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EDWARD PAYSON ROE (1838-1888)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 450 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EDWARD See also:PAYSON See also:ROE (1838-1888)  , See also:American novelist, was See also:born in Moodna, See also:Orange See also:county, N.Y., on the 7th of See also:March 1838 . He studied at See also:Williams See also:College and at See also:Auburn Theo-logical See also:Seminary; in 1862 became See also:chaplain of the Second New See also:York See also:Cavalry, U.S.V., and in 1864 chaplain of See also:Hampton See also:Hospital, at Hampton, See also:Virginia . In 1866-74 he was pastor of the Presbyterian See also:Church at Highland Falls, N.Y . In 1874 he removed to See also:Cornwall-on-the-See also:Hudson, where he devoted himself to the See also:writing of fiction and to See also:horticulture . He died on the 19th of See also:July 1888 . During the See also:Civil See also:War he wrote weekly II letters to the New York Evangelist, and subsequently lectured on the war and wrote for See also:periodicals . Among his novels were Barriers Burned Away (1872), which first appeared as a serial in the Evangelist and made him widely known; What Can she Do ? (1873), Opening of a See also:Chestnut See also:Burr (1874), From Jest to See also:Earnest (1875), Near to Nature's See also:Heart (1876), A See also:Knight of the Nineteenth See also:Century (1877), A See also:Face Illumined (1878), A See also:Day of See also:Fate (188o), Without a See also:Home (1881), Nature's Serial See also:Story (1884), A See also:Young Girl's Wooing (1884), An See also:Original Belle (1885), He See also:Fell in Love with his Wife (1886), The See also:Earth Trembled (1887) and See also:Miss See also:Lou (See also:left unfinished, 1888) . He wrote also See also:Play and Profit in My See also:Garden (1873), Success with Small Fruits (1881) and The Home See also:Acre (1887) . His novels were very popular in their day, especially with See also:middle-class readers in See also:England and See also:America, and were translated into several See also:European See also:languages . Their strong moral and religious purpose, and their being written by a clergyman, did much to break down a Puritan See also:prejudice in America against See also:works of fiction . See E .

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Roe: Reminiscences of his See also:Life (New York, 1899), by his See also:sister, See also:Mary A . Roe .

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