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Thomas Nelson Page
Rosewell Page, Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir
of a Virginia Gentleman Thomas Nelson Page was born at Oakland, the family plantation in Hanover County, Virginia on April 23, 1853 and lived there until he began college. He began his education at Washington College (now Washington and Lee) but left in 1872 before receiving his degree because of financial problems. (The family had lost everything in the war.) After leaving Washington College, Page tutored the children of a distant cousin near Louisville, Kentucky for a year, and he read law for a summer in the office of a nearby attorney. A very clever plan on the part of Page's father, as it taught Tom the importance of getting a good education (Tom hated the tutoring). The lawyer, however was not impressed with Tom and did not invite him back. It seems he invited Tom to read law in his office while he was away for several months, expecting Tom to live there and "house-sit." Tom spent most of his evenings visiting his pretty female cousins and their friends, seldom sleeping at the attorney's home/office. Even at this young age, Tom entertained his cousins by writing stories on a slate board, reading what he had written, erasing it, and writing more. He later commented that this seemed a good way to write a story. [Source: Armistead C. Gordon, Jr., Virginian Writers of Fugitive Verse 127 (New York: James T. White & Co., 1923); "Thomas Nelson Page," in Frank N. Magill (ed.) Cyclopedia of World Authors (Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 3rd ed., 1997)] [See also: [Edmund Clarence Stedman (ed.), An American Anthology 1787-1899 813 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900)][The story about Page's tutoring in Kentucky was passed along to me by Gary Norman, Gatehouse Books, in upstate New York , and appears here with the gracious permission of Mr. Norman.] Thomas
Nelson Page Thomas Nelson Page Thomas Nelson Page's Literature of the Lost Cause
Ashcake Poetry A.C. Gordon & Thomas Nelson Page, Befo' de War (New York: Scribner, 1888) [on-line text] (New York: Scribner, 1901)(New York: Scribner, 1906)(Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1971) Thomas Nelson Page, Unc' Edinburg a Plantation Echo (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895)(Charles Scribner's Sons, 1897) ________________, The Coast of Bohemia (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906) [on-line text] ________________, Pastime Stories. Poems (New York: Scribner, 1906)(Series title: The Novels, Stories, Sketches and Poems, Plantation ed., vol. 10) Journals & Correspondence Harriet R. Holman (ed.), North African Journal, 1912; With Letters Along the Way (Miami, Florida: Field Research Projects, 1970) Henry Field (ed.), On the Nile in 1901 (Miami: Field Research Projects, 1970)(journal written in 1901) Writings Thomas Nelson Page, In Ole Virginia; or, Marse Chan, and Other Stories (New York: Scribner, 1887)(Scribner, 1890)(Scribner, 1896) [on-line text] (Scribner, 1920)(Scribner, 1923)(Ridgewood, New Jersey: Gregg Press, 1968)(Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1969) ________________, Two Little Confederates (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1888) [on-line text] (C. Scribner's Sons, 1908)(C. Scribner's Sons, 1911) ________________, Among the Camps (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891) [on-line text] ________________, On Newfound River (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891) [on-line text] (C. Scribner's Sons, 1906) ________________, Elsket, and Other Stories (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1891) [on-line text] (Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1969) ________________, Marse Chan; a Tale of old Virginia (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892) [on-line text] (C. Scribner's Sons, 1897)(C. Scribner's Sons, 1912) [on-line text: In Ole Virginia, or Marse Chan and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1895)(1887)] _______________, The Old South: Essays Social and Political (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1892)(C. Scribner's Sons, 1896)(C. Scribner's Sons, 1908)(Chautauqua, New York: Chautauqua Press, 1919)(New York: Haskell House Publishers, 1968)(New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969) ________________, Meh Lady: A Story of the War (New York: Scribner, 1893)(Scribner, 1904) ________________, The Burial of the Guns (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1894)(New York: Garrett Press, 1969) [on-line text] ________________, Pastime Stories (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1894)(Freeport, New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1969) ________________, Polly; a Christmas Recollection (New York: Scribner, 1894) [on-line text] (Scribner, 1897) ________________, The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (New York: Scribner's, 1897)(New York: Scribner's, 1901) ________________, Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War (New York: Scribner's, 1897) [on-line text] [on-line text] (New York: Scribner's, 1898)(New York: Scribner's, 1910) ________________, Red Rock: A Chronicle of Reconstruction (New York: C. Scribner, 1898)(New York: C. Scribner, 1900)(New York: C. Scribner, 1904)(New York: C. Scribner, 1906)(New York: C. Scribner, 1907)(New York: C. Scribner, 1909)(Ridgewood, New Jersey: Gregg Press, 1967) ________________, Two Prisoners (New York: R. H. Russell, 1898)(New York: R.H. Russell, 1903) [on-line text] ________________, Santa Claus's Partner (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1899) [on-line text] ________________, The Old Gentleman of the Black Stock (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902)(1901) ________________, A Captured Santa Claus (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1902) ________________, Gordon Keith (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1903)(New York: Scribner, 1910)(New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912) [on-line text] ________________, Bred in the Bone (New York: Scribner, 1904)(New York: Scribner, 1906) ________________, The Negro: The Southerner's Problem (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1904) [on-line text] (New York: Johnson Reprint Corp., 1970) ________________, The Novels, Stories, Sketches and Poems (New York: Scribner, Plantation ed., 1906-12)(18 vols.)
________________, Under the Crust (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1907) [on-line text] ________________, The Old Dominion; Her Making and Her Manners (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1908) [on-line text] (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914) ________________, Robert E. Lee, the Southerner (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1908) [on-line text] (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1911) [on-line text] ________________, Tommy Trot's Visit to Santa Claus (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1908)(C. Scribner's Sons, 1916) ________________, John Marvel, Assistant (New York: C. Scribner's Sons 1909)(New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1910) ________________, Robert E. Lee, Man and Soldier (London: T. Werner Laurie, 1909)(New York: Scribner's Sons, 1911) [on-line text] _______________, Mount Vernon and Its Preservation, 1858-1910 (New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1910)(New York: Knickerbocker Press, 1932) ________________, Two Little Confederates. Among the Camps. Two Prisoners (New York: Scribner, Plantation ed., 1912) ________________, The Land of the Spirit (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1913) ________________, The Stranger's Pew (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1914) ________________, The Shepherd Who Watched By Night (New York: Scribner, 1916) ________________, Italy and the World War (New York: C. Scribners, 1920) [on-line text] ________________, Dante and His Influence (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1922) [on-line text] (Port Washington, New York: Kennikat Press, 1969) ________________, Washington and Its Romance (New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923) ________________, The Red Riders (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1924) Bibliography Henry Field, A Memoir of Thomas Nelson Page (Miami: Field Research Projects, 1978) George C. Longest, Three Virginia Writers: Mary Johnston, Thomas Nelson Page, and Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy—A Reference Guide (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978) Theodore L. Gross, Thomas Nelson Page (New York: Twayne Publishers, 1967) Jay B. Hubbell, The South in American Literature, 1607-1900 (Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 1954) Rosewell Page, Thomas Nelson Page: A Memoir Of A Virginia Gentleman (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924) [Rosewell Page was Thomas Nelson Page's brother] Harry Aubrey Toulmin, Social Historians (Boston: R. G. Badger, 1911) Bibliography: Articles Robert L. Scribner, "In Ole Virginia" [Thomas Nelson Page], 3 (1) Virginia Cavalcade 4 (Summer 1953) Armistead C. Gordon, Thomas Nelson Page: An Appreciation Scribner's Magazine 75-80 (January, 1923) [Armistead C. Gordon] |
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