Francis Marion Crawford  

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Francis Marion Crawford (August 2, 1854 – April 9, 1909) was an American writer noted for his many novels, especially those set in Italy, and for his classic weird and fantastic stories.

Bibliography

Novels

• Mr. Isaacs (1882)
• Doctor Claudius (1883)
• To Leeward (1884); actually late 1883. The second American edition (Macmillan, 1893) is the only one of his novels that Crawford substantively revised.
• A Roman Singer (1884)
• An American Politician (1884); U. S. title-page has 1885.
• Zoroaster (1885)
• A Tale of a Lonely Parish (1886)
• Saracinesca (1887)
• Marzio's Crucifix (1887)
• Paul Patoff (1887)
• With the Immortals (1888)
• Greifenstein (1889)
• Sant Ilario (1889)
• A Cigarette-Maker's Romance (1890)
• Khaled: A Tale of Arabia (1891)
• The Witch of Prague (1891)
• The Three Fates (1892)
• Don Orsino (1892)
• The Children of the King (1893)
• Pietro Ghisleri (1893)
• Marion Darche (1893)
• Katharine Lauderdale (1894)
• The Upper Berth (1894); with "By the Waters of Paradise"
• Love in Idleness (1894)
• The Ralstons (1894); sequel to Katharine Lauderdale
• Casa Braccio (1895); related to Katharine Lauderdale and The Ralstons.
• Adam Johnstone's Son (1896)
• Taquisara (1896)
• A Rose of Yesterday (1897)
• Corleone (1897)
• Via Crucis (1899)
• In the Palace of the King (1900)
• Marietta (1901)
• Cecilia (1902)
• Man Overboard! (1903) [novella]
• The Heart of Rome (1903)
• Whosoever Shall Offend (1904)
• Soprano (1905); U. S. title Fair Margaret.
• A Lady of Rome (1906)
• Arethusa (1907)
• The Little City of Hope (1907)
• The Primadonna (1908); sequel to Soprano / Fair Margaret
• The Diva's Ruby (1908); sequel to The Primadonna
• The White Sister (1909)
• Stradella (1909)
• The Undesirable Governess (1910)
• Wandering Ghosts; British title: Uncanny Tales.

Nonfiction

• Our Silver (1881) [pamphlet]
• The Novel: What It Is (1893)
• Constantinople (1895)
• Bar Harbor (1896)
• Ave Roma Immortalis (1898)
• Rulers of the South (1900; 1905 in the U. S. as Southern Italy and Sicily and The Rulers of the South)
• Gleanings from Venetian History (1905; in the U. S. as Salvae Venetia and in 1909 as Venice; the People and the Place)

Drama

• In the Palace of the King (1900); with Lorrimer Stoddard.
• Francesca da Rimini (1902). Written at the request of Crawford's good friend Sarah Bernhardt. Translated by Marcel Schwob (Paris: Charpentier et Fasquelle, 1902); new edition traduction de l'américain en français par Marcel Schwob, Sulliver, 1996. The English text was not published until 1980, with introductory matter, by The F. Marion Crawford Memorial Society. Ten unpublished copies of the English text were set-up and printed for The Macmillan Company (New York City) in 1902 to copyright the text. The piece was adapted into an opera by Franco Leoni in 1904.
• Evelyn Hastings (1902). Unpublished typescript discovered in 2008.
• The White Sister (1937); with Walter Hackett.

See also

• List of horror fiction authors