Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century

TitleCaesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century
Year for Search1890
Authors[Donnelly], [Ignatius Loyola](1831-1901)
Tertiary AuthorsBoisgilbert, Edmund M.D. [pseud.]
Date Published1890
PublisherF.J. Schulte and Company
Place PublishedChicago, IL
KeywordsMale author, US author
Annotation

Largely a social catastrophe novel but includes a populist eutopia at the end. 

Additional Publishers

Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1894; Chicago, IL: J. Regan & Co., “Free Speech” Publishers, nd, with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly) and many errors Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue & Co., [1918? is given by most libraries although Rideout suggests 1901 and some libraries give 1913], with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly); ed. Walter B. Rideout. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960; New York: AMS Press, 1981; and ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” by the editor (xv-lv).

Info Notes

See Everett W. Fish, Donnelliana; An Appendix to “Caesar’s Column.” Excerpts from the Wit, Wisdom, Poetry and Eloquence of Ignatius Donnelly Selected and Collated, With a Biography. Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, 1892 (MoU-St). See also 1892 Donnelly. An important non-utopian work by Donnelly is Doctor Huguet. A Novel. By Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly), Author of “Atlantis,” “Ragnarök,” “The Great Cryptogram,” and “Cæsar’s Column.” Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, 1891, which is a critique of U.S. racism.

Pseudonym

Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. [pseud.]

Holding Institutions

HRC, MoU-St, PSt, W3,1579

Author Note

(1831-1901)

Full Text

1890 [Donnelly, Ignatius Loyola] (1831-1901). Caesar’s Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century. By Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. [pseud.]. Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte and Company. Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1894; Chicago, IL: J. Regan & Co., “Free Speech” Publishers, nd, with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly) and many errors Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue & Co., [1918? is given by most libraries although Rideout suggests 1901 and some libraries give 1913], with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly); ed. Walter B. Rideout. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960; New York: AMS Press, 1981; and ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” by the editor (xv-lv). HRC, MoU-St, PSt, W3,1579

Largely a social catastrophe novel but includes a populist eutopia at the end. See Everett W. Fish, Donnelliana; An Appendix to “Caesar’s Column.” Excerpts from the Wit, Wisdom, Poetry and Eloquence of Ignatius Donnelly Selected and Collated, With a Biography. Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, 1892 (MoU-St). See also 1892 Donnelly. An important non-utopian work by Donnelly is Doctor Huguet. A Novel. By Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly), Author of “Atlantis,” “Ragnarök,” “The Great Cryptogram,” and “Cæsar’s Column.” Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, 1891, which is a critique of U.S. racism.