Thorpe
Thorpe names 3 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Thorpe FRANCIS NEWTON, an Swampscott
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS NEWTON, an Swampscott, American author; born in educated at Mass., April ril 16, 16, 1857; was University and at the Law Syracuse Univer School of the University of Pennsylvania; fellow professor was admitted to the bar; of constitutional history ing; designed the stitution in 1885-1898. He of the People thor of " The Government the forerunner of the of the United States " ( 1889); " Franklin " boat; went through the and the University of Pennsylvania course at Glasgow . (1893); "The Story of the Constitution" den, Warsaw, and Vienna. He remained (1891); "The Government of the State of Pennsylvania" (1894); "The Constitution of the United States with Bibliography" (1894); "A Constitutional History of the American People, 1776-1850" (1898); "A History of the United States for Junior Classes" (1901); "The Civil War" (1906); "History; the Career of Man on Earth" (1909); "The House and Household" (1910); "An American Fruit Farm" (1915); "Essentials of American Constitutional Law" (1917).
Thorpe ROSE HARTWICK, an American author
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ROSE HARTWICK, an American author; born in Mishawaka, Ind., July 18, 1850; received a high school education. She became widely known because of her poem "Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight." Her other publications include "Fred's Dark Days" (1881); "Nina Bruce" (1886); "The Chester Girls" (1887); "The Year's Best Days" (1889); "Temperance Poems" (1887); "Sweet Song Stories" (1898); etc.
Thorpe BENJAMIN, an English Among his scholar
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
BENJAMIN, an English Among his scholar; born about 1782. an English numerous publications are -Saxon Gramedition of "Rask's Anglo and Institutes of mar," "Ancient Laws The Gospels in the Anglo-Saxon Kings," " edition of "Beo- Anglo-Saxon," an Chronicle," wulf," "The Anglo-Saxon etc. He died in "Northern Mythology," London, July 19, 1870.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
All three lives Collier's described in 1921 were essentially finished as it wrote, and the accounts still stand. Francis Newton Thorpe, then a professor of constitutional history, died in 1926; the work of his that endures is not in Collier's list but his seven-volume compilation of the Federal and State Constitutions, Colonial Charters and Other Organic Laws (1909), still consulted by legal historians. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, "widely known because of her poem 'Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight'" (written in 1867, when she was a teenager), lived until 1939 in California; the recitation piece that made her a household name has since dropped almost entirely out of anthologies and schoolrooms. Benjamin Thorpe's pioneering editions of Beowulf, the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the Anglo-Saxon laws have long been superseded by modern critical texts, but they founded the discipline and are now freely available in digital scans.
Written for this edition, 2026.