- John Foster Kirk
John Foster Kirk (
March 23 ,1824 ,Fredericton ,New Brunswick – 1904) was an American historian, journalist, educator and bibliographer.Kirk was educated privately in
Nova Scotia and came to the United States in 1842. From 1847 to 1859 he was secretary to the historianWilliam H. Prescott , accompanying Prescott to Europe in 1850 and editing Prescott's works after his death. He contributed to the "North American Review ", the "Atlantic Monthly ", and other periodicals. In 1870 he moved toPhiladelphia , where he edited "Lippincott's Monthly Magazine " from 1870 to 1886. In 1886 he became Lecturer in European History at theUniversity of Pennsylvania . In 1891 he published a two-volume "Supplement" toSamuel Austin Allibone 's "Critical dictionary of English literature".Kirk's second wife was the novelist
Ellen Warner Olney , daughter of the geographerJesse Olney .Works
*"A History of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy", 3 vols, 8vo, 1863-67.
*(ed.) Works of William H. Prescott, 1870-1874.
*"A supplement to Allibone's Critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. Containing over thirty-seven thousand articles (authors), and enumerating over ninety-three thousand titles", 1891References
*"Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American biography", 1888
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*worldcat id|lccn-n87-899918
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