Francis Marion Crawford

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Francis Marion Crawford

Francis Marion Crawford (born August 2, 1854 in Bagni di Lucca , Tuscany , † April 9, 1909 in Sorrento , Campania ) was an American writer .

biography

The son of the sculptor Thomas Crawford and nephew of the poet Julia Ward Howe first received his education in Rome and then moved to St. Paul's School in Concord . He later studied at Cambridge University as well as at the Technical University in Karlsruhe , at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg and at the University of Halle . In Karlsruhe he became a member of the Corps Bavaria in 1875 . In 1879 he traveled to India , where he studied Sanskrit and was editor of the Allahabad Indian Herald .

After returning to the United States , he continued his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University for a year and was also a contributor to various magazines .

He made his literary debut in 1882 with the novel Mr. Isaacs , in which he brilliantly combined Anglo-Indian life with a touch of oriental secrets. This book met with immediate success and was expanded in 1883 with the publication of the novel Dr. Claudius continued. After a brief stay in New York City , he returned to Italy in 1883 and took up permanent residence there. This led him to stand apart from the contemporary American literature of the time.

He published a number of successful novels every year such as A Roman Singer (1884 by Christian Bernhard Tauchnitz , No. 2254 of the "Collection of British Authors", Leipzig), An American Politician (1884), To Leeward (1884), Zoroaster (1885), A Tale of a Lonely Parish (1886), Marzio's Crucifix (1887), Saracinesca (1887), Paul Patoff (1887), With the Immortals (1888), Greifenstein (1889), Sant Ilario (1889), A Cigarette-makers Romance (1890), Khaled (1891), The Witch of Prague (1891), The Three Fates (1892), The Children of the King (1892), Don Orsino (1892), Marion Darche (1893), Pietro Ghisleri (1893) , Katharine Lauderdale (1894), Love in Idleness (1894), The Ralstons (1894), Casa Braccio (1895), Adam Johnstons Son (1895), Taquisara (1896), A Rose of Yesterday (1897), Corleone (1897) , Via Crucis (1899), In the Palace of the King (1900), Marietta (1901), Cecilia (1902), Whosoever Shall Offend (1904), Soprano (1905), A Lady of Rome (1906) and The White Sister (1909).

He also wrote some historical works such as Ave Roma Immortalis (1898), Rulers of the South (1900) and Gleanings from Venetian History (1905). In these he combined his deep knowledge of local Italian history with the talent of a novelist to depict the effects.

However, his importance in literature is based on his novels. He was a gifted narrator who, through his novels, which were full of historical vibrancy and dramatic characterization, gained widespread notoriety among readers who disliked the realism of problems or the eccentricity of subjective analysis. He succeeded in working up a romantic content in an attractive way, with a transfer of the plot in picturesque surroundings, while he satisfied the intelligence of the reader with a style that was both strictly forward looking and complicated. Saracinesca is probably one of his most important novels of this type .

In addition to the adaptation of A Cigarette-makers Romance into a drama , he wrote a second play with Francesca da Rimini , which had its world premiere in 1902 with Sarah Bernhardt in Paris and was later translated into French by Marcel Schwob .

Many of his works such as Mr. Isaacs , The White Sister , In the Palace of the King and Whosoever Shall Offend have also been filmed for the cinema .

In 1898 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters .

Film adaptations

literature

  • John Pilkington, Jr .: Francis Marion Crawford , 1964

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laura E. Richards : Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 . 1st edition. Vol. I. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston et al. a. 1917, OCLC 630528598 , p. 254 .
  2. ^ Members: Francis Marion Crawford. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed February 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Crawford, Francis Marion
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Bagni di Lucca , Tuscany
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 1909
Place of death Sorrento , Campania