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American essayist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her essays are esteemed for their scholarship and wit.
Agnes Repplier
Works
- Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898) (external scan)
- The Fireside Sphinx (1901)
- In Our Convent Days (1905) (external scan)
- Germany and Democracy (1914; with J. William White)
- The Promise of the Bell: Christmas in Philadelphia (1924)
- To Think of Tea! (1932)
- In Pursuit of Laughter (1936) a historical study of types of humor
Essay collections
- Books and Men (1888)
- Points of View (1891)
- Essays in Miniature (1892)
- Essays in Idleness (1893)
- In the Dozy Hours and Other Papers (1894)
- Varia (1897)
- Compromises (1904)
- A Happy Half-Century and Other Essays (1908)
- Americans and Others (1912)
- Counter-Currents (1916)
- Points of Friction (1920)
- Under Dispute (1924)
- Times and Tendencies (1931)
- Eight Decades: Essays and Episodes (1937)
Individual essays
- The Accursed Annual
- Agrippina
- The Album Amicorum
- Allegra
- The American Essay in War Time
- Americanism
- At the Novelist's Table
- Aut Cæsar, aut Nihil
- Battle of the Babies
- The Beggar's Pouch
- The Beloved Sinner
- The Benefactor
- Books that have Hindered Me
- A By-Way in Fiction
- Cakes and Ale
- The Cavalier
- The Charm of the Familiar
- The Cheerful Clan
- The Child
- Children in Fiction
- Children, Past and Present
- The Children's Age
- The Children's Poets
- The Chill of Enthusiasm
- Christianity and War
- Comedy of the Custom House
- The Condescension of Borrowers
- Consecrated to Crime
- Consolations of the Conservative
- Conversation in Novels
- The Correspondent
- The Cost of Modern Sentiment
- Cruelty and Humour
- Curiosities of Criticism
- A Curious Contention
- The Customary Correspondent
- Dead Authors
- The Deathless Diary
- The Decay of Sentiment
- Dialogues
- The Discomforts of Luxury: A Speculation
- An Easter Sermon
- The Educator
- English Love-Songs
- English Railway Fiction
- Ennui
- Esoteric Economy
- The Estranging Sea
- The Eternal Feminine
- The Fête de Gayant
- Fiction in the Pulpit
- A Forgotten Poet
- French Love-Songs
- From the Reader's Standpoint
- The Gayety of Life
- Ghosts
- Gifts
- The Girl Graduate
- Goodness and Gayety
- "The Greatest of These is Charity"
- The Grocer's Cat
- Guests
- Guides: A Protest
- A Happy Half-Century
- The Headsman
- Humors of Gastronomy
- In Behalf of Parents
- In the Dozy Hours
- A Kitten
- Lectures
- Leisure
- Letters
- The Literary Lady
- Literary Shibboleths
- Little Pharisees in Fiction
- Living in History
- The Luxury of Conversation
- Marriage in Fiction
- The Mission of Humour
- The Modest Immigrant
- Money
- Mr. Wilde's Intentions
- The Nervous Strain
- A Note on Mirrors
- The Novel of Incident
- The Novelist
- Old Wine and New
- Old World Pets
- On the Benefits of Superstition
- On the Slopes of Parnassus
- Opinions
- The Oppression of Notes
- Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother
- Our Belief in Books
- Our Friends, The Books
- Our Loss of Nerve
- The Passing of the Essay
- Pastels: A Query
- The Perils of Immortality
- The Pietist
- The Pilgrim's Staff
- A Plea for Humor
- Pleasure: a Heresy
- The Point of View
- Popular Education
- The Praises of War
- A Quaker Diary
- A Question of Politeness
- The Repeal of Reticence
- Reviewers and Reviewed
- The Royal Road of Fiction
- Saints or Spirits?
- Scanderbeg
- A Short Defence of Villains
- Some Aspects of Pessimism
- The Spinster
- The Strayed Prohibitionist
- Sympathy
- The Temptation of Eve
- Three Famous Old Maids
- The Tourist
- Travellers' Tales
- Trials of a Publisher
- The Virtuous Victorian
- Waiting
- War and the Child
- What Children Read
- When Lalla Rookh was Young
- Wit and Humor
- Woman Enthroned
- Women and War
- Words
Biographical studies
- "Horace Howard Furness"
- J. William White, M.D.: A Biography (1919)
- Père Marquette: Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer (1929) (Jacques Marquette)
- Mère Marie of the Ursulines: A Study in Adventure (1931) (Marie de l'Incarnation)
- Junípero Serra:Pioneer Colonist of California (1933)
- Agnes Irwin: A Biography (1934)
Poetry
Miscellaneous
- "The Story of Molly Pitcher". The Red True Story Book, A. Lang ed.; H. J. Ford ill. 1895.
- "Memoirs and Biographies" in Counsel upon the Reading of Books (1900)
- "What is Patriotism?"
- "The Russian Bogyman" in The Book of the Homeless (1916)
- Note in A Book of Drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray: A series of metamorphoses made in Philadelphia, 1853, for the children of William B. Reed (The Pennell Club, 1925)
As editor
- A Book of Famous Verse (1892)
- For Remembrance: A little record of loyalty and fidelity made with much love by the Children of Eden (1901)
- The Cat (1912)
Works about Repplier
- "Agnes Repplier" by Harrison S. Morris (The Book Buyer, January 1894)
- Agnes Repplier: Lady of Letters (1949) by George Stewart Stokes (external scan)
- Agnes Repplier: A Memoir (1957) by her niece Emma Repplier (Mrs. Lightner Witmer) (external scan)
Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1950, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.
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