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James Thomas Fields (December 31, 1817 – April 24, 1881) was an American publisher, editor, and poet. His business, Ticknor and Fields, was a notable publishing house in 19th century Boston.
James T. Fields (born December 31, 1817, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, U.S.—died April 24, 1881, Boston, Massachusetts) was an American author and leading publisher in the United States. At 14 Fields went to Boston, working as clerk in a bookseller’s shop. While he was employed there, he began to write for the local newspapers.
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James Thomas Fields was an American publisher, editor, and poet. He is best known today for his close association with some of the leading literary figures of the American Renaissance. As the editor of the Atlantic Monthly and a partner in the publishing house Ticknor and Fields, Fields played a significant role in shaping the literary ...
Fields, James T. (1817-1881) Courtesy of Coe College. At seventeen Fields traveled from his home in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, to Boston, where he apprenticed at the Old Corner Bookstore and began writing for newspapers. After he was invited to join a major publishing firm, it soon became known as Ticknor and Fields, and now James T. Fields is ...
- Susan Ritchie
James Thomas Fields 1817-1881. James Thomas Fields. James Thomas Fields was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the son of a sea captain who died when James was an infant. He and his brother were raised by his mother, aunt and uncle. After some local schooling, at the age of fourteen he was apprenticed to a publishing company in Boston.
Jun 14, 2024 · "James T. Fields" published on by null. (1817–81),partner of W.D. Ticknor in a prominent Boston publishing firm bearing their names and in the ownership of the Old Corner Bookstore, was editor of the Atlantic Monthly (1861–71). ...
James Thomas Fields (1817–81) As published in The Brownings’ Correspondence, 27, 325–331.. At a time when the intellectual property of foreign writers was not protected by American copyright laws, the example set by the Massachusetts publisher James T. Fields to compensate English authors fairly for their work was not lost on RB, who proposed a formal alliance between the two in 1854 ...
