Francis Colburn Adams

{{short description|American novelist}}

Francis Colburn Adams (1850–1891) was an American miscellaneous writer, formerly living in Charleston, South Carolina, who wrote under various pseudonyms.{{cite book |last1=Herringshaw |first1=Thomas William |title=Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century |date=1904 |publisher=American Publishers' Association |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xxg7AQAAMAAJ&q=Francis+Colburn+Adams+(1850%E2%80%931891)&pg=PA22 |access-date=July 28, 2018 |language=en}}[https://archive.org/details/acriticaldictio01alligoog A Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, Living]. Samuel Austin Allibone, Published 1891, J. B. Lippincott & co.[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbaapc:@field(DOCID+@lit(rbaapc00100)) From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1824-1909]

Bibliography

  • Manuel Pereiera; or, The Sovereign Rule of South Carolina: with Views of Southern Laws, Life, and Hospitality, Washington, 1853, 12mo.
  • Uncle Tom at Home, &c, Phila., 1853.
  • Our World; or, The Democrat's Rule. By Justia, a Know-Nothing. Lon., 1855, 2 vols, p. 8vo.
  • Justice in the By-Ways: a Tale of Life, 1856, 12mo.
  • Life and Adventures of Major Roger Sherman Potter. By Pheleg Van Truesdale. N. York, 1858.
  • An Outcast: a Novel, N. York, 1861, 12mo.
  • The Story of a Trooper; with much concerning the Campaign on the Peninsula, (1861–1862,) N. York, 1865, 12mo.
  • Siege of Washington for Little People. Illust. Plila., 1867, sq. 12mo
  • The Von Toodleburgs; or, The Memoirs of a Very Distinguished Family. Illust. Phila., 1868, sq. 12mo.
  • The Washers and Scrubbers. The Men Who Robbed Them. Washington, D. C.; Judd & Detweiler, 1878.

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