Robert Barr (writer)

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as his collaborator (wanting, as Jerome said, "a popular name"). He retired from the coeditorship in 1895.

Works

* "The Face and the Mask" (1894)
* "From Whose Bourne" (1896)
* "In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories" (1892)
* "In the Midst of Alarms" (1894, 1900, 1912)
* "Jennie Baxter, Journalist" (1899)
* "One Day's Courtship"
* "Revenge!"
* "A Rock in the Baltic" (1906)
* "The Strong Arm"
* "A Woman Intervenes" (1896)
* "Tekla: A Romance of Love and War" (1898)
* "The Unchanging East" (1900)
* "The Victors" (1901)
* "A Prince of Good Fellows" (1902)
* "The Tempestuous Petticoat" (1905-12)
* "The Triumph of Eugene Valmont" (1906)
* "Stranleigh's Millions" (1909)
* "The Sword Maker" (1910)
* "The Palace of Logs" (1912)
* "The O"Ruddy", with Stephen Crane, (posthumous, 1913)

"In the Midst of Alarms" is a story of the attempted Fenian invasion of Canada in 1866. "A Woman Intervenes" is a story of love, finance, and American journalism. "Countess Tekla" essayed the historical novel.

Notes

References

* [http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=7189 Biography at the "Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online"]
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* [http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14354 FREE Sony Reader e-book version of "The Triumph of Eugene Valmon by Robert Barr"]
*cite book | last=Bleiler | first=Everett | authorlink=Everett F. Bleiler | title=The Checklist of Fantastic Literature | location=Chicago | publisher=Shasta Publishers | pages=41 | date=1948
* Jerome K. Jerome, "My Life and Times" (1926)

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