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Hollister, Robert,with the asisstance of Jay Cooprider,. Scott Golden, Ruth Kolodney, Joan Lund, Dan Radler, Brian Torone, and the Boston
Slocum, Robert B. New England in Fiction, 1787-1990: An Annotated Bibliography . Locust Hill Press, 1994.
Stone, Martha and Michael Wofsey. Public Faces, Private Lives: A Bibliography of Boston Gay and Lesbian Writing. HQ76.3/New
Bail, Hamilton Vaughan. "Harvard Fiction: Some Critical and Bibliographical Notes." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society,
Baxter, Sylvester. "Howells's Boston". The New England Magazine N.S. 9.2 (October 1893): 129-52.
Carruth, Frances Weston. "Boston in Fiction." Bookman 14.3 (Nov. 1901): 236-54, 14.4 (Dec. 1901): 364-85, 14.5 (Jan. 1902): 507-21,
----. Fictional Rambles in & about Boston. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1902. Google Books (expanded version of "Boston in Fiction")
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar. "American Cities in Fiction I: Boston I" The Chap-Book, vol. 8, no. 11, 15 Apr. 1898, pp. 433-35, and
Clark, Edward. "Boston Black and White: The Voice of Fiction." Black American Literature Forum 19.2 (1985): 83-87.
Dunlap, George Arthur. The City in the American Novel, 1789-1900: A Study of American Novels Portraying Contemporary Conditions in
Hollister, Robert M., Jay Cooprider, Boston Public Library, et al . Boston, an Urban Community: Images of Boston, Writers' Views of the City:
Lloyd, William J. "A Social-Literary Geography of Late-Nineteenth-Century Boston" (in Humanistic Geography and Literature: Essays on the Experience of Place, edited by Douglas
O'Connell, Shaun. Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape. Beacon Press, 1990. (Excellent modern study)
Ranalli, Ralph. "Once Upon a Crime." Globe Magazine 15 Aug. 2004 [accessed 30 Mar. 2008] (article mainly on Higgins, Lehane, and Parker)
Sherman, Paul. Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond (Boston: Black Bars Pub., 2008) (films shot in Boston)
Swan, John C. Boston, an Urban Community: Culture and its Conflicts, the Example of Nineteenth-century Boston: An Annotated Reading List
Swift, Lindsay. "Boston as Portrayed in Fiction." Book Buyer 22.3 (Oct. 1901): 197-204. (No pictures, but interesting discussion of writers
---. Literary Landmarks of Boston: A Visitor's Guide to Points of Literary Interest in and about Boston (Houghton, Mifflin, 1903 Google Books;
Whiting, Lillian. Boston Days (Boston: Little, Brown, 1911 [Google Books])
Winslow, Helen M. Literary Boston of To-Day (L. C. Page, 1903)
Asian American Resource Workshop (Boston, Mass.). Writers Group. Asian Voices from Beantown: Short Stories & Poetry. AARW Writers
Georges, Danielle Legros, editor. City of Notions: An Anthology of Contemporary Boston Poems (Boston, 2017) (poems by Margaret Atwood, Jennifer
Lehane, Dennis, ed. Boston Noir (Akashic, 2009) (each story set in different Boston neighborhood) (financial district; "Exit Interview"
---, Mary Cotton, and Jaime Clarke, eds. Boston Noir 2: The Classics (Akashic, 2012) (Part I : Broken families: "The Marriage Privilege" /
Lewis, Paul, ed. The Citizen Poets of Boston: A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789-1820 (University P of New England, 2016)
O'Connell, Shaun. Boston: Voices and Visions (U of Massachusetts P, 2010) (anthology + commentary)
Waugh, Carol-Lyn Rössel, Martin H. Greenberg, and Frank D. McSherry, Jr. Murder and Mystery in Boston (Dembner
Auchincloss, Louis. The Winthrop Covenant (Houghton Mifflin, 1976) (short stories follow John Winthrop and [sometimes fictional?] descendants
Barlow, Linda. Leaves of Fortune (Doubleday, 1988) ("an estranged heiress returns to Boston after many years. . . to battle for the reins of the family's
Bénétreau, Manuel. Boston Family. Saison 1: Roman (Libre editions, 2016) (in French; multigenerational, perhaps 1783-2000; present, ---. Boston Family. Saison 2 (Manuel Benetreau, 2016)
---. Boston Family. Saison 3 (Manuel Benetreau, 2016)
Gantshar, Barbara Ratner. A Beacon Was Hoisted (Artistic Endeavors, [1975]) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Juvenile literature; Gray, Thomas. Change: A Poem Pronounced at Roxbury, October VIII, MDCCCXXX, in Commemoration of the First Settlement of that Town Holmes, Oliver Wendell. "Boston Common.--Three Pictures") (1630; 1774; 1859) (George Routledge, 1883: 197-98 [Google Books])
MacLeish, Archibald. Night Watch in the City of Boston (1975 [Collected Poems, 1917-1982, Houghton Mifflin, 1985: 3-6 {Google Books}]) Martin, William. Back Bay (Crown, 1979) ("generational saga recreates the changes in the land and people of Back Bay") (Back Bay; Rich people)
---. The Lost Constitution (Forge, 2007) (finale, Fenway Park during World Series; 18th c.-21st c.)
---. Harvard Yard (Warner Books, 2003) (Shakespeare; Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting; Harvard University; Cambridge)
Tuckerman, H. T. "The Tri-Mountain" (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, Light & Stearns, 1837. pp. 13-15) (poem)
Uys, Errol Lincoln. Boston: A Novel of America ("a draft manuscript with author's notes" and a detailed outline) (author's About Outline, Zaroulis, Nancy. Massachusetts: A Novel (Fawcett Columbine, 1991)
Zieman, Irving. Founders to Bounders: Boston in Rhyme. (Starr Books, 1961) (Poetry)
Adams, John Turvill. The Knight of the Golden Melice: A Historical Romance (Derby and Jackson; W. H. Derby, 1857 [Google Books]) Amory, Thomas C. William Blackstone: Boston's First Inhabitant (Rockwell & Churchill, printers, 1877 2nd ed. [Google Books]) (poetry; ---. "Epigram on the Poor of Boston Being Employed in Paving the Streets" (Rivington's New York Gazeeter, 2 Sep. 1774; Poems of American -----. Young Lady. An humble intercession for the distressed town of Boston now almost deserted by its former rightful inhabitants, many of whom Austin, Jane G. Betty Alden: The First-born Daughter of the Pilgrims (Houghton Mifflin, 1891 [Google Books]) (Google Books)
---. A Nameless Nobleman (James R. Osgood, 1881 [Google Books]) (starts in France, but ends in Boston and Plymouth) (Google Books)
Banvard, Joseph. Priscilla; or, Trials for the Truth An historic Tale of the Puritans and the Baptists (Philadelphia: American Baptist Pub. Society, 1858 Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston. The Black Shilling: A Tale of Boston Towns (Dodd, Mead, 1903) (Pub. adv. des. "starting in Boston, Lincolnshire, Bates, Arlo. "The Tuberose." A Book o' Nine Tales (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892 [HathiTrust], pp. 69-88) (1669 house in Bergman, Denise. Shape of the Keyhole (Black Lawrence P, 2020) (Cambridge; 1650; verse; execution for witchcraft; "seven days from the accusation to the farce of a trial to the public Birchard, Harry. Massachusetts Bay: An Historical Novel (Xlibris Corp., 2000)
Bohjalian, Christopher A. Hour of the Witch (Doubleday, 2021) ("Boston, 1662" WorldCat; trial for witchcraft; "a legal thriller, . . . set in a world with very different rules" Brooks, Geraldine. Caleb's Crossing (Viking, 2011) (Harvard C., 1665; indentured housekeeper narrator) (Cheeshahteaumuck, Caleb, -- Buckley, Christopher. The Judge Hunter (Simon & Schuster, 2018) (main character "arrives in Boston [1664]. . . finds a strange country Bynner, Edwin Lassetter. Penelope's Suitors (Ticknor, 1887 [Google Books]) (Boston in the days of Governor Bellingham; Cambridge)
Carpenter, Edmund Janes. A Woman of Shawmut. The New England Magazine 8.4 (June 1890): 414-25, 8.5 (July 1890): 527-37, 8.6 (August Casey, Helen Marie. Inconsiderate Madness (Black Lawrence P, 2007) ("a narrative sequence of poems about Mary Dyer, hanged in 1660 on Cavanaugh, Jack. The Puritans (Victor Books, 1994) (Archbishop Laud) (Puritans)
Child, Lydia Maria [pub. under pseud. An American]. Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (Cummings, Hilliard, 1824 [Google Books]) (Plymouth, Christian, Mary Blount (illust.Dirk Zimmer). Goody Sherman's Pig (Macmillan, 1991) (Juvenile--ages 7-11) (Boston 1635; based on true story) Denison, Mary A. Ruth Margerie: A Romance of the Revolt of 1689 (New York: Beadle and Adams, Publishers, 1862) (Johannsen Drake, Samuel Adams. Captain Nelson: A Romance of Colonial Days (Harper & Brothers, 1879 [Google Books]) (1689-97; starts in Boston) Farber, Norma. Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93 (Dutton, 1982) (Juvenile) ("With the help of the respected Feuchtwanger, Lion . The Devil in Boston: A Play in Three Acts ([S.l.: s.n.], 1948 WorldCat) (Mather, Cotton)
Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia (Harper & Row, 1990) (Juvenile--ages 12+) (Indian boy apprentice in 1681 Boston; King Philip's War; 1675; 1681) Forbes, Esther. Paradise (Harcourt, Brace, 1937) (1639-King Philip's War; title settlement 20 miles inland; Harvard College; branding on Galvin, Aaron. Salem's Legacy (Aames & Abernathy Publishing, 2015) (1728 Boston; survivors' revenge; villain Cotton Mather) (Witchcraft -- Gaspar de Alba, Alicia. Calligraphy of the Witch (St. Martin's, 2007) (captive Mexican woman accused of witchcraft in Boston; 1683+; opens Gay, Maude Clark. The Knitting of the Souls: A Tale of 17th Century Boston (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904) (Gov. Bellingham's foster-son; King Gibson, William. Goodly Creatures: A Play in Two Acts (Dramatists Play Service, 1986) (Puritans) (play about John Winthrop and Anne Graydon, William Murray. With Musketeer and Redskin: A Tale of New Plymouth (John F. Shaw, 1905) (Juvenile?) (1636; Governor Hall, Ruth. illus.Frank T Merrill. The Golden Arrow: A Story of Roger Williams's Day (Houghton, Mifflin, 1901 [Google Books]) (Ch. 1 Winthrop's Warning; Hammand, Esther Barstow. Road to Endor: A Novel (Book League of America, 1940) (Book Three Harvard, 1665 to 1671, Book Five Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The Gray Champion" (Twice-Told Tales, Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837, pp. 11-22 Google Books) (Gov. John Andros, Simon Bradsteet)
---. "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." (Twice-Told Tales (Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837; Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and ---. The Scarlet Letter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 [Google Books, 1851 ed.]) (1642-49) Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial Herbert, Henry William. The Fair Puritan: An Historical Romance of the Days of Witchcraft (J.B. Lippincott, 1875 [Google Books]) (much Heidish, Marcy. Witnesses: A Novel (Houghton Mifflin, 1980) (Anne Hutchinson) (Hutchinson, Anne Marbury; Massachusetts -- History -- Howard, Jane. Zelda: A Tale of the Massachusetts Colony (Boston: Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, 1866) (Series: Ten cent novelettes, no. 31) (Women; Puritans; Howe, Katherine. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane: A Novel (Hyperion, 2009) (Harvard grad student Cambridge/Marblehead 1991; Salem Hunt, Angella Elwell. Charles Towne (Tyndale House Publishers, 1998) (romance; Puritans and Indians; Christian message)
Ipsen, Anne. Abigail's Legacy: A Novel of Early New England (Newton, Mass.: Ibus P, 2014) (witchcraft; independence of Puritanism; healing; reconciliation of Indian and Jacobs, Paul. James Printer: A Novel of Rebellion (Scholastic Press, 1997) (Grades 5-8; 1674; Nipmuck Indian printer must chose sides) (King Kelley, Nancy. The Whispering Rod: A Tale of Old Massachusetts: A Novel (Elementary and junior high school) (White Mane Kids, 2001) (1659) Kemp, M. E. Death of a Dancing Master (L & L Dreamspell, 2010) (murder in Boston 1693; Increase Cotton, co-detective) (Mather, Cotton, -- Kenyon, Theda. Scarlet Anne (Doubleday, Doran, 1939) (poetry) (Hutchinson, Anne Marbury)
Kienholz, Michelle Louise. A Legacy Bestow'd, or, The Death and Life of Mrs. Katherine Nailer as Deposed by the Humble Jonathan Cary upon Kraeger, Linda, and Joe Barnhart. Trust and Treachery: A Historical Novel of Roger Williams in America (Mellen U P, 1996) (Williams, Larson, Charles R. Arthur Dimmesdale (A & W Publishers, 1983) (Dimmesdale's story) (Puritan; Adultery; Clergy)
Lee, Buckminster. Naomi; or, Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (Boston: W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1848 [Google Books]) (Society of Friends; Leslie, Emma. Saxby: A Tale of Old and New England (New York: Phillips & Hunt; Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe, 1880 [Internet Archive]) Londergan, Ed. The Devil's Elbow (Lakshmi Books, 2012) (starts with main character's "orphan childhood days as an apprentice to a greedy and Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Rhyme of Sir Christopher" (1873) Tales of a Wayside Inn (The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Lough, Loree. Dream Seekers (Chelsea House, 1999) (Series: American adventure series) (family "move[s] . . . from Plymouth to Boston in 1634" WorldCat) (Christian life; Indians of ---. Fire by Night (Barbour, 1998) (: The Great Fire Devastates Boston added to title for Chelsea House, 1998 edition) Mackay, Constance D'Arcy . "May-Day." In Plays of the Pioneers: A Book of Historical Pageant-Plays (Harper & Brothers, 1915: 53-69 Marble, Annie Russell. From Boston to Boston: A Story of Hannah and Richard Garrett in Old England and New England in 1630 (Juvenile) Merrill, George E. Master Hathorne's Family: A Story of the Early Boston Baptists (American Baptist Publication Society, 1870) ("really a story Mitchner, James A. "Voyage of Four 1661." Faith: Short Fiction on the Varieties and Vagaries of Faith, ed. C. Michael Curtis (Houghton Mifflin, Morrill, Olga. Ed. and map maker Marina Dutzmann Kirsch. Vagabond Quakers. Southern Colonies (Madison, NH: Morrill Fiction, 2021) (in part quaker women "returning north to Motley, John Lothrop. Merry-Mount; A Romance of the Massachusetts Colony (Boston: J. Munroe, 1849 [Google Books]) (Massachusetts -- ---"The Solitary of Shawmut" (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by James Thomas Fields, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, pp. 72-81) (short story; Mukherjee, Bharati . The Holder of the World (Knopf, 1993) (in part, version of The Scarlet Letter; 17th and 20th centuries; Boston; India) Noyes, Deborah. Angel and Apostle (Unbridled Books, 2005) (Juvenile--Secondary (senior high) school) (1649; Pearl from The Scarlet Otis, James. Ruth of Boston A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (American Book Co., 1910 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Google Books)
Perrin, Pat. Retold Classic Novel: The Scarlet Letter (Perfection Learning, 1992) (Juvenile) (Comics and graphic novels) (Adultery; Puritans-- Plumb, Albert Hale. When Mayflowers Blossom: A Romance of Plymouth's First Years (Fleming H. Revell, 1914 [Google Books]) (Google Books)
Plympton, A. G. A Flower of the Wilderness (Little, Brown, 1899) (Juvenile) ("opens with a ride through the forest from Boston to ---. illus. William Mather Crocker. n the Shadow of the Black Pine: A Romance of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Small, Maynard & Co., 1901) (time of John Winthrop, some Boston)
Powning, Bath. A Measure of Light (Vintage Canada, 2016) (Anne Hutchinson; 1635-60) (Dyer, Mary, -- -1660)
Rimmer, Robert H. The Resurrection of Anne Hutchinson (Prometheus Books, 1987) (Hutchinson reappears in more liberated 1985) (Hutchinson, Robinson, Edith. A Little Puritan Bound Girl (Page, 1904 Google Books) (Juvenile)
---. A Little Puritan Pioneer (Page, 1901) (Juvenile; Charlestown)
---. A Little Puritan Rebel (Page, 1898 [Google Books]) (Juvenile; Sir Henry Vane; Frances Wray; 1636) (Youth -- Conduct of life; Puritans ---. A Little Puritan's First Christmas (Page, 1900; Google Books) (Samuel Sewall's children) (Puritans)
Rushing, Jane Gilmore. Covenant of Grace (Doubleday, 1982) (Anne Hutchinson) (Hutchinson, Anne Marbury; Massachusetts -- History -- Schermer, Bonnie L. Rebecca of Providence, Rhode Island 1605-1683 (IUniverse, Inc., 2003) (Roger Williams; Anne Hutchinson; John Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Hope Leslie Or, Early Times in Massachusetts. 2 vols (New York: White, Gallaher and White, 1827 [1842 Harper ed. Seger, Maura. The Taming of Amelia (Harlequin Books, 1993) (Connecticut--Land settlement; Young women; Ship captains) (Amazon)
Seton, Anya. The Winthrop Woman (Houghton Mifflin, 1958) (about Elizabeth W., "perhaps the most unwilling Puritan who ever came Settle. Mary Lee. I, Roger Williams: A Fragment of Autobiography (Norton, 2001) (mainly England and Providence, but some Boston) Shaw, Addle Marie. Freedom: A Romance of the Adventurous Time of the First Self-Made American (Doubleday Page, 1902 [Internet Archive]) Starkey, Marion Lena. The Tall Man from Boston (Crown Publishers, 1975) (Juvenile) (Salem; Witchcraft; Trials (Witchcraft))
Stimson, Frederic Jesup. King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay (Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1896 [Google Stokes, Richard L., and Howard Hanson. Merry Mount; A Dramatic Poem for Music in Three Acts of Six Scenes (Farrar & Rinehart, 1932) Sullivan, Raymond E. Contentment: A Novel of New England's Birth (iUniverse, 2006) (Massachusetts Bay Colony) (New England -- History Titley, Alan. An Bhean Feasa (Indreabhán, Conamara: Cló Iar-Chonnacht, 2014) ("Ann 'Goody' Glover, the last person hanged Tompson, Benjamin. "On a Fortification at Boston Begun By Women" (Poems of American History. Ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson. Houghton Vorpahl, Beverly Smith. Goody Wing, An American Foremother (Authors Choice Press, 2001) (historical ancestor; first half England/voyage; Whiting, M. H. Faith White's Letter Book, 1620-1623, Plymouth, New England (Boston, Bradley [1820?]; Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1866 [Wright Whittier, John Greenleaf. Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1678-9 (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1849) -----. "In the Old South Church: Boston, 1677." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 16-20 [Google Books]) Austin, Jane G. David Alden's Daughter, and Other Stories of Colonial Times (Houghton Mifflin, 1892 [Internet Archive]) (many Boston Butterworth, Hezekiah. In Old New England: The Romance of a Colonial Fireside (Appleton, 1895 [Google Books]) (some stories set partly in Dawes, Rufus. Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (New York: Samuel Colman, 1839) Volume I and Volume II [U of Virginia Library] Limbaugh, Rush H. Rush Revere and the Brave Pilgrims and Rush Revere and the First Patriots: Two Time-Travel Adventures with Exceptional Americans (Threshold Editions, 2020) Abel, Roger H. Freedom Duyes: Or, A Gentleman�s Progress in the New World (Dial Press, 1980) (Starts Georgia 1751; printer in Aeby, Jaquelyne. Never Look Back (Dell, 1976) (romance; England to America) (Burn victims -- Boston, Massachusetts; Domestic workers Allen, James. Bunker-Hill Battle: A Song for June 17, 1843 (1843) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry; Allen, Willis Boyd. Called to the Front. Sequel to "A Son of Liberty." A Story of the Burning of Falmouth and the Siege of Boston ---. A Son of Liberty, or, The Spirit of Our Fathers (Congregational Sunday-School and Pub. Society, 1896) (Revolution)
Alsheimer, Jeanette E. and Patricia J. Friedle. Path to Punishment (Ivy House Pub Group, 2008) (Boston 1774)
---. Revolt! (Collegial Writing, 2013) (Siege of Boston)
---. The Trouble with Tea (Pentland P, 2002) (Juvenile) (Boston 1773)
Anderson, Florence Bennett. Rebel's Daughter (Vantage Press, 1957) (Revolutionary War) (Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs)
Anderson, M. T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation. 1 The Pox Party (Candlewick Press, 2006) (Juvenile-- ---. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: The Kingdom on the Waves Volume 2 of The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Anderson, Marcella F. and Elizabeth Weiss Vollstadt. Young Patriots: Inspiring Stories of the American Revolution (Boyds Mills P, Anonymous.
---. "The Batle of Bunker Hill: Composed by a British Officer the Day After the Battle." (Poems of American History. Ed. Burton Egbert ---. The Child's Miscellany: Embellished with Colored Engravings (Portsmouth: Published by Nath'l March & Co. Nos. 7 & 8, Exchange ---. The Convert of Massachusetts (Charlestown, Mass.: Parish of St. John's Church, 1860) (Harvard student converts from Congregationalism ---. The Cooper's Son; or, The Prize of Virtue. A Tale of the Revolution (Boston: James French, 1845 [Google Books]) (some Boston; Bunker's Hill))
---. An Elegy, occasion'd by the death of Major-General Joseph Warren, who fell fighting in defence of the glorious cause of his country, at ---. On the Death of Five Young Men Who Was Murthered, March 5th, 1770, by the 29th Regiment ([Boston : s.n., 1770] [American Memory, ---. A Poem, in memory of the (never to be forgotten) fifth of March, 1770 On the evening of which, a party of the 29th. regiment commanded by ---. Some rude & indigested thoughts on the terrible majesty of God in the works of nature particularly in the phaenomena of earthquakes: ---. South End forever. North End forever Extraordinary verses on Pope-Night. Or, A commemoration of the fifth of November, giving a history of -----. Theatre ([Boston : s.n., 1792?]) (dialogue debate) (Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Theaters) ---. A Vaudevil Sung by the characters at the conclusion of a new farce called the Boston blockade ... (Boston: Printed by John Howe, 1776 ---. A Verse, occasioned by seeing the North-spinning, in Boton [sic] (Boston: [s.n.], Printed and sold 1769 [Digital Archive of Documents Related ---. A Verse Occasioned by the Late Horrid Massacre in King-Street (Boston: s.n., 1770) (Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- ---. The Voice of God, in the terrors of earthquakes: being a poetical composition occasioned by the repeated shocks, which on the 18th of Austin, Jane G. Dr. LeBaron And His Daughters - A Story Of The Old Colony (Houghton, Mifflin, 1890 [Google Books]) (mainly Plymouth, Bacheller, Irfving. The Master of Chaos (Bobbs-Merrill, 1932) (Boston and Dorchester Heights) (Washington, George, -- 1732-1799; Revolution, 1775-1783)
Banim, Lisa. A Spy in the King's Colony (Mysteries in Time) (Silver Moon Press, 1994) (Juvenile--Grades 3-5) (1775; Ticonderoga; Barie, Mark. Sister Marguerite and the Captain: A Novel (Barringer Publishing, 2020) (Women and war -- America -- History -- 18th century; Women spies -- United States -- History Revolution, 1775-1783; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1754-1763) Barker, Shirley. The Road To Bunker Hill (Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962) (Juvenile) (Two girls and their grandmother witness events Barnes, John. Washington's Dirigible (HarperPrism, 1997) (Mainly elsewhere, but in part alternative "1775 Boston, home of astounding Barthélemy-Hadot, Marie Adeè le. La Révolte de Boston, ou, La Jeune Hospitalieè re (Paris: Lecointe et Durey, 1820) (Juvenile) (Boston Barton, William Eleazar. When Boston Braved the King: A Story of Tea-party Times (W.A. Wilde & Company, 1899) (Juvenile) (Boston Tea Party, Bates, Esther Willard. The Evacuation of Boston: A Play of the American Revolution in One Act (19--?]) (Boston (Mass.) -- History Bell, J. L. illus. Jerel Dye; Jesse Lonergan; John Carvajal; L. J. Baptiste; Ben Doane. The Rise & Fall of the Stamp Act: Four Comics (Cambridge: River Bird Comics, April 2016) Benét, Stephen Vincent. "A Tooth for Paul Revere: A Folk Tale of the American Revolution." Atlantic Monthly December 1937 (200 Years of Berkey, Be. Liberty Hill (Denisen, 1959) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775) (Juvenile; 77 pages)
Berkman, Pamela, and Dorothy Hearst. illust. Claire Powell. Filigree's Midnight Ride (New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2019) (Elementary and junior high school) (Revere, Binney, Barnabas. Lines Sacred to the Memory of the Late Major-General Joseph Warren who fell in the battle at Charlestown, fighting gallantly Blanchard, Amy Ella. illus. Ida Waugh. A Girl of '76 (Boston, Chicago: W. A. Wilde, 1898 [Internet Archive]) (Ch. 13 "In Boston Town" 209-22)
Bolin, J. J. Yankee Doodle and the Secret Society (Pefection Learning, 1997) (Juvenile; Sons of Liberty; Boston Tea Party) (United States -- Borden, Louise. illus. Andrew Parker. Sleds on Boston Common (also published as General Gage and the Sleds on Boston Common: A Story from Boutwell, Edna.illus. Wendy Watson. Daughter of Liberty (Cleveland: World, 1967) (Juvenile) ("a little girl's beloved" doll "carries a message to Paul Revere" WorldCat) Boyd, Bentley. Revolutionary Rumblings (Williamsburg, VA: Chester Comix, 2010; 4th ed.) (Chester the Crab's comix with content series) (24 pgs.; includes Brackenridge, H. H. The Battle of Bunkers-hill: A Dramatic Piece, of Five Acts, in Heroic Measure (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Brodeur, Tom. Regina Silsby's Phantom Militia (JourneyForth, 2005) (Juvenile) (Revolution; Ghosts; Cousins; Disguises; Grandfathers; --. Regina Silsby's Secret War (JourneyForth, 2004) (Juvenile) (Post-Tea Party) (Revolution) Brown, Harry. The Poem of Bunker Hill (C. Scribner's Sons, 1941) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775) Brown, Rebecca Warren. Stories about General Warren: In Relation to the Fifth of March Massacre, and the Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston:James Brown, William Hill. The Power of Sympathy (Boston: I. Thomas, printer, 1789) ("sentimental/seduction"; set in Boston, Belleview, Bryson, John. Valiant Libertine (Appleton-Century, 1942) (Revolution) (Siege, 1775-76; Sieges)
Buckley, Andrew. The Bostoner (Stage Harbor Press, 1999) (18th-century plot focuses on a pirate called "the Bostoner"; there's also a related Burgan, Michael. illus. Ronald Himler The Time to Choose (Macmillan McGraw-Hill, 1999) (Elementary and junior high school) (Boston Burgoyne, John [British General]. A Vaudevil, sung by the characters at the conclusion of a new farce, called The Boston blockade Burk, John. Bunker-Hill; or The death of General Warren: An Historic Tragedy in Five Acts (New York: Printed by T. Greenleaf, 1797 [Google Butters, Dorothy Gilman. The Bells of Freedom (Macrae Smith, 1963) (Juvenile) (1775-76) (Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; ---. Ten Leagues to Boston Town (Macrae Smith, 1962) (Juvenile) (Counterfeiters and counterfeiting)
Butterworth, Hezekiah. The Patriot Schoolmaster; or, The Adventures of the Two Boston Cannon, the "Adams" and "Hancock": A Tale of the Bynner, Edwin Lassetter. Agnes Surriage (Houghton Mifflin, 1886 [Google Books]) (Marblehead; Boston; Hopkington; London; Lisbon; Calkhoven, Laurie. Boys of Wartime: Daniel at the Siege of Boston, 1776 (Dutton Children's Books, 2010) (Elementary and junior Cameron, Dana. "Femme Sole" (in Lehane, Dennis, ed. Boston Noir (Akashic, 2009)) ("18th-century Boston [1795], the story follows Carter, Mary J., and Michael Kaplan. The Ruling Passion: Reflections on a Society Under Siege (Font & Center Press, 1998) (romance) Carter, Ron. Our Sacred Honor: A Novel (Bookcraft, 1998) (religion) (Revolution)
---. To Decide Our Destiny: A Novel (Bookcraft, 1999) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Boston (Mass.) -- Carter, Russell Gordon. A Patriot Lad of Old Boston (Juvenile) (Penn, 1923) (Revolution)
Cavanaugh, Jack. The Patriots (Victor Books, 1995) (Revolution; Christian faith; Lexington and Concord; siege) (American loyalists)
Chambers, Robert William. Cardigan: A Novel (Harper & Bros., 1901 [Google Books]) (Chapter XXII on, pp. 370-end, set in Boston, 1774-75) Chase, Jessie Anderson. The Story of Paul Revere, Junior, Revolutionary Days in Old Boston (Boston: W.A. Wilde, 1932)
Cheatham, Lillian. Portrait of Emma (Doubleday, 1975) (Portraits; Women; Secrets; The seventeen hundreds; Boston, Massachusetts Chiavaroli, Heidi. Freedom's Ring (Tyndale House, 2017) (connects Boston marathon bombing and Boston Massacre) (Victims of terrorism; ---. The Tea Chest (Tyndale House Publishers, 2020) (connects 21st c. female would-be Navy SEAL and "Emma Malcolm, a 1773 Patriot sympathizer" WorldCat) (Navy -- Women; Man-woman Child, Lydia Maria. The Rebels, or Boston before the Revolution (Cummings, Hilliard, 1825 [Google Books 1850 ed.]) (Revolution)
Clark, Joan. The Hand of Robin Squires (Juvenile) (Clarke, Irwin, 1977) (mainly at sea and Nova Scotia, but ends in Boston; slave Clark, Mary Higgins. Aspire to the Heavens (Meredith P, 1969) (rpted. as Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Cleeve, Lucas [pseud. of Adelina Georgina I. Kingscote]. Free Soil, Free Soul (Digby & Long, 1903) (in part "Boston, temp. George II" [Ernest Clifton, J. Colfort. The Tory Spy, or, The Britisher "done brown" (New York: G. Munro, 1865) (Series: Munro's ten cent novels, no. 39) (American Coatsworth, Elizabeth Jane. Boston Bells (Macmillan, 1952) (Grades 3-5) (Series: Once upon-a-time-in-America; Knowles riot) (Copley, Cobb, Sylvanus. The Maniac's Secret, or, The Privateer of Massachusetts Bay (New York: S. French, 185-? [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, Codington, Dory. Cardinal Points (Authorhouse, 2013) (Romance; Tea Party and afterward; Revolutionary War)
Coffin, Charles Carleton. Daughters of the American Revolution and Their Times, 1769-1776: Historical Romance (Houghton Mifflin, 1895 Colella, Paul. The Undefeated (IUniverse, 2011) (Soldiers; Surgeons; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Columbian. An Eulogium on Major General Joseph Warren Who Fell in the Action at Charlestown, June XVII, MDCCLXXV (Boston: Printed by Coolidge, Olivia E. Cromwell's Head (Houghton Mifflin, 1955) (Tavern, divided loyalities in April 1775; medical apprentice) Cooney, Elledn. Gun Ball Hill: A Novel (U P of New England, 2004) (mainly Maine, but some siege of Boston and Bunker Hill, e,g., Cooper, Elaine Marie. Fields of the Fatherless: A New History Novel (Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas, 2013) (1775; "Menotomy Cooper, James Fenimore. Lionel Lincoln, Or, The Leaguer of Boston (New York: C. Wiley, 1825 [Google Books, 1881 ed.]) (battle of Bunker Copeland, Lori. Forever, Ashley (Dell, 1992) (time travel to Revolutionary Boston; romance) (Time travel; United States -- History -- Coverly, Nathaniel. General Warren: or, The Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston: Nathaniel Coverly, Jun'r. [between 1810 and 1814]) ---. A Song, Composed on the Evacuation of Boston by the British Troops, commanded by General Howe: who were panic struck, and thrown into Craig, Sarah. I Saw the Boston Tea Party (Houghton Mifflin, 2005) (Primary school)
Cressy, Noah. The Battle and Monument of Bunker-Hill, Compared with the Agonies and Triumphs of the Cross: A Poem (Portland?, 18--?)
Cunningham, Linda. "A Boston Marriage." Taking Liberties: A Yankee Doodle Dandy Erotic Anthology (ebook) (Omnific Publishing, Curtis, Alice Turner. A Little Maid of Boston (Penn Pub. Co., 1933) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Siege, 1775-1776; Davis, John H. The Hill (PublishAmerica, 2005) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; United States -- History -- Revolution, Davis, William Stearns. Gilman of Redford; a Story of Boston & Harvard College on the Eve of the Revolutionary War, 1770-1775 Dawes, Thomas. British Lamentation Together with Bunker-Hill Ode (Boston: 1786) (1 page; opening of Charlestown Bridge) (Bunker Hill, Daynard, Jodi. The Midwife's Revolt: A Novel (Brilliance Audio, 2015) (Battle of Bunker Hill; plot to poison Abigail Adams) (Women -- ---. Our Own Country (Lake Union Publishing, 2016) (Boston and Braintree 1770s; Abigail and John Adams as minor characters; inter- Dearborn, Nathaniel. Bunker Hill Monument: Commemorative of June 17, 1775, Consecrated, June 17, 1843 ([Boston?]: N. Dearborn, 1843) De Forest, John William. A Lover's Revolt (Longmans, Green, 1898 [Google Books]) (Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) Dell, Pamela. Freedom's Light: A Story about Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (Tradition Books, 2003) (Juvenile: ages 9-12) (Boston, 1775) DeMitchell, Terri A. Chelsea Creek to Bunker Hill: Spring 1775 (Piscataqua P, 2015) (Juvenile) (New Hampshire -- History -- Revolution, De Morgan, John. Fooling the Enemy: A Story of the Siege of Boston (David McKay, 1904, 31 pgs.) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot: Boston, Massachusetts, 1774 (Scholastic, 1998) Denison, Mary A. The Days and Ways of the Cocked Hats: or, The Dawn of the Revolution (New York: S.A. Rollo, 1860 [Wright American Denker, Nan. The Bound Girl (Ariel Books, 1957) (Juvenile) (Indentured servants) ("Felicie is forced to flee to America from France Deveraux, Jude. Days of Gold: A Novel (Pocket Star Books, 2010) (some Boston; 1766) (Heiresses; Scots -- United States; Gold; Clans DeWitt, Franklin. Jonathan Hodge and the Secret of Aargone (Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2007) (Combines history and fantasy as Dokey, Cameron. Katherine: Heart of Freedom (Avon Books, 1997) (Juvenile) (romance) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, Donnelly, Susan. "Inoculation." The New Yorker 4 Aug. 2003: 38 (short poem; Cotton Mather) (Keywords: Boston; Diseases; Mothers; Downie, Mary Alice. illus. Ron Berg. A Song for Acadia (Kids Can Press, 1980) (Juvenile; age 9+; Boston boy in Acadia) (Acadians Doyle, Peter Reese. Bunker Hill (Providence Foundation, 1998) (Juvenile) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775; Revolution; Christian life) Duey, Kathleen. Silence and Lily: 1773 (Puffin Books, 2007) (Elementary and junior high school) (Family, Horses; Boston Tea Party; Eastlake, William The Long, Naked Descent into Boston (Viking Press, 1977) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)
Edgar, Gregory T. illus. Karen J Yarosh. "Are the Yankees Cowards Now?": A Story of Bunker Hill (Printed by Van Volumes, 1995) (Bunker Edwards, Ben L. One April in Boston (Spyglass Books, 2000) (Elementary and junior high school) (Revolution; Telescopes; Geneology)
Ellinger, Ruth Carmichael. Sword of the Wild Rose (Ambassador International, 2010) (Flight from Scotland to "Boston at the onset Emery, Anne. illus. Raymond Vartanian, Bright Horizons (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1947) (Juvenile; just after Revolution) (Fathers and Emmons, Richard and William. The Battle of Bunker Hill, or The Temple of Liberty; An Historic Poem in Four Cantos (New York: 1839 [Google Emmons, William. 1775. Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Remember the heroes of the Revolution!: Just issued from the press, the tenth Falcon, Debra. Midnight's Lady (Kensington, 1995) (romance; Boston Zorro-like hero) (Revolution, 1775-1783)
Fast, Howard. April Morning: A Novel (Crown Publishers, 1961) (15-year-old farm boy involved in the battles of Lexington and ---. Bunker Hill, The Prequel to the Crossing (IBooks, 2001) (orig. pub. as Seven Days [Back Cover, Amazon]) (American and ---. Seven Days in June: A Novel of the American Revolution (Carol Pub., 1994) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; United Faulkner, George H. illus. Harvé Stein. Gentlemen and Rebels (Little, Brown, 1954) (Juvenile) (includes "The balance wheel: John Adams.--The rider and the spur: Favier, Patricia. A Temptation Too Great (Robert Hale, 1999) (Refugees; French Americans)
Finaly, C. C. The Patriot Witch (Random House, 2009) (Series: Traitor to the Crown; Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill; siege) Finlayson, Ann. Redcoat in Boston (F. Warne, 1971) (Juvenile) (1760s-70s) (Revolution, 1775-1783)
Fisk, Joseph. A few lines on the happy reduction of Canada: as also, the great fire in Boston, and sickness at Woodbury, in the year 1760.: To Fitzgerald, Tom. Poor Richard's Lament: A Most Timely Tale (Hobblebush Books, 2012) (Ben let out of a purgatory visits U.S. he created Flaccus, Horatius [pseud.]. The Vision of Judgment or The South Church: Ecclesiastical Councils Viewed from Celestial and Satanic Fleming, Alice Mulcahey. illus. Albert Orbaan A Son of Liberty (St. Martin's Press, 1961) (Juvenile) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old & Young (Houghton Mifflin, 1943) (Juvenile) (Revolution, 1775-1783)
Foster, Hannah W. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel, Founded on Fact (Boston: S. Etheridge, for E. Larkin, 1797 French, Allen. The Colonials: Being a Narrative of Events Chiefly Connected with the Siege and Evacuation of the Town of Boston in New ---. The Colonials: Revolutionary Boston (Doubleday, Page, 1902 [Google Books 1906 ed.]) (same as above with slightly different title; Freneau, Philip Morin. A Voyage to Bost[o]n. A po[em ... By the author of American Liberty, A Poem: General Gage's soliloquy, &c. Frye, Charlie. The War Has Begun (Charles E. Frye, 2017) (Series: Duty in the cause of liberty, bk. 1) (Frye, Isaac;
United States Fultcher, Joy. "Tea for Two" (John Adams celebrates opposition to Tea Act with young lady) (Taking Liberties: A Yankee Doodle Dandy Fulton, Len. The Court Martial of Paul Revere (1997) (Harvard University -- Drama; Boston (Mass.) -- Drama; United States -- Gade, Carla Olson. Pattern for Romance (Abingdon P, 2013) (Romance; July 1769) (Quilting; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial Ganzglass, Martin R. Cannons for the Cause: A Novel of the American Revolution (Knox's cannons; Cambridge; Dorchester Heights; Gilman, Caroline Howard. Ballad for a private centennial celebration in remembrance of Samuel Howard, one of the Boston Rebel Tea Party in Glover, Stephen E. The Cradle of Liberty: or, Boston in 1775 (Boston: William V. Spencer, [1857?] [ed. Hugh MacDougall, James Fenimore Gormley, Beatrice. Friends of Liberty (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2013) (Elementary and junior high; Patriot/Loyalist Gordon, H. E. Down at the Hub (Norristown, Pa., 18--) (Veterans -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Poetry; Poetry of places)
Gordon, James A., General. At 12 O'clock, or, The Mystery of the Lighthouse: A Story of the Revolution (New York: Frank Tousey, 10 Sep. 1902. Graves, Robert. Sergeant Lamb's America (Random House, 1940) ("takes place in the early years of the American War of Independence Green, James. Hangman: A Tale of the Boston Harbor Islands (1st Books, 2003) ("mid-18th century" WorldCat) (Puritans; Boston Harbor Islands, Quincy -- Houghs Neck)
Grote, Joann A. The American Revolution (Barbour Pub., 1998) (Juvenile--ages 8-12) (Sons of Liberty) (Boston Tea Party, 1773; ---. The American Victory (Barbour Pub., 1998) (Juvenile--ages 8-12) (father/soldier returns to son in Boston at end of war) ---. Danger in the Harbor: Grain Riots Threaten Boston (Chelsea House, 1998) (Elementary and junior high school--ages 9-12) (Boston ---. Kate and the Spies: The American Revolution (Barbour Pub., 2004) (Elementary and junior high school) (Tea party) (Revolution ---. Queen Anne's War (Barbour, 1998) (children in Boston in 1710) (Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713) (Elementary and junior high school)
Guhrke, Laura Lee. The Charade (Sonnet Books, 2000) (romance; heroine, runaway indentured servant in early 1775 Boston caught up Gunderson, Jessica. illus. Brent Schoonover. Ropes of the Revolution: The Tale of the Boston Tea Party (Stone Arch Books, 2008) Gunning, Sally. Bound (HarperCollins, 2008) (partly Boston; mainly Dedham, Medfield, Satucket, Cape Cod; opens March 1756) (Massachusetts ---. The Rebellion of Jane Clarke (HarperCollins, 2010) (Boston Massacre; 1769-70s) (Young women -- Massachusetts; Massachusetts H. B. C. The Round Table ([Boston, 1885]) (Parker House (Boston, Mass.) -- Poetry; Hotels -- Poetry)
H. S., Descendant of a Revolutionary Officer. The Flag on Bunker Hill ([Waterville, Mass.?: 1862]) (United States -- History -- H. W. A Poem, descriptive of the terrible fire, which made such shocking devastation in Boston, on the evening of Friday, April 21, 1787, in Hamilton, Thomas Wm. Time for Patriots: The 21st Century Confronts Bunker Hill and After! (Strategic Book Publishing, 2008) Hammond, William. The Power and the Glory: A Novel (Naval Institute Press, 2011) ("set in the late 1790s"; "Boston, Massachusetts September 1797; [Chapter]Three" WorldfCat) Hardman, Ron, and Jessica Hardman. Shadow Fox. Book I, Sons of Liberty (Fox Run Press, 2010) (time travel to revolutionary Boston; Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Midnight Rider (Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2005) (Juvenile--Elementary and junior high) (14-year-old patriot Harr, John Ensor. Dark Eagle: A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution (Viking, 1999) (some Boston, e.g., Chapter "17. Harris, Arthur M.; illus. George Avison. Pirate Tales from the Law (Little, Brown, 1923 [HathiTrust]) ("Chapter Two Black Flag from Boston Harris, Dwayne. ""Deadcoats" (Zombie Terrors, vol. 2, no. 2, edited by Willimas Doug, Asylum Press: Made available through hoopla, Harris, Stanley. Evacuation Day: A Boy's Trip Through Time to George Washington's Victory (Critical Choices, 2009) (Juvenile-- Hass, Glenn. The Patriot Surgeon: Coming of Age (Author House, 2012) (also Philadelphia) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; Hastings, Brooke [pseud.]. So Sweet a Sin (Harlequin Books, 1989) (romance) (Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)
Hawkins, Karen. Catherine and the Pirate (Avon, 2002) (Secondary (senior high) school) (Heroine from proper Boston family, though most Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Drowne's Wooden Image." Mosses from an Old Manse (2 vols. London: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. 2:59-73[Google Books]) ---. Legends of the Province House (From 1698 to 1776 the seat of British Governor) in Twice-Told Tales (Boston: American Stationers Co., 1837; ---. "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" ( The Snow-Image, and Other Tales . London: H.G. Bohn, 1851[Google Books 1883 Complete Works] ---. Septimius Felton, or The Elixir of Life (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1872 [Google Books]) (Concord, 1775)
Hayes, John T. Neither Death nor Glory: The O'Bannion Saga (Saddlebag Press, 2001) (Revolution) (Boston (Mass.)--History--Siege, Hazelton, Harry. The Rival Plotters, or, The Patriots and Royalists of '76: A Tale of Boston and Vicinity (New-York: W.D. Bancker, 1867) (Hilton's Helfrich Park Middle School (Evansville, Ind.). Cows on the Tracks! (Helfrich Park Middle School, 1992) (Juvenile) (Series: Pick-a-path Hemphill, Kris. A Secret Party in Boston Harbor (Mysteries in Time) (Silver Moon Press, 1998) (Elementary and junior high school) (Boston Henty, George Alfred. True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence (Blackie & Son, 1884 [Google Books 1885 ed.]) Hering, Marianne, and Nancy I. Sander. Illus. David Hohn. The Redcoats Are Coming! (Tyndale House Publishers, 2014) (Juvenile) Hilz, Tammy. Once an Angel (Zebra, 2001) (romance; English heroine's unloved Medford/Boston fiancé, Tory loyalist; 1760s; pirate Hochstetler, J. M. Daughter of Liberty (Zondervan, 2004) (Lexington and Concord; Bunker Hill) (Revolution; Young women; Women spies)
---. Native Son (Book 2, American Patriot Series) (Zondervan, 2005) (partly spying in Boston during seige)
Holford, Castello N. Aristopia: A Romance-history of the New World (Boston: Arena Publishing, 1895) (alternative history, Holly, K.C. "The British Are Coming." Taking Liberties: A Yankee Doodle Dandy Erotic Anthology (ebook) (Omnific Publishing, 2014)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, James M Bugbee, and N L Frothingham. Memorial. Bunker Hill, 1775, June 17th, 1875 (J.R. Osgood & Co., 1875) Hopkinson, Francis. A Pretty Story (1774) (HUMOR AND SATIRE; AMERICAN REVOLUTION; BRITISH IN THE UNITED STATES; TAXATION - UNITED STATES; Hoppus [oftern listed under Marks], Mary A. M. A Great Treason: A Story of the War of Independence (London: Macmillan and Co., 1883 Vol. 1 and Horrender, Philip M. Illus. Guy Wolek. Patriotic Mouse: Boston Tea Party Participant (Magic Wagon, 2014) (Elementary and junior Hotchkiss, Chauncey Crafts. In Defiance of the King: A Romance of the American Revolution (D. Appleton, 1895 [Google Books]) Howard, Hayden. "The Dipping of the Candlemaker." Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, 1954. Rept. in Murder and Mystery in Boston, ed. Carol-Lyn Rössel Waugh, Howe, Cheryl. The Pirate and the Puritan (Lesiure, 2003) (romance; Boston Puritan heroine and Carribean pirate; 1721) Hughes, Arthur J. Crispus Attucks (Lion & Lamb Press, 2002) (Attucks, Crispus; Boston Massacre, 1770; Slavery)
Hughes, Richard. Bound for Boston (Abdo & Daughters, 1989) (Juvenile) (Revolution; Tea party; Paul Revere; John Hancock) (Time travel)
Humphrey, Maud. illus. Mabel Humphrey. Children of the Revolution (New York: F.A. Stokes, 1900) (includes "Paul Revere's ride," "The Boston tea party," and "The Battle of Ingraham, J[oseph]. H[olt]. Fleming Field, or, The Young Artisan: A Tale of the Days of the Stamp Act (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1845) ---. The Flying Fish, or, Running the Blockade of Boston Harbor: A Stirring Story of Revolutionary Times (New York: Camp-Fire ---. Mark Manly, or, the Skippers's Lad: A Tale of Boston in the Olden Time (Boston: E.P. Williams, 1843 [HathiTrust]) (starts in Boston a few weeks after Lexington and Concord) ---. Neal Nelson, or The Siege of Boston (Boston: Henry L. Williams, 1845) (Siege, 1775-1776)
---. Sons of Liberty, or, The Cruise for the Powder Ship: A Story of Land and Sea in the War for Independence (New York: M. J. Ivers, 1899 [Northern Illinois U] (Beadle's Ingraham, Prentiss. Ocean Ogre, the outcast corsair, or, The good ship of ill-omen: a romance of piracy, and a companion story to "The ---. The Outlawed Skipper, or, The gantlet-runner: a romance of the coast and high seas in privateering and pirate times (New York: Beadle & Adams, Iron, N[athaniel]. C[olchester]. Agnes Falkland: A Story of Continental Times (New York: Beadle and Adams, Publishers, 1862) (Johannsen Irving, Washington. "The Devil and Tom Walker." (1830?) (The Works of Washington Irving Vol. 4 The Traveller The Jenson Society, 1907: 449-69 Jackson, D. B. Dead Man's Reach (Tor, 2015) (Magic; Magicians; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)
---. A Plunder of Souls (Tor, 2014) (Boston 1769) (Magicians; Magic)
---. The Price of Doing Business (Tor.com, 2014). Google eBook (32 pges.; same hero/setting/supernatural as Thieftaker)
---. A Spell of Vengeance (Tor, 2013) (Magic; Boston (Mass.))
---. Thieftaker (Tor Fantasy, 2013) (Pre-Revolutionary War Boston; murder) (Magic; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ---. Thieves' Quarry (Tor, 2013) (Thieftaker Chronicles 2) (1768) (Magic; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775)
James, Norma Wood. Dawn at Lexington (Longmans, Green, 1957) (Juvenile) (Boston-bookseller apprentice; Cambridge; New York) (Revolution, Jarrett, Miranda. Moonlight (Pocket Books, 1999) (romance) (Dressmakers -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Ship captains;Love stories; Jay, Reynold, et al. Tammy and the Declaration of Independence (include Paul Revere's ride and Lexington and Concord) (CreateSpace, 2015)
Jenkins, Beverly. Midnight (Avon Books, 2010) (Romance> (Women spies -- United States -- Revolution, 1775-1783; United States -- J[ohnnot], A[ndrew]. A poem on the rebuke of God's hand in the awful desolation made by fire in the town of Boston, on the 20th day of March, Johnson, William E. Tea and Yyranny: Still Shaggin' in Boston (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014(Merchants; Soldiers; Judd, Denis. Return to Treasure Island (Joseph, 1978) (part set in Boston around Tea Party) (Buried treasure; Pirates)
Kamensky, Jane and Jill Lepore. Blindspot: By a Gentleman in Exile and a Lady in Disguise (Spiegel & Grau, 2008) (murder; sex; Kauffmann, Reginald Wright. Spanish Dollars: Being Further Passages from the Memoirs of Nicholas Rowntree, These Relating Chiefly to Keegan, Sean Michael. A Redcoat's Perspective on the Battle of Breed's Hill (Xlibris Corp., 2007) (Great Britain. -- Army. -- Regiment of the Foot, 5th; Charlestown (Boston, Kenney, Daniel. illus. Sumit Roy. Midnight in Massachusetts (Trendwood P, 2017) (Juvenile) (Revere, Paul, -- 1735-1818; Time travel)
Keyes, J. Gregory. Newton's Cannon (Ballantine Pub. Group, 1998) (Series: Age of unreason, bk. 1) (in part, Benjamin Franklin Kneeland, John. An Elegy, Occasioned by the Melancholly Catastrophe, which happen'd in the night of the 10th. of August, 1774 Knipe, Emilie Benson and Alden Arthur Knipe. A Maid of '76 (The Macmillan Company, 1915 [Google Books]) (Boston and environs; London; Knox, Caroline. Nine Worthies (Wave Books, 2010) ("men and women in Boston and Newport in 1756 [whom] Nathaniel Smibert (1734-1756) Kornblatt, Marc. illus. Ernie Colón. Paul Revere and the Boston Tea Party (Bantam Books, 1987) (Series: Time Traveler, 5) Kruger, Evelyn Wolph. Revolutionary Rose: Boston Tea to Boston Free (Old Line Publishing, 2011) (Lexington and Concord; April 19, 1775) Kuehl, William A. The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere (Boston: Baker's Plays, 1975) (Series: Baker's royalty plays)
Lake, Deryn. Death at the Boston Tea Party: A John Rawlings Mystery (Severn House, 2016) (Pharmacists -- England; Murder -- Investigation; ---. The Governor's Ladies (Allison & Busby, 2005) (1775; Thomas Gage; Margaret Gage; Slave girl) (Revolution, 1775-1783)
Lavallee, Ed, and Grant Bond. Revere: Revolution in Silver (Archaia Studio P, 2007) (Revere, Paul, 1735-1818; Supernatural; Murder; Lawlor, Laurie. Horseback on the Boston Post Road, 1704 (Pocket Books, 2000) (More Post Road than Boston) (Sarah Kemble Knight) Lawrence, Mildred. Touchmark (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975) (Juvenile) (Boston Tea Party; Paul Revere's ride) (Revolution, Lawson, Robert. Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq., as Recently Revealed by his Horse, Levy, Harry and Nancy Grossman, Not Over Ten Inches High (McGraw-Hill, 1968) (Juvenile) (1755) (Chimney sweeps; African Americans Limbaugh, Rush, Kathryn Adams Limbaugh, and Christopher Hiers. Rush Revere and the American Revolution: Time-travel Adventures with Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Ballad of the French Fleet. October, 1746." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 21-30 ---. "Paul Revere's Ride" (Ticknor and Fields, 1863, pp. 18-25)
Lowell, Robert. My Kinsman, Major Molineux. In The Old Glory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965: 61-114, rev. ed. 1968) (play version, Lussier, Paul. The Last Refuge of Scoundrels: A Revolutionary Novel (Warner, 2001) (comic novel; Boston whore masterminds revolution; Lutz, Norma Jean. Maggie's Choice (Barbour, 1998) (Subtitle :Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening added for Chelsea ---. Maggie's Dare: The Great Awakening 1744 (Barbour, 2005) (Ages 4-8) (1744; Slavery; 12-year-old Boston heroine) (Great Awakening; ---. Smallpox Strikes!: Cotton Mather's Bold Experiment (Barbour, 1998) (Juvenile--ages 9-12) (1721) (Smallpox; Fathers and sons; MacDonald, Bailey. The Secret of the Sealed Room (New York: Aladdin, 2010) (Young Ben Franklin, detective) (Franklin, Benjamin, -- 1706-1790 MacDonald, Donna B. The Reluctant Spy (1st Books, 2000) (Sam Adams; General Gage) (Revolution, 1775-1783) Maderich, Robin [pseud. of Celia Ashley]. Faith and Honor (Warner Books, 1989) (romance; Loyalists; Boston widow) (Revolution, Maillet, Antonine. Trans. Philip Stratford. Pélagie: The Return to a Homeland 1979 (Doubleday, 1982) (ten-year trek, 1760s-70s; Martin, Stéphanie. Le Destin d'Aurélie Lafreniére 1, L'officier anglais (Laval, Québec: Guy Saint-Jean éditeur, 2020) (Jeunes femmes; Officiers; Anglais -- Québec (Province); ---. Le Destin d'Aurélie Lafreniére / 2, Les Rebelles (Laval, Québec: Guy Saint-Jean éditeur, 2020) (Jeunes femmes; Officiers; Anglais --
Québec (Province); Martin, William. Citizen Washington: A Novel (Warner Books, 1999) (some Boston, mainly seige of 1775-76) (Washington, George; Mason, Connie. Promise Me Forever (Love Spell Books, 1998 c. 1992) (Revolution; Romance; Boston privateer) (Historical fiction; Mason, F. Van Wyck. Eagle in the Sky (Lippincott, 1948) (some Boston; 1780-81; French army and navy; Physicians) (United States -- ---. Guns for Rebellion (Doubleday, 1977) (hero, Charlestown native, divided loyalites; mainly Fort Ticonderoga guns to Boston) ---. Rivers of Glory (Lippincott, 1942) (partly Boston, e.g., Book One Part I Boston, 1778) (United States -- History -- Revolution, ---. Three Harbours (Lippincott, 1938) (1774-75; partly siege of Boston)
Maxwell, William Hamilton. O'Hara; Or, 1798 (London: Andrews, 1825 [Google Books]) (pp. 14-87 Irish O'Hara in Boston May 1775 Mayrant, Drayton (a.k.a. Katherine Drayton Mayrant Simons). Always a River (Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1956) (Haravrd educated McGoldrick, May. Captured Dreams (New American Library, 2003) (romance; pre-Revolution Boston)
McIntyre, John Thomas. The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill (Penn. Pub. Co., 1914) (Juvenile)
---. The Young Continentals at Lexington (Penn, 1927) (Juvenile) (Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775;
United States -- McLellan, Isaac. The Gold Demon and the Poor Cobbler of Boston: A Romance of the Revolution (D. Ruggles, 1845)
---. "Legend of the North End" (The Boston Book. Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by Henry T. Tuckerman, Light and Horton, 1836, pp. 183-88) (1776; hero lives next to Peter Rugg)
Mellen, Grenville. Ode for the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker-Hill, at the Laying of the Monumental Stone, June 17, 1825 Melmoth, Sydney. The Confessions of Cuthburt: A Ballad; Bunker Hill: A Poem; Migration: A Poem (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, Miles, Margaret. Charlotte Willett, in 1760s Massachusetts, in the Bracebridge mystery series
---. A Mischief in the Snow (Bantam Books, 2001) (Winter 1766; counterfeiting) (Embezzlement)
---. No Rest for the Dove (Bantam Books, 2000) (Summer 1765; Visitor from Italy; Stamp Act)
---. Too Soon for Flowers (Bantam, 1999) (Spring 1764; Bostonians move to Bracebridge for safety; Smallpox vaccination) (Smallpox)
---. A Wicked Way to Burn (Bantam Books, 1998) (1763; fictional New England village of Bracebridge outside of Boston; Witchcraft Miller, Susan Martins. The Boston Massacre (Barbour, 1998) (Elementary and junior high school) (Boston Massacre, 1770; Brothers ---. Boston Revolts! (Barbour, 1998) (children 9-12) (Christmas 1764) (Brothers and sisters; Christian life)
---. Lizzie and the Redcoat: Stirrings of Revolution in the American Colonies (Barbour, 2006) (Elementary and junior high school ) ---. Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massacre (Barbour Pub., 2004) (Juvenile--ages 8-12) (Teenage girls; Boston Massacre, 1770)
Mills, Jane Johnston. First Cap'n General of Liberty Tree: A Biographical Novel Based on the Life of Ebenezer Mackintosh, 18th Century Boston More, Helen F. [or Moore]. "What's in a Name?" (The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine v.51 1896, p. 639) (poem; reponse to Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"; Morgan, Ollie. Shed No Tears (Writers Club Press, 2003) (One major character Boston rebel) (United States -- History -- Revolution, Morris, Gilbert. The Gentle Rebel (Bethany House, 1988) (Lexington to Bunker Hill) (United States -- History -- Revolution, ---. Sound the Trumpet (Bethany House, 1995) (Series: The Liberty Bell, Book 1; partly Boston in revolutionary times; Christian Morton, Sarah Wentworth. Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive (Boston: Manning and Loring, 1797; Evans Early American Moss, Narissa. Emma's Journal, The Story of a Colonial Girl (Harcourt Brace, 1999) (Juvenile--grades 3-5) (Boston 1774-76)) (Revolution, Neal, John. "Bunker's Hill." In Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects, Compiled from Various Sources. Part third--military, ed. Nelson, James L. The Blackbirder: Book Two of the Brethren of the Coast (William Morrow, 2001) (mainly Virginia or at sea, but lots ---. The Maddest Idea (Pocket Books, 1997) (Series: Revolution at sea, 2; Isaac Biddlecomb series, 2) (in part siege of Boston) Nigro, Don. Horrid Massacre in Boston (Samuel French, Inc., 2000) (dark comedy) (Historical drama, American; Boston (Mass.) -- History Niles, Nathaniel. The American Hero: A Sapphick Ode [new subtitle in later editions: Made on the Battle of Bunker-Hill, and the Burning of Norman, Diana. A Catch of Consequence (HarperCollins, 2002) (romance; starts in 1765 Boston) (Revolution, 1775-1783; London; Noyes, Charles Johnson. Patriot and Tory: A Tale of Stirring Times and Sturdy Souls (Boston: Henry A. Dickerman & Son, 1902 Google Books) O'Brian, Marion. illus. Frank P Holden. The Youngest Indian at the Boston Tea Party (Board of Education of New York in cooperation Oke, Janet. The Distant Beacon (Recorded Books, 2011, 2002) (Acadians; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)
Olasky, Susan. Will Northaway & the Gathering Storm (Crossway Books, 2005) (Elementary and junior high school) (Boston Massacre, ---. Will Northaway & the Quest for Liberty (Crossway Books, 2004) (Juvenile) (Pre-Revolutionary War Boston) (United States -- History Orgill, Roxane. Siege: How General Washington Kicked the British Out of Boston and Launched a Revolution (Candlewick P, 2018) (Juvenile) Otis, James (pseud. of James Otis Kaler). Boston Boys of 1775, or, When We Besieged Boston (Boston: Dana Estes, 1900) (Juvenile) (two spies)
----. The Boy Spies at the Battle of Bunker Hill: A Story of the Siege of Boston (New York: A.L. Burt Company, 1898) (same book as ---. The Minute Boys of Boston (Boston: Dana Estes, 1910 [Internet Archive]) (Juvenile) (Revolution, 1775-1783)
---. Neal, the Miller: A Son of Liberty (Boston: Estes and Lauriet, 1895 [Google Books] (Google Books)
---. The Signal Boys of '75; a Tale of Boston During the Siege (Boston: Estes and Lauriet, 1897 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Revolution, ---. Under the Liberty Tree: A Story of the "Boston Massacre." (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1896) (Juvenile) (Google Books)
---. (also under J.O. Kaler). (New York: Overfield, Joan. The Cabinetmaker's Daughter (Warner Books, 1988) (Romance: "Blueblooded daughter of a royal cabinetmaker is sent Parker, Christi E. The Reveres (Shell Education, 2012) (Paul Revere's son in Boston during the seige)
Parshall, Craig and Janet. Sons of Glory (Harvest House Publishers, 2008) (Boston Massacre and defense of soldiers) (Revolution, Pattison, Eliot. Savage Liberty: A Mystery of Revolutionary America (Counterpoint P, 2018) (Series: Bone rattler, 5) (pre-Rev. ship explodes in Perry, Amber Lynn. So Fair a Lady (Createspace, 2014) (Christian historical romance opening "Boston, 1773") (Boston)
Phelan, Mary Kay. illus. Leonard Weisgard. Midnight Alarm: The story of Paul Revere's Ride (Crowell, 1968) (Juvenile)
Philbrick, Nathaniel. Illus. Wendell Minor. Ben's Revolution: Benjamin Russell and the Battle of Bunker Hill (Nancy Paulsen Books, 2017) Poe, Marshall. illus. Leland Purvis. Sons of Liberty (Aladdin Paperbacks, 2008) (teenage hero; Boston 1768+) (Sons of Liberty -- Pollard, Josephine. Illus. H.W. McVikar. The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (Dodd, Mead & Company, 1882 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Wit Pottle, Russell A. Patriot Royal (Chestnut Hill Pub., 1996) (wealthy Bostonian Charles Royal joins rebels) (Revolution, 1775-1783)
Prichard, Sarah J. The Only Woman in the Town, and Other Tales of the American Revolution (Waterbury, Conn.: Melicent Porter Prinz, Deborah, and Tami Lehman-Wilzig. illus. Jomike Tejido. The Boston Chocolate Party (Millburn, NJ: Apples & Honey P, 2022) (Juivenile: Ages 5-8) (Chocolate; Friendship; Puritan, Job (pseud.?). "The Old Windmill: A Legend of the Revolution" 9-50 Household Tales (Boston: J. Munroe, 1861 [HathiTrust]) (short story; Sommerville, ---. "The Skipper's Daughter: A Tale of the Old Colony" 325-353 (fictionalized account of scandalous liasion-marriage of Sir Henry Rafferty, S. S. "The Massachusetts Peep-O'Night" (1984). Rept. in Murder and Mystery in Boston, ed. Carol-Lyn Rössel Waugh, Martin Rand, Edward A. Fifer-boy of the Boston Siege (Boston: A.I. Bradley, 1900) (Revolution, 1775-1783; Sieges)
Rappaport, Doreen. The Boston Coffee Party (Harper & Row, 1988). (Juvenile--grades K-3) (Revolution)
Raschka, Christopher. illus. Vladimir Radunsky. Mother Goose of Pudding Lane (Candlewick P, 2019) (Juvenile; "Elizabeth Foster Goose of late 17th-century Boston") (Mother Raum, Elizabeth, and Michael Burgan. The Revolutionary War Experience: An Interactive History Adventure (Capstone P,2014)
("Lets readers Reeman, Kimberly Jordan. Coronach (Gardners Books/Author House 2007) (mainly elsewhere but c. pp. 650-700 set in Revolutionary Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990) (Elementary and junior high school) (1775; "transporting Revere, Paul. "Unhappy Boston." ( Poems of American History. Ed. Burton Egbert Stevenson. Houghton Mifflin, 1908: 134) Rice, Patricia. Rebel Dreams (Penguin, 1991) (romance; heroine, Boston warehouse owner; hero, British ship captain; Revolutionary Richmond, Robert P. Powder for Bunker Hill (Macrae Smith, 1968) (Juvenile) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775)
Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March (Harcourt Brace, 1993) (Young Adult) (Boston Massacre: Rachel Marsh, 14-year-old indentured ---. Hang a Thousand Trees with Ribbons: The Story of Phillis Wheatley (Harcourt Brace, 1996) (Juvenile--grade 7+) (fictionalized ---. The Secret of Sarah Revere (Harcourt Brace, 1995) (Young Adult) (Revere, Paul; Spies; Silversmiths; Fathers and daughters)
Rivers, George R. R. The Governor's Garden: A Relation of Some Passages in the Life of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Sometime Captain-general and Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. Lydia Bailey (Doubleday, 1947) (partly, Maine lawyer in 1799-1800 Boston fighting Alien and Sedition laws; ---. Northwest Passage (Doubleday, Doran, 1937) (narrator artist and Harvard student; some Boston scenes; Chapters II and III Harvard ---. Oliver Wiswell (Doubleday, Doran, 1940) (Loyalists in Boston during Revolution and elsewhere; 1775-83) (United States -- History Robinson, Gertrude. Sons of Liberty (Dutton, 1941) (Juvenile) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Summary Boys' Life Jan. 1942: 32 [Google Books; Robinson, [Mrs. ?] J[ohn]. H[ovey]. The Boston Conspiracy or, The Royal Police. A Tale of 1773-75 (Boston: Dow & Jackson, 1847) ---. Evelyn, the Child of the Revolution. A Romance of Real Life (Boston: Hotchkiss, 1850) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, ---. The Fingers of Fate; or, The Astrologer's Daughter A Tale of 1770 (Boston: Page, 1847) (Boston setting?)
---. The Rebel Spy; or, The King's Volunteers. A Romance of the Siege of Boston (Boston: F. Gleason's Pub. Hall, 1852)
Rocca, Al M. Patriot Courage--: A Story About the Boston Tea Party (Renown Publishing, 2006) (Juvenile) (History -- United States; Rowson, Susanna. The Fille de Chambre: A Novel (Philadelphia: Printed for H. & P. Rice, 1794) (partly Boston/Nantasket/ Russell, Ezekiel. An Elegiac Poem, composed on the never-to-be-forgotten terrible and bloody battle fought at an intrenchment on Bunker-Hill Rutledge, Adam. Sons of Liberty (Book Creations, 1992) (Series: Patriots 1; Boston 1773-75) (Revolution, 1775-1783)
Sage, Agnes Carr. illus. Mabel L Humphrey A Little Daughter of the Revolution: A Story of the Boys and Girls of '76 (New York: Sanderson, Whitney. Boston Tea Party Sparks Revolution (Mankato, Minn.: Child's World, 2019) (Series: Events that changed America) (Juvenile) (Boston Tea Party, 1773; Sargent, Winthrop. Boston: A Poem (Boston: Hosea Sprague, 1803) (brief review The Monthly Anthology Jul. 1804: 420-21 [Google Books; Savage, Josephine. Gunpowder Girl (J. Day, 1958) (In 1775 a teenage girl in Boston becomes involved in a plot to secretly manufacture Schnabel, Eileen. illus. Ricky Gunwan. One If By Land, Two If By Submarine (Wonder Jumps P, 2019) (Saving America Series / Volume 1) (Secondary (senior high) school) (Time- Sears, Margaret L. Menotomy: Romance of 1776 (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1908) (Battles of Lexington and Concord) (Bunker Hill, Battle Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. The Linwoods: or, "Sixty years since" in America (Harper & Brothers, 1835 [Google Books]) Shaara, Jeff. Rise to Rebellion: A Novel of the American Revolution (Ballantine, 2001) (March 1770 [Boston Massacre] - July 4, 1776; Silver, Mrs. The Lover's Pilgrimage; and, A Trial of Affection (Boston: Printed by Freeman & Bolles, 1846 [HathiTrust]) (English hero lands in Boston harbor Sidney, Margaret. A Little Maid of Boston Town (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1910) (Juvenile) (John Hancock; Henry Knox)
Smith, Bobbi. Captive Pride (Kensington Publishing Corporation, 1987) (historical romance; Revolutionary War; 1770s) (Shipping Smith, Ruel Perley Smith. Prisoners of Fortune a Tale of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (Page, 1907 [Internet Archive]) (story proper starts 1704) Smolens, John. The Schoolmaster's Daughter (Pegasus Books, 2011) (+murder mystery) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, Smythe, Samuel [pseud. of Rufus Dawes]. Strokes and Strictures (Office of the New England Galaxy, 1800) (Boston (Mass.) -- Social life Snyder, Laurie Lillie. For Hannah with Love: A Child Indentured Servant, Hanan [sic] Priest, from Colonial Boston (2016) (Child labor; Sommerfield, Sylvie. Night Star (Pinnacle Books, 1992) (romance; Revolution; 1769) (United States -- History -- Colonial period, Sorensen, A. A. Turner's Words: Achieving Freedom (Infinity Publishing, 2005) (1772-89; partly in Boston) Sparhawk, Frances Campbell. A Wedding Tangle (Boston: Arena Pub., 1893 [HathiTrust]) (in part, Boston preparation for attack on Louisburg and response to capture)
Sparks, Kerrlyn. For Love or Country (Tom Doherty Associates, 2002) (Romance; Boston patriot disguises as loyalist to spy on British) Specter, Baron. illus. Dustin Evans. The First Adventure: Dodging Danger on the Dartmouth (Magic Wagon, 2010) (Elementary and junior Springer, Mary Elizabeth. Lady Hancock: A Story of the American Revolution (New York: I.H. Blanchard, 1900 [Google Books]) (Chapter VI Stanley, Diane. illus. Holly Berry. Joining the Boston Tea Party (HarperCollins, 2001) (Juvenile) (Revolution, 1775-1783; Boston Stephens, Amanda. Freedom at Any Price: March 1775-April 19, 1775 (Grosset & Dunlap, 2003) (Juvenile--ages 9-12) (PBS animated series; ---. Justice for All: December 5, 1773-September 5, 1774 (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 2003) (Elementary and junior high school) (Adams, Stephens, Robert. The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure (Boston: L.C. Page, 1898 [Google Books]) (includes the Battle of Bunker Hill Stephenson, Neal. Quicksilver (William Morrow, 2003) (mainly Europe but opens on Boston Common, October 12, 1713, with "Enoch in Sterman, Betsy. illus. Marc Scott. Escape to Danger (Celebration Press, 2005) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, Stevens, Augusta De Grasse. Old Boston: An American Historical Romance (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1884) Stevens, Katherine V. Tucks and Me: Crispus Attucks and America, 1766-1773 (Chickadee Hill, 2015) (Attucks, Crispus, -- -1770; Stevenson, Augusta. Paul Revere: Boy of Old Boston (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill , 1946) (Childhood of Famous Americans Series) (later repted. Stoddard, William O. Dan Monroe: A Story of Bunker Hill (Boston: Lothrop, 1905) (Juvenile) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)
Stone, Irving. Those Who Love: A Biographical Novel of John and Abigail Adams (Doubleday, 1965) (Adams, Abigail; Presidents' Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Oldtown Folks (Boston: Fields, Osgood, 1869 [Internet Archive]) (Boston and area) (Women; Spinsters) (Google Books)
Strand, John. Tom Walker: A Play (Dramatic Pub., 2002) (Boston, 1727) (light-hearted, entertaining play about the village idiot, based on Stratemeyer, Edward. The Minute Boys of Bunker Hill (Boston: Page Co. Publishers, 1899) (Juvenile) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., Sundgren-Lothrop, Mickey. Sons of Valor: American Revolutionary War (Vantage P, 2009) (includes Tea Party and Lexington and Concord) Talbot, Charles R. A Double Masquerade: A Romance of the Revolution (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1885 [Internet Archive]) (Ch. VIII Taylor, Benjamin F. A Poem: "Mary Butler's Ride" ([New Hampshire?]: Miss [Lilli]an [?] Kendall, printer., [1874?] [Complete Poetical Works Thayer, William M[akepeace]. The Printer Boy or, How Ben Franklin Made his Mark. An Example for Youth (Boston, J.E. Tilton, 1864 [HathiTrust])
Thompson, Paul B. Liberty's Son: A Spy Story of the American Revolution (Enslow Publishers, 2009) (Elementary and junior high school) Tiatorio, Anthony. Shedding Grace: The Story of a Young American's Search For Justice (Trafford, 2006) (contradictions between Tilton, Dwight [pseud. for Wilder Dwight Quint?]. My Lady Laughter: A Romance of Boston Town in the Days of the Great Siege (Boston: C.M. Tinney, Janet. Bunker Hill: A Novel (Highland Books, 2000) (Revolution, 1775-1783; Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775; Warren, Joseph; Titus, Harold. Crossing the River (BookLocker, 2011) (Lexington and Concord; 1775) (Crossing the River web page) Trachsel, Myrtle Jamison. illus. Sperry, Armstrong. Mistress Jennifer and Master Jereimah: A Story of the Building of Old Ironsides Trease, Geoffrey. Danger in the Wings (Hodder Children's, 1997) (juvenile; Revolutionary times; Boston actor goes to England; Trottier, Maxine. By the Standing Stone (Stoddart Kids, 2000) (Juvenile: grades 7-8) (Series: Circle of silver chronicles, 2) Tyler, Royall. The Algerine Captive or, The Life and Adventures of Doctor Updike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner among the Algerines (Walpole, Uhlar, Janet. Liberty's Martyr: The Story of Dr. Joseph Warren, a Novel (Dog Ear Publishing, 2009) (Warren, Joseph, -- 1741-1775; Ukers, William H. Rosemary and Briar Sweet: An Eighteenth Century Romance of John Company and Young America (Tea and Coffee Ureles, Alvin. Following Joe: The Patriot Doctor and the Siege of Boston (Outskirts Press, 2008) (Warren, Joseph, -- 1741-1775; Van Nuys, Joan. Beloved Deceiver (Avon Books, 1994) (Present: Boston 1765; pirate crime--twenty years earlier; Romance) (Revenge) Vaughn, Mina. "John Hancock Blocked." Taking Liberties: A Yankee Doodle Dandy Erotic Anthology (ebook) (Omnific Publishing, 2014)
Warren, George A. The Musket Boys of Old Boston, or, The First Blow for Liberty (Goldsmith, 1909) (Juvenile; 1775--"Paul Revere's ride, the Warren, Mercy Otis. The group: as lately acted, and to be re-acted, to the wonder of all superior intelligences, nigh head-quarters ---. The Motley Assembly (Boston: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Coverly, 1779 [Richard Seltzer; accessed 31 Mar. 2008]) (Boston (Mass.) -- Washington, Martha [pseud. of Leonard Deming]. Battle of Bunker Hill: and Saw Ye my Hero George ([Boston]: Sold at east end Faneuil Hall-- Watson, Henry C. The Boston Tea Party: and Other Stories of the American Revolution, Relating Many Daring Deeds of the Old Heroes Webb, Robert N. We Were There at the Boston Tea Party (Grosset & Dunlap, 1956) (juvenile) (Boston Tea Party, 1773)
Weitzman, David. Old Ironsides: Americans Build a Fighting Ship (Houghton Mifflin, 1997) (Juvenile: ages 9-12) (lightly fictionalized Wessbecher, Grace. Shamrock: A Horse's Tale (Puddingstone Productions, 2015) (1737, first Boston St. Patrick's Day parade) (Horses)
White, Capers. The British Are Coming (Scholastic, 2002) (Revere, Paul: Lexington, Battle of, Lexington, Mass., 1775; United States Wibberley, Leonard. John Treegate's Musket (Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1986) (Juvenile) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775)
---. Peter Treegate's War (Bethlehem Books; Ignatius P, 2009) (1775 Boston) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Woodruff, Elvira. George Washington's Spy (Scholastic P, 2010) (Elementary and junior high school) (10-year-olds time travel to Woods, Allen. The Sword and Scabbard: Thieves and Thugs and the Bloody Massacre in Boston (Boston Heritage Publishing, 2015) Wray, Kent W. Jeremy and the Redcoats (RBM Ministries, 1997) (Juvenile) (United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Wyckoff, Nicholas Elston. The Braintree Mission: A Fictional Narrative of London and Boston, 1770-1771 (Macmillan, 1957) (Pitt, William; Benchley, Nathaniel. Portrait of a Scoundrel (Doubleday, 1979) (partly, Boston; capitalistic land speculation in the aftermath of Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Boston. Sicut Patribus, sit deus nobis ... Read in Faneuil Hall, on the Centennial Anniversary of the Destruction of the Garwood, Julie. Rebellious Desire (Pocket Books, 1986) (romance; set in England 1802; heroine raised for 14 years in Boston)
Sprague, Shirley M. Morning 1808: Boston Harbor (iUniverse, 2014) (begins Jan. 1796 with arrival of E.A. Poe's mother in Boston [Worldcat]) Wassermann, Moses. trans. from German Harriet W Mayer. Judah Touro: A Biographical Romance (New York: Bloch, 1923 [HathiTrust]) ("Rhode Island, Jamaica, Boston, and New Orleans Abbott, Jacob. The Boston Boys: or, Caleb at Home (London: T. Allman, 1848)
---. Caleb in Town: A Story for Children (Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1839 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Christian life; Boys -- ---. Marco Paul's Adventures in Pursuit of Knowledge: City of Boston (Boston: Benjamin B. Mussey, 1845 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (tourist Adams, Henry. (See McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner.) The Radical Club: A Poem, Respectfully Dedicated to "the Infinite" Adams, John S. Sam Squab, the Boston Boy: Containing a Sketch of his Early Life, and Wonderful Adventures (Boston: Printed by Justin Jones, Adamson, Mary Jo. The Blazing Tree: A Michael Merrick Mystery (Signet: New American Library, 2000) (detective, a Boston police ---. The Elusive Voice: A Michael Merrick Mystery (Signet: New American Library, 2001) (Reporters and reporting -- Massachusetts -- African Society (Boston, Mass.). Grand and Splendid Bobalition of Slavery, and "Great Annibersary Fussible," by the Africum Shocietee of ---. "Reply to Bobalition" (Shane White, "'It Was a Proud Day': African Americans, Festivals, and Parades in the North, 1741-1834." The Journal ---. Grand Bobalition of Slavery.: Grand and most helligunt Selebrashum of the Bobalition of Slabery in de Nited Tate ob Neu Englunt, and A�d�, [Charles] Hamilton. A Voyage of Discovery: A Novel of American Society (Harper & Brothers, 1892 [Google Books]) (two main Aiken, Albert W. Crowningshield, the Sleuth, or, Pitiless as Death (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1885 [Northern Illinois U]) Aiken, Albert W., and Nathaniel Orr, The Winning Oar, or, The Inkeeper's Daughter: A Story of Boston and of Cambridge, of the college boys of Harvard, of Aimwell, Walter. The Aimwell Stories. Clinton: Or, Boy-life in the Country
(Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853 [Internet Archive 1859 ed]) ---. Oscar, or, The Boy Who Has His Own Way
(Boston: Gould and Lincoln; New York: Sheldon, Lamport & Blakeman, 1855 [Internet Archive Alcott, Louisa May. "Kitty's Class Day" (1868) In Kitty's Class Day; Aunt Kipp; Psyche's Art (Boston: Loring, 1868 [Google Books 1888 ed.]) ---. May Flowers (Boston: Little, Brown 1899 [Google Books]) (Opens "Being Boston girls") (Young women -- Conduct of life; Girls -- Societies ---. An Old-Fashioned Girl (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870 [Google Books 1896 ed.]) (Country girl comes to the city) (Children; Conduct of life; ---. Work: A Story of Experience (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1873 [Google Books 1875 ed.]) (1873) (Genteel working woman in Boston) (Young Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. "An Ode on the Unveiling of the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, May Thirty-First, 1897." (The Cruise of the ---. "A Sea Turn" (Boston couple summering at Marblehead Neck) (Humor and satire; Fog, Yachts and yatching)
---. "A Struggle for Life" (starts on Boston Common) (ROMANCE; SUPERNATURAL AND GHOST STORIES; DEATH; FUNERALS; Alexander, David. "The Man Who Went to Taltavul's" (1956). Rept. in Murder and Mystery in Boston, ed. Carol-Lyn Rössel Waugh, Martin H. Alexander, Sigmund Bowman. A Moral Blot: A Novel (Boston: Arena Pub., 1894 [HathiTrust] ("interesting glimpses of Bohemian life" Alger, Horatio. Charlie Codman's Cruise: A Story for Boys (Boston: Loring, 1867 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (1860s; Charlie based in Boston) ---. Do and Dare, or, A Brave Boy's Fight for Fortune (New York Book Company, 1909 [Project Gutenberg/UPenn text]) (Washington Street; Allen, Luman. Dane Walraven: (A Tale of Old Boston) (Chicago: Donohue, Henneberry, 1892 [Internet Archive]) (Opens in Boston, 29 Oct. 1829)
Allen, Nancy Campbell. Faith of Our Fathers: A House Divided: A Novel (Covenant Communications, 2001) (One brother in Boston) ---. Faith of Our Fathers: Through the Perilous Fight (Book 3) (Covenant Communications, 2003) (United States -- History -- Civil War, Allen, Willis Boyd. The Northern Cross, or, Randolph's Last Year at the Boston Latin School (Boston: D. Lothrop Company, 1887 [Google --Silver Rags (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1886 [Internet Archive] (mainly summer vacation in Maine, but some Boston)
Allston, Margaret (pseud. of Anna Farquhar Bergengren). Her Boston Experiences: A Picture of Modern Boston Society and People (L. C. Page, Ames, Nathan. under pseud. Senor Alguño. Childe Harvard, a Romance of Cambridge (Boston: Redding, 1851 [HathiTrust]) (poetic parodies)
Anderson, Catherine. Cheyenne Amber (HarperPaperbacks, 1994) (romance; heroine Boston-born) (Cheyenne Indians; Colorado)
Anderson, Gabriella. A Matter of Convenience (Zebra Books, 2000) (historical romance in Boston; 1st vol. in Destin Coin trilogy) ---. A Matter Of Honor: The Destiny Coin (Zebra Books, 2001) (romance; heroine stowsaway on ship to Boston) (Boston, Massachusetts Anonymous. The Affecting History of Emily Hammond, An American Lady, Who in the Full Bloom of Youth and Beauty, Fell a Victim to the Arts of the Seducer ([Boston?]: Printed for the ---. Appeal of the Old Elm on Boston Common ([Boston: 1860]) (Trees -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) ---. Baffled Schemes: A Novel (Boston: Loring, 1867 {Wright American Fiction]) (murder mystery, ---. Bob Brooks in Boston: Or, The mystery of the Signet Ring. Bob Brooks Library 1893 (published by Lou H. Ostendorff, Jr.) ---. The Boston Calamity ([Boston, 1872]) (Great Fire, Boston, Mass., 1872 -- Poetry; Fires -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Poetry)
---.The Bradys' BOSTON DOUBLES; or, TRAPPING THE FAKE DETECTIVES," which will "be the next number (566) of "Secret Service." ---. The Bradys and the Stolen Bonds; or, A Tangled Case from Boston. In Secret Service: Old and young King Brady Detectives 469 (Gary ---. Carriers' address: To the patrons of the New-England palladium. Boston, January 1, 1829 (1 page praise of Boston, incorporating names of ---. City Scavenger's New Year's Address, for 1831 ([Boston, 1830] [p4A.com; accessed 4 Apr. 2008]) (broadside) (New Year in literature; ---. City Scavenger's New Year's Address, for 1837 ([Boston, 1836]) (New Year in literature; Refuse collectors -- Massachusetts ---. The Devil's Levee in Boston ([Massachusetts? 184- -186-]) (Temperance -- Poetry; Poetry of places; Boston (Mass.) -- History ---. The Dream Fulfilled; or, The Trials and Triumphs of the Moreland Family (Boston: James French, 1848 [Google Books]) (happy ending as "The sounds of the carriages ---. The Female Marine and Related Works: Narratives of Cross-dressing and Urban Vice in America's Early Republic . Ed. Daniel A Cohen ---. Globe 'Surprise' Party, July 31st, 1875. The bill of fare, chart of Boston Harbor the poem, essays and lectures, and report ---. Grand Celebration of Bunker Hill Monument. June 17, 1843 ([Boston? 1843]) (includes poem(s) and Webster address) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, ---. The "Hub of Hell" (Boston?: 186-?) (Boston (Mass.) -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Humor) (1 page)
---. The Imitators: A Poem of Boston Life (Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co., 1886) (152 pages) (Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs ---. "In a Fog". Atlantic Monthly ---. The Jenny Lind Mania in Boston; or, A Sequel to Barnum's Parnassus, by Asmodeus (Boston, 1850)
---. Jocko Kelly's Escape: A Story of Boston (Boston: Hub Publishing Company, 1891) (Series: Hub ten cent novels, no. 1) (Escaped prisoners)
---. Life in Town: or, The Boston Spy: Being a Series of Sketches Illustrative of Whims and Women in the 'Athens of America' (Boston: Redding and ---. Luke Lovell, the Widow's Son; or, The Adventures of a Young Gentleman from the State of Maine Who Went to Seek his Fortune in Boston ---. The Pennimans; or, The Triumph of Genius (Gardner A. Fuller, 1862 [Google Books]) (starts with "leaves . . .strewn over the Common" 5; later Beacon, Tremont, Court, ----. Rambles about Boston; or, Efforts to Do Good (Boston: Heath & Graves, 1857) (Social life and customs; Christian life)
-----. The Scavenger's Address to his Employers (Boston, 1826) (1 page) (New Year in literature; Refuse collectors -- Massachusetts ---. Squantum Festival! Or, Bobalition No. 2.: A dialogue between Scipio Smilax, Barber, & Mungo Meanwell, Bootblack ([Boston: ---. With My Heart's Wish (London: Edwin J. Brett, 1892) ("Series: The English ladies novelettes, no. 56" WorldCat) (Boston (Mass.))
---. Young Sleuth's Boston Haul; or, The Keen Detective's Great Find (Short story? listed The Dime Novel Detective Gary Ashby, Professor. Helen Howard, or The Bankrupt and Broker.: A Mysterious Tale of Boston (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845) (Bankruptcy; Asmodeus in America, pseud. The Millerite Humbug; or, The Raising of the Wind!! A comedy in five acts, as performed with unbounded applause in Boston and Austin, Jane G. Mrs. Beauchamp Brown (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1880 [Google Books]) (Boston high society; Plum Island; Mt. Desert; Austin, William. "Peter Rugg, the Missing Man" (1824) and "Further Account of Peter Rugg" (1826) ("Some account of Peter Rugg, the missing Averill, Charles E. Adelaide, the Avenger; or, The Fearful Retribution! (New-York: Robert M. De Witt, 1869) (Series: De Witt's ten cent romances, ---. The Secrets of the Twin Cities, or, The Great Metropolis Unmasked: A Startling Story of City Scenes in Boston and New York. (Boston: Williams, 1849)
Avery, Anne. The Snow Queen (Love Spell, 1996) (Boston heroine; Colorado Springs; romance)
Axelrod, Mark. "Seven Card Stud & the Scarlet Letter Writers" (Dante's Foil & Other Sporting Tales. Black Scat Books, 2015)
Babcock, J. M. L. The Dawning a Novel (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C.T. Dillingham, 1886 [Google Books]) (opens "The pride of Baily, Sydney Jane. An Improper Situation (ePublishing Works!, 2014) (partly "Boston in the late 19th century"; Brahmins [Amazon]) Baker, Madeline. Prairie Heat (Leisure Books, 1991) (Boston-bred heroine in wild west; romance) (Frontier and pioneer life)
Ballou, Maturin Murray. Albert Simmons: Or, The Midshipman's Revenge (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845) (West End sordidness) (DEATH; Balmer, Edwin. "Billings of '49." (Baker's Published Manuscript Readings, no. 18) (Boston: W.H. Baker, 1926) (7 pg. short story) Banks, Russell. Cloudsplitter: A Novel (HarperFlamingo, 1998) (John Brown; some scenes in Boston) (Brown, John; Harpers Ferry Barbour, Ralph Henry. The Half-Back: A Story of School, Football, and Golf (D. Appleton and Company, 1899 [Project Gutenberg]) (Juvenile) ---- The Land of Joy (Doubleday, Page, 1903 [Google Books]) (romance at Harvard) (Bail 278-79)
Barker, Benjamin. Mary Moreland or The Fortunes and Misfortunes of an Orphan (Boston: Gleason's Pub. Hall, 1845 [HathiTrust]) (much of the action in Boston) (Kidnapping; Orphans)
Barrows, Albert Bradburn. Jim Bullseye in Boston: A Dialect Poem (Boston: Damrell & Upham, 1890) (55 pages) (English language -- Bates, Arlo. In the Bundle of Time (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1893 [Google Books]) (much Boston, third ch. opens "in the Union Club House, on Park Street, Boston" 49)
---. Love in a Cloud: A Comedy in Filigree (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 [Google Books]) (The Country Club) (Google Books)
---. The Pagans (in part Italian Americans; North End) (Paganism) (Henry Holt, 1884 [Google Books]) (Google Books) ---. The Philistines (Ticknor and Co., 1889) (in part Italian Americans; North End) (Google Books)
---. The Puritans (Houghton Mifflin, 1898 [Google Books]) (Google Books) ---. A Wheel of Fire (Scribner's, 1885 [Google Books 1889 ed.]) (in and around Boston; wealthy class; hereditary insanity) (Author's Synopsis, Bates, Fanny B. My Sister Kitty: A story of Election Day (Lee and Shepard, 1881[HathiTrust]) (partly in Boston during session of Mass. legislature)
Bauman, Natasha. The Disorder of Longing: A Novel (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2008) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century; Brazil; Bean, Helen Marr. The Widow Wyse: A Novel (Cupples, Upham, 1885 [Google Books]) (in part Boston high society)
Begiebing, Robert J. The Adventures of Allegra Fullerton; Or, A Memoir of Startling and Amusing Episodes from Itinerant Life: A Novel Bellamy, Edward. Equality (D. Appleton, 1897 [Google Books]) (sequel to Looking Backward) ---. Looking Backward, 2000-1887 (Ticknor, 1888 [Google Books 1889 ed.]) Bender, Karen E. "The Fourth Prussian Dynasty: An Era of Romance and Royalty." The New Yorker 13 Sep. 1999: 88-96 (heroine, "American- Bennett, James W. and Donald Raycraft. Old Hoss: A Fictional Baseball Biography of Charles Radbourn (McFarland, 2002) (played in Berry, Martha E. under pseud. Mrs. Eugenia St. John. Bella, or, The Cradle of Liberty: A Story of Insane Asylums (Boston: N.D. Berry, 1874 [HathiTrust]) Bigelow, Jacob. "The Jingko Tree on Boston Common" (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by James Thomas Fields, Ticknor, Reed, and Blackburn, Tom Wakefield. Sierra Baron (Random House, 1955) (1958 film; hero starts off as tough seaman from Irish slums of Boston; Blake, John Lauris. Evenings in Boston (Boston: Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street., 1827 [Google Books]) (short stories for children Blubberlip, Cezar and Cuff Crookshank [satirical invented names]. Grand Jubelum!!! Order 12f Annebersary ob Affricum Bobalition. Copy of a Boland, Ellenor Fitzpatrick (under pseud. Alethe). A Lament for the Church of the Holy Cross, in Franklin Street, Boston (Charlestown, Bondurant, Mark. Red Jacket: The Autobiography of Calista Antoine (Camarillo, CA: Bongo Books, 2014) (alternative history; "1892, the fourth and nastiest year of the Civil War" Boz, Jr. The Moral City! Or, Glances at Social Life in Boston (Boston: John A. French, 1849) (city mystery)
Bradbury, Osgood. The Eastern Belle:, or, The Betrayed One! A Tale of Boston and Bangor (Boston: H. L. Williams, 1845)
---. Eliza Mead: The Female Roue.: a full development of the mysteries of Boston (New-York, 1845?) (Prostitution; Single women -- Sexual behavior)
---. Ellen Stuart, or The Rescued Heiress (Boston: Purdy & Bradley, 1845) ("a 40 page novel set in Boston" Marcus A. McCorison, "Report of the Librarian 1965-1966," American ---. The Empress of Beauty: Second Series of Mysteries of Boston (Boston: J. N. Bradley, 1844) (64 pges.) (class; sexual seduction)
---. Frances Carleton: or, The Boston Blacksmith (Boston: H. L. Williams, 1846 [Google Books]) (79 pgs.)
--- Helen Clarence (Boston: H.L. Williams, 18??) (Young women; Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century) (66 pgs.)
---. Isabelle, or, the Emigrant's Daughter: a tale of Boston and the West (Boston: F. Gleason, 1848) (Immigrants)
---. Julia Bicknell: or, Love and Murder! Founded on a Recent Terrible Domestic Tragedy (Boston, 1845 [HathiTrust]) (based on Boston murder)
---. Louise Kempton, or, Vice and Virtue Contrasted (Boston: F. Gleason, 1844 [HathiTrust]) (60 pgs.; Boston, Brookline, elsewhwere) ---. Mysteries of Boston, or, Woman's Temptation (Boston: J. N. Bradley, 1844) (40 pges.) (class; sexual seduction; lesbian suggestions)
---. The Rival Lovers; or, The Midnight Murder (New York: Robert DeWitt, 1857) (�a girl visiting Boston is lured into a brothel masquerading as a Bradford, Benjamin. Around the Hub in Rhyme (Boston: Published for the author by Charles D. Cragie & Co., 1900) (wealthy view of Brainerd, Thomas H. (pseud of Mrs. John R. Jarboe]) Robert Atterbury: A Study of Love and Life (New York: Cassell, 1896 Internet Archive]) (Marriage; Boston)
Bretton, Barbara. Midnight Lover (Pocket Books, 1989) (Boston heroine in wild west Nevada; romance)
Brown, Alice. The Day of His Youth (Houghton, Mifflin, 1897 [Internet Archive]) ("located partly in Boston" 478, Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, ---. Fools of Nature: A Novel (Boston: Ticknor, 1887 [Google Books]) (West End; fake spiritualism) (Google Books ---. Margaret Warrener (Houghton Mifflin, 1901 [Google Books]) ("Bohemian Boston" Helen Winslow, Literary Boston To-Day, Page, 1902, p. 76; set in Brown, E[mma]. E[lizabeth]. The Children's Hour at the Old South (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1881) (Juvenile; title introduction and seven short stories, Brown, Samuel E. illus. Fernando Edwards Worcester. The Boston Cries, and The Story of the Little Match-boy (New York: J.C. Riker, 129 Browning, L. M. The Castoff Children (Homebound Publications, 2016) (1850) (Orphans; Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- Brownson, O[restes]. A[ugustus]. The Spirit-Rapper; An Autobiography (Little, Brown; London: C. Dolman, 1854 [Google Books]) (more fiction Brudno, Ezra S. The Tether (J.B. Lippincott, 1908 [Google Books]) (Jewish Americans; Intermarriage; fictionalized autobiography; hero "from the Bunner, Henry Cuyler. "Our Aromatic Uncle". In Love in Old Cloathes, and Other Stories (C. Scribner and Sons, 1896: 187-217 [Internet ---. "Mr. Wick's Aunt." More "Short Sixes." (New York: Keppler & Schwarzmann, 1894: 84-108) ("the Boston branch of the family" 84)
Buntline, Ned. pseud of Edward C. Z. Judson. Love at First Sight, or, the Daguerreotype (Boston: Jones's Pub. House, 1848) ("studio is located in real life [ad], just as it was ---. The Red Privateer, or, The Midshipman Rover: A Romance of 1812 (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1890 [Northern Illinois U]) (Boston (Mass.); Burgess, Gelett. "The Bohemians of Boston and Their Ways; a Memory of the Jacobean Craze." (The Burgess Nonsense Book; Being a Complete Burkhart, Rebecca. "Follow Your Heart" (October 2000) (Boston episode fan fiction of T.V. series Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) (accessed Burnham, Clara Louise. A Great Love (Houghton, Mifflin, 1899 [Google Books]) (opens "In his bachelor apartment in Boston" 1)
--. Next Door (Ticknor, 1886 [Google Books])
Burnham, Geo[rge] P[ickering] (pseud. of George Pickering). The Rag-Picker; or, Bound and Free (New York: Mason Brothers, 1855 [Internet Bush, Gary R. Sail into Treachery (Forty P, 2016) ("1803, Jamie Sharpe, a cocky Boston boy," shanghaied; mainly at sea)(Slave Butterworth, Hezekial. Jack's Carrier Pigeons: A Tale of the Times of Father Taylor's Mariners' Home (Boston: A. I. Bradley, 1900 [Internet Archive]) ---. Up from the Cape: A Plea for Republican Simplicity (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1883 [Google Books]) Bynner, Edwin Lassetter. Zachary Phips (Houghton Mifflin, 1892 [Google Books]) (Boston boy starts roughly but ends up pillar of society; Aaron Byrne, John. To the Beau Monde ([Boston, 1809]) (Merchants -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Boston (Mass.) -- Commerce -- Poetry; Cahan, A[braham]. Yekl: A Tale of the New York Ghetto (D. Appleton, 1896 [Google Books]) (mainly New York, but opens with a contrast Cable, George Washington. John March, Southerner (C. Scribner's Sons, 1894 [Google Books]) (mainly the South during Reconstruction, but Callender, E[dward]. B[elcher]. The Leg-pullers, or, Politics as She is Applied: A Tale of the Puritan Commonwealth Cambridge, William G. The Mechanic's Bride, or, The Autobiography of Elwood Gorden (Boston: Shepard, Clark and Brown, 1857 Camden, Elizabeth. Against the Tide (Bethany House, 2012) (19th c. Boston translator for Navy) (Women translators; Boston (Mass.) -- Campbell, Helen. Ballantyne: A Novel (Little, Brown, 1901 [Google Books]) (entitled Bostonians) (Google Books)
Campbell, Jane C. "Farmer's Daughter." In The Money-Maker, and Other Tales (New York: J. C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1854: Campbell, Scott. Union Down: A Signal of Distress (Boston: Arena Pub., 1893 [Google Books]) Carleton, George Washington. See Freelance, Radical.
Carlisle, Lindsay P. Art School Girls (Lindsay P. Carlisle, 2015) (Senior H S) (1892; School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston) Carpenter, Harvey. The Old South or The Sanctuary of Freeedom (Boston, 1876) (3 pages) (Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) -- Carroll, M. [pseud. of Martha Brooks]. How Marjory Helped (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard and Dillingham, 1875 [Internet Carter, Marilyn. The Reluctant Debutante (Warner Books, 1987) ("Lady who studied at an exclusive school in England tutors a rakish Casanñas, Gloria V. La Salvaje de Boston (Plaza & Janes, 2016) (in Spanish; Capítual 2 Ciudad de Boston, Massachusetts) (Women teachers)
Cassara, Ernest. Murder on Beacon Hill (Anne Miniver Press, 1995) (detective/minister is historical; 19th century) (Ballou, Hosea; --. Murder on Boston Common: A Father Ballou and his Dog Spot Mystery (Cambridge Cornerstone Press, 1998) (Dog owners; Clergy; Dogs)
Cavanaugh, Jack. The Colonists (Victor Books, 1995) (splintered Boston family; Christian faith across generations) ([Bostonness?]
Chapone, Mrs. [Hester] (WorldCat] [or Nancy Sproat (Google Books) or Rebecca Warren Brown, Museum of Fine Arts, accessed 31 May 2010)] Chester, Evelyn. Miss Derrick: A Boston Society Girl's Diary (New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1894 HathiTrust) ("a true picture of Boston Chesnutt, Charles W. Evelyn's Husband. 189?. (first published U P of Mississippi, 2005) (African American writer, white characters: ---. "The Passing of Grandison." In The Wife of His Youth and Other Stories of The Color Line (Houghton Mifflin, 1899: 167-202 [Internet Chip. The Radical Club: A Poem Respectfully Dedicated to an Atom (Boston: William F. Gill, 1876 [A Sherwood Bonner Sampler, 1869-1884, ed. Chiaverini, Jennifer. Christmas Bells: A Novel (New York: Dutton, 2015) (Part Christmas 1863; part Christmas c. 2015; Child, Lydia Maria. A Romance of the Republic (Ticknor and Fields, 1867 [Google Books]) (in part, interracial marriage of male Bostonian; Chu, Doris C. J. That Gentleman from China (1997) (in That Gentleman from China and America America. International Society Press, 2012) Churchill, Winston. Coniston (Macmillan, 1906 [Google Books 1907 ed.]) (Andrew Jackson's presidency; some Boston) (New Hampshire-- Clark, Susie C. Pilate's Query (Boston: Arena Publishing, 1895 [Google Books]) (partly Boston, e.g., heroine's "old home on Newbury Street" 141)
Clark, Thomas M. John Whopper the Newsboy (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1871 [Internet Archive]) (Science fiction; Roxbury; Jamaica Plain; hole to Clarke, James Freeman. "The 'Old South' Speaks." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 31-35 [Google Books]) (Old South Cobb, Brothers [Cyres and Darius]. The Veteran of the Grand Army: A Novel (Boston: Cyres and Darius Cobb, 1870) (several scenes in Cocke, James R. Blind Leaders of the Blind: The Romance of a Blind Lawyer (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1896 [Internet Archive]) (includes trial Coe, Marian. Rachel's Story: A Southern Girl in Pre-Civil War Boston (High Country Publishers/Ingalls Pub. Group, 2005) (Elizabeth Coffin, Charles Carleton. Caleb Krinkle A Story of American Life (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1875 Cohan, Tony. Opium: A Novel (Simon and Schuster, 1984) (part, 19th-century Lodges and Cabots in opium trade; part 1960s) (Opium Coleman, Wim, and Past Perrin. Anna's World (Chiron Books, 2009) (Juvenile: elementary and junior high; 14 year-old in part in Collard, Paul Fraser. The True Soldier (Headline, 2017) (Boston CW unit) (Lark, Jack -- (Fictitious character); Soldiers; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865)
Collins, Laurel. Jordan's Heart (Zebra, 2000) (romance; starts Boston 1887; mainly Colorado) (Women college teachers -- Massachusetts Colville, William Juvenal. "The Newest of New Women: A Boston Incident" (Boston: Banner of Light Publishing, 1897) (34 pgs.)
Harry Colman, George and Charles Dibdin. Thimble's Scolding Wife. Together with the Boston Beau and the Cow (Boston: N. Coverly, Jr. Conlon-McKenna, Marita. illus. Donald Teskey. Wildflower Girl (Holiday House, 1992) (Juvenile--ages 9-12) (1850s; thirteen-year- Conway, Moncure Daniel. Pine and Palm (Holt, 1887 [Google Books]) (1861, "A pair of friends, Northerner and Southerner, at Harvard, quarrel Coolidge, Susan [pseud. of Sarah Chauncey Woolsey]. What Katy Did Next (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1889 [Bibliomania]) (Juvenile) (Chapter 3 Copeland, Lauri. Angel Face and Amazing Grace (Fawcett, 1997) (historical romance; small town outside of Boston; single men have ---. Marrying Walker McKay (Avon Books, 2000) (Boston socialite marries Wyoming rancher; mainly Wyoming with Boston scenes) Coverdale, Henry Standish. The Fall of the Great Republic (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1885 [Intrernet Archive]) (Chapt. XIII Capture of Boston) Coverly, Nathaniel. The Strong Fast, or Hypocrisy in the Suds (Boston: N. Coverly, Jr. [1812]) (1 page) (Political satire; Boston (Mass.) -- History Crandall, Dawn. Enchanting Nicholette (New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 2018) (Series: The everstone chronicles, 5) (widow "returned to Boston after two years of mourning in Crawford, Francis Marion. The American Politician: A Novel (London: Chapman and Hall, 1884 [Google Books]) (see Louise Hall Tharp, Mrs. Creamer, Hannah Gardner. Delia's Doctors, or, A Glance Behind the Scenes (New York: Fowlers and Wells, 1852 [HathiTrust]) Creyton, Paul [pseud. of John T. Trowbridge]. "The Adopted Son: or, The Reward of Charity." In Maturin Murray Ballou, ed., Albert Crosby, Tanya Anne. Happily Ever After (Avon Books, 1999) (Romance; late 19th century; heroine, Boston heiress)
Cummins, Maria Susanna. The Lamplighter (Boston: John P. Jewett, 1854 [Google Books]) ("sentimental domestic fiction" in Boston, Curtis, Ariana Wormeley. The Spirit of Seventy-six: or, The Coming Woman, a Prophetic Drama, followed by A Change of Base, Cushing, Paul (pseud. of Roland Alexander Wood-Seys ?). Dr. Caesar Crowl: Mind-Curer ("opens in Boston"; psychic healing) (London: Cushman, Corinne. The War of Hearts (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1877) (Series: Fireside library (Beadle and Adams (1872-1898)), no. 9) (Boston (Mass.); Dall, Caroline Wells Healey. Patty Gray's Journey: From Boston to Baltimore (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869 [Google Books 1876 ed.]) Dalton, Donna. Irish Destiny (The Wild Rose Press, 2007) (1870s; South Boston; Irish Americans) (Homicide investigation; Man-woman Damon, Norwood. The Chronicles of Mount Benedict.: A Tale of the Ursuline Convent.: The Quasi Production of Mary Magdalen.: [Nine lines Davis, Ethel. When Love Is Done: A Novel (Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1895 [HathiTrust] (romance, partly in Boston, mainly Back Bay)
Davis, Suzannah. The Master's Bride (Avon, 1993) (Romance; hero, Boston shipbuilder) (Shipbuilding industry -- employees --Massachusetts; Deford, Frank. Casey on the Loose: What Really Might Have Happened (Viking, 1989) (inspired by Ernest Thayer's "Casey at the Bat"; Dell, Floyd. Diana Stair (Farrar & Rinehart,1932) (1840s; Boston intellectuals; exploitation of women factory workers; slavery; Denison, Mary A. Edna Etheril, the Boston Seamstress: A Narative [sic] of Facts (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1847) (Downward Diaz, Abby Morton. Bybury to Beacon Street (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1887 [Internet Archive]) ("busy Beacon Street woman['s] . . . days Dier, Debra. The Sorcerer's Lady (Love Spell, 1999) (Series--Timeswept: Love Spell Time-Travel Romance) (fantasy; time travel; Boston in Dixwell, Epes Sargent. Two Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary of the Foundation of the School: Thursday Evening April 23, 1885 Dodd, Christina. Treasure of the Sun (HarperCollins, 1991) (heroine from Boston, but mainly California) (California -- History -- Dorsey, Anna H[anson]. Nora Brady's Vow (Boston: Donahoe, 1869 [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875]) ("recent immigrant to Boston Doughty, Francis Worcester [under pseud. A New York Detective]. The Bradys and the Boston Special, or, The Man Who Was Missing from Wall ---. The Haunted Churchyard: Or, Old King Brady the Detective and the Mystery of the Iron Vault (New York: F. Tousey, 1890) (The New York ----. The James Boys in Boston: Or, Old King Brady and the Car of Gold (New York: F. Tousey, 1890) [Check Hoppenstand as p. 64 lists Douglas, Amanda Millie. A Little Girl in Old Boston (Dodd and Mead, 1898 [Internet Archive]) (Juvenile) (early nineteenth century) Doutney, T. Narcisse, pseud. R.L.B. [Harriet G. Storer Doutney?] An Autobiography: Being Passages from a Life Now Progressing in the City of Boston, an Drake, Samuel Adams. The Young Vigilantes: A Story of California Life in the Fifties (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904 [Internet Archive]) (starts in Driscoll, David A. From the Melting Pot into the Mold (Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1923 [Hathi Trust]) (1870s, 1880s; opens at "gloomy old 43 Fort Hill Square") Du Bois, W.E.B. "A Unique Vacation" (c. 1889) (Shamoon Zamir, Dark Voices: W. E. B. Du Bois and American Thought, 1888-1903 (U of Duganne, Augustine J. H. The Knights of the Seal; or, The Mysteries of the Three Cities (Philadelphia: Colon and Adriance, 1845) Dunbar, Noel. Number One, the Dead-set Detective, or, The High Roller's Dual Game: A Story of the Invisible League (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1895 Durivage, Francis Alexander. Angela; or, Love and Guilt. A Tale of Boston and its Environs (Boston: Charles H. Brainard, 1843)
---. Edith Vernon or, Crime and Retribution. A Tragic Story of New England, founded upon fact (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845 [HathiTrust]) ---. The Gold Fiend, or, Shadows on the Hearthstone: A Story of Boston and New York (Boston: Elliot, Thomes & Talbot, 186-?) (Series: Novelette, no. 87) (50 pgs.)
---. Life Scenes, Sketched in Light and Shadow from the World around Us (Boston: B.B. Mussey, 1853 [HathiTrust]) (short stories; some Boston, e.g., ---. The Phantom of the Sea: or, The Red Cross and the Crescent: A Story of Boston Bay and the Mediterranean (Boston: M.M. Ballou, 1858)
Dusenbery, B. M. City Sights for Little Folks (Philadelphia: Smith & Peck., 1845) (Juvenile) (Children's poetry: City and town life; Occupations; Edes, Robert T. The Story of Rodman Heath, or, Mugwumps (Boston: Arena Pub., 1894 Google Books]) (starts "A Late December Day in Elkins, Kimberly. What Is Visible: A Novel (Twelve, 2014) (Includes Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe; Perkins Institute) Ellsworth, Oliver (under pseud. Timothy Thistle). A Single Gentleman (Boston: O. Ellsworth, 1867 [Google Books]) (opens "A SINGLE Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "O Boston City Lecture-Hearing Hearing" (Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1904:473 [Google Books]) (moral weakness on Emery, Sarah Anna. Three Generations (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York, Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham, 1872 [Hathi Trust] (Chapter VI Boston Emmons, William. An oration on Bunker Hill battle, delivered on the battle ground, in Charlestown, 18th of June--1827.: Together with a caucus English, William B. Hazards of the Heart, or, Woman's Wrongs, and Woman's Revenge (Boston: J.N. Bradley, 184-? HathiTrust]) (opens in ---. Rossina Meadows, the village maid or, Temptations unveiled; a story of city scenes and every day life (Boston: Redding, 1843) Evans, Abigail A. (Mrs. Peleg Newsby, pseud). Aunt Nabby (Boston: Rand Avery, 1888 [HathiTrust]) (Jordan and Marsh's, Farquhar, Anna. An Evans of Suffolk (Boston: L. C. Page, 1904 [Google Books]) (mild satire of Beacon Hill social life) (Brief Summary/Review ---. A Singer's Heart (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892 [Google Boooks]) ("music and musicians in Boston" 477 Joseph Edgar Chamberlin, Farrell, Steven G. Boston Knuckles: The Life and Times of John L. Sullivan: America's First Pop Culture Hero) (Bookstand Publishing, Faulkner, Armytage. "Friday Afternoon at the Boston Symphony Hall." A Satire Anthology. Ed. Carolyn Wells. Scribner's, 1905: 332-36 [Google Fern, Fanny (pseud. of Sarah Payson Willis Parton). Rose Clark (New York: Mason Brothers, 1856 [Google Books]) (set in part in Boston, e.g., ---. Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale or The Present Time (New York: Mason Brothers, 1855 [Google Books]) (author lived in Boston for part of her Field, Caroline C. Two Gentlemen of Boston: A Novel (Ticknor, 1887 [Internet Archive]) (two lovers of orphan girl) (Summary, The Publishers' Field, Elinor Whitney. Try All Ports (Longmans, Green, 1931) (Juvenile) (young English boy comes to Boston in the days of the clipper Fields, James T. "The Fountain, Boston Common" (Poems William D. Ticknor, 1849, pp. 65-66)
Finch, John. The Soldier's Orphan. A Novel ( New York: C. S. Van Winkle, 1812) ("pages 64-69 . . .a description of a visit to Cambridge Fisher, Dorothy Canfield. Paul Revere and the Minute Men (Random House, 1950) (Series: Landmark books, 4) (Juvenile) (
Fitch, Albert Parker (Harvard 1900). None So Blind (The Macmillan Company, 1924) (Bail 305: "the development of the character, morals, Fitzjames, Phoebe. Silver Angel (Zebra Books, 1994) (Boston heroine in Arizona)
Flandrau, Charles Macom. Diary of a Freshman (Doubleday, Page, 1901 [Google Books]) (College students; Harvard University; College stories) ---. Harvard Episodes (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1897 [Google Books]) (focuses on vices) (Harvard University; College students; College Follen, Eliza Lee Cabot. Sketches of Married Life (Boston: Crosby and Nichols, rev. 1847, 1838 [Google Books]) (opens in Boston) (Independence; Sickness; Women's Rights)
Forbes, Esther. O Genteel Lady (Grosset & Dunlap 1926) (19th century; Boston-Concord-English literary figures) (Women authors) (Brief Summary, Jonathan Nield, A Foster, Frank. Evolution of a Trade Unionist (Boston: Allied Printing Trades Council], 1901) (South End boarding houses, etc.) Frank ("pseudonym used by Edward W. Stratemeyer and Frederick A. Stearns"). Swipes in Boston (New York: Street & Smith, 1891) (The Nugget Franklin, Augustus. Anne Melbourne; or, the Return to Virtue. A Tale of Boston (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1846)
Freelance, Radical [pseud. of George Carleton, the publisher]. The Philosophers of Foufouville (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868 [Google Books]) Frisch, Karen. Murder Most Civil (Mainly Murder Press, 2010) (Murder in 1860 Boston; abolitionists; Harvard professor) (Boston, Mass.)
---. What's in a Name (Avalon Books, 2011) (Avalon historical romance) (In part North End; Yankee-Italian romance) (Runaways; Orphans)
Frothingham, Charles H. With the Compliments of Chas. H. Frothingham (Boston.: C.W. Grant, printer, 143 Washington St., 1873) Frothingham, Charles W. The Convent's Doom: A Tale of Charlestown in 1834 ; And, The Haunted Convent (Boston: Graves & Weston, 1854 ---. Six Hours in a Convent, or, The Stolen Nuns!: A Tale of Charlestown in 1834 (Boston: Graves & Weston, Office "American Union" ..., 1855 Frothingham, Eugenia Brooks. The Turn of the Road (Houghton Mifflin, 1901 [Google Books]) (Boston people mainly abroad; career woman and Fulton, Justin D. illus. Henry M Snyder. Show Your Colors, or, A Story of Boston Life (New York: American Baptist Publication Gallagher, Kevin. Loom (Madhat P, 2016) (Poems; ante-bellum Boston; speakers "white Americans who position themselves in relation to Garland, Hamlin. Jason Edwards: An Average Man (Boston: Arena, 1892 [Google Books 1897 ed.]) ("Boston mechanic takes his family West, ---. A Member of the Third House: A Dramatic Story (Chicago: F.J. Schulte, 1892 [Google Books]) (political corruption in fictionalized Boston)
Garwood, Julie. Prince Charming (Pocket Books, 1994) (romance set part in Boston, part in Montana)
---. Rebellious Desire (Pocket Books, 1986) (romance; set in England 1802; heroine raised in Boston)
Gear, W. Michael. The Morning River (Forge, 1996) (1825; main character is a Harvard philosophy student suddenly thrust on his own to Gentry, Georgina. Apache Tears (Zebra, 1999) (romance; heroine attends finishing school in Boston, but mainly Arizona) (Apache Indians)
---. Cheyenne Captive (Kensington, 1987) (Great Plains; Cheyenne Indians)
---. Cheyenne Splendor (Zebra Books, 1994) (romance; heroine forced to leave Native American husband and return to Brahmin Boston; ---. To Tame a Savage (Kensington Pub. Corp., 2002) (Boston Brahmin cavalry officer fathers Sioux son as adult brought to Boston) ---. Warrior's Prize (Zebra, 1997) (romance; finishing school in Boston, but mainly Colorado) (Arapaho Indians; Indians of North Gerritsen, Tess. The Bone Garden: A Novel (Ballantine, 2007) (modern and 1830 mystery combine; Oliver Wendell Holmes) (Medical examinaers Gibbons, Kaye. On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon (Putnam, 1998) (1842-1900; takes place in South, not Boston; Civil War era Gilman, Caroline Howard (under pseud. Clarissa Packard). Recollections of a Housekeeper (Harper & Bros., 1836 [Google Books]) (More commonly titled Recollections of a New Gilmore, James Roberts. See Kirke, Edmund.
Goodger, Jane. Anything for Love (Topaz, 1997) (also 20th c.; Irish Americans; Immigrants; Romance; "pregnant Irish maid in 1898 Boston" ---. Dancing With Sin (Topaz, 1998) (catylst woman character from Boston; Springfield (Mass.); romance; late 19th century; French-Canadian Goodman, Jo. My Reckless Heart (Kensington Pub. Corp., 1998) (Boston and England; 1840s) (Ship captains; Seafaring life; Brothers)
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. The Adventures of Billy Bump in Boston, California, Etc.: Being the Life of a Boy in America (Rev. ed. Darton, 1862 Goodwin, James S. A Day in the Boston of the Future (Boston: William B. Clarke, 1879) (with illustrations) (Social life and customs; Humor)
Goodwin, Lavinia S. Vultures; or, The Secret of a Birth. A Story of Boston (Boston: Elliott, Thomes & Talbot, 1866?) (Series: Novelette, no. 119)
Gordon, Noah. Shaman: A Novel (Dutton, 1992) (Boston, 1839, immigrant and medical world, Oliver Wendell Holmes, pp.19-43) (Frontier Gouge, Louise M. Hannah Rose (River Oak, 2005) (Capt. Ahab's widow in Boston; Christianity; Abolition) (Widows; Slavery; Boston (Mass.); Gow, Ronald. A Boston Story: A Comedy (1966) (English Theatre Guild, 1969; P.A.C.T., [1961? [WorldCat] 1964 title Watch and Ward) Graham, Brendan. The Element of Fire (HarperCollins, 2001) (Widows; Immigrants; Irish -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Boston (Mass.); Graham, Heather. Runaway (Delacorte Press, 1994) (1830s; mainly Florida, but heroine runs away from false murder charges in Boston) Grant, Robert. The Chippendales (C. Scribner's Sons, 1909 [Google Books, Grosset and Dunlap, 1909]) (Brahmin vs. robber baron values; 1880s-1900) (Amazon and Google Books) ---. The Dark Horse: A Story of the Younger Chippendales (Houghton Mifflin, 1931) (sequel to The Chippendales set 1880s-1900; 1912-1920s; Beacon Hill; ---. The Little Tin Gods-on-wheels, or, Society in Our Modern Athens: A Trilogy after the Manner of the Greek (from Harvard Grasso, Patricia. To Tame a Duke (Kensington Pub. Corp., 2001) (War of 1812; spies; heroine, Boston English spy catcher) (Kidnapping; Greenwood, Leigh. A Texan's Honor (Leisure Books, 2006) (romance; family business in Boston; heiress in Texas) (Orphans -- United States Gresham, G. R. Official 17th Sept[ember] Programme: Containing Full Particulars of All Arrangements for the Dedication of the Soldiers' Griffiths, Paul. Mr. Beethoven (New York Review Books, 2021) (Beethoven in Boston 1823) (Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827; Handel and Haydn Society (Boston, Mass.); Music -- Grumbine, J. C. F. "A Bit of Old Boston." The Great Secret and Other Stories (Boston, Mass.: Published by the Order of the White Rose, 1906) (1860s; Immigrants; West End) H. "Remonstrance of the Cows at Quitting the Boston Common." Ladies Magazine and Literary Gazette July 1831: 317 (1830 ordinance H. M. On Bunker Hill Monument,--Finished June 23d, 1842 ([Charlestown, Mass., 1842]) (1 page) (United States -- History -- Revolution, Haeger, Diane. Angel Bride (Pocket Books, 1994) (romance; immigrant heroine marries Boston Brahmin) (Immigrants; Rich families; Poor Hale, Edward Everett. The Brick Moon, and Other Stories (Little, Brown, 1899 [Electronic Text Center, U of Virigina Library; accessed 5 Feb. ---. "Christmas Waits in Boston, a Christmas Story". In His Name and Christmas Stories (Little, Brown, 1899): 206-232.
---. "How They Live in Boston, and How They Die There." In Workingmen's Homes: Essays and Stories (Boston: J.R. Osgood, 1874), pp. 155-77.
---. If Jesus Came to Boston (Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895 [Google Books]) (45 pages)
---. "The Old South Meeting-House." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 21-30 [Google Books]) (Old South Church ---. "One Cent." Christmas in Narraganset (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1884: 43-47 [Google Books]) (East Boston trolley; lesson to rich ---. Susan's Escort (Boston: Lend a Hand Society, 1895 [Internet Archive]) (Susan constructs male-looking dummy so she can walk around Hale, Edward Everett, and Lucretia P. Hale. The New Harry and Lucy: A Story of Boston in the Summer of 1891 (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1892 Hale, Lucretia P. The Peterkin Papers (Ticknor, 1886 [Google Books 1914 ed.] (children; "Bostonians' penchant for self improvement"; 1870s-- ---. [or Florence Warton]. The Wolf at the Door (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1877 [Google Books]) ("women join 'classes' in all sorts of things that they have no interest in, Hale, Lucretia Peabody, and Edwin Lassetter Bynner. An Uncloseted Skeleton (Ticknor, 1888 [Internet Archive]) (epistolary novel, many from Boston, 1830s)
Hale, Sarah Josepha Buell. "Boarding Out." A Tale of Domestic Life (Harper, 1846 [Google Books]) (attack on boarding houses; "a headstrong Hardy, Charles. Ecce signum!: Effigies of Charles Hardy, for Several Years a Sweeper of Streets in Boston ([Boston, 1824]) (New Year in Harris, Francis A. Class Day: A Face in One Act (Boston: Geo. M. Baker, 1877 [Internet Archive]) ("the room of an undergraduate at Harvard College")
Harris, Joel Chandler. Azalia. In Free Joe, and Other Georgian Sketches (Charles Scriner's Sons, 1887: 138-236 [Google Books 1901 ed.]) Harris, Lisa. Massachusetts Brides: Three Old-fashioned Romances Bloom in the Heart of New England (Barbour Pub., 2007) (Series: Romancing ---. Rebecca's Heart: An Old-Fashioned Romance Blooms in the Heart of New England (Barbour Publishing, 2006) (Series: Massachusetts Harrison, Maria E. My Dearest Jane (1stBooks, 2002) (before and during Civil War; Boston mental asylum) (Adult child abuse victims; Hart, Catherine. Mischief (Avon Books, 1995) (Boston debutante takes over father's saloon in Dodge City) (Jill Brager, Summary/Review, Hart, Derek. For Love Or Honor Bound (Xlibris Corp., 2001) (some Boston, e.g., "Chapter 3 Planned Interception Boston Harbor Hatchet, Sam [psued. of Mayhew B. Cleveland]. From Boston, Mass., to Sodom, N.B., on a Bicycle (Salem, Mass., 1887) (Cycling)
Hawthorne, Julian. Idolatry: A Romance (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1874 [Google Books]) (partly Boston, e.g. opening sentence refers to Tremont House 7 and Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The Blithedale Romance (Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852 [Google Books]) (West Roxbury; Brook Farm) (Collective ---. "The New Adam and Eve" (1854) (Mosses From an Old Manse. vol. 2. New ed. Ticknor and Field, 1857. 6-25 [Google Books]) (Adam and ---. "Sights from a Steeple." Twice-Told Tales (Boston: American Stationers, 1837: 273-82 [Google Books]) (O'Connell, Boston: Vision and Haynes, Emory J[ames]. Dollars and Duty (Boston: J.H. Earle, 1887 [Google Books]) (some Boston) (Clergy; Conduct of life)
Hazel, Harry [pseud. for Justin Jones]. The Belle of Boston, or, The Rival Students of Cambridge (Boston: F. Gleason, 1844 [Google Books]) ("first Book ---. Big Dick, the King of the Negroes; or, Virtue and Vice Contrasted. A Romance of High & Low Life in Boston (Boston: "Star Spangled Banner" ---. Fourpe Tap: or, the Middy of the Macedonian. In which is contained the concluding incidents in the eventful career of Big Dick, King Of The Negroes (Boston: Jones�s ---. Hasserac, the Thief-Taker: or, The Rival Sisters of Tri-Mount. A Tale of Tricks and Traps, and of Misery and Mystery (Boston: Jones�s Publishing House, 1849)
---. The Nun of St. Ursula, or, The Burning of the Convent. A Romance of Mount Benedict (Boston: F. Gleason, 1845 [American Catholic History ---. Tom, Dick & Harry; or, the Boys and Girls of Boston. A Tale Founded on Metropolitan Adventures by Moonlight! Starlight!! Gaslight!!! Lamplight!!!! Electric Hemyng, Bracebridge. Jack Harkaway Around the World (New York: Federal Book Co., [1904?]) (Juvenile) (Fathers and sons; Boston (Mass.); ---. Jack Harkaway and His Son's Adventures Round the World (New York: F. Tousey, 1879 [Internet Archive Chicago: M.A. Donohue, 19-? ed.]) Henke, Shirl. The Endless Sky (St. Martin's, 1998) (romance; illegitimate/Indian upperclass Bostonian outcast male and blueblood Hermann, Spring. Seeing Lessons: The Story of Abigail Carter and America's First School for the Blind (Holt, 1998) (Elementary Hersey, William H. Celebration of the Centennial Anniversary of American Independence, July 4th, 1876 ([Boston]: William H. Hersey, Heti, Sheila. Ticknor (House of Anansi Press, 2005) (Ticknor, George; Prescott, William Hickling; Jealousy; Self-perception) Hewes, Agnes Danforth. illus. Armstrong Sperry. The Codfish Musket (Doubleday, Doran, 1936) (Juvenile; starts in Boston) (Young men ----. illus. N.C. Wyeth. Glory of the Seas (Knopf, 1933) (Juvenile) (East Boston; Donald McKay) (Clipper ships; Boston (Mass.); Hildreth, Richard. The White Slave or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (Boston: Tappan and Whittemore, 1854 [HathiTrust]) Hill, George Canning. Amy Lee (Higgins and Bradley, 1856D [Internet Archive]) (some Boston, e.g., Chapter XXVIII Back to Boston 314) Himes, S. J. A History of Trouble (Old Saybrook: Tantor Audio, 2019) (1897) (Magicians; Vampires; Boston)
Hobbs, Valerie. illus. Jennifer Thermes. Maggie and Oliver, or, A Bone of One's Own (Henry Holt, 2011) (Juvenile--ages 9-12) (Orphans; Hockett, Kathryn. River of Passion (Kensington Pub. Corp., 1993) (prim and proper 19th-century Boston woman physician on the Congo Holly-Rosing, Madeleine. Art by Emily Hu. Boston Metaphysical Society (2012+) ("Six-Issue Mini-Series Web Comic"; 1895 alternative ---. The Demons of Liberty Row: A Boston Metaphysical Society Story (Smashwords Edition, 2014) (Mediums; hotographers; Demonology; Holmes, John. "A Cambridge Robinson Crusoe" (in "The city and the Sea", with other Cambridge contributions, in aid of the hospital fund, ed. Helen Leah Reed, Holmes, Mary Jane. Rose Mather: A Tale of the War (New York: G.W. Carleton, 1868 [Internet Archive]) (Title character Boston Civil War Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Auotocrat of the Breakfast Table (Atlantic Monthly 1857-58; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1858 [Google Books 1859 ---. "Boston Church Bells" (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by James Thomas Fields, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, pp. 9-10) (poem)
---. "The Brave Old South." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 8-11 [Google Books]) (Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) -- ---. Dorothy Q, together with A Ballad of the Boston Tea Party and Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle (Houghton, Mifflin, 1893 ---. Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny (Ticknor and Fields, 1861 [Google Books]) (Introduces term Brahmins for upper-class Bostonians; one ---. Iris. The Little Classics, ed. Rossiter Johnson Vol. 7: Romance. Houghton Mifflin, 1875: 7-82 [Google Books] (Boston boarding house)
---. "The Last Leaf" (1831) (The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ed. Horace E. Scudder ---. "Poem for the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of Harvard College" (1886). In The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes, ed. Horace E. Holt, Arthur F. The Ocean Drift, or, The Fight for Two Lives: A Sea and Shore Romance (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1889 [Northern Illinois U]) (Series: Beadle's Hooker, John. Love and Beans ([Boston?: ca. 1880]) (three stanzas) (Courtship -- Poetry; Beans -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Poetry)
Hooper, Elise. The Other Alcott (Harper Collins Publishers, 2017) (partly Boston) (Alcott, May, -- 1840-1879; Artists; Sisters)
Hooper, Judith. Alice in Bed: A Novel (Counterpoint, 2015) (In part, "the James family's dinner table . . . listen[ing] to the Hopkins, Alice Kimball (pseud. Lowell Choate). The Romance of a Letter (Boston: D. Lothrop, 1887 [Google Books]) (Series: Choice works of American authors; Hopkins, Pauline E. Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South (Boston: The Colored Co-operative Publishing ---. Of One Blood (Colored American Magazine Nov. and Dec, 1902, and Jan. 1903;
1902-03; Washington Square P., 2004) (main character, Hopkinson, Deborah. Fannie in the Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Horowitz, Anthony. The House of Silk (Orion, 2014) (in part "teeming criminal underworld of [1890s] Boston" Worldcat) (Holmes, Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue [pub. anon.]. Boston and Boston People in 1850 (Boston, 1850 [Google Books]) ("one nineteenth century American's Howard Athenaeum. Temple. ... From the Howard Anthen�um. The thrilling play and life-like panorama called Boston Before the fire!-- Howatch, Susan. Cashelmara (Simon & Schuster, 1974) (three generations Irish/Irish-American; partly Boston) (Irish American families) Howe, Julia Ward. "The Old South." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 12-15 [Google Books]) (Old South Church (Boston, Howells, William Dean. April Hopes (Harper, 1887 [Google Books 1888 ed.]) (Boston society; first seven chapters Class Day at Harvard in 1880s ---. A Chance Acqaintance (Boston: J. R. Osgood, 1873 [Google Books]) (Male Boston snobbery away from from home ruins romance) (Young ---. An Imperative Duty (Harper and Brothers, 1892 [Google Books 1893 ed.]) (North slope of Beacon Hill, African-American community) ---. A Hazard of New Fortunes (New York: Boni and Liveright, 1889 [Internet Archive] (starts in Boston as main character moves from Boston to ---. The Lady of Aroostock (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1879 [Google Books]) (some Boston, but mainly elsewhere) (Google Books) ---- The Landlord at Lion's Head: A Novel (Harper & Brothers, 1897 [Google Books]) (partly Boston, partly mountains; Harvard University; ---. The Minister's Charge or The Apprenticeship of Lemuel Barker (Houghton Mifflin, 1886 [Google Books]) (Protestant working class [rural ---. A Modern Instance (Houghton Mifflin, 1881 [Google]) (Boston journalist and divorce; commercial values in the "city on a hill"; West End) ---. The Rise of Silas Lapham (Ticknor and Co., 1885 [Google Books]) (Businessmen; Rich people; Socialites) (Google Books)
---. The Shadow of a Dream (Harper and Brothers, 1890 [Google Books]) (Begins in a Nahant-like cottage near Boston) (Psychological fiction; ---. Suburban Sketches (New York: Hurd and Houghton; Cambridge: Riverside P, 1871 [Google Books]) (New and Enlarged Ed., 1872+) ---. Their Wedding Journey (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1872 [Google Books]) (Boston couple; starts and ends in Boston [later editions ---.The Undiscovered Country (Houghton, Mifflin, 1880 [Google Books]) (spiritualism; opens with seance in Boston; western Massachusetts; ---. A Woman's Reason (Boston: James R. Osgood, 1883 [Google Books]) ("study of feminine nature and of social values in Boston" [source?]) Baxter, Sylvester. "Howells's Boston". The New England Magazine N.S. 9.2 (October 1893): 129-52. [Making of America, Cornell U Hubbard, Coleen. illus. Sandy Rabinowitz. A Horse for Hannah: The Story of a Boston Girl and her Journey to England, Where She Meets her Hubbard, Elbet [Green]. Forbes of Harvard (Boston: Arena, 1894 [Google Books]) (Bail 252-54: despite title, only slight Harvard connection; Hyde, Thomas Alexander. Won by a Bicycle or, A Race for a Wife (Boston: Greater Boston Pub., 1895 [Google Books]) (Ch. XIII Copley Square) Inglee, K. B. "Murder in a Posh Hotel: Boston, November, 1894" Orchard Press Mysteries, Short Fiction & Poetry 2007 (accessed 21 Feb. 2008)
Ingraham, J[oseph]. H[olt]. Alice May, and Bruising Bill (Boston: Gleason's, 1845 [WorldPublicLibrary, accessed 2 May 2008]) (Harvard; two separate stories; "Alice ---. The Brigantine, or, Guitierro and the Castilian: A Tale Both of Boston and Cuba (New York: Williams Bros., 1847)
---. Charles Blackford. Or, the Adventures of a Student in Search of a Profession (Boston: Pub. at the 'Yankee Office', 1845 [HathiTrust]) (starts Yale, much ---. Grace Weldon, or, Frederica, The Bonnet-girl: A Tale of Boston and its Bay (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1845) (millinery trade)
---. Harry Harefoot; or, The Three Temptations. A Story of City Scenes (Boston: H.L. Willimas, 1845) ("a blacksmith and a carpenter . . . meet ---.Jemmy Daily, or, the Little News Vender: a tale of youthful struggles and the triumph of truth and virtue over vice and falsehood (Boston: Brainard, 1843 [HathiTrust]) ---. Jennette Alison; or, The Young Strawberry Girl A Tale of the Sea and the Shore (Boston: F. Gleason, 1848 [HathiTrust]) (starts on a wharf in North End 7) (Girls; Seafaring life)
---. Lame Davy's Son, with the Birth, Education, and Career, of Foraging Peter. A tale of Boston Aristocracy (Boston: G. Roberts, 1843)
---. Marie: or, The Fugitive! A Romance of Mount Benedict (Boston: Published at the 'Yankee' Office, 1845 [HathiTrust]) (Fugitives from justice)
---. Mate Burke, or, The Foundlings of the Sea (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1846) (Boston (Mass.); Sailors)
---. The Odd Fellow: Or, the Secret Association and Foraging Peter (Boston: United States Pub. Co., 1846 [Google Books]) (two stories, both ---. Paul Deverell, or, two judgments for one crime: a tale of the present day (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1845) (Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- ---. Paul Perril, the Merchant's Son, or, The Adventures of a New-England Boy Launched upon Life (Boston : Williams & Bros., 1847 [HathiTrust]) ---. Rodolphe in Boston: A Tale (Boston: E.P. Williams, 1844) (48 pges.; hero's economic struggles)
---. The Steel Belt, or, The Three Masted Goleta! A Tale of Boston Bay (Boston: Yankee Office, 1844 [Google Books]) (takes place almost completely at sea; Ingraham, Prentiss. Dick Doom in Boston, or, A Man of Many Masks: A Romance of Ferrets and Felons (New York: Beadle and Adams, 1892 [Northern Illinois U]) ---. The Rover's Retribution, or, The Evil Spirit of the Deep: A Companion Story to "The Ex-buccaneer" (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1891 [Northern Illinois U]) ---. The Sea Shadower, or, The Freebooter's Legacy: A Romance of Sea Service in 1812, and companion story to "The Wizard Sailor" (New York: Jacobus, Russell P. An Escape from Philistia: A Novel (Boston: J.G. Cupples, 1893 [Google Books]) ("novel of Boston life"; Copley Square; James, Henrietta (pseud. of Celia B. Whitehead). Another Chapter of "The Bostonians" (Bloomfield, N.J.: S.M. Hulin, 1887) (27 pages; happy James, Henry. The Bostonians: A Novel (Macmillan, 1886 [Internet Archive]) (New York; Cape Cod) (Triangles (interpersonal relations); Young ---. The Europeans: A Sketch (Macmillan, 1878 [Google Books 1879 "New Edition"] (1830s; Boston and environs) (Brothers and sisters; Morality; ---. The Portrait of a Lady (Houghton, Mifflin, 1881 [Google Books 1908 ed.; Vol. II. 1909 ) (some Bostonian characters, esp. Caspar ---. "A New England Winter" (1883). Tales of Three Cities (Boston: James Osgood, 1884: 269-359 [Internet Archive]) (on shift from Beacon Hill ---. "The Patagonia" (1888). In A London Life, The Patagonia, The Liar, Mrs. Temperly (Macmillan, 1889): 161-240 [Google Books]) (Beacon Hill ---. Watch and Ward (1871 Atlantic Monthly) (Boston: Houghton, Osgood and Co., 1878 [Google Books]) (partly in Boston) (Erotic love; Love; James, Samantha. Just One Kiss (Avon Books, 1996) (Starts Beacon Hill, 1854; romance) (Massachusetts -- History -- 1775-1865)
Jamison, C[ecilia] V[iets]. Something to Do. A Novel (J.R. Osgood, 1871 [Wright American Fiction]) (partly in Boston; educated working women discuss Janvrin, Mary W. Peace or, The stolen Will! An American Novel (Boston: E.O. Libby, 1858) (some Harvard/Boston. e.g.. pp. 88-94, 140)
Jenkins, Beverly. Before the Dawn (Avon Books, 2001) (heroine, African-American Boston tavern owner; action mainly Colorado) Johnson, Nancy. A Sweet-Sounding Place: A Civil War Story of the Black Regiment (Down East Books, 2007) (Juvenile: ages 9-12; only Johnson, Shirley Everton. The Cult of the Purple Rose: A Phase of Harvard Life (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1902 [Google Books]) ("coded Johnson, Susan. Blaze (Bantam, 1986) (Boston heiress kidnapped by Indian chief in land dispute) (Absaroke Indians;
Boston, Johnson, William Lyman. From Hawthorne Hall: An Historical Story, 1885 (Dorchester: The Homewood P, 1922 [Internet Archive])) (Christian Science)
Johnston, Norma. Lotta's Progress (Avon Books, 1997) (Elementary and junior high school) (1838; 1840s) (German immigrants helped by Johnstone, William W. The Last Gunfighter: Avenger (Pinnacle Books, 2007) (Series: The last gunfighter) (pursuit to Boston; 1890s)
---. Rage of the Mountain Man (Kensington Pub. Corp., 1996) (Kidnapping in Boston; most of the action in the west) (Rocky Mountains; ---. The Loner (Kensington, 2011) (Trail of Blood #8) (Juvenile) (mainly Kansas, but hero goes to his hometown of Boston to find Jones, Melissa. Emily Hudson: A Novel (Pamela Dorman Books-Viking, 2010) (British ed. The Hidden Heart of Emily Hudson] (1862; would- Joyce, Brenda. Captive (Avon, 1996) (Romance; 20th and early 19th c.; starts "Boston, 1996") (Time travel; Harem; Boston (Mass.)-- Judd, Sylvester. Margaret: A Tale of the Real and Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Kane, James Johnson. Ilian; Or, The Curse of the Old South Church of Boston: A Psychological Tale of the Late Civil War (Lippincott, Kauffman, Reginald Wright. Jarvis of Harvard (Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1901 [Google Books]) (Undergraduate students) (Harvard University) Kay, Alan N. On the Trail of John Brown's Body: Young Heroes of History (White Mane Kids, 2001)(Juvenile--Elementary and junior high) ---. Send 'em South (White Mane Kids, 2000) (Juvenile) (abolitionists; Irish Americans; escaped slaves in pre-Civil War Boston) Kelleher, Lawrence R. The Lads: Erin's Far-Flung Exiles (iUniverse, 2005) (Civil War; Irish immigrants from same family from Boston Kelly, Florence Finch. Frances: A Story for Men and Women (New York: Sanfred, 1889 [Internet Archive]) (Man-woman relationships; Married people; Boston)
Kent, Winnifred. Sell Not Thyself: A Novel (Chicago: Laird & Lee, 1894) (Mate selection; Boston)
Kettel(l), Samuel. "Boston Lyrics" (Yankee Notions 196-97) (humourous poem)
---. "Horace in Boston" (Yankee Notions221-24) (humorous poem)
---. "Horace in Boston [2]" (Yankee Notions239-41) (humorous poem)
---. "Mount Auburn" (The Boston Book: Being Specimens of Metropolitan Literature, edited by Benjamin Bussey Thatcher, Light & Stearns, 1837. pp. 228-34) (short story; ---. "The Two Moschetoes" (242-55) (one-act satirical play about Boston business practices and scandal mongering)
---. "Voyage of Discovery Through the Streets of Boston" (Yankee Notions: A Medley, edited by Samuel Kettell. pseud. Timothy Titterwell, Boston: Otis, Broaders, 1838, Keyes, F. Evan Dale (Boston: A. Williams, 1864 [HathiTrust]) (in part romance in Boston, involving portrait in Boston Athenaeum)
Keys, Elizabeth (pseudonym for Mary Lou Frank and Susan C Stevenson). The Darling (New York: Zebra, 2002) (romance; young society Kilpack, Josi S. Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton (Shadow Mountain, 2016) ("seven-year King, Basil [pseud. of William Benjamin King]. Let Not Man Put Asunder[: A Story of Modern American Life {Cover but not title page}][: A King, Karen L. The Wedding Runaway (Zebra Books, 2005) (heroine Boston heiress in England; romance) (Men/women relations; Single women; Kirke, Edmund [pseud. of James Roberts Gilmore]. My Southern Friends (New York: Carleton, 1863 [Google Books]) (partly set in Boston)
Kirwan, Thomas. In Fetters: The Man or the Priest? (Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske, 1893 [Google Books]) ("majority of the novel . . . Kittredge, Daniel Wright. The Memoirs of a Failure: With an Account of the Man and his Manuscript (Cincinatti: U. O. James, Bookseller, 1908) Klaassen, Mike. Backlash: A War of 1812 Novel (Bookbaby, 2016) (Chapter Seventeen -- September 1812, Boston --)
Knox, Jackson, Old Falcon's Foe: or, The Matchless-detective's Swell Job. A Romance of the Cosmopolitan Express Car Mystery (New York: Beadle & Adams, 1889-01-30 Kraus, Jim & Terri. The Quest: A Novel (Tyndale House Publishers, 2001) (Series: Circle of destiny, 4) (Harvard student needs/seeks/finds Christ; Krensky, Stephen. Sisters of Scituate Light (Dutton Children's Books, 2008) (Juvenile--ages 4-8) (Massachusetts -- History -- War of 1812; Lander, Sarah W. Spectacles for Little Eyes (Boston: Walker, Wise, 1862 [HathiTrustDigital Library]) (Juvenile) ("good account of the sights of ---. Spectacles for Young Eyes: Boston (Boston: Walker, Wise, 1864 [Google Books, 1868 ed.]) (Juvenile) (same as above)
Landis, Jill Marie. Come Spring (Jove Books, 1992) (starts in Boston in 1890s; Wyoming; Romance)
Langton, Jane. The Deserter: Murder at Gettysburg (Thomas Dunne Books, 2003) (Harvard "deserter") (Kelly, Homer (Fictitious character); ---. Steeplechase: A Homer Kelly Mystery (St. Martin's Minotaur, 2005) (1868; fictional Nashoba, Mass.) (sequel to The Deserter) Lasky, Kathryn. Daughters of the Sea: Hannah (Scholastic Press, 2009) (1899; wealthy Boston and Maine coast; three mermaid sisters; ---. Illus. David Catrow. She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head! (New York: Hyperion Books for Children, 1995) (Juvenile: ages 9-12) ---. True North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad (Blue Sky Press, 1996) (Juvenile: grades 6-9) (one main character is a Beacon Hill Lathrop, George Parsons. Somebody Else (Roberts Bros., 1878 [Google Books]) (Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century)
Latimer, Elizabeth Wormeley. My Wife and My Wife's Sister (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881 [Google Books]) Lear, Annah L. One Little Woman (Boston: James H. Earle, 1893 [Google Books]) (Life-changing visit to Boston) (Families -- Lee, George Hyde. What Was His Duty? (Washington: Neale, 1900 [Google Books]) (title character, "senior editor of a Boston evening newspaper" 1) (Boston (Mass.) Lee, Hannah Farnham Sawyer [pub. anon.]. Rosanna; or, Scenes in Boston. A Story (Cambridge: John Owen, 1839 [Google Books]) (temperance; Lee, Linda Francis. Blue Waltz (Jove Books, 1996) (romance; Boston, 1893) (Widows) (Review RT Book Reviews [accessed 27 Dec. 2011])
---. Dove's Way (Ivy Books, 2000) (Boston-born heroine grows up in Congo; on return tries to become proper lady) (Congo; Society ---. Nightingale's Gate (Ivy Books, 2001) (Romance) (Prostitutes -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Serial murderers -- Massachusetts ---. Swan's Grace (Ivy Books, 2000) (Sequel to Dove's Way, Boston 1892; Romance)
Leland, Anna. Home (New York: J.C. Derby; Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1856 [HathiTrust) (Chapter XIX The Journey and Visit to Boston Leon, Bonnie. The Heart of Thornton Creek: A Novel (Fleming H. Revell, 2005) (romance; Boston socialite heroine moves to Australia Leslie, Eliza. "The Escorted Lady." In Pencil Sketches: Or, Outlines of Character and Manners (Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Leslie, Madeline J. Hyde. Sophia and the Gipsies (Boston: Andrew F. Graves, 1870) (Romanies; Farmers; ravelers; Diseases; Children Lester, Julius. "A Christmas Love Story." This Strange New Feeling (Dial, 1982: 73-149) (Juvenile) (three short stories; escaped Lewis, Alfred Henry. The Boston Boy (Boston: Graves and Ellis, 1872 [HathiTrust]) (Young men -- Conduct of life; Honesty; Parsonages; Christian Lidstone, James Torrington Spencer. The Bostoniad Giving a Full Description of the Principal Establishments, Together with the Most ---. The Third Bostoniad: In Two Parts [i.e. Parts 2-3] (Boston: Pub. under universal patronage Hollis & Gunn, prs, 1853)
Lindsey, Johanna. Paradise Wild (Avon, 1981) (romance; mainly Hawaii, but Boston heroine and Boston scenes; 1890s)
Lindsey, William. Cinder-path Tales (Boston: Copeland and Day, 1896 [Google Books]) (sport short stories, partly Boston) (Track and Field)
Litton, Pamela. Scoundrel (Jove Books, 1994) (romance; mail-order bride from Boston; Brides of the West series) (Bride price; Locke, David Ross. The Struggles (Social, Financial and Political) of Petroleum V. Nasby (Boston: I.N. Richardson, 1872 [Wrighjt American Locke, Jane E. Boston: A Poem. (Boston: W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1846) (46 pges.) (Boston (Mass.) -- Description and travel; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Bridge." 1845. (The Belfry at Bruges, and Other Poems. 3rd. ed. Cambridge: John Owen, 1846. 61-65 Lord, Mary N. Mary Milton; or, The Conquests of Grace. A Brief Account of the Life, Experience and Labors of a Humble Servant of Christ Loring, Frederic W[adsworth]. Two College Friends (Boston: Loring, 1871 [Internet Archive]) ("a romantic friendship set at Harvard. Not Lowry, Elizabeth. Dark Water (London: Riverrun, 2019) (1830s, Boston and at sea) (Sailors; Secrecy; Psychiatric hospitals; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- 19th century)
Lunt, William P. Poem: Recited by the late Rev. William P. Lunt, on the occasion of laying the corner stone of the Sailors' Snug Harbor, July 14, A. S. M. Rob Rockafellow: A Boston Society Man's Diary (New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1894) (Diaries; Fathers and daughters; Single men)
MacGowan, Alice. The Last Word (Page, 1902 [Google Books]) (Texas/New York/Boston; young women; romance) MacLane, Mary. My Friend Annabel Lee (Chicago: Herbert S. Stone and Company, 1903 [Google Books]) (friendship in Boston) (Author's Maclean, Anna. Louisa and the Country Bachelor: A Louisa May Alcott Mystery (Signet, 2005) (Mainly New Hampshire; Henry Thoreau; ---. Louisa and the Crystal Gazer: A Louisa May Alcott Mystery (Signet, 2006) (Medium; December 1855; P.T. Barnum) (Alcott, ---. Louisa and the Missing Heiress: A Louisa May Alcott Mystery (Signet and New American Library, 2004) (Beacon Hill; Pinckney Madden, Sandra. Comfort and Joy (Zebra, 2001) (romance; Brahmin amnesiac marries Irish serving girl; stolen art; Christmas) Mahony, Dora [pseud.]. Six Months in a House of Correction, or, The Narrative of Dorah Mahony Who Was Under the Influence of the Protestants Mann, Rufus [pseud. of Sophia Penn Page Shaler]. The Prelude and the Play (Houghton, Mifflin, 1900 [Google Books]) (Harvard University) Mayo, Connie Hertzberg. The Island of Worthy Boys: A Novel (She Writes Press, 2015) (Boston Harbor) (Boston Asylum and Farm School McBride, James. The Good Lord Bird (Riverhead Books, 2013) (some Boston, including "abolitionist rally where 'everbody got to make a McCall, Sidney (pseud. of Mary McNeil Fenollosa). Truth Dexter (Little, Brown, and Company, 1901 [Internet Archive 1906 ed.]) (Southern wife, McCartney, J. W. The Fenians, or, Neil O'Connor's Triumph: A Story of Old Ireland and Young America. Issue 26 of Ten cent novelettes McClymer, Kelly. The Infamous Bride: Once Upon a Wedding (Kensington; Zebra; Mallard, 2001) (Romance; 1840s; Boston merchant McCorry, Peter. [also sometimes attributed to Con O'Leary]. Mount Benedict, or the Violated Tomb: A Tale of the Charlestown Convent (Boston: McDonnell, Adrienne. The Doctor and the Diva: A Novel (Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2010) (1903 Boston fertility specialist; romance) McDowell, Katherine Sherwood Bonner [under pseud. "By an Atom"]. The Radical Club: A Poem Respectfully Dedicated to "The Infinite" McGinnis, Mindy. A Madness So Discreet (HarperCollins Publishers, 2015) (Juvenile--high school) (starts with early 19th c. escape McGlone, Elizabeth. Words Left Unsaid (Smashwords Edition, 2015) (Irish immigrants, partly, in Boston; heroine, "the loveliest McKay, Ari. Finding Forgiveness (Dreamspinner Press, 2014) (Starts Boston 1888, but mainly Texas) (Gay men; Texas -- Social life and McKinstry, L. C. The Burning, Commemorative of the Destruction by Fire of "The Scriptural Tract Repository ...": During the Great Fire McMahon, Kay. Chase the Dawn (Jove Books: Berkley, 1992) (romance; heroine, Boston doctor; Civil War; mainly in South)
McMahon, Thomas. McKay's Bees (Harper & Row, 1979) (Boston Brahmin in 1855 Kansas) (Frontier and pioneer life; Bee culture; Bee keepers; Mead, Lucia True Ames [pub. under maiden name Lucia True Ames]. Memoirs of a Millionaire (Houghton Mifflin, 1889 [Google Books]) Meadows, John. The Brinley Shell; or, The miser and his niece A thrilling tale of love, witchcraft and mystery (Boston: F. Gleason, 1848 Merrick, Mark. Detective Jack; Or, the Night Hawks of Boston (New York: N. Munro, 1884) (Number 94 in series; Dime Novel) (Check Merritt, Christopher C. Faneuil Hall: "The Cradle of Liberty" ([Boston, 1895) (4 pages) (Faneuil Hall (Boston, Mass.) -- Poetry)
Meyer, L[ouis]. A. Curse of the Blue Tattoo: Being an Account of the Misadventures of Jacky Faber, Midshipman and Fine Lady ---. In the Belly of the Bloodhound: Being an Account of a Particularly Peculiar Adventure in the Life of Jacky Faber (Harcourt, M'Glenen, H. A. The Ray. Boston, October, 1882. New England edition (Boston: H.A. M'Glenen, 1882) (The Ray was a series of Mills, Anita. Comanche Moon (Topaz Books, 1995) (heroine returns from Boston finishing school to Texas; mainly Texas; 1873) (Comanche Moffat, A. S. Cedar Brook Stories; or, The Clifford Children. / Vol. 1. The Young Seed-sowers (Boston: Graves and Young; New York: Montague, Charles Howard and C. W. Dyar. Written in Red; or, The Conspiracy in the North Case. (A Story of Boston) (New York: Cassell [1900 Montague, James D. Doomed, or, The Secret League of Boston (New York: F. Tousey, 1883 [Northern Illinois U]) Moody, Charles C.P., William B Tappan, and George Russell. Celebration Hymns, on the Introduction of the Cochituate Water in Boston, Parts of this novel were published earlier as Ruth Whalley; or, The Fair Puritan. A Romance of the Bay province (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1845) (72 pages) (Puritans; Massachusetts); The Innocent Witch a Continuation of Ruth Whalley, or, The Fair Puritan, A Romance of the Bay Province (Boston: Henry L. Williams, 1845), and The Revolt of Boston: A Continuation of Ruth Whalley, Or, The Fair Puritan , A Romance of the Bay Province (Boston: Henry L. Williams, 1845).
See Reply to the Grand and Splendid Bobalition of Slavery, Contained in a Letter ... (s.n., 1817 [one Reply, Library of Congress; accessed 4 Apr. 2008]). See also Blubberlip, Cesar.
For play adaptation, see Saunders, Charles Henry.
