T. S. Arthur
The life
T. S. Arthur left school at thirteen, half-blind and apprenticed to a watchmaker, and became one of the most widely read Americans of his century. Ten Nights in a Bar-Room did for temperance what Uncle Tom's Cabin did for abolition — it was staged constantly for fifty years and helped carry Prohibition. He edited magazines, wrote a hundred books, and preached moderation in everything but output.
The Iron Rule
104 pages — the shortest way into Arthur, not the greatest.
Author of “Love in High Life,” “Love in a Cottage,” “Mary Moreton; or, the Broken Promise,” “Agnes; or, the Possessed,” “Insubordination,” “Lucy Sandford,” “The Orphan Children,” “The Debtor’s Daughter,” “The Divorced Wife,” “Pride and Prudence,” “The Two Merchants,” “Cecilia Howard,” “The Banker’s Wife,” Etc.
