Ocean Steamships; a Popular Account of Their Construction, Development, Management and Appliances
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The Captured Cunarder: An Episode of the Atlantic - Primary Source Edition
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Thackeray's London. a Description of His Haunts and the Scenes of His Novels
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Boys in the Mountains and on the Plains: Or, The Western Adventures of Tom Smart, Bob Edge and Peter
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Dramatic Notes: An Illustrated Yearbook Of The London Stage, 1880-1882 (1881)
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William Henry Rideing was an American author with strong connections to England.
Background
William Henry Rideing was born on Feburary 17, 1853 at Liverpool, England, and died at Brookline, Massachussets. The sea was in his blood. His father, William Watkins Rideing, was an early official of the Cunard Line; an uncle of his mother, Emily Richards Rideing, was Rear-Admiral Edward Walpole Browne, of the Royal Navy. In boyhood he developed, besides a life-long interest in ships and sailors, a strong desire to express himself in writing, which was nourished by the printing in a Liverpool newspaper of fiction which he wrote as a boy.
Career
When he reached sixteen, in 1869, both of his parents were dead, and he came to the United States. Here he found his first employment in Springfield, Massachussets, as private secretary to Samuel Bowles, of the Springfield Republican. His engagement by this admirable mentor for a young journalist resulted from a letter which Rideing wrote applying for a place; so did his next engagement, by Whitelaw Reid, of the New York Tribune.
Typewriting had not yet superseded manuscript, and Rideing's distinctive "English-man-of-letters" handwriting must have pleaded, as it always did, in his favor. On the Tribune he received the valuable journalistic training of a space writer on all manner of subjects, and cultivated the acquaintance of the New York Bohemians of the seventies, literary, artistic, theatrical.
Newspaper work led naturally to that of the "handy man of literature, " to use his own term for his function as a prolific contributor to the magazines of the day. In this work he shared assignments with such illustrators as Edwin A. Abbey, on a canal-boat trip, and Howard Pyle, on the "national pike. " He also served as special correspondent of the New York Times with a government exploring expedition in the Southwest. The fruits of this experience are preserved in A-Saddle in the Wild West (1879). This was the second of fifteen books of his writing. They included travel, biography, reminiscence, and fiction.
It was, however, as an editor that Rideing made his most notable record. In 1881 he joined the staff of the Youth's Companion in Boston, under the direction of its shrewd editor, Daniel S. Ford, and a few years later associated himself also with the North American Review, maintaining the first of these connections until his death.
Achievements
The period of magazine history to which he belonged was that in which glittering names were used successfully as bait for subscribers, and the annual "announcement numbers" of the Youth's Companion fairly sparkled with such names as those of Tennyson and Gladstone in England of the surviving "Augustans" in America, brought together by Rideing's skillful enticements. Typical of his work for the North American Review was the discussion he "arranged between Mr. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, and Robert Ingersoll on the subject of Faith".
His entertaining volumes of reminiscence provide many side-lights upon the memorable figures of his time. Among these volumes are Many Celebrities and a Few Others (1912), In the Land of Lorna Doone and Other Pleasurable Excursions in England (1895), and At Hawarden with Mr. Gladstone and Other Transatlantic Experiences (1896).
His well-formed head and features, his carefully "turned out" figure, gave to his appearance a dignity and distinction unimpaired by his smallness of stature.
Connections
He married, June 14, 1887, Margaret Elinor Bockus, of Boston, who for the more than thirty remaining years of his life steadied his changeful temperament and played an important part in the social relationships essential to his work.
