Timothy Shay Arthur
(June 6, 1809 – March 6, 1885)
"Timothy Shay Arthur has
done more for American literature than any one other person. His name will
be remembered and loved, when those of his critics will be forgotten,
together with their productions. I doubt if there is another man in the
country who has done such a vast, such a measureless amount of good
with the pen. There is probably not another American writer who has produced
so much, as Arthur."
"Arthur was the most
popular and widely read author of his times!"
Biography
Autobiography
(5 pages, written in 1850)
BOOKS by Timothy Shay Arthur
Letters to a Young
Wife,
from a Married Lady
CHILDREN'S STORIES
Character-building short stories:
Shadows!
(Must reading for husbands!)
Our Daily Life
Guests in the Heart
A Mother's Duty
The Shadows We Cast
Bear and Forbear
An Hour with Myself!
Loved Too Late
(Must reading for husbands!)
Our Life Romance
Imperishable Beauty!
Fruits of Sorrow
Very Poor!
(On Christian contentment!)
Who Are Happiest
Buy Only What You
Need
At Home
Haven't Time
(Must reading for fathers!)
Kate's Experiment!
(must reading for wives)
The Power of Kindness
The Power of the
Tongue!
Obedience in Children
Two Systems
of Child Training
The Hypochondriac
The Gentle Warning
The Prodigal Son!
The Quest for Happiness
New Aims in Life
My First Sermon
The Bitter Cup!
Under a Cloud!
The Temptation!
A Word to Husbands
Don't Mention It!
(the sin of gossip)
The Emancipated Wife
Riches and Poverty!
WEALTH!
Industry and Idleness
Romance and Reality
A Mystery
Explained
(for all who struggle with debt)
The Wages of the Poor
From Death unto Life
Duty and Kindness
As We Forgive
Dealing with
Adversity
Gentle Hand
The Fiery Trial
Angels with Us
Unawares
An Angel in Disguise
Heavenly-minded
Wheat or Tares?
The Two Pictures
The Merchant's Son
Is He a Christian?
Entering Heaven
Every
Wrinkle a Line of Beauty
The
Heiress!
The Humbled Pharisee
The Means of Happiness
A Lesson in Life
(about "retirement")
Following the Fashions
Now and Today
In the Way of Temptation
The Hard-hearted Husband
The
Two Husbands
I Will!
Formation of Character
(for parents)
Do You Suffer More than Your Neighbor?
Bodily Deformity—Spiritual Beauty
Nothing to Spare!
Spending Money
Ours,
Loved, and "Gone Before"
Every Cloud Has a Silver Lining
Manly Gentleness
TRIFLES
Hints and Helps for Married People
Three New Years Eves
BEAUTY
The Evening Before Marriage
Marriage
The
Good Match!
Helping the Poor
Luxuries
Lost and Happiness Won
Marrying Well
Engaged at Sixteen!
The Daughter-in-Law
Making
a Sensation
Little Lizzie
Blessed Are the Beloved!
How to be Happy
Shadows from a Clouded Brow
Not Great, But Happy
The
Step-mother
The Clerk's Marriage
Hints for Husbands
Three Ways of Managing a Wife
Giving That Does Not Impoverish
The Genii of the Gold Mines!
My
Father
The
School Girl
Riches and Poverty
The First Marriage in the Family
Not
at Home!
The
Darlington's
The Home of Taste
The Brilliant — and the Commonplace
(biographical)
Aunt Mary
The Cradle in
the Garret
The Benefits of
Music
Do You Know What
Your Children Read?
Digging up Seeds
Golden Days!
The Power of
Kindness
Poor Cousin
Eunice
The Daughter
The Maiden's Error
The Dying Child
The Evening Prayer
The Social Serpent
(The sin of gossip!)
My Whistling
Neighbor
Too Much Vinegar
— and Too Little Honey
Other People's
Eyes
Spare Moments
Jessie Hampton
You Are the Man!
The Unhappy Wife
The Estrangement
For the Fun of
it!
How
to Attain True Greatness
Forgive and
Forget!
The Last Penny
A Peevish Day, and
its Consequences
Domestic
Happiness
The Iron Will
Love and Law
The
Duties of Brothers and Sisters
An Evening at
Home
Sisters and
Brothers
The Brother's
Temptation
The Son of My
Friend
The Parkers
The Nursery Maid
The Thankless
Office
Slow and Sure
Sunday Religion
The Deathbed
Procrastination
A Family Picture
Playing Mother
The Daughter
The Eleventh
Commandment
Which Was
Most the Lady?
On Guard
The Young
Music Teacher
The Gift of Beauty
The Rich and the
Poor
Regulation of the Temper
Be
Patient with the Little Ones
Marrying a Count
He Must Have
Meant Me!
A Good
Investment
A
Story of the American Revolution
The Wife
Good-Hearted
People
The Darkened
Pathway
If I Were
Only in Heaven
Is it Well
with You?
Our Heavenly
Homes
Origin and
Destiny
What's in a Name
Putting Your
Hand in Your Neighbor's Pockets
A Penny Saved, Is a
Penny Gained
The Sisters
Dressed for a
Party
A Cure for
Depression
Mary Turner
Human Life
I'll See About It
A Visit
with the Doctor
Kind Words
A Talk about
Marriage
A Bargain!
The Ruined Family
A Lesson of
Contentment
The Life to Come
Paying the
Pastor
Three Scenes in the Life of a Worldling
The Dead
We Are Led by
a Way That We Know Not
Not as Our Ways
The Wanderer's
Return
The Hermit!
Returning
Good for Evil
Both are to
Blame
The New Year's Gift
Not at Home!
Judging by
Appearances
The
Mistakes of a Rising Family
Had I Been
Consulted
Encouragement in the Home
The
Misunderstanding
The Old Village
Church
Quarrels
with Neighbors
No Time for
Trouble
The Neglected One
A Gleam of
Sunshine
The Touching
Reproof
My Fortune's Made
The
Grandfather's Advice
My Washerwoman
Owe No Man
Anything
A Good Name
The Fatal Error
Retirement
The Sunday
Christian
Three Hundred
a Year
The Love Secret
The Young
Housekeeper
The Two Invalids
What Can I Do?
Thanksgiving
Water
Have a
Flower in Your Room
The White Dove
The Scarlet Poppy
Arthur Leland
Aunt Mary's
Suggestion
Unredeemed
Pledges
Thistle-down
The Portrait!
Number Twelve
Mother
Words
The Town Lot
How to Be Happy
A New Pleasure
Andy Lowell
Was it
Murder, or Suicide?
Visiting
Neighbors
The Invalid Wife
The Old Folks
How
Teach Children Obedience
It's None
of My Business
Human
Longings for Peace and Rest
A
Cure for Low Spirits
A Wife's Sermon
The Little
Children
Passing Away
Sunshine at
Home
The Use of Flowers
The Family
of Michael Arout
An Angel
in Every House
Great Principles and Small Duties
Vulgar People
Common People
Lucy's Secret
The Mothers
Promise
Living like a
Lady
The Right of Way
Maybe So
The Unruly Member
The Poor Child
Died!
The Way of
Transgressors
Shirt Buttons
The Lay Preacher
The Christian
Gentleman
Home
Encouraging
the Poor
Godfather Virgil
The
Story of the Broken Flower-pot
Out of Tune
Slave or Free?
The Temperance
Song
The Temperance
Pledge
The Fair Tempter
Heart-shadows
Little Molly
Two Ways
with Servants
Jim
Braddock's Pledge
The Failing Hope
Fannie
Nellie
The Distiller's
Dream
Time, Faith,
Energy
I Didn't
Think of That
I Knew How
it Would Be
Flushed with
Wine
Brandy as a
Preventative
Coffee Versus
Brandy
The Methodist
Preacher
The Face and the
Life
Words Fitly
Spoken
Girls' Heads Against
Fathers' Hearts
Jacob Jones
My Mother
Rich
and Rare Were the Gems She Wore
Blessing
of a Good Deed
I'll See About
It!
Home Shadows
The First Baby
A Scene
from Real Life
Match-making
The Two Homes
Look at the
Other Side
The Poor Debtor
Making Haste to
Be Rich
Home at Last!
Going Home
Mrs Winterford and Her Servants
Little Bill
Will it Pay?
The
Circuit-preacher
The Newspaper
Taking Toll
Coals of Fire
Faith and
Patience
How to Be Happy
Dick Lawson
John Mason
Out of the
Frying-pan, and into the Fire!
The Hours of Life
The Duel
The Tavern-keeper
How to Cure
a Drunkard
Something for
a Cold
The Worth of a
Doll
A Shocking
Bad Memory
Mrs. Todd
and Mrs. Jones
Starting a
Newspaper
My Washerwoman
A Home for My
Mother
A Fine
Generous Fellow
Deaths
of Little Children
Almost a Tragedy
Aunt
Mary's Preserving Kettle
The Elixir
Hannah More,
The Pilgrims!
Hannah More,
All For The Best!
Hannah More,
The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain
Hannah More,
The Fair-Weather Christian
"All of the books from the pen of Timothy Shay Arthur are most interesting,
and of a high moral and useful tone. To read any of them, must improve the
character and the conduct. Mr. Arthur's works are all wholesome; they
inculcate morality and purify the feelings — by tastefully illustrating the
beauties of virtue, and the iniquities of vice.
"His works will be read with interest by all
the admirers of wholesome novels, and will be seized on with avidity by the
thousands of readers who prefer Mr. Arthur's useful and instructive sketches
— to the flimsy novels which overstock the market. To Mr. Arthur the public
are indebted for a species of composition that while it affords delight,
conveys at the same time, many moral and practical lessons for life."
(Editor, 1855)
