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Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, 1861 – January 24, 1920) was an American priest, journalist, historian and adventure writer. His best-known work is ''Indian Fights and Fighters''.
Portrait of Cyrus Townsend Brady with Autograph
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Cyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, 1861 – January 24, 1920) was an American priest, journalist, historian and adventure writer. His best-known work is ''Indian Fights and Fighters''.
Background
He was born inAllegheny, Pennsylvania
Allegheny City was a municipality that existed in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania from 1788 until it was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1907. It was located north across the Allegheny River from downtown Pittsburgh, with its southwest border formed by ...
, and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1883. In 1889, he was ordained a deacon in the Episcopal church, and was ordained a priest in 1890. His first wife was Clarissa Guthrie, who died in 1890. His second wife was Mary Barrett.
Brady's first major book, ''For Love of Country'', whilst telling the story of a fictitious John Seymour, was actually based in part on the true heroics of Nicholas Biddle, one of the first five captains of the fledgling Continental Navy
The Continental Navy was the navy of the United Colonies and United States from 1775 to 1785. It was founded on October 13, 1775 by the Continental Congress to fight against British forces and their allies as part of the American Revolutionary ...
.
Brady was also famous for his opposition to feminism and Women's suffrage
Women's suffrage is the women's rights, right of women to Suffrage, vote in elections. Several instances occurred in recent centuries where women were selectively given, then stripped of, the right to vote. In Sweden, conditional women's suffra ...
: he preached many anti-suffrage sermons and described women voters as "an insult to God".
In 1914, Brady began working as a screenwriter at Vitagraph Company of America.
Brady died in Yonkers, New York
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of pneumonia
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at age 58.
Selected works
A detailed list of Brady's work can be found at The Online Books Page. Among his better known books are listed below; starred works are considered to be fantastic literature: *''The Island of Regeneration'' (1888) *''For Love of Country'' (1898) *''American Fights and Fighters'' (1900) *''Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West'' (1900) *''Hohenzollern: A Story of the Time of Frederick Barbarossa'' (1901) *''The Southerners'' (1903) *''A Little Traitor to the South'' (1904) *''A Midshipman in the Pacific'' (1904) *''Indian Fights and Fighters'' (1904) *''The Corner in Coffee'' (1904) *''Three Daughters of the Confederacy'' (1905) *''The Patriots'' (1906) *''Northwestern Fights and Fighters'' (1907) *''As the Sparks Fly Upward'' * (1911) *''Bob Dashaway Privateersman'' (1911) *''Hearts and the Highway'' (1911) *''Secret Service'' (1912) *''The Chalice of Courage: A Romance of Colorado'' adapted into a six part Vitagraph film *''The Island of the Stairs'' * (1913) *''Britton of the Seventh: A Romance of Custer and the Great Northwest'' A.C. McClurg & Co. Chicago (1914) *''And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy'' New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons (1916) *''By the World Forgot'' * (1917) *''Little France'' Many more titles by Cyrus Townsend Brady are listed in: American Fiction, 1901–1925: A Bibliography by Geoffrey D. Smith, pp. 75–78.References
External links
* * *Portrait of Cyrus Townsend Brady with Autograph
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Brady, Cyrus Townsend 1861 births 1920 deaths 19th-century American novelists 20th-century American novelists 20th-century American male writers 19th-century American historians Writers from Pittsburgh Journalists from Pittsburgh American male novelists American male short story writers 19th-century American short story writers 20th-century American short story writers 19th-century American male writers Novelists from Pennsylvania Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) 20th-century American essayists American male non-fiction writers Historians from Pennsylvania