Word: stockton
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Atlantic for March is an unusually excellent number. The chapters of Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" introduce the "Lady who sits on the Sand," the "Middle-aged Man of the Sea," the "Shell Man," the "Lover in Check," the "Interpolation," and last, but not least, a "Person," and in general show that Mr. Stockton is in the highest of spirits. Miss Murfree's serial "Felicia" ends the present number and ends tragically. Mr. Francis P. Church contributes an interesting paper about Richard Grant White, and in a bright autobiographic fragment, entitled "My Schooling," we are told of James Freeman...
...verse is by Helen Gray Cone and Mrs. Graham R. Thomson. The serials by Mr. Lowell, Frank Stockton and Miss Fanny Murfree make systematic progress and at the end of the number are the usual book reviews and comments, together with the "Contributor's Club...
...senior class of Trinity has elected the following class-day officers: President, W. C. Hicks; orator, E. B. Finch; poet, E. R. Stockton; presenter, G. N. Hamlin; historian, H. Scudder...
...match A, open to all, there were ten entries. Mackay, '92, was first with nine birds out of a possible ten; Stockton, '91, and Hastie, '93, were second with seven birds each...
...Atlantic Monthly for November opens with eight chapters of a serial by Stockton, "The House of Martha." Neither Martha nor House appears and the story so far has neither apparent subject nor object. It is told in the first person and concerns itself with a hired listener for the story-teller's stories and an amanuensis with a malarial husband. Stockton is no longer in his prime and this story threatens to be far from prime...