Cyrus Townsend Brady
BiographyCyrus Townsend Brady (December 20, 1861–January 24, 1920) was a journalist, historian, Episcopalian priest, adventure writer, and screenwriter. As an author he had over 100 books to his credit. He was also famous for his views on feminism and women’s suffrage, preaching many anti-suffrage sermons and describing women voters as “an insult to God.”
Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, he 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. In 1914 Brady began working as a screenwriter at Vitagraph Company of America and died in Yonkers, New York, of pneumonia at age 58.
As a historian, Brady tended to make his fiction adhere, as closely as possible, to the actual facts of the historical setting in which his stories were placed, sometimes changing the names but other times using the real names of the historical people upon whom his characters were based. His first major book, For Love of Country, for example, whilst telling the story of a fictitious character named 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.
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Little France (??, ??)
The Ring and the Man (novel, ??)
The Chalice of Courage (novel, ??)
The Island of Surprise (novel, ??)
The More Excellent Way (novel, ??)
For Love of Country: A Story of Land and Sea in the Days of the Revolution (novel, 1898)
For Freedom of the Seas (novel, 1900)
American Fights and Fighters (non-fiction, 1900)
Recollections of a Missionary in the Great West (non-fiction, 1900)
Hohenzollern: A Story of the Time of Frederick Barbarossa (novel, 1901)
In the Wasp’s Nest: The Story of a Sea Waif in the War of 1812 (novel, 1902)
The Southerners (novel, 1903)
A Little Traitor to the South (novel, 1904)
A Midshipman in the Pacific (novel, 1904)
Indian Fights and Fighters (non-fiction, 1904)
The Corner in Coffee (??, 1904)
Three Daughters of the Confederacy (novel, 1905)
The Patriots (??, 1906)
Northwestern Fights and Fighters (non-fiction, 1907)
Hearts and the Highway (novel, 1911)
Bob Dashaway Privateersman (novel, 1911)
As the Sparks Fly Upward (story, 1911, filmed as Hearts Adrift, 1914)
Secret Service (novelization of play written by William Gillette, 1912)
The Island of the Stairs (??, 1913)
South American Fights and Fighters, and Other Tales of Adventure (non-fiction, 1913)
Britton of the Seventh: A Romance of Custer and the Great Northwest (??, 1914)
Britton of the Seventh (novel, 1914)
The Eagle of the Empire: A Story of Waterloo (novel, 1915)
The Island of Regeneration: A Story of What Ought to Be (novel, 1888, filmed as The Island of Regeneration, 1915)
And Thus He Came: A Christmas Fantasy (novel, 1916)
By the World Forgot (novel, 1917)
The Man Who Won (novel, 1919)
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