Holland

Holland, JOSIAH GILBERT, an American author, was born in Belchertown, Massachusetts, 24th July 1819, and graduated at the Berkshire medical college, at Pittsfield, in 1844. He soon abandoned his profession, however, and after fifteen months as a school superintendent at Richmond, Virginia, became assistant editor of the Springfield Republican, of which he was part proprietor also from 1851 to 1866. In 1870, with Roswell Smith and the Scribners, he founded Scribner's Monthly, which he conducted successfully till his death, 12th October 1881. In this magazine appeared his novels, Arthur Bonnicastle (1873), The Story of Sevenoaks (1875), and Nicholas Minturn (1876). His Timothy Titcomb's Letters (1858) went through nine editions in a few months; and this sale was exceeded by his Life of Lincoln and his most popular poems, Bitter Street (1858), Kathrina (1867), and The Mistress of the Manse (1874). Most of his works have been republished in Britain. See the Life by Mrs Plunkett (1894).