Henry Gardiner Adams (c.1811–1881) was an English druggist and chemist, known as an author and anthologist.[ 1] He wrote juvenile literature under the pseudonym Nemo .[ 2]
Life
Adams acted as secretary to the Mechanics Institute at Chatham . He was also involved in the early days of the Percy Society . Bankruptcy proceedings against his druggist and chemist business in Burgate Street, Canterbury were announced in 1872. He died at Gillingham, Kent on 1 May 1881.[ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6]
Political Views
In 1854 Adams edited the book God's Image In Ebony by the British abolitionists Frederick Chesson and Wilson Armistead . In the introduction to God's Image In Ebony , Adams argued that all human beings had a common origin, and hence that the enslavement of black people was immoral.[ 7]
Edited works
The Kentish Coronal , frontispiece etching by Richard Dadd [ 8]
The Kentish Coronal (1841). Adams contacted Charles Dickens in 1840 about contributing to a Kentish journal, but Dickens declined.[ 9] [ 10] Arthur Brook (John Chalk Claris ) did contribute.[ 11]
Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry (1844)[ 12]
The Peace Reading-book (1844)[ 13]
The Language and Poetry of Flowers (1853 and later editions, US editions from 1844).[ 14] [ 15] This anthology was Christian in tone, and aimed at a female audience.[ 16]
A Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations (1853)[ 17] [ 18]
A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (1854)[ 19]
God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, Etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race (1854), by Frederick William Chesson and Wilson Armistead [ 20]
A Cyclopædia of Female Biography (1857), revised edition, with Sarah Josepha Buell Hale [ 21]
Natural history
Frontispiece to Favorite Song Birds
Favorite Song Birds (1851)[ 22]
Cage and Chamber Birds (1853), translated and expanded from the German, and including British Warblers by Robert Sweet [ 23]
Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds (1854)[ 24] and Second series
Beautiful Butterflies; the British species described and illustrated (1854)[ 25]
Beautiful Shells (1855)[ 26]
Humming Birds Described and Illustrated (1856)[ 27]
The Sea-side Lesson Book (1856)[ 28]
The Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of the Months (1862)[ 29]
The Smaller British Birds (1874), with Henry B. Adams.[ 30]
Other works
A Story of the Seasons (2nd edition 1855)[ 31]
Peace Lyrics (1856) dedicated to Elihu Burritt [ 32]
An Historical and Descriptive Account of Rochester Bridge (1856)[ 33]
The Weaver Boy who Became a Missionary: Being the Story of the Life and Labors of David Livingstone (1867)[ 34]
Notes
^ Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson (1981). The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1821–1850 . Harvard University Press. p. 209 note 2. ISBN 978-0-674-52583-2 .
^ Joanne Shattock (1999). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: 1800–1900 . Cambridge University Press. p. 2357. ISBN 978-0-521-39100-9 .
^ Ray Desmond (25 February 1994). Dictionary of British and Irish Botanists and Horticulturists including plant collectors, flower painters and garden designers . CRC Press. p. 4. ISBN 978-0-85066-843-8 .
^ Charles Dickens (8 November 2011). Letters of Charles Dickens: 1833–1870 . Cambridge University Press. p. 31. ISBN 978-1-108-04004-4 .
^ Thomas Deloney (1841). Strange histories: consisting of ballads and other poems . Percy Soc. p. 80 .
^ "East Kent Liquidation Cases" . Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald . 7 December 1872. Retrieved 16 August 2014 – via British Newspaper Archive .
^ Lewis, Catherine M., and Lewis, J. Richard, (eds.) Jim Crow America : A Documentary History . Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2009. ISBN 9781610752138 (p.4)
^ Patricia Allderidge (September 2008). Richard Dadd (1817–1886): Dreams of Fancy : a Loan Exhibition, Including Works from the Bethlem Royal Hospital, 2nd July–11th July, 2008 . Andrew Clayton–Payne. p. 20. ISBN 978-0-9559480-0-8 .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1841). The Kentish Coronal, original prose and poetry by persons connected with the county of Kent .
^ F. S. Schwarzbach (13 January 2014). Dickens and the City . A&C Black. pp. 240 note 15. ISBN 978-1-4725-0932-1 .
^ Stephen, Leslie , ed. (1887). "Claris, John Chalk" . Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 10. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Henry Gardiner Adams, ed. (1844). Flowers; their moral, language, and poetry .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1844). The Peace Reading-book: Being ... Selections ... Condemnatory of the Principles and Practices of War, and Inculcating Those of True Christianity ... C. Gilpin.
^ Karla Armbruster; Kathleen R. Wallace (2001). Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism . University of Virginia Press. p. 124 note 5. ISBN 978-0-8139-2014-6 .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1864). Language and Poetry of Flowers . J. B. Lippincott & Company.
^ Susanna Morrill (2006). White Roses on the Floor of Heaven: Mormon Women's Popular Theology, 1880–1920 . Taylor & Francis. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-415-97735-7 .
^ H. G. Adams, ed. (1853). A Cyclopædia of Poetical Quotations .
^ Beverly Seaton (10 October 2012). The Language of Flowers: A History . University of Virginia Press. p. 203. ISBN 978-0-8139-3453-2 .
^ H. G. Adams, ed. (1854). A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations .
^ Frederick William Chesson; Wilson Armistead (1854). God's Image in Ebony: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches, Facts, Anecdotes, Etc., Demonstrative of the Mental Powers and Intellectual Capacities of the Negro Race . Partridge and Oakey.
^ Sarah Josepha Buell Hale; Henry Gardiner Adams, eds. (1857). A Cyclopædia of Female Biography ... [A revised abridgement, with additions, of "Woman's Record".] Edited by H. G. Adams . Groombridge&Sons.
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1851). Favorite Song Birds; a description of the feathered songsters of Britain . W.S. Orr & Company.
^ Johann Matthäus Bechstein ; Henry Gardiner Adams (1853). Cage and Chamber Birds ... Translated ... With considerable additions ... compiled by H. G. Adams. Incorporating the whole of Sweet's British Warblers .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1854). Nests and Eggs of Familiar British Birds .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1854). Beautiful Butterflies; the British species described and illustrated . Groombridge and Sons, 5, Paternoster Row.
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1855). Beautiful Shells; their nature, structure, and uses familiarly explained . Groombridge and Sons.
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). Humming Birds Described and Illustrated .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). The Sea-side Lesson Book: Designed to Convey to the Youthful Mind a Knowledge of the Nature and Uses of the Common Things of the Sea Coast . Groombridge & Sons.
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1862). The Wild Flowers, Birds and Insects of the Months . Hogg. ISBN 9781230329864 .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams; Henry B. Adams (1874). The Smaller British Birds .
^ Samuel Halkett ; Jón Andrésson Hjaltalín; Thomas Hill Jamieson (1867). Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates . W. Blackwood and sons. p. 29.
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). Peace Lyrics .
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1856). An Historical and Descriptive Account of Rochester Bridge, in Three Epochs, Being a Memorial of the Opening of the New Bridge, and the Taking Down of the Old . Macaulay.
^ Henry Gardiner Adams (1867). The Weaver Boy who Became a Missionary: Being the Story of the Life and Labors of David Livingstone . Thomas Whittaker.
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