Author:Agnes Repplier

Agnes Repplier
(1855/1858–1950)

Agnes Repplier

Works

• Philadelphia: The Place and the People (1898) IA
• The Fireside Sphinx (1901)
• In Our Convent Days (1905) IA
• Germany and Democracy (1914; with J. William White)
• To Think of Tea! (1932)
• In Pursuit of Laughter (1936) a historical study of types of humor

Essay collections

• Books and Men (1888)
• Points of View (1891)
• Essays in Miniature (1892)
• Essays in Idleness (1893)
• In the Dozy Hours and Other Papers (1894)
• Varia (1897)
• Compromises (1904)
• A Happy Half-Century and Other Essays (1908)
• Americans and Others (1912)
• Counter-Currents (1916)
• Points of Friction (1920)
• Under Dispute (1924)
• Times and Tendencies (1931)
• Eight Decades: Essays and Episodes (1937)

Individual essays

• "The Accursed Annual"
• "Agrippina"
• "The Album Amicorum"
• "Allegra"
• "Allies" (1924)
• "The American Essay in War Time"
• "The American Laughs" (1924)
• "Americanism"
• "Are Americans a Timid People?" (1924)
• "At the Novelist's Table"
• "Aut Cæsar"
• "Battle of the Babies"
• "The Battle-field of Education" (1924)
• "The Beggar's Pouch"
• "The Beloved Sinner"
• "The Benefactor"
• "Books that have Hindered Me"
• "A By-Way in Fiction"
• "Cakes and Ale"
• "The Cavalier"
• "The Charm of the Familiar"
• "The Cheerful Clan"
• "Children in Fiction"
• "The Children's Age"
• "The Children's Poets"
• "Children"
• "The Child"
• "The Chill of Enthusiasm"
• "Christianity and War"
• "Comedy of the Custom House"
• "The Condescension of Borrowers"
• "Consecrated to Crime"
• "Consolations of the Conservative"
• "Conversation in Novels"
• "The Correspondent" (1907)
• "The Cost of Modern Sentiment"
• "Cruelty and Humour"
• "Curiosities of Criticism"
• "A Curious Contention"
• "The Customary Correspondent"
• "Dead Authors"
• "The Deathless Diary"
• "The Decay of Sentiment"
• "Dialogues"
• " A Speculation"
• "The Divineness of Discontent" (1924)
• "An Easter Sermon"
• "The Educator"
• "English Love-Songs"
• "English Railway Fiction"
• "Ennui"
• "Esoteric Economy"
• "Essays in idleness/Words"
• "The Estranging Sea"
• "The Eternal Feminine"
• "Fiction in the Pulpit"
• "A Forgotten Poet"
• "French Love-Songs"
• "From the Reader's Standpoint"
• "The Fête de Gayant"
• "The Gayety of Life"
• "Ghosts"
• "Gifts"
• "The Girl Graduate"
• "Goodness and Gayety"
• "The Greatest of These is Charity"
• "The Grocer's Cat"
• "Guests"
• " A Protest"
• "The Happiness of Writing an Autobiography" (1924)
• "A Happy Half-Century"
• "The Headsman"
• "Humors of Gastronomy" (1891)
• "The Idolatrous Dog" (1924)
• "In Behalf of Parents"
• "In the dozy hours"
• "A Kitten"
• "Lectures" (1894)
• "Leisure"
• "Letters"
• "The Literary Lady"
• "Literary Shibboleths"
• "Little Pharisees in Fiction"
• "Living in History"
• "The Luxury of Conversation"
• "Marriage in Fiction"
• "The Masterful Puritan" (1924)
• "The Mission of Humour"
• "The Modest Immigrant"
• "Money"
• "Mr. Wilde's Intentions"
• "The Nervous Strain"
• "A Note on Mirrors"
• "The Novel of Incident"
• "The Novelist" (1908)
• "Old Wine and New"
• "Old World Pets"
• "On the Benefits of Superstition"
• "On the Slopes of Parnassus"
• "Opinions"
• "The Oppression of Notes"
• "Our Accomplished Great-Grandmother"
• "Our Belief in Books"
• "Our Friends"
• "Our Loss of Nerve"
• "The Passing of the Essay"
• " A Query"
• "The Perils of Immortality"
• "The Pietist" (1908)
• "The Pilgrim's Staff"
• "A Plea for Humor"
• " a Heresy"
• "The Point of View" (1902)
• "Popular Education"
• "The Praises of War"
• "The Preacher at Large" (1924)
• "The Promise of the Bell" (1924)
• "A Quaker Diary" (1899)
• "A Question of Politeness"
• "The Repeal of Reticence"
• "Reviewers and Reviewed"
• "The Royal Road of Fiction"
• "Saints or Spirits?" (1920)
• "Scanderbeg"
• "A Short Defence of Villains"
• "Some Aspects of Pessimism"
• "The Spinster"
• "The Strayed Prohibitionist"
• "Strayed Sympathies" (1924)
• "Sympathy"
• "The Temptation of Eve"
• "They Had Their Day" (1924)
• "Three Famous Old Maids"
• "To Counsel the Doubtful" (1924)
• "The Tourist"
• "Travellers' Tales"
• "Trials of a Publisher"
• "The Virtuous Victorian"
• "Waiting"
• "War and the Child" (1917)
• "What Children Read"
• "When Lalla Rookh was Young"
• "Wit and Humor"
• "Woman Enthroned"
• "Women and War"

Biographical studies

• "Horace Howard Furness"
• J. William White, M.D.: A Biography (1919)
• Père Marquette: Priest, Pioneer and Adventurer (1929) (Jacques Marquette)
• Mère Marie of the Ursulines: A Study in Adventure (1931) (Marie de l'Incarnation)
• Junípero Serra:Pioneer Colonist of California (1933)
• Agnes Irwin: A Biography (1934)

Poetry

• "The Sphinx"
• "St. Mona's Lambs"
• "St. Winifred's Well"

Miscellaneous

• "The Story of Molly Pitcher". The Red True Story Book, A. Lang ed.; H. J. Ford ill. 1895.
• "Memoirs and Biographies" in Counsel upon the Reading of Books (1900)
• "What is Patriotism?"
• "The Russian Bogyman" in The Book of the Homeless (1916)
• Note in A Book of Drawings by William Makepeace Thackeray: A series of metamorphoses made in Philadelphia, 1853, for the children of William B. Reed (The Pennell Club, 1925)

As editor

• A Book of Famous Verse (1892)
• For Remembrance: A little record of loyalty and fidelity made with much love by the Children of Eden (1901)
• The Cat (1912)

Works about Repplier

• "Agnes Repplier" by Harrison S. Morris (The Book Buyer, January 1894)
• Agnes Repplier: Lady of Letters (1949) by George Stewart Stokes IA
• Agnes Repplier: A Memoir (1957) by her niece Emma Repplier (Mrs. Lightner Witmer) (external scan)