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Rowland Robinson was an American writer, humorist and essayist born in Ferrisburg, Addison County, Vermont, United States on 14. 05. 1833.
Background
Rowland Robinson was born in Ferrisburg, Addison County, Vermont, United States on 14. 05. 1833 on the farm cleared by his paternal grandfather in 1796. He was youngest of the four children of Rowland Thomas and Rachael (Gilpin) Robinson and a descendant of Rowland Robinson, who settled at Narragansett, Rhode Island, about 1675, he was of English stock and a birthright Quaker. From his mother he inherited a propensity for drawing, and the butter-tubs that he sent to market were often adorned with home-made political cartoons. Technically he was a farmer for the greater part of his life, but although he did not neglect his farm he was interested primarily in other things.
Education
Rowland Robinson attended the country schools and the Ferrisburg Academy but was by his own account an unwilling pupil. On coming of age he went to New York, hoping to learn something of drawing while working in a draftsman's shop, but he soon returned home disappointed. He formed his literary taste by repeated readings of the poems and novels of Sir Walter Scott and became familiar with every aspect of the life of the fields and woods.
Career
In 1866 he went to New York, made illustrations on wood of rural scenes for the periodicals of Orange Judd and Frank Leslie, did fashion-plate and catalogue work, and sold a cartoon occasionally to a comic paper, but working at night on rush orders injured his eyes, and in 1873 he returned once more to his native farm, this time to stay. Meanwhile, in 1870, he had married Anna Stevens of East Montpelier, who with their two daughters and son survived him. His literary work began in 1877. At his wife's suggestion, he wrote an article on "Fox-Hunting in New England" and sent it to Scribner's Monthly, which published it in January 1878 after inquiring about the identity and qualifications of the unknown author. He was on the staff of Forest and Stream for a number of years and was later a contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and other magazines. As an illustrator, he was never distinguished, and when his sight began to fail in 1887 he turned altogether to literature. Even after he became totally blind in 1893 he was able to write by using a grooved board to guide his pencil. His wife revised his manuscripts and copied them on the typewriter. His style is simple, graceful, and apparently effortless, and he wrote only on themes that he knew intimately and loved. His work is permeated by an old man's memories of his youth and by a blind man's memories of the beauty of the visible world. He was rather a humorist and essayist than a novelist; a master in depicting manners and easily recognized types of character, he shunned, or touched only lightly, the graver aspects of personality and experience. He recorded the dialect of rural Vermonters and of English-speaking French-Canadians with minute attention to detail. His best volumes are secure of their place as Vermont classics. For the last eighteen months of his life he was bedridden with an inoperable cancer, but he bore his afflictions serenely and cheerfully. He died in the room in which he had been born.
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Religion
Quaker
Personality
He was rather a humorist and essayist than a novelist; a master in depicting manners and easily recognized types of character, he shunned, or touched only lightly, the graver aspects of personality and experience.
For the last eighteen months of his life he was bedridden with an inoperable cancer, but he bore his afflictions serenely and cheerfully.
Connections
In 1870, he married Anna Stevens of East Montpelier, who with their two daughters and son survived him.