Background
Welsh, Charles was born on December 22, 1850 in Ramsgate, Kent, England. Son of Charles and Susannah Welsh.
Welsh, Charles was born on December 22, 1850 in Ramsgate, Kent, England. Son of Charles and Susannah Welsh.
Educated national schools, Ashford, Kent, England. Took first-class certificates at Society of Arts. Examinations in connection with the Mechanics’ Institute.
Went to London, 1868, became reporter The British Trade Journal. Became employe, 1870, Henry South. King & Company, and, 1877, Griffith, Farran Company, publications, and in 1884 partner in latter house. Came to the United States in 1895 and was business manager and assistant editor of The Art Amateur.
Authority on domestic science and juvenile literature.
Lecturer and reader on that and other literature subjects. Principal School of Domestic Science, International Corresponding Schools, March 1909-1912.
Editor World Book Company, Yonkers, New York, since 1912. Author: Publishing a Book, 1900.
A Bookseller of the Last Century, 1885.
Automobilia, 1905. Love’s Garland, 1905. Compiler and Editor: The Uncle Charlie Series of Pleasure Books for the Young.
The Young Folks Library (with T. B. Aldrich), 20 volumes, 1901.
The Right Reading for Children, 1902. Heath’s Home and School Classics (50 volumes), 1900-1903. Many Facsimile Reprints of Popular Children’s Books of the Olden Time.
Talks About Science (by Thomas Dunman).
Irish Literature (with Justin McCarthy), 10 volumes, 1904. Famous Battles of the XIXth Century, 4 volumes, 1903-1905.
The Letters of Lord Chesterfield to His Son and Godson, 1904. The Life and Nature Series, 1905.
A Tale of Two Terriers, 1905.
Neddy, The Autobiography of a Donkey, 1905. Catalogue of English and American Chap Books in Harvard College Library, et cetera (with West. C. Lane and C. B. Tillinghast), 1905.
Self Culture for Young People (with Doctor A. Sloan Draper), 10 volumes, 1906-1907.
The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics, 2 volumes, 1907. Character Sketches from Dickens, 1907.
The Works of Henry West. Longfellow (10 volumes), 1909. Stories Children Love, 1909.
Fairy Tales Children Love, 1910.
The Oriental Series, Volumes 13-24, 1910. Stories of the World’s Great Books, Great Plays, and Great Men and Women, 1911. Stories of Adventure Children Love, 1912.
Stories of Americans Children Love, 1913.
Contributor to leading magazines on history of literature for children, and other literature and educational topics.
Married Marie Josephine Logè, 1884 (died 1908). Married second, Besse Denham, 1910.