(Theodore Winthrop (September 22, 1828 – June 10, 1861) wa...)
Theodore Winthrop (September 22, 1828 – June 10, 1861) was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller. He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War.Winthrop was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He was descended through his father from Governor John Winthrop and through his mother from Jonathan Edwards. An 1848 graduate of Yale University, he travelled for a year in Great Britain and Europe and then through the United States. After contributing to periodicals, short sketches, and stories, which attracted little attention, Winthrop enlisted in the 7th Regiment, New York State Militia, an early volunteer unit of the Federal Army that answered President Abraham Lincoln's call for troops in 1861.
(Excerpt from Mr. Waddy's Return
The author did not live ...)
Excerpt from Mr. Waddy's Return
The author did not live to revise the original draft of Mr. Waddy's Return, and therefore, when his other novels were published, shortly after his death, this one was not included. On looking it over again, after the lapse of years, it seemed to his sister, Miss Elizabeth W. Winthrop, too good to let die; and it was placed in the hands of Mr. Stevenson to give it such revision and condensation as it may be presumed that the author, had he lived, would have given it himself.
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Cecil Dreeme (Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century)
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"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a ...)
"Heterosexuality, this novel forthrightly claims, is a poor substitute for passionate love between men—and heterosexuality's historical emergence in the nineteenth century is consequently, Cecil Dreeme laments, a grave misfortune."—Christopher Looby, from the Introduction
Freshly returned to New York City from his studies abroad, unmoored by news of the apparent suicide of his accomplished childhood friend Clara Denman, and drawn in spite of himself toward the sinister man-about-town Densdeth, Robert Byng is unsettlingly adrift in the city of his birth. Things take an even stranger turn once he finds lodgings in the Gothic halls of Chrysalis College in lower Manhattan. There he meets the mysteriously reclusive Cecil Dreeme, brilliant artist and creature of the night. In Dreeme, Byng finds a friend unlike any he has known before. But is Cecil the man he claims to be, and can their friendship survive the dangers they will soon face together?
Issued posthumously in 1861, Cecil Dreeme was the first published novel of Theodore Winthrop, who has the unfortunate distinction of being one of the first Union officers killed in the line of duty during the Civil War. Newly edited by Christopher Looby, it is a very queer book indeed.
(Excerpt from John Brent
Roughs and brutes, as well as ge...)
Excerpt from John Brent
Roughs and brutes, as well as gentlemen, take their places in this drama. None of the charac ters have scruples or qualms. They act accord ing to their laws, and are scourged or crowned, as their laws suit Nature's or not.
To me these adventures were episode; to my friend, the hero, the very substance of life.
But enough backing and filling. Enter Rich ard Wade myself as Chorus.
A few years ago I was working a gold-quartz mine in California.
It was a worthless mine, under the conditions of that time. I had been dragged into it by the shifts and needs Of California life. Destiny prob ably meant to teach me patience and self-posses sion in difficulty. SO Destiny thrust me into a bitter bad business Of quartz mining.
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Theodore Winthrop's Collected Works contained 5 works written by Theodore Winthrop (September 22, 1828 – June 10, 1861) was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller. He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War.
These are the 5 works of Theodore Winthrop in this book:
1. The Canoe and the Saddle (1853)
2. Isthmiana (1850)
3.. Cecil Dreeme (1862)
4.. Edwin Brothertoft (1862)
5. John Brent (1865)
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Major Theodore Woolsey Winthrop was an American author, lawyer and world traveller.
Background
Theodore Winthrop was born on September 22, 1828, in New Haven, Connecticut, the third son of Francis Bayard Winthrop, Jr. by his second wife, Elizabeth Woolsey. His father, merchant of New York and lawyer of New Haven, was descended from John Winthrop; his mother, related to six presidents of colleges, was great-granddaughter of Jonathan Edwards. Winthrop grew up in New Haven, perusing many books in his father's large personal library, roaming through the surrounding country, and listening to sea tales at thriving city wharves.
Education
Educated at an old-fashioned dame-school and specially prepared by Silas French, he entered Yale in 1843. Dismissed in November 1844, "for breaking Freshmen's windows, " he loitered through a winter in Marietta, Ohio, reentered Yale, and graduated with the class of 1848, having divided his time between spasmodically serious study, debating, occasional writing for the Yale Literary Magazine, and pulling an oar in the college boat. Next year he studied "Logic and Language" and then planned to study law at Harvard, but in 1849 ill health frustrated the project. For relaxation and physical recuperation, he traveled in Europe for a year and a half.
Career
Thereafter for a dozen years his occupations were intermittent and his journeyings many, while, in prose and verse, in extended letters home, and in extensive entries in his "journal, " both indited in a manner far from informal, he acquired the facility at writing that led him to literature.
In 1851 he began "a new life" in the New York office of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, visited Europe again, served as ticket seller on the Panama Railroad (1853), traveled to San Francisco and Oregon, mounted a fresh horse and started home across the plains. He went to Darien with Lieut. Isaac G. Strain late in 1853, studied law in a New York office, vacationed at Mount Desert, was admitted to the bar (1855), traveled the Adirondack and Maine woods with Frederick E. Church, the painter, "stumped" part of the state of Maine for Frémont in 1856, started a law partnership in St. Louis, fell ill, and returned to New York (1857) to let law give way permanently to literature. His initial effort, a novel called Mr. Waddy's Return, written in 1855, lay unpublished until 1904. The first of his work to be printed was a detailed and ornate description of a picture by his friend Church, A Companion to the Heart of the Andes (1859). On Staten Island, he spent part of his time in writing and part "in walking and riding, in skating and running, " leaping fences, even turning somersaults on the grass. In 1861, full of high ideas, he enlisted in the 7th New York Regiment which, after guarding Washington, came home when its month was up, but not Winthrop. He accompanied "Ben" Butler to Fortress Monroe as "military secretary, " participated in the confused engagement at Great Bethel on June 10, 1861, and there, leading the advance, was struck by a bullet and fell dead.
To James Russell Lowell he had sent wartime anecdotes and descriptions which appeared that summer in the Atlantic Monthly (June, July 1861). Winthrop's family also offered his unpublished manuscripts to Ticknor & Fields, who promptly issued three novels: Cecil Dreeme (1861), John Brent (1862), Edwin Brothertoft (1862). Their early success was phenomenal. Two volumes of personal narratives followed: The Canoe and the Saddle (1863) and Life in the Open Air (1863).
Achievements
Theodore Woolsey Winthrop was a remarkable author, who wrote travel books and books about art and poetry.
