The Works of E. P. Roe 13 Crown Octavo and 12 similar items

Up for bid is a hard cover copy of The Works of E. P. Roe 13 Crown Octavo Volumes, published by P. F. Collier Son. The following E.P. Roe stories are included in this book. Nature's Serial Story Without a Home A Knight of the Nineteenth Century Opening of a Chestnut Run Barriers Burned Away An Original Belle From Jest to Earnest Near to Nature's Heart Miss Lou What Can She Do ? A Native Author Called Roe A Face Illuminated His Somber Rivals Edward Payson Roe (March 7, 1838 ? July 19, 1888) was an American novelist, Presbyterian minister, horticulturist and historian. Edward Payson Roe was born in the village of Moodna, now part of New Windsor, New York. He studied at Williams College and at Auburn Theological Seminary. In 1862 he became chaplain of the Second New York Cavalry, U.S.V., and in 1864 chaplain of Hampton Hospital, in Virginia. In 1866-74 he was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church at Highland Falls, New York. In 1874 he removed to Cornwall-on-Hudson, where he devoted himself to the writing of fiction and to horticulture. During the American Civil War, he wrote weekly letters to the New York Evangelist, and subsequently lectured on the war and wrote for periodicals. His novels were very popular in their day, especially with middle class readers in England and America, and were translated into several European languages. Their strong moral and religious purpose, did much to break down a Puritan prejudice in America against works of fiction. One of his most consistent criticisms was that his work resembled sermons.