Thomas Allibone Janvier

Janvier received a public school education, then worked in Philadelphia for newspapers from 1870-81.Who's Who in America (1899) edited by John W. Leonard, Albert Nelson Marquis

In 1878, he married Catherine Ann Drinker (May 1, 1841- July 19, 1922), an artist who was the first woman teacher at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and first teacher to Cecilia Beaux. Later in life, she accompanied her husband on his travels while writing books and translating books from the Provencale language. Many of Janvier's published works would be dedicated "To C. A. J."{{cn|date=February 2024}}

Janvier went to New York in 1881. From 1884-94, he lived in the Washington Square district of New York. A few years after arriving, he published the Ivory Black Stories, tales of artist life, which were reprinted in book form in 1885 as Color Studies. In them he pictured the life and color of what was then considered the Latin quarter of the city, with the old-fashioned French restaurants, the artist colony to the north, and the studios oĘn Tenth Street where Abbey, Millet, F. Hopkinson Smith, Laffan and others made the Tile Club famous. He published many stories and articles in Harper's Magazine.[https://search.library.stonybrook.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=01SUNY_STB:01SUNY_STB&tab=Everything&docid=alma9917662000204856&lang=en&context=L&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&query=creator,exact,%20Cooper,%20Wendy%20A%20,AND&mode=advanced&facet=creator,exact,%20Cooper,%20Wendy%20A%20 Reference to the Tile Club], stonybrook.edu. Accessed February 8, 2024.

Janvier spent several years in Colorado, New Mexico and Mexico, thereby gaining inspiration and material for much of his literary work. His travels in Mexico produced the Aztec Treasure House and his stories of Old New Spain."Thomas A. Janvier, the Author, Dead" (June 19, 1913) New York Times.

He and his wife also lived for three years in Avignon, Provence, France, where they became friends with Mistral and Felix Gras. Catherine A. Janvier's translations of the latter's work introduced him to English-speaking readers. His books from this period include An Embassy to Provence, Christmas Kalends of Provence and The South of France. He was made an honorary member of the Félibrige society in France, and of the Fol Lore Society of London, where he and his wife lived from 1897 to 1900, and the Century Club in New York.

Janvier died in New York on June 18, 1913, aged 63. He is interred in Moorestown, New Jersey.Staff (June 20, 1913) The New York Times

Janvier's sister, Margaret Thomson Janvier (1844-1913) became a writer of children's literature and verse, using the pen name Margaret Vandergrift.

Janvier's niece, Emma P. Spicer, going by the stage name of Emma Janvier, was a well-known comedian on Broadway and elsewhere from the turn of the century until her death in the early 1920s.

Janvier's father was the Philadelphia businessman and poet Francis De Haes Janvier.

Books

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• Color Studies (1885){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/colorstudiesand00janvgoog|title=Color Studies and A Mexican Campaign|work=Internet Archive}}
• The Mexican Guide (1886){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JRNJAAAAIAAJ|title=The Mexican Guide|work=google.com|last1=Janvier|first1=Thomas Allibone|year=1890}}
• The Aztec Treasure House (1890){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/aztectreasureho00remigoog|title=The Aztec treasure house, a romance of contemporaneous antiquity|work=Internet Archive}}
• Stories of Old New Spain (1891)
• The Uncle of an Angel, and Other Stories (1891){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/uncleanangeland01janvgoog|title=The uncle of an angel, and other stories|work=Internet Archive}}
• An Embassy to Provence (1893){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/anembassytoprov01janvgoog|title=An Embassy to Provence|work=Internet Archive}}
• In Old New York (1894){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/inoldnewyorkbyt00janvgoog|title=In Old New York: By Thomas A. Janvier|work=Internet Archive}}
• The Women's Conquest of New York (1894), in which the suffrage movement is fictitiously presented
• In the Sargasso Sea (1898){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iD9I-zmEd20C|title=IN THE SARGASSO SEA|work=google.com|year=1898}}
• The Passing of Thomas, and Other Stories (1900){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6FatFqkMuLMC|title=The Passing of Thomas|work=google.com|last1=Janvier|first1=Thomas Allibone|year=1900}}
• In Great Waters (1901){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RgAUAAAAYAAJ|title=In Great Waters|work=google.com|last1=Janvier|first1=Thomas Allibone|year=1901}}
• The Christmas Kalends of Provence (1902){{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qWV98T_6AmoC|title=The Christmas Kalends of Provence and Some Other Provençal Festivals|work=google.com|last1=Janvier|first1=Thomas Allibone|year=1902}}
• The Dutch Founding of New York (1903){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/dutchfoundingne00janvgoog|title=The Dutch founding of New York|work=Internet Archive}}
• Santa Fe's Trail (1907){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/santafspartnerb01janvgoog|title=Santa Fé's partner; being some memorials of events in a New-Mexican track-end town|work=Internet Archive}}
• Henry Hudson: a brief statement of his aims and his achievements (1909){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/henryhudsonabri00janvgoog|title=Henry Hudson, a brief statement of his aims and his achievements|work=Internet Archive}}
• Legends of the City of Mexico (1910){{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/legendscitymexi04janvgoog|title=Legends of the City of Mexico|work=Internet Archive}}
• From the South of France (1912), short stories{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/fromsouthfrance01janvgoog|title=From the South of France: The Roses of Monsieur Alphonse, The Poodle of ...|work=Internet Archive}}
• At the Casa Napoleon (1914), which contains a memoir by Ripley Hitchcock

Articles and short stories

• "Pancha, a Story of Monterey" (1884) in The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, Vol. 28 p. 656{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6lkiAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Pancha:+a+story+of+monterey%22+%22The+century+illustrated+monthly+magazine%22&pg=PA656|title=Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine|work=google.com|year=1884}}
• "The Sea-Robbers of New York" (1894) in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol 89, Issue 2{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y4UAAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Thomas+A.+Janvier%22&pg=PA813|title=Harper's New Monthly Magazine|work=google.com|last1=Alden|first1=Henry Mills|year=1894}}
• "New York Colonial Privateers" (1895) in Harper's New Monthly Magazine Feb. Vol 90, #537, Frontispiece & p. 333-343{{cite magazine|url=http://harpers.org/archive/1895/02/new-york-colonial-privateers/|title=New York colonial privateers|magazine=Harper's magazine}}
• "A White Penitent" (1901) Harper's vol 103 p. 131{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klBIAAAAYAAJ|title=Harper's Monthly Magazine|work=google.com|year=1901|last1=Alden|first1=Henry Mills|last2=Wells|first2=Thomas Bucklin|last3=Hartman|first3=Lee Foster}}
• "Honfleur the Sedate" (April 1904) in Harper's Magazine Vol. 108{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3QUwAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Thomas+A.+Janvier%22&pg=PA659|title=Harper's Magazine|work=google.com|last1=Alden|first1=Henry Mills|last2=Allen|first2=Frederick Lewis|last3=Hartman|first3=Lee Foster|last4=Wells|first4=Thomas Bucklin|year=1904}}

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• [https://books.google.com/books?hl=En&q=the+actor%27s+birthday+book+emma+janvier Emma Janvier] (niece of Thomas) at The Actors Birthday Book

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