Chubbuck, Emily. Allen Lucas; the Self-Made Man. New York: Sheldon & Company, 1859.[10935]
Black cloth, blind stamped, spine in gilt, 6 x 4 inches, 159 clean pages, tight. Very good. Hardcover.
The story of Allen Lucas, a country-boy who earned his way to a successful life.
Emily Chubbuck, aka "Fanny Forester," (1817-1854), b. Eaton, NY; d. Hamilton, NY. A writer and teacher, friend of Nathaniel Parker Willis, who published her writings in his New York Mirror. She was also published in The Columbian and in Graham's Magazine. She was a Baptist, and was asked by the missionary Adoniram Judson to write a biography of his second wife, Sarah Hall Boardman. Miss Chubbuck became Judson's third wife, and sailed with him to Burma in 1846. After Judson's death at sea in 1850, she returned to the United States and collected material for her husband's biography, written by Francis Wayland. She returned to writing, now under her name, Emily Judson.
She was praised as "a woman of genius," by N. P. Willis; was said to be "unrivaled among living writers" by Godey's Lady's Book; her works were lauded for their "ease, grace, invention, vivacity," and Rufus Wilmot Griswold sayd she was "one of the most ingenious and brilliant female writers of the country."
