Francis H. Underwood
Francis Henry Underwood (January 12, 1825, Enfield, Massachusetts – 1894) was an American editor and writer. He was the founder and first associate editor of The Atlantic in 1857 while still working as a publisher's assistant.
Underwood worked in Kentucky from 1845 to 1850, but his hatred of slavery caused him to quit the state. He became an ardent supporter of the Free-soil Party. Originally, he planned to launch a Free-soil magazine in 1853, but the idea did not come to fruition until The Atlantic in 1857.[1]
He was later appointed American Consul at Glasgow and Leith in Scotland.
Works
- Cloud Pictures, a novel
- Hand-books of English Literature
- Builders of American Literature
- Lord of Himself
- Man Proposes
- Dr. Gray's Quest
- biographies of Lowell, Longfellow, and Whittier
References
- ↑ John Wilson Townsend Kentucky in American Letters, 1784-1912 1976 " Francis Henry Underwood, "the editor who was never the editor" of The Atlantic Monthly, though he was indeed the projector and first associate editor of that famous magazine, was born at Enfield, Massachusetts, January 12, 1825, the son of Roswell Underwood. .. Underwood's intense hatred of slavery caused him to quit Kentcky, in 1850, after having lived for six years in this State, and to return ... He enlisted in the Free-soil movement with heart and soul."
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons. Wikisource
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