Background
Richardson, Charles Francis was born on May 29, 1851 in Hallowell, Maine, United States. Son of Doctor Moses Charles and Mary Savary (Wingate) Richardson.
Richardson, Charles Francis was born on May 29, 1851 in Hallowell, Maine, United States. Son of Doctor Moses Charles and Mary Savary (Wingate) Richardson.
Bachelor of Arts, Dartmouth, 1871, A.M., 1874. (honorary Doctor of Philosophy, Union College, 1895. Doctor of Letters, Dartmouth, 1911).
On staff the Independent, New York, 1872-1878, Sunday School Times, Philadelphia, 1878-1880. Editor Good Literature, New York, 1880-1882. Winkley professor Anglo-Saxon and English language and literature, Dartmouth, 1882-1911.
Author: A Primer of American Literature, 1878. The College Book, 1878. The Cross (poems), 1879.
The Choice of Books, 1881. American Literature, 1607-1885, 2 vols., 1886-1888. The End of the Beginning (romance), 1896.
A Study of English Rhyme, 1909. Editor: Cooper’s The Last of the Mohicans, 1897. Poe’s Complete Works, 1902.
Daniel Webster for Young Americans, 1903. Home: Hanover, N.H.
Married Elizabeth Miner Thomas, April.