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Arthur Stringer (writer)

January 15, 2023

Arthur Stringer (February 26, 1874 – September 13, 1950) was a Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States.

Arthur Stringer
Born(1874-02-26)February 26, 1874
Chatham, Ontario, Canada
DiedSeptember 13, 1950(1950-09-13) (aged 76)
Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, U.S.
OccupationScreenwriter, novelist
LanguageEnglish
NationalityCanadian
Alma materUniversity of Toronto
Notable worksPrairie Wife, Prairie Mother, Prairie Child, Open Water
SpouseJobyna Howland; Margaret Arbuthnott
Children3

He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other books, in addition to writing filmscripts and articles.[1]

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow.

— Arthur Stringer, The Silver Poppy

Early life

Stringer was born in Chatham, Ontario.[1] In 1884 the family moved to London, Ontario, where Charles attended London Collegiate Institute.[1] At the Institute he founded and edited a school magazine called Chips. He then attended University College, University of Toronto from 1892 to 1894 and later studied at Oxford University.[2]

Career

Stringer's first book of poetry, Watchers of Twilight and Other Poems, was published in 1894.

In 1895 he worked for the Montreal Herald. At this time he was also publishing in Saturday Night and the Canadian Magazine. In 1898 he got a job with the American Press Association, moved to New York City, and began publishing in The Atlantic and Harper's.[1] His first poem in Harper's, "Remorse", appeared in February 1899.[3] His first novel, The Silver Poppy, came out in 1903.[1] In the same year he bought a farm on the shore of Lake Erie and married actress Jobyna Howland, known as the original Gibson girl.[citation needed] They divorced in 1914, and Stringer married his cousin, Margaret Arbuthnott.[1]

In 1921, the Stringers moved to Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, where Arthur Stringer continued to write.[4]

Stringer wrote crime fiction and wilderness adventures, mainly using conventional formulae.[citation needed] He wrote as well in many other genres, from social realism (his "Prairie" trilogy, 1915–1921) to psychological fiction (The Wine of Life (1921).[5] He wrote early science fiction novels, The Story Without a Name (1924) with Russell Holman, and The Woman Who Couldn't Die (1929).[6]

Much of his writing was for films. Film scripts on which he worked include The Perils Of Pauline (1914), The Hand Of Peril (1916), The House Of Intrigue (1919), Unseeing Eyes (1923), Empty Hands (1924), The Canadian (1926), The Purchase Price (1932), The Lady Fights Back (1937), Buck Benny Rides Again (1940) and The Iron Claw (1941).

Stringer remained a resident of New Jersey until his death in 1950, aged 76.[1]

Writing

 
Arthur Stringer

Fiction

Stringer's crime and adventure stories were later criticized as stereotypical and containing inaccurate representation of Canadian settings.[7] However, his prairie trilogy – Prairie Wife (1915), Prairie Mother (1920), and Prairie Child (1921) – has been called "an enduring contribution to Canadian literature."[5] The trilogy uses a diary form to tell the tale of its narrator, a New England socialite who marries a Scots-Canadian farmer.[citation needed]

Poetry

The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature described Stringer's poetry as "undistinguished verse."[5] However, author John Garvin said of his poetry "there is maintained a standard of beauty, depth of feeling, and technical power, which in Canada have had all too little recognition."[8] Garvin also similarly praised Stringer's blank verse drama Sappho in Leucadia.[8]

Stringer's chief claim to poetic fame today rests on his 1914 book, Open Water, the first book by a Canadian poet to use free verse; in its preface he proclaimed that the modernist movement of which he was part was a "natural evolution".[2] Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski, who reprinted the Open Water preface in their anthology The Making of Modern Poetry In Canada, remarked on it:

This book must be seen as a turning point in Canadian writing if only for the importance of the ideas advanced by Stringer in his preface. In a carefully presented, extremely well-informed account of traditional verse-making, Stringer pleaded the cause of free verse and created what must now be recognized as an early document of the struggle to free Canadian poetry from the trammels of end-rhyme, and to liberalize its methods and its substance.[9]

Legacy

 
Arthur Stringer House in London, Ontario

Stringer was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Western Ontario in 1946.

Stringer is commemorated by Arthur Stringer Public School in London, Ontario, which opened in 1969.[2][4]

The house in which Stringer lived as a boy in London, Ontario has been preserved as a historic site, Arthur Stringer House.[1]

Publications

Fiction

 
The Woman Who Couldn't Die was reprinted in the October 1950 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries

[10]

  • The Silver Poppy. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1903.
  • Lonely O'Malley: A Story of Boy Life. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1905.[11]
  • The Wire Tappers. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1906.
  • Phantom Wires. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1907.
  • The Under Groove. New York: McClure Company, 1908.
  • The Gun-Runner. New York: B.W. Dodge & Co., 1909.
  • The Shadow. New York: The Century Co., 1913.
  • Never-Fail Blake Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1913.
  • The Prairie Wife Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1915.
  • The Hand of Peril. New York: Macmillan, April 1915.
  • The Door of Dread: A Secret Service Romance. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1916.
  • The House of Intrigue. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1918.
  • The Man Who Couldn't Sleep. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1919.
  • The Prairie Mother. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1920. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1920.
  • Twin Tales: "Are All Men Alike" and "The Lost Titian". Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1921.
  • The Wine of Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921.
  • The Prairie Child. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1922. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1923.
  • The Diamond Thieves. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1923. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1925.
  • The City of Peril. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1923.
  • Empty Hands. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1924.
  • and Russell Holman. Manhandled. (Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924.
  • and Russell Holman. The Story Without a Name. (Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay). New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1924.
  • Power. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, c.1925.
  • In Bad With Sinbad. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926.[11]
  • Night Hawk. A Novel. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1926.
  • White Hands. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927.[11]
  • The Wolf Woman. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1927.[11]
  • Cristina and I Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929.[11]
  • The Woman Who Couldn't Die. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929.[11]
  • A Lady Quite Lost. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1931.[11]
  • The Mud Lark. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1932.[11]
  • Dark Soil. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1933.[11]
  • Marriage by Capture. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1933.[11]
  • Man Lost. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1934.[11]
  • The Wife Traders: A Tale of the North. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1936.[11]
  • Heather of the High Hand: A Novel of the North. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1937.[11]
  • The Lamp In the Valley. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938.[11]
  • The Dark Wing. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1939.[11]
  • The Ghost Plane: A Novel of the North. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1940.[11]
  • A King Who Loved Old Clothes. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1941.[11]
  • Intruders in Eden. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1942.[11]
  • Shadowed Victory. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1944.[11]
  • Star in a Mist. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1943.[11]
  • The Devastator. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1944.[11]

Non-fiction

  • A Study of King Lear. New York, 1897.[citation needed]
  • Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke, 1921.

Poetry

  • Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems. London, ON: T.H. Warren, 1894.[11]
  • Pauline and Other Poems. London, ON: T.H. Warren, 1895.[11]
  • The Loom of Destiny. Boston: Small, Maynard, 1899.[11]
  • The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1907. 1949.[11]
  • Irish Poems. New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1911.
    • Out of Erin (Songs in Exile). Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1930.[11]
  • Open Water. London: John Lane Co., 1914.
  • A Woman at Dusk and Other Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1928.[11]
  • The Old Woman Remembers and Other Irish Poems. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1938.[11]
  • New York Nocturnes. Toronto: Ryerson P, 1948.[11]

Plays

  • Hephaestus: Persephone At Enna And Sappho In Leucadia. 1903
  • The Cleverest Woman In the World and Other One-Act Dramas. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1939.[11]

Filmography

The following 22 movies were based on fiction by Arthur Stringer:

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Arthur Stringer House", London Public Library, Web, May 7, 2011.
  2. ^ a b c Roger Moran, "Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer" May 26, 2006, at the Wayback Machine, Canadian Encyclopedia, Dominion Institute, May 8, 2011.
  3. ^ "Profile at Harpers.org, May 8, 2011.
  4. ^ a b "Stringer left his literary and cinematic mark"[permanent dead link]. Karen Robinet, Chatham This Week, April 11, 2012
  5. ^ a b c "Arthur Stringer", Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, Answers.com, May 8, 2011
  6. ^ "Arthur Stringer Summary Bibliography, International Science Fiction Database, ISFDB.com, May 8, 2011.
  7. ^ D. Fetherling, "Stringer, Arthur John Arbuthnott", Canadian Encyclopedia (Edmonton: Hurtig, 1988)
  8. ^ a b John W. Garvin, "Arthur Stringer," Canadian Poets (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart, 1916), p. 313, UPenn.edu, May 8, 2011.
  9. ^ Ken Norris, "The Beginnings of Canadian Modernism," Canadian Poetry: Studies/Documents/Reviews, No. 11 (Fall/Winter, 1982), Canadian Poetry, UWO.ca, March 25, 2011
  10. ^ Geoffrey Dayton-Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925. (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge U P, 1997, 646-647, Google Books, Web, May 8, 2011.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Author Search: Arthur Stringer, Open Library, Web, May 7, 2011.

External links

 
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Arthur Stringer (writer)

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arthur, stringer, writer, arthur, stringer, february, 1874, september, 1950, canadian, novelist, screenwriter, poet, later, moved, united, states, arthur, stringerborn, 1874, february, 1874chatham, ontario, canadadiedseptember, 1950, 1950, aged, mountain, lake. Arthur Stringer February 26 1874 September 13 1950 was a Canadian novelist screenwriter and poet who later moved to the United States Arthur StringerBorn 1874 02 26 February 26 1874Chatham Ontario CanadaDiedSeptember 13 1950 1950 09 13 aged 76 Mountain Lakes New Jersey U S OccupationScreenwriter novelistLanguageEnglishNationalityCanadianAlma materUniversity of TorontoNotable worksPrairie Wife Prairie Mother Prairie Child Open WaterSpouseJobyna Howland Margaret ArbuthnottChildren3He published 45 works of fiction and 15 other books in addition to writing filmscripts and articles 1 Society my dear is like salt water good to swim in but hard to swallow Arthur Stringer The Silver Poppy Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 3 Writing 3 1 Fiction 3 2 Poetry 4 Legacy 5 Publications 5 1 Fiction 5 2 Non fiction 5 3 Poetry 5 4 Plays 6 Filmography 7 References 8 External linksEarly life EditStringer was born in Chatham Ontario 1 In 1884 the family moved to London Ontario where Charles attended London Collegiate Institute 1 At the Institute he founded and edited a school magazine called Chips He then attended University College University of Toronto from 1892 to 1894 and later studied at Oxford University 2 Career EditStringer s first book of poetry Watchers of Twilight and Other Poems was published in 1894 In 1895 he worked for the Montreal Herald At this time he was also publishing in Saturday Night and the Canadian Magazine In 1898 he got a job with the American Press Association moved to New York City and began publishing in The Atlantic and Harper s 1 His first poem in Harper s Remorse appeared in February 1899 3 His first novel The Silver Poppy came out in 1903 1 In the same year he bought a farm on the shore of Lake Erie and married actress Jobyna Howland known as the original Gibson girl citation needed They divorced in 1914 and Stringer married his cousin Margaret Arbuthnott 1 In 1921 the Stringers moved to Mountain Lakes New Jersey where Arthur Stringer continued to write 4 Stringer wrote crime fiction and wilderness adventures mainly using conventional formulae citation needed He wrote as well in many other genres from social realism his Prairie trilogy 1915 1921 to psychological fiction The Wine of Life 1921 5 He wrote early science fiction novels The Story Without a Name 1924 with Russell Holman and The Woman Who Couldn t Die 1929 6 Much of his writing was for films Film scripts on which he worked include The Perils Of Pauline 1914 The Hand Of Peril 1916 The House Of Intrigue 1919 Unseeing Eyes 1923 Empty Hands 1924 The Canadian 1926 The Purchase Price 1932 The Lady Fights Back 1937 Buck Benny Rides Again 1940 and The Iron Claw 1941 Stringer remained a resident of New Jersey until his death in 1950 aged 76 1 Writing Edit Arthur Stringer Fiction Edit Stringer s crime and adventure stories were later criticized as stereotypical and containing inaccurate representation of Canadian settings 7 However his prairie trilogy Prairie Wife 1915 Prairie Mother 1920 and Prairie Child 1921 has been called an enduring contribution to Canadian literature 5 The trilogy uses a diary form to tell the tale of its narrator a New England socialite who marries a Scots Canadian farmer citation needed Poetry Edit The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature described Stringer s poetry as undistinguished verse 5 However author John Garvin said of his poetry there is maintained a standard of beauty depth of feeling and technical power which in Canada have had all too little recognition 8 Garvin also similarly praised Stringer s blank verse drama Sappho in Leucadia 8 Stringer s chief claim to poetic fame today rests on his 1914 book Open Water the first book by a Canadian poet to use free verse in its preface he proclaimed that the modernist movement of which he was part was a natural evolution 2 Louis Dudek and Michael Gnarowski who reprinted the Open Water preface in their anthology The Making of Modern Poetry In Canada remarked on it This book must be seen as a turning point in Canadian writing if only for the importance of the ideas advanced by Stringer in his preface In a carefully presented extremely well informed account of traditional verse making Stringer pleaded the cause of free verse and created what must now be recognized as an early document of the struggle to free Canadian poetry from the trammels of end rhyme and to liberalize its methods and its substance 9 Legacy Edit Arthur Stringer House in London Ontario Stringer was awarded an honorary D Litt by the University of Western Ontario in 1946 Stringer is commemorated by Arthur Stringer Public School in London Ontario which opened in 1969 2 4 The house in which Stringer lived as a boy in London Ontario has been preserved as a historic site Arthur Stringer House 1 Publications EditFiction Edit The Woman Who Couldn t Die was reprinted in the October 1950 issue of Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10 The Silver Poppy New York D Appleton amp Co 1903 Lonely O Malley A Story of Boy Life New York Houghton Mifflin 1905 11 The Wire Tappers Boston Little Brown and Co 1906 Phantom Wires Boston Little Brown and Co 1907 The Under Groove New York McClure Company 1908 The Gun Runner New York B W Dodge amp Co 1909 The Shadow New York The Century Co 1913 Never Fail Blake Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1913 The Prairie Wife Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1915 The Hand of Peril New York Macmillan April 1915 The Door of Dread A Secret Service Romance Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1916 The House of Intrigue Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1918 The Man Who Couldn t Sleep Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1919 The Prairie Mother Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1920 London Hodder amp Stoughton 1920 Twin Tales Are All Men Alike and The Lost Titian Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1921 The Wine of Life New York Alfred A Knopf 1921 The Prairie Child Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1922 London Hodder amp Stoughton 1923 The Diamond Thieves Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1923 London Hodder amp Stoughton 1925 The City of Peril New York Alfred A Knopf 1923 Empty Hands Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1924 and Russell Holman Manhandled Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay New York Grosset amp Dunlap 1924 and Russell Holman The Story Without a Name Illustrated with scenes from the photoplay New York Grosset amp Dunlap 1924 Power Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill c 1925 In Bad With Sinbad Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1926 11 Night Hawk A Novel Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1926 White Hands Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1927 11 The Wolf Woman Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1927 11 Cristina and I Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1929 11 The Woman Who Couldn t Die Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1929 11 A Lady Quite Lost Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1931 11 The Mud Lark Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1932 11 Dark Soil Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1933 11 Marriage by Capture Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1933 11 Man Lost Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1934 11 The Wife Traders A Tale of the North Toronto McClelland amp Stewart 1936 11 Heather of the High Hand A Novel of the North Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1937 11 The Lamp In the Valley Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1938 11 The Dark Wing Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1939 11 The Ghost Plane A Novel of the North Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1940 11 A King Who Loved Old Clothes Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1941 11 Intruders in Eden Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1942 11 Shadowed Victory Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1943 London Hodder amp Stoughton 1944 11 Star in a Mist Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1943 11 The Devastator Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1944 11 Non fiction Edit A Study of King Lear New York 1897 citation needed Red Wine of Youth A Life of Rupert Brooke 1921 Poetry Edit Watchers of Twilight and Other Poems London ON T H Warren 1894 11 Pauline and Other Poems London ON T H Warren 1895 11 The Loom of Destiny Boston Small Maynard 1899 11 The Woman in the Rain and Other Poems Boston Little Brown amp Co 1907 1949 11 Irish Poems New York Mitchell Kennerley 1911 Out of Erin Songs in Exile Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1930 11 Open Water London John Lane Co 1914 A Woman at Dusk and Other Poems Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1928 11 The Old Woman Remembers and Other Irish Poems Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1938 11 New York Nocturnes Toronto Ryerson P 1948 11 Plays Edit Hephaestus Persephone At Enna And Sappho In Leucadia 1903 The Cleverest Woman In the World and Other One Act Dramas Indianapolis Bobbs Merrill 1939 11 Filmography EditThe following 22 movies were based on fiction by Arthur Stringer 1912 The Man Who Made Good short story 1914 The Case of Cherry Purcelle short story 1916 The Secret Agent short story 1916 The Breaker story 1916 The Hand of Peril novel The Hand of Peril A Novel of Adventure 1918 From Two to Six story The Button Thief 1919 The House of Intrigue novel 1920 Are All Men Alike story The Waffle Iron 1923 Unseeing Eyes story Snowblind 1924 Manhandled story 1924 The Story Without a Name novel 1924 Empty Hands story 1925 The Prairie Wife story 1925 Womanhandled story 1926 The Canadian story and scenario 1926 The Wilderness Woman scenario story 1926 Out of the Storm story The Travis Coup 1928 Half a Bride story White Hands 1932 The Purchase Price story The Mud Lark 1937 The Lady Fights Back novel Heather of the High Hand 1940 Buck Benny Rides Again story 1941 The Iron Claw story References Edit Poetry portal Biography portal Canada portal Ontario portal a b c d e f g h Arthur Stringer House London Public Library Web May 7 2011 a b c Roger Moran Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer Archived May 26 2006 at the Wayback Machine Canadian Encyclopedia Dominion Institute May 8 2011 Profile at Harpers org May 8 2011 a b Stringer left his literary and cinematic mark permanent dead link Karen Robinet Chatham This Week April 11 2012 a b c Arthur Stringer Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature Answers com May 8 2011 Arthur Stringer Summary Bibliography International Science Fiction Database ISFDB com May 8 2011 D Fetherling Stringer Arthur John Arbuthnott Canadian Encyclopedia Edmonton Hurtig 1988 a b John W Garvin Arthur Stringer Canadian Poets Toronto McClelland Goodchild amp Stewart 1916 p 313 UPenn edu May 8 2011 Ken Norris The Beginnings of Canadian Modernism Canadian Poetry Studies Documents Reviews No 11 Fall Winter 1982 Canadian Poetry UWO ca March 25 2011 Geoffrey Dayton Smith American Fiction 1901 1925 Cambridge UK Cambridge U P 1997 646 647 Google Books Web May 8 2011 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad Author Search Arthur Stringer Open Library Web May 7 2011 External links Edit Wikisource has original text related to this article Arthur Stringer writer Works by Arthur Stringer at Faded Page Canada Works by Arthur Stringer at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Arthur Stringer at Internet Archive Works by Arthur Stringer at LibriVox public domain audiobooks Works by Arthur Stringer at Digital Archive Toronto Public Library Arthur Stringer in Harper s Magazine 16 poems Arthur Stringer at 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