Henry Brooks Adams

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Standard Name: Adams, Henry Brooks
Used Form: Frances Snow Compton

Connections

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Friends, Associates Rudyard Kipling
RK liked to build friendships with men of action as well as intellectuals. During his years in Vermont he became a close friend of Theodore Roosevelt (then the Under Secretary of the US Navy) and...

Timeline

1884: American historian Henry Brooks Adams published...

Writing climate item

1884

American historian Henry Brooks Adams published the second of his two novels, Esther, under the pseudonym Frances Snow Compton. His first, Democracy, 1880, had been anonymous.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. 5th ed., Oxford University Press, 1985.

Texts

Adams, Henry Brooks. Esther. H. Holt, 1884.