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George Pellew

(1859-1892)

"PELLEW, George, b. Cowes, Isle of Wight, England, 1859; d. New York, N.Y. 1892. He was a grandson of John Jay. Graduated at Harvard, 1880, and at the Harvard law school, 1883. Although admitted to the bar, he devoted himself to literary work."

[Edmund Clarence Stedman (ed.), An American Anthology 1787-1899 814 (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900)]

Poems

George Pellew, The Poems of George Pellew (Boston: W.B. Clarke & Co., 1892)(William Dean Howells ed.) [online text]

Writings

George Pellew, In Castle and Cabin; or, Talks in Ireland in 1887 (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888) [online text]

___________, John Jay (New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1890) [online text] (New York: Chelsea House, 1980)

___________, Woman and the Commonwealth: or, A Question of Expediency (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1892)(Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1888) [online text]

___________, Jane Austen's Novels (Boston: Cupples, Upham & Co., 1883) [online text]