Americans
— Societies, etc.; African American wit and humor; Antislavery movements — United States; Boston (Mass.) in
literature; English language — Dialects — United States; Festivals — Massachusetts — Boston)
—. Dreadful Riot on Negro Hill! (? 1816 [Library of Congress, 1827]) (Broadside; “Phillis” insulting reference to Phillis
Wheatley [Alan Richardson, “‘The Sorrows of Yamba,’ by Eaglesfield Smith and Hannah More: Authorship,
ideology, and the Fractures of Antislavery Discourse,” Romanticism on the Net Issue 28 (November 2002): par.
11 {accessed 2 Apr. 2008}]) (Boston (Mass.) — Race relations — Poetry; English language — Dialects; Wood-
engraving; American — 19th century; Boston in literature; African Americans — Crimes against — Poetry)
Piel, Stobie. A Brighter Dawn (LoveSpell, 1997) (romance; Civil War; wealthy Boston widow disguises as soldier to
expose Confederate spy murderer of husband; mainly Virginia) (Civil War, 1861-1865) (Brief Summary,
Fantastic Fiction, accessed 11 Jul. 2008)
Pier, Arthur Stanwood. The Pedagogues: A Story of the Harvard Summer School (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899
[Google Books]) (young English teacher) (Harvard University) (Google Books and Brief Review, The American
Monthly Review of Reviews (1899: 242) [Google Books]; Bail 264-65)
—. The Sentimentalists: A Novel (Harper, 1901 [Google Books]) (western nouveau riche make way in Boston society)
—. The Son Decides: The Story of a Young German-American (Houghton Mifflin, 1918 [HathiTrust]) (in part Harvard)
(World War, 1914-1918; German Americans)
Pierce, Jo. Sunrise Saul, the Express Train Ferret, or, The Lame Horse Miner’s Quest (New York: Beadle and Adams,
1889 [Northern Illinois U] (Series: Beadle’s half dime library, no. 639) (Express trains; Female offenders;
Inheritance and succession; Murder — Investigation; Pickpockets; Robbery investigation; Train robberies;
Connecticut; Boston; New York)
Pike, Frances West Atherton. Katherine Morris: An Autobiography (Boston: Walker, Wise, 1860 [HathiTrust]) (partly Boston, as
heroine works as a governess, e.g., Chapter XII in “Mr. Clayton’s house on Tremont Street” 182)
Poe, Marshall. illus. Leland Purvis. A House Divided (Aladdin Paperbacks, 2009) (Series: Turning points; Boston
abolitionists debate between violence and legislation; 1856; Juvenile) (United States — History — 1849-1877
— Comic books, strips, etc.)
Pool, Maria Louise. Friendship and Folly: A Novel (Boston: L.C. Page, 1898 [Project Gutenberg]) (Ch. 1 “At Savin Hill”;
Romance)
—. Mrs. Keats Bradford (Harper, 1892 [HathiTrust]) (“Boston marriage”; sequel to Roweny; mainly rural setting, but Ch. V
Back in Boston) (Brief Review, The Literary World (Jul. 1892: 261)
—. Roweny in Boston: A Novel (Harper, 1892 [Internet Archive]) (“Boston marriage”)
Poor, Agnes Blake (pseud. of Dorothy Prescott). Boston Neighbours: In Town and Out (Putnam, 1898 [Google Books])
(short stories) (Pub. Des.. The Literary News Apr. 1898: 127 [Google Books]))
—. Brothers and Strangers (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1893 [Google Books} (“story . . . contrast[s] . . . Boston and central New
York” publisher’s ad) (Families; Men — Conduct of life; Men — Religious life)
Porter, Cheryl Anne. Hannah’s Promise (St. Martin’s, 1997) (romance; heroine in Boston with murdered mother’s family;
mainly, wild west) (Sisters; Revenge)
Post, Waldron Kintzing. Harvard Stories: Sketches of the Undergraduate (Putnam, 1893 [Google Books])
(College stories, American; Harvard University; College students; Cambridge (Mass.)) (Bail 246-52)
Price, Eugenia. The Waiting Time (Doubleday, 1997) (Boston Brahmin woman marries Georgia slaveowner; 1850s;
abolition; one return visit to Boston; mainly Georgia) (Men/women relations — Georgia; Women plantation
owners — Georgia; Georgia — History — 1775-1865; Historical romances, American)
Price, Marjorie. Emerald Embrace (Kensington, 1989) (romance; mid-19th c.; Irish Americans; Lowell; Boston;
Fugitive Slave Act) (Brothers and sisters)
Pryor, Bonnier. Luke: On the Golden Trail, 1849 (Morrow Junior Books, 1999) (Elementary and junior high school; boy
moves from Iowa to Boston; 1849; more Iowa and the journey than Boston) (Frontier and pioneer life;
Voyages and travels; Uncles)
Puritan, Job (pseud.?). “The Sabbath Breakers” Household Tales 354-367 (Boston: J. Munroe, 1861 [HathiTrust]) (starts
Boston Common, ends in Massachusetts Bay with punishment for breaking the sabbath)
—. “Stella Lea: A Leaf from an Orphan’s Life” 256-303 (short story; beautiful orphan survives villains in Boston with help
of good people)
Pye, Virginia. The Literary Undoing of Victoria Swann (Regal House, 2023) (“Set in Gilded Age Boston” WorldCat)
(Women authors; Women’s rights)
Quincy, Edmund. The Haunted Adjutant and Other (Ticknor, 1885 [Internet Archive]) (short stories, some partially set
in Boston)
Quincy, Eliza. The Old Elm and the Fountain on Boston Common (R. F. Foster, 1853) (poetry; 12 p.)
Quirk, Lawrence J. Some Lovely Image (Quirk Pub. Co., 1976 or Meadowland Books, 1989) (gay men; Harvard; Beacon
Hill; Lynn; 20th c. narrator/investigator and subject who died in 1893)
Rafferty, S. S. “The Massachusetts Peep-O’Night” (1984). Rept. in Murder and Mystery in Boston, ed. Carol-Lyn Rössel
Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, and Frank McSherry, Jr. (New York: Dember, 1987): 74-98 (5 March 1772 (two-year
memorial of Massacre; con-woman posing as royalty)
Ramer, Andrew. “Jane Austen in Boston.” Ever After: The Extended Lives and Works of Eleven Famous Writers (Resource
Publications, 2023) (“in April of 1818, Jane Austen and Veronica Ledley . . . set up housekeeping [“‘Boston Marriage'”] on
Beacon Hill . . . for the rest of Austen’s life” Google Books)
Rand, Edward Augustus. Two College Boys, Or, the Old Man of Mountain (New York: T. Whittaker, 1895) (New Hampshire
temperance and virtue at Harvard; Bail 254-55) (White Mountains)
Ray, Robin Hazard. The Strangers’ Tomb (2015) (Mount Auburn Cemetery; Cambridge) (pre-Civil War) (Detective and
mystery stories; Cemeteries)
Reasoner, J. L. Healer’s Calling (Berkley, 1996) (Boston woman physician goes west) (Women physicians — Massachusetts
— Boston; Frontier and pioneer life; Boston (Mass.)–History–1865; Indian territory)
Reed, Helen Leah. Brenda, Her School and Her Club (Little, Brown, 1900 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (“instructive in its
information about Boston” [American Monthly]) (Brief Review, The American Monthly Review of Reviews (1900:
778) [Google Books])
—. Brenda’s Bargain: A Story for Girls (Little, Brown, 1903 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (school and settlement work in
Boston)
—. Brenda’s Cousin at Radcliffe: A Story for Girls (Little, Brown, 1902 Google Books) (Juvenile; “a clear picture of
Radcliffe College undergraduate life”)
—. Miss Theodora: A West End Story (Boston: R.G. Badger, 1898 [Internet Archive]) (North Slope Beacon Hill; Harvard; MIT;
Pen and ink sketches of streets; local color; “quaint sketches of scenes fast fading” (Pub. Des.); Yankee spinster)
(Descriptive Snippets, Samuel Barber, Boston Common; a Diary of Notable Events: Incidents, and Neighboring
Occurrences (Christopher Pub. House, 1914: 283-84) and Brief Summary, The Annual American Catalogue, 1898
(New York: Office of the Publishers’ Weekly, 1899: 162) [Google Books])
Reed, Rebecca Theresa. Six Months in a Convent, Or, The Narrative of Rebecca Theresa Reed, Who Was Under the
Influence of the Roman Catholics About Two Years, and an Inmate of the Ursuline Convent on Mount Benedict,
Charlestown, Mass., Nearly Six Months, in the Years 1831-32 (Boston: Russell, Odiorne & Metcalf, 1835 [Google
Books]) (fictionalized) (Ursuline Convent (Charlestown, Boston, Mass.); Reed, Rebecca Theresa, Ex-nuns —
Massachusetts — Biography)
Rees, Douglas. Lightning Time: A Novel (DK Ink, 1997) (Juvenile–Elementary and Junior High School) (14-year-old hero
leaves Boston to go with John Brown; 1850s; Harper’s Ferry) (Brown, John; Abolitionists; Slavery; African Americans)
Rideing, William H. A Little Upstart: a Novel (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1885) (“covert portraits, with racy and sometimes
sarcastic sketches of society and literary life in Boston” [A Little Upstart The Literary World 8 Aug. 1885: 267 [Google
Books])
Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt. Twin Roses: A Narrative (Ticknor and Fields, 1857 [HathiTrust]) (some Boston Museum
theatre scenes, e.g., pp. 221-27)
Robbins, Jerry. Beacon Hill (Series 1, episodes 1-4+) (Series: Colonial Radio Theatre) (Brilliance Audio, 2012) (Boston (Mass.)
— Social life and customs — 19th century; Upper class families)
—. Beacon Hill (Series 2, episodes 5-8) (Series: Colonial Radio Theatre) (Brilliance Audio, 2012) (Boston (Mass.) — Social life
and customs — 19th century; *Upper class families)
—. Candlelight Tales: The Lady in Black (Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air, 1996) (Audiobook dramatization of famous ghost
story on George’s Island; see “Lady in Black Ghost: George’s Island Folklore”, celebrateboston.com) (Amazon)
Robbins, Joseph Willet. Progress: A Local Poem, Read Before the Roxbury Mechanics’ Institute, Tuesday Evening, Feb. 19,
1861 (Boston, 1861) (Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) — History — Poetry)
Robbins, Sarah Stuart. illus. Henry L Penfield. Turning a New Leaf, or, The Story of Charles Terry (New York: Robert Carter &
Bros., 1865 [Google Books]) (Teenage boys — Massachusetts — Boston; Boarding schools; Selfishness; Conduct of life)
Robins, Elizabeth [1st ed. under pseud C. E. Raimond]. The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments (Heinemann,
1898 [Google Books]) (“the hero’s family lives at Elizabeth’s Boston address,” 16 Ashburton Place [Angela V. John,
Elizabeth Robins: Staging a Life, 1862-1952 {Routledge, 1995}, 31]; Suicide; Cousins; Tuberculosis; mainly Ohio, but
some Boston) (Review, The Literary World (18 Feb. 1899: 51-52) [Google Books])
Robinson, John Hovey. Ella Montfield, or, The Three Disguises: A Tale of Boston (Boston: Purdy & Bradley, 1846) (42 pgs.)
—. The Lady’s Dream: or, The Fortune Teller of Copp’s Hill. A Legend of Boston (Boston: W. W. Page, 1846)
—. Marietta, or, The Two Students: A Tale of the Dissecting Room and “Body snatchers” (Boston: Jordan & Wiley, 1846
[Internet Archive]) (“location of this tale is Boston, . . . the scenes of the first chapter passed in Marshall street,
leading from Union to Hanover street, . . . 1842″ 10) (Body snatching; Dissection)
Rockwood, Harry (pseud. of Ernest A. Young). Clarice Dyke: The Female Detective (New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1883) (“knows the
criminals of Boston . . . proving that the streets of Southie and the North End were as unfriendly 120 years ago as they
are now” Fantastic Victoriana: D, ed. Jesse Nevins (Internet Wayback Machine)
—. Nat Foster, the Boston Detective: A Thrilling Story of Detective Life (New York: J. S. Ogilvie, 1883)
Roddan, John T. John O’Brien; or, The Orphan of Boston, A Tale of Real Life (Boston: Patrick Donahoe, 1850) (Irish
immigrants and hostile Yankees; 1819-c. 1850)
Rodman, Warren A. Fate or Law?: The Story of an Optimist (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1899) (Boston hero/doctors/boarding
house; review/summary, The Comming Age, 1899, vol. 2, pp. 230-31)
Rodrick, Diane. Love’s Eternal Golden Flames (Virtualbookworm Inc., 2001) (romance; some Boston, but not grounded in
real Boston)
Rogers, Cameron. The Music of Razors (Penguin, 2001) (partly, Boston 1840) (Supernatural)
Rogers, Rosemary. A Dangerous Man (Avon, 1996) (Opens Boston, September, 1845) (California — Social life and customs —
19th century) (Amazon Back Cover)
Rombough, Tracey. Immortal Air: A Novel (Cape Breton U P, 2015) (fictionalized biography of Canadian writer George
Cameron [1854-85]; Part 2 “in Boston . . . attended a prestigious Latin school and later the Boston School of Law”
Publisher)
Root, Nathaniel William Taylor. Contraband Christmas (Boston: E.P. Dutton, 1864) (Juvenile) (African Americans;
Christmas; Boston (Mass.))
Rosewood, Emma. The Virtuous Wife; or, the Libertine Detected. A Tale of Boston and Vicinity. Containing a Warning to
Girls from the Country, and an Example for City Ladies (Boston: Dow and Jackson, 1845) (32 pgs.)
Round, William Marshall Fitts. pseud. Peter Pennot. Achsah: A New-England Life Study (Lee & Shepard, 1876 [Google
Books]) (some Boston, e.g., Chapter V starts “There was and still is around Hampton street, Boston, ‘a flavor of mild
decay'” 42)
Rowe, G. S. (Will Beaman, working in a baseball front office starting in 1897, in Boston)
—. Best Bet in Beantown: A Will Beaman Baseball Mystery (Clifton, VA: Pocol P, 2003) (1897) (Baseball stories; Baseball
teams) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. Squeeze Play in Beantown: A Will Beaman Baseball Mystery (Pocol P, 2004) (1897; Frederick Remington; Emma
Goldman; John “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald; William Bradford’s history of Plymouth; Sunday baseball) (Baseball)
Royce, Paul. Evoking Spirits: The Medium, the Merchant and the Professor: A Novel (CreateSpace Independent
Publishing Platform, 2010) (William James; Boston Athenaeum; fire of 1872, Back Bay) (Spiritualism —
Massachusetts — Boston — 19th century; Spiritualists — Massachusetts — Boston — 19th century; Psychics —
Massachusetts — Boston — 19th century; Harvard University — Faculty; College teachers; Merchants —
Massachusetts — Boston — 19th century)
Russell, Benjamin. The Fortieth Annual Address, of the carriers of the Columbian centinel, to its patrons: with the best
wishes and salutations of the season, for January 1, 1824 (Boston: [B. Russell], 1824) (1 page) (New Year —
Poetry; Paperboys — Poetry; Greece — History — War of Independence, 1821-1829 — Poetry; Boston (Mass.)
— Poetry) (Google Books)
Russell, David. Autobiography of David Russell: A Boston Boy and True American (Boston: The author, 1857 [Wright
American Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U]) (Classified by Wright as fiction)
Ryan, Mike. Boston Baked Churchill (Mansfield, MA: Charles River P, 2006) ((19th-20th centuries; turn of the century
probation officer; Winston Churchill, British politician, and Winston Churchill, American writer) (Fenians; Terrorism;
Irish Americans) (Amazon and Google Books)
Ryan, P[atricia]. B. (Nell Sweeney, an Irish governess / sleuth in post-Civil-War Boston)
—. A Bucket of Ashes: A Guilded Age Mystery (Berkley, 2007) (Governesses; Cape Cod (Mass.)) (Amazon and Google
—. Death on Beacon Hill: A Gilded Age Mystery (Berkley Prime Crime, 2005) (1869: Irish governess) (Sweeney, Nell
(Fictitious character))
—. Murder in a Mill Town: A Gilded Age Mystery (Berkley Prime Crime, 2004) (1868) (Sweeney, Nell (Fictitious character))
(Amazon and Google Books)
—. Murder in the North End: A Gilded Age Mystery (Berkley Prime Crime, 2006) (19th century; Irish Americans)
(Amazon and Google Books)
—. Murder on Black Friday (Berkley Prime Crime, 2005) (gold crash of 1869) (Sweeney, Nell (Fictitious character);
Upper classes; Governesses; Irish Americans) (Amazon and Google Books)
—. Still Life with Murder: A Gilded Age Mystery (Berkley Prime Crime, 2003) (1868) (Irish American women; Children of
the rich; Governesses; Prisoners) (Amazon and Google Books)
St. Clair, Frank. Six days in the Metropolis, or, Phases of Life in Town (Boston: Redding, 1854 [Google Books]) (Metropolis =
“The metropolis of New England” [5])
Salisbury, Luke. The Cleveland Indian: The Legend of King Saturday (The Smith, 1992) (1897; several scenes in Boston)
(Sockalexis, Louis; Cleveland Spiders (Baseball team) — History; Baseball — Ohio — Cleveland — History: Baseball
players; Indians of North America; Cleveland (Ohio))
Samuels, Adelaide F. illus. John Andrew. Fighting the Battle; or, Dick and Daisy’s City Life (New York and Boston: Lee and
Shepard, 1871) (Juvenile; 2nd in series) (“Newly orphaned, Dick and Daisy make their way to Boston, seeking a means
to support themselves; there they are befriended by an elderly street musician called ‘Grandfather Milly.'” Mary Crosson,
accessed 30 May 2009]
—. illus. John Andrew. Grandfather Milly’s Luck, or, Dick and Daisy’s Reward (Boston: Lee and Shepard and New
York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1871) (Juvenile) (4th in series; Grandfather Milly, street musician in Boston; “Dick
and Daisy’s kindness and perseverance is finally rewarded, from an unexpected quarter.” Crosson) (Children — Conduct
of life; Brothers and sisters; Orphans; Street musicians; Inheritance and succession; Christian life; Boston (Mass.))
—. illus. John Andrew. Saved From the Streets; or, Dick and Daisy’s Protégés (Boston: Lee and Shepard and New York: Lee,
Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872) (Juvenile; 3rd in series) (“As Christmas approaches, Dick and Daisy must care for an
ailing Grandfather Milly, as well as extending a helping hand to other destitute children.” Crosson)
Sanborn, Alvan F. Meg McIntyre’s Raffle and Other Stories (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896 [Google Books]) (Irish; Italian)
(Immigrants — Massachusetts — Boston; Boston (Mass.) — Emigration and immigration)
—. Moody’s Lodging House, and Other Tenement Sketches (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1895 [Internet Archive]) (Homeless
persons — Massachusetts — Boston; Lodging-houses — Massachusetts — Boston; Poor — Massachusetts — Boston;
Boston (Mass.) — Social conditions — 19th century) (Brief Summary/Review, A Guide to Reading in Social Ethics and
Allied Subjects, Harvard University, 1910: 85 [Google Books])
Sanborn, Mary Farley. Paula Ferris (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1893 [Google Books]) (“heroine, a young Boston Society
woman” Book News. Sep. 1893, p. 28)
Sandifer, Linda. Raveled Ends of Sky (Forge, 1998) (romance; independent women; upper-class Boston woman travels
overland to California; mainly on the road and California; mid 1840s) (Overland journeys to the Pacific; Women
pioneers)
Santayana, George. “Fair Harvard.” In A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems (Scribner’s, 1901: 165-66)
Saunders, Charles Henry. Rosina Meadows, the village maid, or, Temptations unveiled: a local domestic drama, in three
acts: as originally performed at the National Theatre, Boston, with extraordinary success (Boston : William V.
Spencer, 1855) (Series: Spencer’s Boston theatre, no. 11) (City and town life; Crime; Seduction; Vice; Virtue;
Women — Conduct of life; Young women) For novel, see English, William B.
Savage, Edward H. A Chronological History of the Boston Watch and Police, from 1631 to 1865: Together with the
Recollections of a Boston Police Officer, or, Boston by Daylight and Gaslight: From the Diary of an Officer Fifteen
Years in the Service (Boston: Published and sold by the author, 1865 [Google Books]) (Mystery and detective
fiction; Boston (Mass.) — Police; “Chiefly fictionalized accounts of true crimes” [WorldCat])
Sawyer, Walter Leon. A Local Habitation (Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899 [Google Books]) (Chinatown; “a
newspaper man’s story of life in South Boston [mistake for South End, as much of it is set in Harrison Avenue
boarding house], into which plebian district a reporter goes in order to get material for a work of fiction” [The
American Monthly Review of Reviews 1900: 123] [Google Books])
Sayles, Ginie. She Was A Bigamist: Was She A Woman Without Honor? Or A Woman Who Loved Too Much?
(iUniverse, 2004) (c. 1885; Newport; Martha’s Vineyard; some Boston)
Scank, Philemon [pseud. of G.A.M. Elder]. A few Chapters to Brother Jonathan, concerning “Infallibility, &c.” or, Stictures [
i.e., Strictures] on Nathan L. Rice’s “Defence of Protestantism,” &c. &c. &c. (Louisville, Ky.: Published for the author.,
1835) (“‘The Ursuline convent. A poem.’ 34 p. at end” [Google Books]) (Rice, N. L; Ursuline Convent (Charlestown,
Boston, Mass.) — Fire, 1834 — Poetry; Catholic Church — Infallibility; Catholic Church — Controversial literature;
Protestantism)
Schaff, Donna. Just One Kiss (Five Star, 2001) (historical romance; opens “Boston 1874”) (Louisiana; Boston (Mass.);
French teachers)
Schechter, Harold. The Tell-tale Corpse: An Edgar Allan Poe Mystery (Ballantine, 2006) (P.T. Barnum; Louisa May Alcott;
Henry David Thoreau; 1845) (Poe; Authors; Elixir) (Google Books) (Republished as Edgar Poe and the Concord
Killer (Cheshire, Connecticut: Author, 2013))
Schefrin, Aram. Consider the Elephant (Podiobook.com [accessed 23 Feb. 2008]; c. 2001, 2006, 2007; only available in
audio format(?)] (Some scenes in Boston, e.g., Chapters 1, 6, 12, 20; John Wilkes Booth; 1865)
Schildt, Christopher. An American Christmas Carol (BookBaby, 2024) (set in Boston)
Schottenstein, Shevy. The Promise of Freedom (Targum P, 2007) (Jewish immigrant from Lithuania to Boston heroine) (Jews
— Migrations; Orthodox Jews; Jews — Massachusetts — Boston; Jews, Eastern European — Massachusetts — Boston)
Scott, Joanna. “Dorothea Dix: Samaritan.” Various Antidotes: Stories (Holt, 1994: 102-25) (Dorothea Dix; short story)
Scudder, Horace. Doings of the Bodley Family in Town and Country (Riverside P, 1875 [Google Books]) (Juvenile)
(Children — Conduct of life; Conduct of life; Family: Moving, Household; Farm life; Roxbury (Boston, Mass.);
Country life; Fairy tales; Children’s poetry; Children’s stories) (Move from Boston to Roxbury) (Pub. Des.,
prefixed to The English Bodley Family (Houghton, Mifflin, 1884: 1) [Google Books])
Scudder, Vida. A Listener in Babel: Being a Series of Imaginary Conversations Held at the Close of the Last Century
(Houghton, Mifflin, 1903) (autobiog. novel about women’s Boston in the 90’s) (Working class women) (Sarah
Deutsch, Women and the City (Oxford U P, 8-15 [Google Books] and 23-24)
Sedgwick, Anne Douglas. A Fountain Sealed (Century, 1907 [Google Books 1908 ed.]) (mainly New York, England, and
elsewhere, but opens in Boston in winter)
Self-made man, 1853-1915 (pseud. J. Perkins Tracy [James Perkins]). From a Cent to Fortune, or, A Chicago Boy’s
Great Scoop (New York: Harry E. Wolff, 28 Sep. 1923. 28 pgs.) (Series: Fame and fortune weekly; no. 939)
(East Boston) (Boston (Mass.); Capitalists and financiers; Young businesspeople) (Edward T. LeBlanc Collection.
Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois U)
Severance, Mark Sibley. Hammersmith: His Harvard Days (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878 [Google Books]) (Student
experience; Bail 237-41) (Harvard University; California)
Seymour, Almira. The Emigrants, or, First and Final Step: A True Story (Boston and Cambridge: James Munroe, 1853
[Harvard Library]) (juvenile) (Anti-Catholicism; Irish Americans; Orphans; Pride and vanity; Sisters; Theft;
Truthfulness and falsehood)
Shackleford, H.K. Fred Fearnot’s Home Run, or, The Second Tour of His Nine (New York: Frank Tousey, 1899) (Series:
Work and win, no. 29) (Baseball stories; Boston)
Shaw, Allie. The Impossible Texan (Ballantine, 2001) (romance; 1888; all Texas; hero, Harvard educated Boston aristocrat
campaign manager) (Political campaigns — Texas; Campaign management; Legislators — United States; Texas — Politics
and government — 1865-1950)
Sheldon, Mrs. Georgie. Katherine’s Sheaves (Street & Smith, 1904 [Project Gutenberg]) (mainly upper-state New York,
but some Boston, e.g., Jennie’s “eventful trip to Boston” 341+)
—. Two Keys, or, Margaret Houghton’s Heroism (New York: Street & Smith, 1891) (Series: New Eagle series, no. 7)
(Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — 19th century; Young women — Massachusetts — Boston)
Sherburne, James. Hacey Miller: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin, 1971) (Kentuckian from pro-slavery family becomes
abolitionist at Harvard; 1845+)
Sheridan, Eliza. Ellen Fenton, or, The Miser of the North End! (Boston: Jones’s Pub. House, 1847) (Check)
Shertzer, Linda. Chasing Rainbows (Berkley, 1994) (romance; 1874; Harmony, Kansas; heroine, Boston-educated reporter)
Shiefman, Vicky. Good-bye to the Trees (Atheneum, 1993) (Juvenile–grades 5-8) (13-year-old Russian immigrant girl in early
20th-century Boston) (Emigration and immigration; Russian Americans; Jews)
Shiplett, June Lund. Boston Renegade (Harlequin, 1992) (Bostonian male do-gooder in the wild west)
Shreve, Anita. Fortune’s Rocks (Little, Brown, 1999) (Boston Brahmins summer in New Hampshire in 1899) (Young
women–Sexual behavior; Mills and mill-work)
Sinclair, Upton. Manassas: A Novel of the War (Macmillan, 1904 [Internet Archive]) (Pro-Civil Rights view of Boston;
several scenes set in Boston) (Civil War, 1861-1865; Bull Run, 1st Battle of, Va., 1861)
Sly, Costard, and Zachary Philmon Vangrifter (pseud. ?). Sayings and Doings at the Tremont House In the year
1832. vol. II (Allen and Ticknor, 1833 [Google Books]) (United States — Social life and customs — Humor;
Tremont House (Hotel: Boston, Mass.); Manners and customs)
Smith, Edgar Maurice. A Daughter of Humanity: A Novel (Boston: Arena Publishing, 1895) (Boston society heroine;
summary/review, Julia Dawley, The Arena, 868-70 [1896])
Smith, Michael. Boston! Boston! (Poolbeg, 1997) (Juvenile) (Ireland — History — Famine, 1845-1852; Immigration
and emigration; Connemara (Ireland) — Immigration and emigration)
Smith, Sarah. The Other Side of Dark (Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2010) (Juvenile: ages 9-12) (“a famous
Boston family’s connection to the illegal post-emancipation slave trade” Amazon) (African Americans; Boston
(Mass.); Dating (Social customs); Ghosts; Family / Multigenerational; United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877);
Orphans; Race relations; Supernatural)
Smith, Seba [using pseud. Jack Downing]. The Life and Writings of Major Jack Downing of Downingville, Away Down
East in the State of Maine (Boston: Lilly, Wait, Colman & Holden, 1833 [Google Books 1834 ed.]) (epistolary
novel; some Boston, e.g., “LETTER IV. In which Uncle Joshua tells how he went to Boston, and took dinner with the
Gineral Court,” “LETTER XXXIII. In which Mr Downing tells about the talk he had with the Boston Editors on his way
to Washington,” and “LETTER LXI. In which Major Downing describes the visit of the President at Boston”) (Regional
American stories; Jackson, Andrew (1767-1845); Northern States; Politics; Political satire, American; United States —
Politics and government — 1829-1837 — Humor)
Sprague, Charles. “Mount Auburn” (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by James
Thomas Fields, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, pp. 114-15 (poem; cemetery))
Celebration of the Settlement of the City (John H. Eastburn, city printer, 1830 [Google Books]) (Boston (Mass.) —
Poetry; Boston (Mass.) — Centennial celebrations, etc.)
Stabb, William J.B. A Story of Many Colors, or, Romance in a Lodging-House (Boston and New York: Dickerman, 1903.
59 pgs. Internet Archive) (Starts Nantasket Beach)
Stephen, H[arriet]. Marion. Hagar the Martyr, or, Passion and Reality: A Tale of the North and South (Boston: W.P. Fetridge,
1855 [HathiTrust]) (Chapter XI begins with heroine “wandering away in quest of an uncle whom she had heard of in
Charlestown” 118; “racial mistakedness” (Cindy Weinstein, “The Slave Narrative and Sentimental Literature,” The
Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative, edited by Audrey Fisch, Cambridge U P, 2007, p.
127), heroine wrongly thought to be mixed race) (African Americans)
Stevens, D. W. [under pseud. A New York Detective] [Also, attributed to Francis Worcester Doughty]. The James Boys in
Boston: Or, Old King Brady and the Car of Gold (New York: F. Tousey, 1890) (Gary Hoppenstand, The Dime Novel
Detective: 64; Cover, Imagination Radio [Internet Wayback Machine]
Stimson, A[lexander]. L[ovett]. Easy Nat, or, The Three Apprentices: A Tale of Life in New York and Boston but Adapted to
Any Meridan (New York: J.C. Derby, 1854 [Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875]) (working class; young men; crime)
(Boys — New England; Apprentices — New England) (Review, Graham’s American Monthly Magazine of Literature,
Art, and Fashion (Oct. 1854: 393) [Google Books]) [Previously published as Easy Nat; or, Boston Bars and Boston Boys.
A Tale of Home Trials, by One Who Knows Them (Boston: Redding, 1844) (Brief Contemporary Summary, qted. in
Richard D. Brown. Knowledge Is Power: The Diffusion of Information in Early America, 1700-1865 [Oxford UP, 1989:
232 (Google Books)])]
—. Poor Caroline, the Indiaman’s Daughter, or, All’s Well That Ends Well: A Tale of Boston and Our Own Times (Boston:
The Author, 1845) (64 pges) (African Americans)
Stimson, Frederic Jesup [pseud. J. S. of Dale]. Guerndale: An Old Story (Scribner, 1882 [Google Books 1899 ed.]) (some
Harvard University; Crimean War; Bail 245-46) (Google Books and Summary, Library of the World’s Best Literature,
Ancient and Modern Vol. 44 (New York: The International Society, 1897: 142-43) [Google Books])
—. Pirate Gold (Houghton, Mifflin, 1896 [Google Books]) (begins 1830 on a commercial wharf in Boston harbor)
—. The Residuary Legatee, Or, The Posthumous Jest of the Late John Austin (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1888 [Google
Books]) (Brookline) (Inheritance and succession) (Brief Review, Book News (Jul. 1881: 510) [Google Books])
Stirling, Jocelyn. Promises to Keep (Doubleday, 1986) (romance kindled at Boston wedding of mismatched couple; partly set
in Boston in early 19th century; also New York, Washington)
Stoddard, Elizabeth Drew (Barstow) . The Morgesons (Carleton, 1862 [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875]) (some Boston,
including a stay at the Bromfield House on Bowdoin St., Boston, in Chapter XIII) (Insanity; Love; Women’s rights;
Young women)
Stone, Forrest. Illus. John Francis Martin and Linda Pierce. From Broad Street to Beacon Hill: An Irish Immigrant
Experience (Benchmark Education Co., 2009) (Series: Readers’ & writers’ genre workshop. Historical fiction,
Level O/34) (Juvenile; 24 pp.) (Immigrant children — Massachusetts — Boston — History — 19th century; Irish
— Massachusetts — Boston — History — 19th century)
Strickland, Laura. Words and Dreams (Wild Rose P, 2017) (heroine, newspaper reporter, Boston 1871) (Women
journalists; Irish Americans; Man-woman relationships)
Sullivan, Thomas Russell. Roses of Shadow: A Novel (Scribner’s, 1885 [Internet Archive]) (“Another Boston novel, in the
sense of locale” Literary News) (Brief Review, Literary News (Feb. 1886: 54) [Google Books])
Sutton, Kitty. Wheezer and the Golden Serpent (Inknbeans P 2015) (Series: Mysteries from the Trail of Tears, book 3) (1843;
mainly Oklahoma, but “Sasa, a young Cherokee who has just finished her education, is presented to society in
Boston”) (Cherokee Indians; Trail of Tears, 1838-1839; Tahlequah (Okla.))
SW, Abra [or Abra SW {?}]. A Circus of Brass and Bone (Bimulous Books, 2015) (“post-apocalyptic steampunk novel”
WorldCat; Boston circus) (Circus; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877); Survival; Dystopias)
Swartz, Katherine. Another Country (London: Robert Hale, 2007) (Heroine immigrates to Boston, 1832; Glasgow;
Prince Edward Island) (British — United States; Boston (Mass.) — Social life and customs — 19th century; United
States — History — 1815-1861) (Brief Review, Rachel A. Hyde, MyShelf.com 2008 [Internet Wayback Machine])
Swazey, Arthur [pub. anon.]. A Boston Girl: A Story of Boston, Bar Harbor, and Paris (Chicago and New York: Belford,
Clarke, 1886 [Google Books])
Swendson, Shanna. Rebel Magisters (NLA Digital, 2016) (Senior High School) (Alternative American Revolution set in late
19th c.; in part “drawing rooms, ballrooms, and the harbor in Boston”; Steampunk) (Governesses; Magic; Insurgency;
Boston (Mass.) — History — 19th century; Charleston (S.C.) — History — 19th century))
—. Rebels Rising (NLA Digital, 2017) (Secondary (senior high) school) (Governesses; Magic; Insurgency; Boston (Mass.) —
History — 19th century; Charleston (S.C.) — History — 19th century)
Swenson, Deborah. Till My Last Day (BookBaby, 2024) (“a prominent lady in Boston society in the late 1800s” meets “a
well-respected police officer serving the tough neighborhood of Roxbury in Boston [in 2016]” “in the Yuma desert of
1880,” WorldCat) (Fantasy; Romance)
Teaser, Tom. Muldoon’s Base Ball Club in Boston (New York: F. Tousey, 1890 [Northern Illinois U]) (Muldoon, Terence
(Fictitious character); Irish Americans; Baseball; Chinese Americans)
Templeton, Patty. There Is No Lovely End (Odd Rot, 2014) (1884 spiritualism in Boston) (Winchester, Sarah Pardee;
Winchester Mystery House (San Jose, Calif.); Ghost stories; Mediums; Grief)
Thayer, William Makepeace. The Bobbin Boy; or, How Nat Got his Learning: An Example for Youth (Boston: J.E. Tilton,
1860 [Google Books) (Juvenile) (fictionalized boyhood of N.P.B.) (Banks, Nathaniel Prentiss, — 1816-1894;
Conduct of life; School children; Courts; Sports; Child labor; Factories; Theater; Temperance; Boston (Mass.))
Thayer, William Roscoe. In the Meshes; or, A Drop of Boston Blue Blood (Cambridge, Mass.: C.W. Sever, 1881) (62
pages; humor and satire; from Harvard Lampoon)
Thibeault, Jason. Barty the Kid: Out of Boston (Juvenile) (Dime Novel Publishing, 2010) (Fantasy) (“13-year old Wizard in
1895 Boston”; “collection of the first six issues of Barty the Kid“)
Thomas, Carroll. Ring Out Wild Bells: A Matty Trescott Novel (Elementary and junior high school) (Smith and Kraus, 2001)
(sleuth attends women’s medical school in Boston) (Massachusetts — History — 1865; Mount Holyoke Seminary and
College; New England Female Medical College; Universities and colleges; Sex role; Cousins; Boston (Mass.) —
(History — 1865)
Thomas, Chauncey. Ed. George Houghton. The Crystal Button; or, Adventures of Paul Prognosis in the Forty-ninth
Century (Houghton, Mifflin, 1891 [HathiTrust]) (Editor’s Preface: “scene . . . laid in Boston” IX; compared to
Looking Backward) (Utopias)
Thomas, William Henry. Running the Blockade or, U.S. Secret Service Adventures (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New
York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1875 [Internet Archive) (starts in Boston; Civil War blockade running for
profitable cotton)
—. A Slaver’s Adventures on Land and Sea (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1872
[HathiTrust]) (mainly elsewhere, but narrator starts and ends in Boston; Chapter II narrator tricked to join slave ship
in Boston; East Boston)
Thompson, Charles Miner. “Wolcott’s Mistake.” The Nimble Dollar with Other Stories (Houghton Mifflin, 1895. pp. 196-224
[Google Books]) (7 year-old boy on Marlborough St.)
Thompson, George [pseud. Greenhorn]. City Crimes; or Life in New York and Boston (Boston: W. Berry, 1849 [Project
Gutenberg]; Reynolds and Gladman, pp. 107-310)
—. The G’hals of Boston; or, Pen and Pencil Sketches of Celebrated Courtezans, by One of ‘Em. (Boston: Wm. Berry, 1850)
(59 pgs.)
—- My Life: Or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson: Being the Auto-Biography of an Author (Boston: Federhen, 1854 [Project
Gutenberg]; Reynolds and Gladman, pp. 311-78) (fictionalized; including Chapter X. Six Weeks in Leverett Street Jail)
—. The Twin Brothers, or, The Fatal Resemblance: A tale contrasting love with hate, good with evil, virtue with vice
(New York: Perry & Co., publishers, 185-?) (Twins; Murder — Massachusetts — Boston)
—. Venus in Boston (New York: Printed for the publisher, 1849 [Internet Archive]; rpt. Venus in Boston and Other Tales
of Nineteenth- Century City Life, Edited with an introduction by David S. Reynolds and Kimberly R. Gladman
(UMassP, 2001), pp. 3-104) (sensational fiction; city mystery) (City and town life) (Amazon and Google Books)
Thompson, Joan. Parker’s Island (St. Martin’s, 1979) (romance; 1890s; summer island and then Boston; young Boston
banker to be and chambermaid) (Hotel cleaning personnel — New England)
Tilden, Catherine. The First Patient: A Story, Written in Aid of the Fair for the “Channing Home” (Boston: J. Wilson, 1859
[Google Books]) (Boston (Mass.). — Channing Home)
Tolsma, Liz. The Green Dress (Ulrichsville, Ohio: Barbour Books, 2020) (Boston, 1880s) (Diseases; Female friendship;
Physicians)
Townsend, Virginia F. A Boston Girl’s Ambition (Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1887 [Google Books]) (“not decidedly Bostonian, in
spite of the name” 478, Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, “Boston in Fiction II,” The Chap-Book, vol. 8, no. 1, 1 May 1898,
pp. 476-78)
—. But a Philistine (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1884 [Google Books]) (West End) (Brief Review,
pre-title page note {pasted in?] [Google Books])
—. “Sirs, only seventeen!” (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1894 [Google Books]) (Boston and vicinity, Harvard student)
Tripp, George Henry [pub. anon.]. Student-Life at Harvard (Boston: Lockwood, Brooks & Co, 1876 [Google Books])
(c. 1866; Bail 232-37) (Summary/Analysis, Susan Ikenberry, “Education for Fun and Profit: Traditions of Popular
College Fiction in the United States, 1875-1945,” in Susan Huddleston Edgerton et al, ed., Imagining the Academy:
Higher Education and Popular Culture (Routledge, 2004: 54) [Google Books])
Trowbridge, John Townsend. “Bert’s Thanksgiving.” Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know. Ed. Asa Don
Dickinson (New York: Keep-Worthy Books, Parents’ Institute, 1915: 146-156 [Internet Archive]) (Newsboy on
streets of Boston) (Google Books)
—. “Boys in the City: Tales of an Old Merchant” The Silver Medal (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881, pp. 260-87 [Internet
Archive]) (title character “Boston merchant retired” 260)
—. The Lottery Ticket (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1895 [Google Books]) (Ch. 1 “Arrival in Boston”; summary, New-York Daily
Tribune, Saturday, 7 Dec. 1895, p. 5)
—. (under pseud. Paul Creyton) Martin Merrivale: His X Mark (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and New York: J.C. Derby, 1854
[Google Books]) (insider view of Boston’s cheap publishing trade) (Analysis, Ronald J. Zboray and Mary Saracino
Zboray, Literary Dollars and Social Sense: A People’s History of the Mass Market Book (Routledge, 2005: 73 ff. [partly
available through Google Books])
Tucker, George Fox. Mildred Marville (Boston: G.B. Reed, 1899 [HathiTrust]) (Ch. XVIII The Trip to Boston)
Turner, Joseph W. History of the Island Rangers: A Juvenile Zouave Company (East Boston: Published at No. 6 Winthrop
Block, 1864) (may take place in part in East Boston and harbor islands) (Island Rangers; Civil War, 1861-1865 —
Children; United States — History — Civil War, 1861-1865 — Drama; East Boston (Boston, Mass.) — History) (Check.)
Tuthill, Cornelia L. Hurrah for New England! Or The Virginia Boy’s Vacation (Philadelphia: Perkinpine & Higgins, 1846 or
Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1847 [Project Gutenberg “between 1858 and 1859” ed.]) (Juvenile) (1840s; Harvard;
Tremont House; letters) (Children’s stories; Vacations; Brothers and sisters; Costume; Cousins; Seafaring life; Sailors;
Marblehead (Mass.); Boston (Mass.); New England)
Tuthill, Louisa [same as above]. Get Money (Scribner, 1858 [Google Books 1871 edition]) (Juvenile) (Brothers and sisters;
Domestics; Clerks (Retail trade); Brigands and robbers; City and town life; Birthdays; School attendance; Sailors;
Gambling; Boston (Mass.); Women as authors)
—. I Will Be a Gentleman: A Book for Boys (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, 1844 [Internet Archive 7th ed 1846]) (Juvenile)
(Children’s stories; Young men — Conduct of life; Older people — Abuse of; Brothers and sisters; Costume;
Seafaring life; Sailors; Manners and customs; Boston (Mass.); Marseille (France); Azores; Women as authors)
—. I Will Be a Lady: A Book for Girls (Boston: Crosby, Nichols, Lee & Co.., 1844 [Open Collections Program Working
Women 1800-1930, Harvard U Lib ary, 2nd ed. 1845]) (Juvenile) (Children’s stories; Young women — Conduct of life;
Country life; Temperance; Manners and customs; Play; Children and death; City and town life; Costume; Funeral rites
and ceremonies; Blind; Boston (Mass.); Women as authors)
—. Love of Admiration; Or, Mary’s Visit to B—– [oston]: A Moral Tale (New Haven: A. H. Maltby, 1828) (Juvenile)
Tyler, Mrs. M. W. A Book without a Title, or, Thrilling Events in the Life of Mira Dana (Boston: Printed for the Author, 1856 [Hathi
Trust]) (Chapter XLVIII Mira in Boston)
Tyler, Robert Lee. Lawyer Bell from Boston (New York: Street & Smith, 1893 [Google Books]) (set elsewhere with references
back to Boston and Harvard) (Detectives — United States — Juvenile fiction)
Underwood, Francis Henry [pub. anon.]. Man Proposes: A Novel (Boston: Lee and Shepard and New York: Charles T.
Dillingham, 1880 [Google Books]) (some Boston; some Boston characters) (United States — History — Civil War,
1861-1865)
Van Namee, J. William. The Faithless Guardian, or, Out of the Darkness into the Light: A Story of Struggles, Trials,
Doubts, and Triumphs (Boston: William White, 1870 [Google Books]) (some Boston, e.g., Chapter XIX
Katy’s Visit to Boston)
Van Young, Adrain. Shadows in Summerland (ChiZine Publications, 2016) (Starts 1861 in Charles Street Jail) (Boston
(Mass.) — 19th century; Clairvoyants — Massachusetts — Boston)
Varese, Jon Michael. The Spirit Photographer: A Novel (Blackstone Publishing, 2018) (starts Boston 1870, mainly
Louisiana) (Spirit portraits; Photographers; Ghost; Occult & Supernatural)
Varnham, R. G., Mrs. [pub. “By a Lady”; also attrib. to Mrs. Farren]. Boston Common: Tale of Our Times (Boston: J.
French, 1856) (Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U) (early depiction of Washington Street
shopping [in part])
Vaughan, Vivian. No Place for a Lady (Zebra, 1996) (romance; “straitlaced [Boston] suffragette” in wild Texas;
all Texas) (Suffragists– Texas; Texas)
Verne, Jules. De la Terra a la Lune. 1865 (trans. From Earth to the Moon [Project Guttenberg]) (some Boston,
e.g., Chapter 4 Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge [i.e., Harvard], also sightings from space) (Clubs;
Moon; Boston, Massachusetts; French fiction — 19th century — Translations into English; Science fiction,
French — Translations into English)
Walkley, Albert. Theodore Parker: A Series of Letters (Boston: Neponset P, 1900 [Google Books]) (imaginary letters)
Wall, Patricia Q. Beyond Freedom (Fall Rose Books, 2010) (North Slope Beacon Hill; 1812; juvenile–10+) (African
American children — 19th century; Freedmen — New England — 19th century; Racism)
Warfield, Teresa. Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman (New York: Boulevard Books, 1996) (daughter of Boston physician leaves
Boston to practice medicine in the west) (Women physicians — History — 19th century; Pioneer women —
Colorado; TV tie-ins (Fiction))
Warren, Charles. “The Colligo Club Theatricals.” The Girl and the Governor (Scribner, 1900) (short stories; politics in
Massachusetts; Harvard University)
Warriner, Edward A., pseud. A Broad Churchman. Victor La Tourette: A Novel (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1875
[Google Books]) (religious controversies; some Boston)
Washburn, William Tucker [pub. anon.; Harvard ’62]. Fair Harvard: A Story of American College Life (Putnam;
London: S. Low, Son & Marston, 1869 [Google Books]) (1850s) (Harvard University; Cambridge (Mass.);
College students) (Brief Analysis, “may have been first widely read novel of college life,” Leon Jackson,
“College As It Was in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” in Roger L. Geiger, ed. The American College in the
Nineteenth Century (Vanderbilt U P, 2000: 298 n. 4) [Google Books]; Bail 225-31)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement. Eleanor Maitland: A Novel (J.R. Osgood, 1881 [HathiTrust]) (partly Boston, e.g., Mrs.
Bolton’s residence, “No. __ [Beacon St.], about half way up the hill” 214)
Waterston, R. C. Poem Delivered at the Semi-centennial Anniversary of the English High School, May 2, 1871 (Boston:
Printed by Nathan Sawyer & Son, 1871) (17 pages) (English High School (Boston, Mass.) — Poetry)
Wells, Kate Gannett. Miss Curtis: A Sketch (Ticknor, 1888 [Internet Archive]) (Beacon Street; children of clergyman;
spinster) (Review, Literary News, Jan. 1888: 14) [Google Books])
Wharton, Edith. “The Lamp of Psyche.” (1893; pub. Scribner’s 16 (1895)) (Boston wife-New York husband; in part,
visit to Boston; lack of Civil War service: “commitment to moral courage and military service . . . a central test
of the Boston character” O’Connell 2010, 134) (Summary/Assessment, Wharton’s New England: Seven Stories
and Ethan Frome, ed. Barbara Anne White (UPNE, 1995: 1) [Google Books])
Wheeler, Edward Lytton. Deadwood Dick in Boston: or, The Cool Case (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1888 [Northern
Illinois U]) (Series: Beadle’s half dime library, v. 22, no. 561; 13 pges.) (Aldine Publishing Co., 1891; Volume 88
of Aldine boys’ first-rate pocket library; 32 pges.) (“faithless thieving wife”; Jewish villains [Marcus Klein, Easterns,
Westerns, and Private Eyes: American Matters, 1870-1900 (U of Wisconsin P, 1994: 104)]) (Missing persons–
Investigation; Robbery; Diamonds; Rich people; Jews; Pawnbroking)
—Jack Hoyle’s Lead, or, The Road to Fortune (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1886) (Series: Beadle’s pocket library
no. 7)
Wheelwright, John T[yler]. A Child of the Century (Scribner, 1887) (“modern” Bostonian runs for Congress; politics)
(Brief Review , Literary World, 30 Apr. 1887: 138-39) [Google Books])
Wheelwright, John Tyler, and Frederic Jesup Stimson [under pseud. Francis G. Attwood]. Rollo’s Journey to Cambridge
(Boston: A. Williams and Co, 1880 [Google Books]) (orig. appeared in Harvard Lampoon 1879-80; parody of Rollo
series; illustrations; 28 pp.; Harvard University; Bail 241-45)
Whippoorwill, Tim [pseud.] Nelly Brown, or, The Trials, Temptations and Pleasures of College Life (Boston:
“Yankee Office,” 1845) (Harvard; Bail 220-21) (Brief Summary, John T. Bethell, Richard M. Hunt, Robert
Shenton, Harvard A to Z (Harvard U P, 2004: 126) [Google Books]) (Women college students)
White, Eliza Orne. Miss Brooks: A Story (Boston: Roberts, 1890) (satire of typical Bostonian young woman’s
Bostoncentrism) (Brief Review, Literary News, Jul. 1890: 202 [Google Books])
White, Michael C. The Garden of Martyrs (St. Martin’s, 2004) (Based on 1806 trial; anti-Catholicism) (Daley,
Dominic; Halligan, James; Travelers–Crimes against; Executions and executioners; Irish Americans;
Judicial error; Prejudices; Immigrants; Catholics)
—. Soul Catcher (William Morrow, 2007) (escaped slave hunter, partly in Boston; post Shadrach Minkins) (Fugitive
slaves; Slavery — Southern States)
White, Richard Grant. The Fate of Mansfield Humphreys, with the Episode of Mr. Washington Adams in England, and
an Apology (Houghton, Mifflin, 1884 [Google Books]) (upperclass husband and English wife partly in Boston, esp.
Commonwealth Ave., pp. 252 ff; summary review in Westminster Review, July 1884, pp. 615-16)
Whitelock, L. Clarkson. How Hindsight Met Provincialatis (Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899 [HathiTrust]) (“Miss Lucinda’s
Spell in Boston” 255-74)
Whiting, Charles H. (“attributed to D.B. Mackintosh by Wright” Worldcat). The Life and Adventures of Roderick Douglas
(Boston: Charles H. Whiting, 1886 [Google Books]) (in part Boston)
Whitman, Walt. “A Boston Ballad (1854).” Leaves of Grass (Philadelphia: Reese Welsh, 1882): 109-11 [Google
Books]) (protest against implementation of Fugitive Slave Law; Anthony Burns; King George)
Whitmee, Jeanne. The Thriving Thorn (Severn House, 2000) (starts with arrival in Boston in 1838) (Young women;
Women domestics; England)
Whitney, A[deline].D[utton].T[rain]. Hitherto: A Story of Yesterdays (Boston: Loring, 1869 [1911 ed. Google Books])
(early 19th century; rural setting; some Boston scenes, e.g., on Ursuline Convent Ch. III 43 and burning Ch. IX
111-13, and Ch. XVIII Boston, and the Holgates 282-93)
—. Odd or Even? (Houghton, Osgood, 1880 [Internert Archive] (heroine, Boston heiress, mainly elsewhere)
—. The Other Girls (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873 [Google Books]) (Juvenile; working girls) (Parent and child;
Courtship; Friendship; Fires; Youth — Conduct of life; Boston (Mass.) — Fire, 1872)
—. Real Folks (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1872 [Google Books]) (Juevnile) (partly Boston, eg. Chapter VIII
Eavesdropping on Aspen Street [Beacon Hill]) (Children’s stories; Young women; Country life; City and town
life; Brothers and sisters; Play; Orphanages; Money; Aunts; Charity; African Americans; Boston (Mass.);
Uncles; Women as authors)
Whitney, Louise Goddard. The Burning of the Convent (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1877 [Google Books])
(Purports to be memoir of former school girl but seems more like fiction because of the amount of detail)
(Ursuline Convent (Charlestown, Boston, Mass.)) (Google Books and Jenny Franchot, Roads to Rome: The
Antebellum Protestant Encounter with Catholicism (U of California P, 1994 [E Scholarship Editions], esp.
Chapters 6 and 7)
Wiggin, James Bartlett. The Wild Artist in Boston: A Story of Love and Art in the Actual (Boston: J.B. Wiggin, 1888
[Internet Archive]) (Summary, The Publishers’ Weekly 20 Apr. (1889): 570 [Google Books])
Wiggs, Susan. The Charm School (MIRA Books, 1999) (1851) (Boston (Mass.); Brazil Rio de Janeiro; Man-woman
relationships; Ocean travel; Ship captains; Stowaways)
Wilder, S. Fannie Gerry. Boston Girls at Home and Abroad (Boston: James H. Earle, 1890) (Children — Conduct of life;
Friendship; Children and death; Voyages and travels; Boston (Mass.) — Description and travel; Europe —
Description and travel)
Wiley, Melissa. Across the Puddingstone Dam (HarperCollins, 2004) (Primary school) (Tucker grows up to be Laura
Ingalls Wilder’s grandmother) (Tucker, Charlotte; Wilder, Laura Ingalls; Family life; Roxbury)
—-. Little House by Boston Bay (HarperCollins, 1999) (Juvenile) (1814) (Tucker, Charlotte; Wilder, Laura Ingalls;
Family life–Roxbury; War of 1812)
—- On Tide Mill Lane (HarperCollins, 2001) (Juvenile–grades 4-8) (Roxbury; War of 1812) (Wilder, Laura Ingalls, 1867-
1957 — Family; Five-year-old girls — Boston, Massachusetts; Blacksmiths — Boston, Massachusetts; Family —
Boston, Massachusetts; Boston, Massachusetts — History — War of 1812)
—. The Road from Roxbury (HarperCollins, 2002) (Elementary and junior high school) (Tucker, Charlotte; Wilder,
Laura Ingalls; Family life — Massachusetts — Roxbury(Boston); Roxbury (Boston, Mass.) — History — 19th
century)
Williams, Harold. Mr. and Mrs. Morton: A Novel (Boston: Cupples, Upham, 1883 [Google Books 4th ed.] (starts in 187-
in a Boston lawyer’s office 1)
Willig, Lauren. The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Penguin, 2005) (female Harvard grad. student researching 18th
-19th c. spy in French/English wars; mainly European) (Google Books) (Americans – England; Women graduate
students — Massachusetts — Cambridge; London (England); Romantic suspense; Women historians; Upper class –
– England — History — 1801-1900; Spies — Great Britain — History; France — History — 1789-1799, Revolution; Great
Britain — History — 1760-1820, George 3)
Williams, John. Butcher’s Crossing (Macmillan, 1960) (main character, Bostonian, Harvard grad, under Emerson’s
influence, in 1870s; all the action takes place in Kansas and Colorado) Buffalo hunt) (American bison hunting)
Williamson, Penelope. Heart of the West: A Novel (Simon & Schuster, 1995) (proper Bostonian elopes with Montana
cowboy in 1880s; mainly Montana) (Frontier and pioneer life — Montana; Pioneer women — Montana; Western
romances)
Wilson, Diane L. Firehorse (Scholastic, 2010) (Juvenile) (1872) (Veterinary medicine; Sex role; Horses; Arson;
Families — Massachusetts; Boston (Mass.) — History — 1865)
Wilson, Donald Robert. The Bucket Flower (Pineapple P, 2006) (Boston Brahmin Wellesley College graduate goes to
Florida to study plants; 1893; starts in Boston but soon shifts) Women botanists; Florida)
Wister, Owen. Philosophy 4: A Story of Harvard University (The Macmillan Co. 1903 [Google Books 1909 ed.])
(Cambridge in the 1880s) (Harvard University; College stories) (Google Books; Bail 279-83)
—. Romney (1912) (unfinished, Boston vs. Philadelphia aristocracies; 1880s) (Romney: And Other New Works
about Philadelphia, ed. James Butler. Pennsylvania State U P, 2001)
Worthington, Frank. Philip Moreton, the Poor Gunsmith, or, Circumstantial Evidence: A Tale of Boston in Olden
Times (Boston: R.B. Fitts & Company, “American Union” Office …, 1850) (“Based upon incidents of actual
occurrence in the city of Boston … less than half a century ago”–Introduction)
Wright, Henry Clarke, Hammatt Billings, and Alonzo Hartwell. A Kiss for a Blow, or, A Collection of Stories for
Children: Showing Them How to Prevent Quarreling (Boston: Dow and Jackson, 1842; augmented in later
editions) (Juvenile) (Love; Friendship; Quarreling; Children — Conduct of life; Conduct of life — Early works to
1900; Children’s stories; Anger; Brothers and sisters; Orphanages; School children; War; Soldiers; Boston
(Mass.); New England) (Google Books and Brief Analysis, Dan McKanan, Identifying the Image of God (Oxford
U P, 2002: 87-88) [Google books])
Wright, N[athaniel]. H. Boston, or, A Touch at the Times a Poem, Descriptive, Serious, and Satirical (Boston: Printed by
Hews & Goss, 1819) (24 pages)
Yankee Boot Maker. The Hub in Flames (Boston: Shepard & Co., printers [187-?]) (Disasters — Poetry. Fires — Poetry;
Boston (Mass.) — Fire, 1872 — Poetry; Boston (Mass.) — Churches — Poetry; Old South Church (Boston, Mass.))
Young, Ida Linehan. Being Mary Ro: A Novel (Flanker P Limited, 2018) (“late nineteenth century”; “the sophisticated
realm of upper-class Boston” WorldCat)
Zancanella, Don. Concord (Serving House, 2021) (“Henry David Thoreau, Margaret Fuller, Sophia Peabody, Nathaniel
Hawthorne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson . . in Concord, Salem, Cambridge, and Boston” Nina MacLaughlin, New
England Literary News, Boston Globe 11 Apr. 2021, p. N10)
Zaroulis, Nancy. The Last Waltz (Doubleday, 1984) (Boston Brahmin scandals and troubles in the last quarter of the
19th century)
Zubof, Roman Ivanovitch [under pseud. Robert Appleton]. Mrs. Harry St. John: A Realistic Novel of Boston Fashionable
Life (Chicago: Morrill, Higgins, 1892 [Google Books]) (Wife and lovers) (Dime novels; Romantic suspense)
(brief summary, Public Library Bulletin, 3.2 Denver, February 1893: 24 [Google Books])
Addison, Julia De Wolf. Mrs. John Vernon: A Study of a Social Situation (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1909) (“A wonderfully
true story of social life in Boston, . . . shows the narrow conventions of old Beacon Hill, the livelier spirit of the
younger set, and the always underlying scandal” publisher’s ad 1908 The Dial; widow; musical/ artistic circles) (Brief
Summary, The Bookman (Feb. 1909: 623) [Google Books])
Adler, Elizabeth. The Legacy of Secrets (Delacorte, 1993) (19th-20th centuries; Ireland; Irish slums/Back Bay/Beacon Hill;
Wall Street) (Connemara (Ireland)) (Amazon and Google Books)
Allen, Willis Boyd. Play Away!: A Story of the Boston Fire Department (Boston: D. Estes,1902 [Google Books]) (Juvenile)
Anonymous. The Beuatiful Flagellants of Chicago, Boston, and New York (Erotica; Sadomasochism) (“Translation of Les
Belles Flagellantes [1907]. Lord Drialys travels to the New World and sees how things are done in the great cities
of Chicago, Boston and finally New York”)
Bancroft, Mary. Upside Down in the Magnolia Tree (Little, Brown, 1952) (growing up around Cambridge c. 1900)
Bartlett, Frederick Orin. The Web of the Golden Spider (Boston: Small, Mayard, 1909 [Google Books]) (Adventure story
beginning and ending in a closed house on Beacon Street; theological student hero) (brief review in The
Bookman (29 [1909] p. 199))
Bishop, Donald. Regiment in Bronze (1996) (Internet Wayback Machine) (Poem; Boston Common; Robert Gould Shaw/
Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment Monument; Saint Gaudens; 1863-1996)
Brace, Gerald Warner. The Garretson Chronicle: A Novel (Norton, 1947) mainly fictional “Compton . . . near Boston, not
far from Concord” 322 and other burbs, but pp. 69-89 and 96-99 Boston and pp. 241-47 Harvard; 1880s-1920s;
wealthy) (Family; Problem families)
Braithwaite, William Stanley. The House of Falling Leaves (Boston: John W. Luce, 1908 [Google Books]) (poems include
“In the Public Garden” (54), “Thomas Wentworth Higginson” (82), “William Dean Howells” (83), “In the
Athenaeum” (92))
Cather, Willa. “A Wagner Matinée.” Everybody’s Magazine 10 (March 1904): 325-328. Rpt. in The Troll Garden (McClure,
Phillips, 1905: 193-210 [The Willa Cather Archive, accessed 27 Dec. 2011] (concert in Boston)
Cheever, John. The Wapshot Chronicle (Harper, 1957) (Some Boston) (Fishing villages)
Crane, Stephen. “Diamonds and Diamonds.” 1896. The Popular Magazine, Autumn fiction number, Sept., Oct., Nov. 1902:
23- (City council members — Massachusetts — Boston; Swindlers and swindling) (summary, Stanley Wertheim. A
Stephen Crane Encyclopedia, Greenwood, 1997: 90 [Google Books])
Dineen, Joseph F. Ward Eight [British title The Unmeasured Tree] (Harper, 1936) (Irish ward bosses; copy in Sawyer
Library, Suffolk U, inscribed by John F. “Honey Fitz” Fitzgerald, JFK’s grandfather; 1890-late 1920s; North End)
(Lomasney, Martin; Irish Americans) (Google Books and Summary/Analysis, Charles Fanning, The Irish Voice in
America: 250 Years of Irish-American Fiction (U of Kentucky P, 1999: 293-95) [Google Books]) 27 Dec. 2011]
Dwyer-Joyce, Alice. The Chieftain (Juvenile?) (Hale, 1980) (19th-20th c.; supernatural) (Ireland — History; Boston
(Mass.))
Fitzgerald, John Tornrope. Bixby of Boston: Being the Little Story of a Young Railway-Office Clerk (Broadway
Publishing, 1906) (romantic fantasy; 83 pges.)
Franklin, Emily. The Lioness of Boston: A Novel (Godine, 2023) (Gardner, Isabella Stewart, 1840-1924)
Green, Helen. “The Boston Kid’s Last Trip” (1905) (Bostonian in Alaska)
Grumbach, Doris. Chamber Music (Dutton, 1979) (in part, turn of the 19th-20th century genteel Boston) (Musicians’
spouses; Domestic fiction; Lesbians)
Holland, Rupert Sargent. The Count at Harvard: Being an Account of the Adventures of a Young Gentleman of Fashion
at Harvard (Boston: L. C. Page, 1906 [Google Books]) (Harvard University; College students) (Brief Summary/
Review, The Bookman (Jun. 1906: 467) [Google Books]; Bail 283-86)
Keratsis, Dina. Charlesgate (Wings ePress, Inc., 2005) (romance; ghosts; 1891-1990s; corner of Beacon St.) (Google
Kingsley, Florence Morse. And So They Were Married (Dodd, Mead, 1908 [Google Books]) (young marrieds in Boston)
(Brief Summary, The Bookman (Nov. 1908: 286) [Google Books])
Lincoln, James. “Rosa: The Story of a Queen of Hearts.” Short Stories: A Magazine 52 (October-December 1903: 129
-45 [Google Books]) (Cubans; Harvard University; Radcliffe College; Cambridge)
Macomber, Clarence R. Welcome Home (Boston: The Author, 1907) (Boston (Mass.) — Poetry; Poetry of places)
Makepeace, Carrie J. The Whitest Man (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1905 [Google Books]) (“exaltation of
motherhood” Preface; opens in house on Huntington Avenue)
Mamet, David. Boston Marriage (Random House, 2002) (play; first performed 1999) (Geoffrey Sauer, Boston Marriage,
The David Mamet Review 6 (Fall 1999) The David Mamet Society 2004, accessed 21 Dec. 2010)
Marquand, John P. The Late George Apley: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir (Litle, Brown, 1937) (1866-1933; “from the
Gilded Age to the Great Depression” [Back Cover 2004 reprint]; Beacon Hill; Irish Americans) (Inheritance and
succession; Upperclass families; Rich people; Socialites)
Marquand, John P., and George S. Kaufman. The Late George Apley (Dramatists Play Service, 1946) (Play/screen play
based on Marquand’s novel; 1947 film)
Mason, Eveleen Laura. Mad? Which? Neither? (Boston: G.H. Ellis, 1904 [Google Books]) (Christian message; women’s
rights; equality; much set in Boston) (Author’s Account, The Discovery of Discoveries: Climaxingly Collated in the
Month of Una-and-her-lion (1908) Inclusive of August: and Fulfilling “The Message of Ishtar” (Brookline, Mass. ?,
1909?: 85-88+ [Google Books])
McCombs, Theodore. “Six Hangings in the Land of Unkillable Women” (Nightmare Feb. 2018; Uranians [Astra House,
2023]) (short story; 1899: “at the turn of an alternate 20th century” WorldCat; opens on a “muggy, yellowed May
morning on Willow Street, Boston”)
Pidgin, Charles Felton. The Hidden Man: A Novel (Boston: Mayhew Pub., 1906 [Google Books]) (in and around Boston)
(Brief Summary, The Annual American Catalog 1906 (Office of the Publishers’ Weekly, 1907: 242-43) [Google
Books])
Rosenberg, Vivian Alpern. Lonely Love (Xlibris, 2000) (1885 to prohibition) (Brookline (Mass.))
Santayana, George. The Last Puritan: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel (Constable & Co., 1935) (George Francis Parkman; 33
Beacon St. [see A. McVoy McIntyre, Beacon Hill:A Walking Tour, Little, Brown, 1975, pp. 21-22]) (Unitarianism;
Beacon Hill; Harvard; Oxford; Homosexuality) (Young men) (Bail 328-30)
Shapiro, Barbara A. The Art Forger (Algonquin Books, 2015) (Degas, Edgar, — 1834-1917; Gardner, Isabella Stewart, —
1840-1924; Art — Forgeries; Art forgers)
Simons, Paulina. Children of Liberty (Morrow, 2013) (turn of the century Italian/Brahmin [Irish?] romance against
Boston political background; prequel to The Bronze Horseman) (Immigrants; Man-woman relationships; Boston
(Mass.))
Smith, Sarah. The Vanished Child (Ballantine, 1992) (Boston in 1887 and fifteen years later; Switzerland) (Missing children;
Absence and presumption of death)
Spellman, Cathy Cash. So Many Partings (Delacorte, 1983) (1875-1950; one major character emigrates to Boston)
(Irish Americans; New York (N.Y.); Ireland)
Standish, Burt L.[pseud.?]. Dick Merriwell’s Day, or, Triumphant in the Trolley League (Street & Smith, 1904) (Series: Tip
top weekly, no. 440) (Baseball, Arizona, Boston)
—. Dick Merriwell’s Hope, or, The Reliance of the Blue (Street & Smith, 1909) (Series: Tip top weekly, no. 712) (Yale
University; Football; Indians of North America; Military cadets; New Haven; Boston; Cambridge)
—. Frank Merriwell’s High Jump, or, Winning the Championship from Harvard (Street & Smith, 1900) (Series: Tip top
weekly, no. 242) (Yale University; Harvard University; Sick; Gambling; Football; Cambridge; Boston)
—. Frank Merriwell at Cambridge, or, Handing ’em up against Harvard (Street & Smith, 1904) (Series: Tip top weekly, no.
426) (Harvard University; Yale University; Baseball; Military cadets; Sports rivalries)
Train, Arthur [Cheney]. The World and Thomas Kelly (Scribner’s, 1917 [Google Books]) (Bail 299: “Boston’s Back Bay in
the 1880’s and ’90’s,” Harvard in the 90’s, and beyond) (Legal stories) (Review/Summary, H. W. Boynton, “Ideals
and Allegiances,” The Bookman (Jan. 1918: 602) [Google Books])
Wilson, John P. “Grace After Meat” (James C. O’Connell, Dining Out in Boston: A Culinary History [U P of New Eng;land,
2016]) (1904 poem about Café Marliave, “a portrait of . . . the Boston dining scene of the era” [O’Connell] Google
Books))
Young, Rida Johnson, and Gilbert Payson Coleman. Brown of Harvard (Putnam, 1907 [GoogleBooks]) (Bail 286-90:
based on 1906 play of same title by Young; highly fictional, inaccurate,and negative; led to Harvard student riot
at Boston performance) (silent film) (HarvardUniversity) (Google Books)
Zheutlin, Peter. Spin: A Novel Based on a (Mostly) True Story (Pegasus, 2021) (in part, West End; 1880s+; Annie Cohen
Kopchovsky) (Londonderry, Annie; Bicycles; Jewish women; Voyages and travels; Voyages around the world; Wagers;
Women cyclists; Women — Social conditions)
Ziporyn, Terra. Time’s Fool (Xlibris, 2001) (middle aged Boston physician in 1907, the product of eugenic breeding at
Onedia c. 1867) (Physicians; Utopias; Onedia County (N.Y.)