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John Foster Kirk was born on March 22, 1824 at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He was the son of Abdiel and Mary Kirk. His family moved to Halifax.
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A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Vol. 2: Containing Over Thirty-Seven Thousand ... Thousand Titles (Classic Reprint)
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John Foster Kirk
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John was educated under a clergyman, an Oxford graduate, at Truro, Nova Scotia. He left Halifax in 1842 and, after a short period in Quebec, came to New England and settled in Boston. Here for several years he continued his studies.
Career
For some time Kirk couldn't decide what career to enter. An actor friend, Macready, advised him to go on the stage. When, however, another friend, Robert Carter, who had served the historian, William H. Prescott, as secretary, recommended him for that position, Kirk accepted and remained with Prescott from 1848 until the death of the latter in January 1859. His broad background of European history, facility with its languages, and capacity for unwearied research made him invaluable to Prescott, who, in the preface to his History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain and elsewhere, generously acknowledged the value of Kirk's criticism and assistance.
He accompanied Prescott to England in May 1850 and, after visiting France, Holland, and Belgium, returned to America in September. Prescott's splendid library gave him opportunities for his own researches and he supplemented his secretarial work by contributing critical and historical papers to the North American Review. From Barante's Histoire des Ducs de Bourgogne de la Maison de Valois he had become deeply interested in the career of Charles the Bold of Burgundy; this interest was encouraged and materially assisted by both Prescott and Francis Parkman, who was himself indebted to Kirk's scholarship. The death of Prescott in 1859 gave him the time necessary to complete the first two volumes of his History of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, published in 1864. Before the appearance of the third and final volume in 1868 he spent many months in a detailed study of the French and Swiss manuscript sources and in a careful examination of the scene of Charles's defeat.
Edward A. Freeman in reviewing the volumes gladly hailed him as "a welcome recruit to the small band of real historians" and "a worthy accession to the same company as . Prescott and Motley". His viewpoint was essentially that which De Gingins, the Swiss historian, had already developed and set forth. Founded as it was upon years of careful research, Charles the Bold was marked by a sane scholarship and was written with narrative power. The work, however, was marred by certain infelicities of style and by an extravagance that sometimes bordered on the sensational; nor was Kirk able to relate his story to the historical events that came before and after.
In 1870 he moved to Philadelphia to edit Lippincott's Magazine and to prepare a new edition of Prescott's historical works. He remained as editor of the Magazine for sixteen years; his editions of Prescott's Works were published at various times from 1873 to 1902. From 1885 to 1888 he was lecturer on European history at the University of Pennsylvania. He was engaged from 1886 to 1891 in editing the two-volume Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1891). The remaining years of his life, though varied by an occasional contribution to Lippincott's Magazine and the Atlantic Monthly, were devoted to the preparation of Lippincott's New Dictionary.
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic; Volume I
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A Supplement to Allibone's Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors, Vol. 2: Containing Over Thirty-Seven Thousand ... Thousand Titles (Classic Reprint)
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History of the conquest of Mexico
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History of the Conquest of Peru; With a Preliminary View of the Civilization of the Incas
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History of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy: I
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History of the Conquest of Peru: With a Preliminary Review of the Civilization of the Incas Volume 1
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History of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy Volume 2
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History of the conquest of Peru Volume 3
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History of Charles the Bold, Vol. 2: Duke of Burgundy (Classic Reprint)
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic; Volume I
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In 1879 Kirk married Ellen Warner Olney, a prolific popular novelist under the pseudonym of "Henry Hayes. "
