Francis Channing Woodworth

Francis Channing Woodworth (1812 – June 5, 1859) was a printer, vicar and a writer.

Francis Channing Woodworth
Born	1812 Colchester, Connecticut
Died	June 5, 1859
Nationality	American
Other names	Theodore Tinker
Occupation	Writer

He was born at Colchester, Connecticut, the nephew of Samuel Woodworth,[1] and began his career as a printer. After eight years he became a preacher, but quit because of health issues.[2] Thereafter he became a writer of juvenile literature,[3] sometimes using pseudonym Theodore Tinker.[3] He was editor of a magazine called The Youth's Cabinet, which his brother D. Austin Woodworth published.[4] Francis died while sailing to New York from Savannah, Georgia.[3]

Bibliography

• Stories for little folks[1]
• Stories about birds and beasts (1850)
• Stories about the country (1850)
• A wheat-sheaf: gathered from our own fields (1850)
• Our own fields[2] (1850)
• The peddler's boy, or, I'll be somebody (1851)
• A peep at the beasts (1851)
• Stories about birds: with pictures to match (1851)
• Uncle Frank's home stories[1] (1851) 6 volumes
• Youth's book of gems[2] (1851)
• The boy's story book (1852)
• A budget of Willow Lane stories (1852)
• The little mischief-maker: and other stories (1852)
• A peep at the beasts: with twenty engravings (1852)
• The poor organ-grinder: and other stories (1852)
• Uncle Frank's peep at the beasts (1852)
• Uncle Frank's picture gallery[2] (1852)
• The wonderful letter-bag of kit curious: with tinted illustrations (1852)
• First lessons in botany (1853)
• Wonders of the insect world: with illustrative engravings (1853)
• The boy's and girl's country book: with illustrations (1854)
• The boy's story book (1854)
• Buds and blossoms from our own garden (1854)
• Jack Mason: the old sailor (1855)
• The young American's life of Fremont (1856)
• Stories about the country: with illustrations (1857)
• The boy's and girl's country book (1858)
• The picture A.B.C. book with stories (1859)

References

1. Adams, Oscar Fay (1904), A Dictionary of American Authors, Houghton, Mifflin, p. 435.
2. Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John, eds. (1889), Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography, 6, D. Appleton and Company, p. 609.
3. Cushing, William (1885), Initials and pseudonyms: a dictionary of literary disguises, 1, T. Y. Crowell & co., p. 201.
4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden foundations, 65, 1961, p. 566.

External links

• Works by Francis Channing Woodworth at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Francis Channing Woodworth at Internet Archive
• Works by Francis Channing Woodworth at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)