Flip to Front page and illustration, T. S. Arthur's Ten Nights in a Bar-Room, G.G. Evans, Philadelphia, PA, 1858.Close Window
Credit: From Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. The Literary History of Philadelphia Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906. ISBN 1932109455. p. 270
A prodigious writer of novels, stories, and essays on temperance and household topics. T. S. Arthur (1809 –1885) was not a great writer—Edgar Allen Poe called him "uneducated and too fond of mere vulgarities to please a refined taste”—but his stories had great appeal to middle-class American readers. In 1852 Arthur started Arthur's Home Magazine, modeled on Godey's Lady’s Magazine, which lasted until 1898.
