Gerald Richman's Annotated Bibliography of Fiction Set in Boston (working draft)

Introduction: I. History, II. Non-Intuitive Aspects of the Bibliography, III. How to Read Entries, and IV. Goal and Search Engine, Bibliographies, Scholarly and Popular Studies, Anthologies, Multi-Century Sagas, 17th Century, 17th-18th Centuries, 18th Century, 18th-19th Century, 19th Century, 19th-20th Century, 20th Century, 21st+ Century, Mysteries/Thrillers/Suspense



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Bibliographies

Slocum, Robert B. New England in Fiction, 1787-1990: An Annotated Bibliography . West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1994.

Stone, Martha and Michael Wofsey. Public Faces, Private Lives: A Bibliography of Boston Gay and Lesbian Writing. HQ76.3/New England 23 May 1996 (accessed 26 Feb. 2008)

Scholarly and Popular Studies

Bail, Hamilton Vaughan. "Harvard Fiction: Some Critical and Bibliographical Notes." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society 68 (1958): 211-347. (Excellent detailed discussion 1844-1940,

with "Supplementary List" 1812-1953; frequently cited herein as Bail)

Baxter, Sylvester. "Howells's Boston". The New England Magazine N.S. 9.2 (October 1893): 129-52.

Carruth, Frances Weston. "Boston in Fiction." Bookman 14.3 (Nov. 1901): 236-54, 14.4 (Dec. 1901): 364-85, 14.5 (Jan. 1902): 507-21, 14.6 (Feb. 1902): 590-604. (Organized tour of Boston with

photographs and drawings to illustrate passages and references in fiction of Hawthorne, Howells, and James, as well as authors much less read today)

----. Fictional Rambles in & about Boston. New York: McClure, Phillips, 1902. Google Books (expanded version of "Boston in Fiction")

Clark, Edward. "Boston Black and White: The Voice of Fiction." Black American Literature Forum 19.2 (1985): 83-87.

Hollister, Robert M., Jay Cooprider, Boston Public Library, et al . Boston, an Urban Community: Images of Boston, Writers' Views of the City: An Annotated Reading List (Boston: Boston Public

Library, 1977)

O'Connell, Shaun. Imagining Boston: A Literary Landscape. Boston : Beacon Press, 1990. (Excellent modern study)

Ranalli, Ralph. "Once Upon a Crime." Globe Magazine 15 Aug. 2004 [accessed 30 Mar. 2008] (article mainly on Higgins, Lehane, and Parker)

Sherman, Paul. Big Screen Boston: From Mystery Street to The Departed and Beyond (Boston: Black Bars Pub., 2008) (films shot in Boston)

Swan, John C. Boston, an Urban Community: Culture and its Conflicts, the Example of Nineteenth-century Boston: An Annotated Reading List (Boston]: Boston Public Library, 1977)

Swift, Lindsay. "Boston as Portrayed in Fiction." Book Buyer 22.3 (Oct. 1901): 197-204. (No pictures, but interesting discussion of writers mainly unread today) (Also, notes series of five papers

"last year" in Literary Review by Herbert Copeland, which I have not yet found.)

Whiting, Lillian. Boston Days (Boston: Little, Brown, 1911 [Google Books])

Anthologies

Waugh, Carol-Lyn Rössel, Martin H. Greenberg, and Frank D. McSherry, Jr. Murder and Mystery in Boston. New York: Dembner Books, 1987 (13 stories listed individually)

Multi-Century Sagas

Auchincloss, Louis. The Winthrop Covenant (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976) (short stories follow John Winthrop and [sometimes fictional?] descendants to late twentieth century) (Puritans--New

England) (Google Books)

Gantshar, Barbara Ratner. A Beacon Was Hoisted (Waltham, Mass.: Artistic Endeavors, [1975]) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Juvenile literature; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Poetry) (Google

Books)

Gray, Thomas. Change: A Poem Pronounced at Roxbury, October VIII, MDCCCXXX, in Commemoration of the First Settlement of that Town (Roxbury, Mass.: Charles P. Emmons, 1830)

(25 pages)

MacLeish, Archibald. Night Watch in the City of Boston ([Boston, Mass.? : s.n.], 1975 [Collected Poems, 1917-1982, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985: 3-6 {Google Books}]) (1 page broadside

commisioned by the city of Boston to celebrate U.S. Bicentennial) (Poetry)

Martin, William. Back Bay. New York: Crown, 1979. ("generational saga recreates the changes in the land and people of Back Bay") (Back Bay; Rich people) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Harvard Yard (New York: Warner Books, 2003) (Shakespeare; Manuscripts--Collectors and collecting; Harvard University; Cambridge) (Amazon and Google Books)

Zaroulis, Nancy. Massachusetts: A Novel (New York : Fawcett Columbine, 1991) (Amazon and Google Books)

Zieman, Irving. Founders to Bounders: Boston in Rhyme. (Cambridge, Mass.: Starr Books, 1961) (Poetry)

17th Century

Adams, John Turvill. The Knight of the Golden Melice: A Historical Romance (New York: Derby and Jackson; Cincinnati: W. H. Derby & Co., 1857 [Google Books]) (Sir Christopher Gardiner [See

Bradford Torrey Schantz, "Sir Christopher Gardiner in Nineteenth Century American Fiction," The New England Quarterly 11 (1938): 807-817]) (Amazon and Google Books)

Amory, Thomas C. William Blackstone: Boston's First Inhabitant (Boston: Rockwell & Churchill, printers, 1877 2nd ed. [Google Books]) (poetry; factual introduction; 36 pages) (Blackstone, William;

Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775) (Google Books and Brief Summary, The New England Historical and Genealogical Register Apr. 1878: 256) [Google Books])

Anonymous. Boston two hundred years ago, or, The romantic story of Miss Ann Carter, daughter of one of the first settlers, and the celebrated Indian chief, Thundersquall ; with many

humorous reminiscences and events of olden time. (Boston, 1831) YA Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress)

-----. Young Lady. An humble intercession for the distressed town of Boston now almost deserted by its former rightful inhabitants, many of whom have fled, chusing to take refuge in the woods

and caves, for the sake of liberty, rather than to live in splendor and affluence among slaves and tyrants; which place is at present under the government of a lawless British soldiery ...
who, under the sanction of martial law, exercise every cruelty that can possibly be invented by the most uncultivated savages or fiercest barbarians, on the remaining miserable
inhabitants, who are obliged to dwell there contrary to the faith of that perfidious arch-traitor and truce-breaking T. Gage (Salem [Mass.]: Printed by E. Russell, next door to John Turner,
Esq ; in the Main-Street, 1775) (Broadside) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry; Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) --
History -- Siege, 1775-1776 -- Poetry)

Austin, Jane G. Betty Alden: The First-born Daughter of the Pilgrims (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891 [Google Books] ) (Google Books)

-----. A Nameless Nobleman (Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1881 [Google Books]) (starts in France, but ends in Boston and Plymouth) (Google Books)

Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston. The Black Shilling: A Tale of Boston Towns (New York : Dodd, Mead Co., 1903) (Pub. adv. des. "starting in Boston, Lincolnshire, England, and shifting to Boston,

Massachusetts, New England, in the era of the Mathers, . . . concerned with the witchcraft delusions of that period") (New York Times Review)

Birchard, Harry. Massachusetts Bay: An Historical Novel ([United States]: Xlibris Corp., 2000) (Amazon)

Bynner, Edwin Lassetter. Penelope's Suitors (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887 [Google Books]) (Boston in the days of Governor Bellingham; Cambridge)

Carpenter, Edmund Janes. A Woman of Shawmut. The New England Magazine 8.4 (June 1890): 414-25, 8.5 (July 1890): 527-37, 8.6 (August 1890): 676-89, 9.1 (September 1890): 67-79 (Subtitle A

Romance of Colonial Times. Boston: Little, Brown, 1891 [Google Books]) (love triangle involving Gov. Richard Bellingham; begins in Roxbury, 1640) (Bellingham, Penelope Pelham)

Casey, Helen Marie. Inconsiderate Madness (New York: Black Lawrence P, 2007) ("a narrative sequence of poems about Mary Dyer, hanged in 1660 on Boston Common for her Quaker faith" [Kristine

Diederich, Metrowest Daily News 23 Mar. 2008]) (Author's Page [accessed 24 Mar. 2008])

Cavanaugh, Jack. The Puritans (Wheaton, Ill. : Victor Books, 1994) (Archbishop Laud) (Puritans) (Amazon and Google Books)

Child, Lydia Maria [pub. under pseud. An American]. Hobomok, A Tale of Early Times (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, 1824 [E-text Center, U of Viriginia Libraries]) (Plymouth, Salem, Boston in earliest

times) (ASSIMILATION) (Indians, North America) (Google Books and Summary, The United States Literary Gazette 1.5 (Boston: 15 Jun. 1824: 71 [Google Books])

Christian, Mary Blount (illust.Dirk Zimmer). Goody Sherman's Pig (New York: Macmillan, 1991) (Juvenile--ages 7-11) (Boston 1635; based on true story) (Women -- United States -- Political activity --

History; Pigs; Legislative bodies -- United States -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775; Trials -- Boston, Massachusetts; Law -- United States -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775; United
States -- Politics and government -- Colonial period, 1600-1775; Boston, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775) (Amazon)

Denison, Mary A. Ruth Margerie: A Romance of the Revolt of 1689 (New York: Beadle and Adams, Publishers, 1862 ©1861) (Andros, John; Mather, Cotton)

Drake, Samuel Adams. Captain Nelson: A Romance of Colonial Days (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879 [Google Books]) (1689-97; starts in Boston) (Brief Summary, The Literary World (4 Jan.

1879: 13)

Farber, Norma. Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93 (New York: Dutton, 1982) (Juvenile) ("With the help of the respected minister Cotton Mather, a young girl

attempts to recover from her tragic experience with the Indians which has led her to believe she is bewitched." [Card Catalog Des. provided by Amazon])(Witchcraft; Mather, Cotton) (Amazon and
Google Books)

Feuchtwanger, Lion . The Devil in Boston: A Play in Three Acts ([S.l.: s.n.], 1948 WorldCat) (Mather, Cotton)

Fleischman, Paul. Saturnalia (New York: Harper & Row, 1990) (Juvenile--ages 12+) (Indian boy apprentice in 1681 Boston; King Philip's War; 1675; 1681) (Narragansett Indians; Indians of

North America; Apprentices; Prejudices) ("Boston has two worlds, peopled by two separate castes, unaware of each other's slaving, courting, conniving and searching. They
are ripe for reversal on Saturnalia, the ancient Roman holiday on which masters and slaves exchange places" [source?]) (Amazon and Google Books)

Forbes, Esther. Paradise (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937) (1639-King Philip's War; title settlement 20 miles inland; Harvard College; branding on Boston Common; "scenes in the parlours of Boston, in

its churches, on its waterfront" [Dust Jacket]) (Massachusetts -- History -- 1620-1691) (Google Books)

Gay, Maude Clark. The Knitting of the Souls: A Tale of 17th Century Boston (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1904) (Gov. Bellingham's foster-son; King Phillip's War) (Brief Summary, The Bookman 20.3

(1904): 268 [Google Books])

Gibson, William. Goodly Creatures: A Play in Two Acts (New York: Dramatists Play Service, 1986) (Puritans) (play about John Winthrop and Anne Hutchinson) (Winthrop, John; Puritans --

Massachusetts; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775) (Google Books)

Graydon, William Murray. With Musketeer and Redskin: A Tale of New Plymouth (London: John F. Shaw and Co., 1905) (Juvenile?) (1636; Governor Vane; Anne Hutchinson; John Winthrop) (Listed

in Google Books and Amazon, but no extra info)

Hammand, Esther Barstow. Road to Endor: A Novel (New York: Book League of America, 1940) (Book Three Harvard, 1665 to 1671, Book Five Boston Town 1680 to 1689) (Witchcraft--

Massachusetts--Salem; Witches; Salem (Mass.) (Amazon and Google Books)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "The May-Pole of Merry Mount." (Twice-Told Tales (Boston : American Stationers Co., 1837; Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851. Edition: A new ed.

[Google Books 1865 ed.]) (Thomas Morton; Quincy; John Endicott; Wollaston)

-----. The Scarlet Letter (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850 [Google Books, 1851 ed.]) (1642-49) Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Triangles (Interpersonal relations);

Illegitimate children; Women immigrants; Married women; Puritans; Adultery; Revenge; Clergy) (Amazon and Google Books)

Herbert, Henry William. The Fair Puritan: An Historical Romance of the Days of Witchcraft (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1875 [Google Books]) (much Boston; the politics of 1688; revolt against

Royal Governor Andros) (Witchcraft) (Google Books)

Parts of this novel were published earlier as Ruth Whalley; or, The Fair Puritan. A Romance of the Bay province (Boston: H.L. Williams, 1845) (72 pages) (Puritans; Massachusetts); The Innocent Witch a Continuation of Ruth Whalley, or, The Fair Puritan, A Romance of the Bay Province (Boston: Henry L. Williams, 1845), and The Revolt of Boston: A Continuation of Ruth Whalley, Or, The Fair Puritan , A Romance of the Bay Province (Boston: Henry L. Williams, 1845).

Heidish, Marcy. Witnesses: A Novel (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1980) (Anne Hutchinson) (Hutchinson, Anne Marbury; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Puritans --

Massachusetts; Women -- Massachusetts) (Google Books)

Hunt, Angella Elwell. Charles Towne (Wheaton, Ill.: Tyndale House Publishers, 1998) (romance; Puritans and Indians; Christian message) (Amazon and Google Books)

Jacobs, Paul. James Printer: A Novel of Rebellion (New York: Scholastic Press, 1997) (Grades 5-8; 1674; Nipmuck Indian printer must chose sides) (King Philip's War, 1675-1676; Printer, James;

Indians of North America -- Massachusetts; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Printers) (Google Books)

Kelley, Nancy. The Whispering Rod: A Tale of Old Massachusetts: A Novel (Elementary and junior high school) (Shippensburg, Pa.: White Mane Kids, 2001) (1659) (Puritans; Quakers;

Christian life) (Amazon and Google Books)

Kenyon, Theda. Scarlet Anne (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1939) (poetry) (Hutchinson, Anne Marbury) (Amazon and Google Books)

Kienholz, Michelle Louise. A Legacy Bestow'd, or, The Death and Life of Mrs. Katherine Nailer as Deposed by the Humble Jonathan Cary upon Receipt of an Inheritance from Her.

(Thesis (B.A.)--Williams College, Dept. of American Studies, 1985) (divorce)

Kraeger, Linda and Joe Barnhart. Trust and Treachery: A Historical Novel of Roger Williams in America (Lewiston: Mellen University Press, 1996) (Williams, Roger; New England -- History --

Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Great Britain -- History -- Early Stuarts, 1603-1649; Theologians; Puritans; Pioneers) (Amazon and Google Books)

Larson, Charles R. Arthur Dimmesdale . (New York: A & W Publishers, 1983) (Dimmesdale's story) (Puritan; Adultery; Clergy) (Google Books)

Lee, Buckminster. Naomi; or, Boston Two Hundred Years Ago (Boston: W. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1848 [Google Books]) (Society of Friends; Quakers)

Leslie, Emma. Saxby: A Tale of Old and New England (New York: Phillips & Hunt ; Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe, 1880 [Internet Archive]) (Massachusetts Bay Colony; religious intolerance; Henry

Vane; Ann Hutchinson; "Chapter XIX New Boston") (Google Books)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Rhyme of Sir Christopher" (1873) Tales of a Wayside Inn (The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, IV Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1901: 253-58

[Google Books])(Sir Christopher Gardiner; Thomas Morton; See Adams above.)

Lough, Loree. Fire by Night (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour, 1998) (: The Great Fire Devastates Boston added to title for Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998 edition)

1635-36) (Family life; Christian life) (Elementary and junior high school) ((Amazon and Google Books)

Mackay, Constance D'Arcy . "May-Day." In Plays of the Pioneers: A Book of Historical Pageant-Plays (New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1915: 53-69 [Google Books]) (one act; Boston,

1658) (MAY DAY; PURITANS)

Marble, Annie Russell. From Boston to Boston: A Story of Hannah and Richard Garrett in Old England and New England in 1630 (Juvenile) (Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co., 1930)

Mitchner, James A. "Voyage of Four 1661." Faith: Short Fiction on the Varieties and Vagaries of Faith, ed. C. Michael Curtis (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003: 90-98[?]) (Quaker persecution)

Motley, John Lothrop. Merry-Mount; A Romance of the Massachusetts Colony (Boston: J. Munroe, 1849 [Google Books]) (Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Morton,

Thomas) (Google Books)

Mukherjee, Bharati . The Holder of the World (New York: Knopf, 1993) (in part, version of The Scarlet Letter; 17th and 20th centuries; Boston; India) (Women -- New England; Americans -- India;

Women -- India; New England; Puritans; India) (Amazon and Google Books)

Noyes, Deborah. Angel and Apostle (Denver, CO: Unbridled Books, 2005) (Juvenile--Secondary (senior high) school) (1649; Pearl from The Scarlet Letter heroine) (Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 1804-

1864. The scarlet letter -- Sequels; Mother and daughter; Prynne, Hester; Teenage girls; Brothers; Blind boys; Puritans -- Massachusetts; Self-perception; Social marginality; Triangles (Interpersonal
relations); Seventeenth century; Boston, Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- Colonial period, 1600-1775; Boston, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775; Massachusetts --
History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775; Massachusetts -- Social life and customs -- Colonial period, 1600-1775; England -- History -- 17th
century; England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century; Historical fiction; Coming-of-age stories; Puritans) (Amazon and Google Books)

Otis, James. Ruth of Boston A Story of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (New York; Cincinnati: American Book Co., 1910 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Google Books)

Perrin, Pat. Retold Classic Novel: The Scarlet Letter (Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning, 1992) (Juvenile) (Comics and graphic novels) (Adultery; Puritans--Massachusetts; Women) (Google Books)

Plumb, Albert Hale. When Mayflowers Blossom: A Romance of Plymouth's First Years (New York; Chicago; Toronto: Fleming H. Revell, 1914 [Google Books]) (Google Books)

Rimmer, Robert H. The Resurrection of Anne Hutchinson (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1987) (Hutchinson reappears in more liberated 1985) (Hutchinson, Anne Marbury; Massachusetts --

History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Puritans -- Massachusetts) (Amazon and Google Books)

Rushing, Jane Gilmore. Covenant of Grace (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982) (Anne Hutchinson) (Hutchinson, Anne Marbury; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Puritans

-- Massachusetts; Women -- Massachusetts) (Google Books)

Schermer, Bonnie L. Rebecca of Providence, Rhode Island 1605-1683 (New York : IUniverse, Inc., 2003) (Roger Williams; Anne Hutchinson; John Winthrop; John Cotton) (Providence (R.I.) -- Fiction.

Family; Interpersonal relations; Providence, Rhode Island, 1605) (Amazon and Google Books)

Sedgwick, Catharine Maria. Hope Leslie Or, Early Times in Massachusetts (Vol. II) (New York: White, Gallaher and White, 1827 [U of Virginia]) (role of women in

rebuilding after Pequod war) (not focused on Boston, but many references) (Pequod war) (Indians of North America; Women) (Amazon on Penguin ed. and Google Books)

Seger, Maura. The Taming of Amelia (Toronto; New York: Harlequin Books, 1993) (Connecticut--Land settlement; Young women; Ship captains) (Amazon)

Seton, Anya. The Winthrop Woman (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958) (about Elizabeth W., "perhaps the most unwilling Puritan who ever came to New

England") (Anne Hutchinson) (Winthrop, Elizabeth (Fones)) (Amazon and Google Books)

Settle. Mary Lee. I, Roger Williams : A Fragment of Autobiography (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001) (mainly England and Providence, but some Boston) (Williams, Roger; Colonists; Puritans;

Rhode Island -- History -- Colonial period) (Amazon and Google Books)

Starkey, Marion Lena. The Tall Man from Boston (Juvenile) (New York: Crown Publishers, 1975) (Salem; Witchcraft; Trials (Witchcraft)) (Google Books)

Stimson, Frederic Jesup. King Noanett: A Story of Old Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay (Boston : Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1896 [Google Books]) (Bacon's Rebellion, 1676; King Philip's War,

1675-1676; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Devon (England) -- Emigration and immigration; Indians of North
America) (Google Books) (play version King Noanett: A Play by W.E. Anderson and Stimson, 1902)

Stokes, Richard L. and Howard Hanson. Merry Mount; A Dramatic Poem for Music in Three Acts of Six Scenes, (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1932) (Thomas Morton) (Google Books)

Sullivan, Raymond E. Contentment: A Novel of New England's Birth (New York: iUniverse, Inc., 2006) (Massachusetts Bay Colony) (New England -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775)

(Amazon and Google Books)

Vorpahl, Beverly Smith. Goody Wing, An American Foremother (San Jose, CA : Authors Choice Press, 2001) (historical ancestor; first half England/voyage; Saugus with moments of interference from

Boston; independent thinkers) (Wing, Deborah Bachiler; Women -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century; Freedom of religion -- England -- History -- 17th century; Freedom of religion --
Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century; Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; England -- Emigration and immigration) (Amazon and Google Books)

Whiting, M. H. Faith White's Letter Book, 1620-1623, Plymouth, New England (Boston, Bradley [1820?]; Boston: Henry Hoyt, 1866 [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U]) (Massachusetts

-- History -- New Plymouth, 1620-1691)

Whittier, John Greenleaf. Leaves from Margaret Smith's Journal in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 1678-9 (Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1849) (Cape Ann and Boston [Google Books])

(Google Books)

-----. "In the Old South Church: Boston, 1677." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 16-20 [Google Books]) (Old South Church (Boston, Mass.) -- Poetry) (Edwin D Mead,

Context, The Old South Leaflets (Boston: Old South Meeting House, 1903: 16) [Google Books])

17th-18th Centuries

Austin, Jane G. David Alden's Daughter, and Other Stories of Colonial Times (Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1892[Internet Archive]) (many Boston and Roxbury settings) (Google Books)

Butterworth, Hezekiah. In Old New England: The Romance of a Colonial Fireside (New York: Appleton, 1895 [Google Books]) (some stories set partly in Boston/Cambridge, e.g., "Captain Tut-Tut-

Tuttle and the Miracle Clock" 79-110, "The Inn of the Good Woman" 111-46, and "Husking Stories, Songs, and Fiddlers" 199-250) (Google Books)

Dawes, Rufus. Nix's Mate: An Historical Romance of America (New York: Samuel Colman, 1839) Volume I and Volume II [Electronic Text Center, U of Virginia Library] (New England, esp. Boston,

throughout colonial times; Chapter XV Cambridge/Harvard) (Vol. I Amazon, Vol. II Amazon and Vol. II Google Books)

18th Centuries

Abel, Roger H. Freedom Duyes: Or, A Gentleman’s Progress in the New World (New York: Dial Press, 1980) (Starts Georgia 1751; printer in Revolutionary Boston) (United States -- History --

Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books [Ignore erroneous material on Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings.])

Aeby, Jaquelyne. Never Look Back (New York: Dell, 1976) (romance; England to America) (Burn victims -- Boston, Massachusetts; Domestic workers -- Boston, Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial

period, 1600-1775; Women -- United States -- History -- Colonial period, 1600-1775)

Allen, James. Bunker-Hill Battle: A Song for June 17, 1843 ([United States: s.n., 1843) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783

-- Poetry)

Allen, Willis Boyd. Called to the Front. Sequel to "A Son of Liberty." A Story of the Burning of Falmouth and the Siege of Boston (Boston: The Pilgrim Press, 1897) (Revolution)

-----. A Son of Liberty, or, The Spirit of Our Fathers (Boston: Congregational Sunday-School and Pub. Society, 1896) (Revolution)

Anderson, M. T. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing: Traitor to the Nation. 1 The Pox Party (Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2006) (Juvenile--grades 9 and up) (Boston in the 1760s)

(Liberty; Freedom; African Americans; Freedom; Slavery; Science -- Experiments; African Americans; Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Anonymous.

-----. The Child's Miscellany: Embellished with Colored Engravings (Portsmouth: Published by Nath'l March & Co. Nos. 7 & 8, Exchange Buildings, [ca. 1825?]) (Children -- Conduct of life --

Juvenile literature; Children's poetry; Historic buildings -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Juvenile literature; Boston (Mass.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Juvenile literature)

-----. The Convert of Massachusetts (Charlestown, Mass.: Parish of St. John's Church, 1860) (Harvard student converts from Congregationalism to Anglicanism; 1721) (Christian life; Church of England

-- United States -- Clergy) (Bail 343-44)

-----. An Elegy, occasion'd by the death of Major-General Joseph Warren, who fell fighting in defence of the glorious cause of his country, at Charlestown, in New-England, on the memorable

17th day of June, 1775 ([Watertown, Mass.]: Printed and sold [by Benjamin Edes] in Watertown, near the bridge., 1775 [American Memory, Library of Congress; accessed 2 Apr. 2008])
(Broadside) (Warren, Joseph; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry)

-----. On the Death of Five Young Men Who Was Murthered, March 5th, 1770, by the 29th Regiment ([Boston : s.n., 1770] [American Memory, Library of Congress; accessed 3 Apr. 2008]) (Boston

Massacre, 1770 -- Poetry; Gray, Samuel; Maverick, Samuel; Caldwell, James; Attucks, Crispus; Carr, Patrick; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry; Elegiac poetry)

-----. A Poem, in memory of the (never to be forgotten) fifth of March, 1770 On the evening of which, a party of the 29th. regiment commanded by Capt. Preston, fired upon the inhabitants in

King-Street, by which five persons were killed viz. Samuel Gray, Samuel Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr ( [Boston]: Printed and sold next to the Writing-
School, in Queen-Street., [1770] [Newsbank; accessed 1 Apr. 2008]) (Broadside) (Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775) (Google
Books)

-----. Some rude & indigested thoughts on the terrible majesty of God in the works of nature particularly in the phaenomena of earthquakes: occasioned by that memorable earthquake Octob.

29th. 1727. Wherein earthquakes in their causes, kinds, and astonishing effects, are briefly hinted, enumerated and described (N. London [i.e., New London, Conn.]: Printed & sold by
Timothy Green., M.DCC.XXX. [1730]) (12 pages) (Earthquakes -- Poetry; Earthquakes -- Religious aspects; Boston (Mass.) -- Earthquake, 1727)

-----. South End forever. North End forever Extraordinary verses on Pope-Night. Or, A commemoration of the fifth of November, giving a history of the attempt, made by the Papishes, to blow

up King and Parliament, A.D. 1588. ... ([Boston] : Sold by the printers boys in Boston., [ca. 1768]) (rivalry between North and South Ends; truce) (Gunpowder Plot, 1605 -- Anniversaries, etc.;
Popes -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Social life and customs) (Google Books)

-----. Theatre ([Boston : s.n., 1792?]) (dialogue debate) (Theater -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Theaters) (Google Books)

-----. A Vaudevil Sung by the characters at the conclusion of a new farce called the Boston blockade ... (Boston: Printed by John Howe, 1776 [American Memory, Library of Congress; accessed 3

Apr. 2008]) (1 page) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry) (Google Books)

-----. A Verse, occasioned by seeing the North-spinning, in Boton [sic] (Boston: [s.n.], Printed and sold 1769 [Digital Archive of Documents Related to Spinning ; accessed 3 Apr. 2008]) (1 page)

(Textile industry -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Non-importation agreements, 1768-1769 -- Poetry; Manufactures -- Boston (Mass.)) (Google Books)

-----. A Verse Occasioned by the Late Horrid Massacre in King-Street (Boston: s.n., 1770) (Boston Massacre, 1770 -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775)

(Broadside)

-----. The Voice of God, in the terrors of earthquakes: being a poetical composition occasioned by the repeated shocks, which on the 18th of November in the morning, and on the Saturday

night following, threatned us with a wide destruction ([Boston: Benjamin Edes & John Gill, and /or Samuel Kneeland], 1755) ("Place of publication and printers determined by internal evidence
and type ornaments" [Google Books]) (Earthquakes -- New England -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Earthquake, 1755 -- Poetry; Admonitory verses)

Austin, Jane G. Dr. LeBaron And His Daughters - A Story Of The Old Colony (Boston; New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890 [Google Books]) (mainly Plymouth, but many references to Boston) (United

States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Plymouth (Mass.)) (Amazon and Google Books)

Banim, Lisa. A Spy in the King’s Colony (Mysteries in Time) (New York: Silver Moon Press, 1994) (Juvenile--Grades 3-5) (1775; Ticonderoga; Framingham; also under Mystery) (Revolution)

(Amazon)

Barker, Shirley. The Road To Bunker Hill (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1962) (Juvenile) (Two girls and their grandmother witness events leading up to the Battle of Bunker Hill.) (Revolution)

(Google Books)

Barthélemy-Hadot, Marie Adeè le. La Révolte de Boston, ou, La Jeune Hospitalieè re (Paris: Lecointe et Durey, 1820) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; United States

-- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Brief Des., abstract of Marie-Pierre Le Hir, "Marie-Adelaïde Barthélémy-Hadot's Révolte de Boston: Gender, Race, and the American Revolution," L'Esprit
Créateur 47.4 (Winter 2007): 16-28 [accessed 30 Mar. 2008])

Bates, Esther Willard. The Evacuation of Boston: A Play of the American Revolution in One Act ([S.l. : s.n., 19--?]) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Drama)

Benét, Stephen Vincent. "A Tooth for Paul Revere: A Folk Tale of the American Revolution." Atlantic Monthly December 1937 (200 Years of Great American Short Stories, ed. Martha Foley

(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1975: 520- ) (Radio Play, 1942 (perf. 9 Sep. 1944) [Trumix.com; accessed 29 Feb. 2008]) (Boston scenes similar to Hawthorne's "My Kinsman,
Major Molineux")

Binney, Barnabas. Lines Sacred to the Memory of the Late Major-General Joseph Warren who fell in the battle at Charlestown, fighting gallantly for his country ( [Providence: Printed by John

Carter?, 1775]) (Broadside) (Warren, Joseph; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry) (Google Books and Brief
Account, The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, Sep. 1860: 280 [Google Books])

Bolin, J. J. Yankee Doodle and the Secret Society (Logan, Iowa : Pefection Learning, 1997) (Juvenile; Sonss of Liberty; Boston Tea Party) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google

Books)

Borden, Louise. Sleds on Boston Common (New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2000) (Primary school) (December 1774; free verse; based on Boston folklore) (Revolution; Gage, Thomas)

(Amazon and Google Books)

Brackenridge, H. H. The Battle of Bunkers-hill: A Dramatic Piece, of Five Acts, in Heroic Measure (Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, 1776) (51 pages) (Bunker Hill, Battle

of, 1775 -- Drama) (Google Books)

Brodeur, Tom. Regina Silsby's Phantom Militia (Juvenile) (Greenville, S.C.: JourneyForth, 2005) (Revolution; Ghosts; Cousins; Disguises; Grandfathers; Christian life) (Google Books)

----. Regina Silsby's Secret War (Greenville, S.C.: JourneyForth, 2004) (Juvenile) (Post-Tea Party) (Revolution) (Amazon and Google Books)

Brown, Harry. The Poem of Bunker Hill (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1941) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775) (Google Books)

Brown, Rebecca Warren. Stories about General Warren: In Relation to the Fifth of March Massacre, and the Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston:James Loring, 1835 [Internet Archive) (Juvenile) (Warren,

Joseph, 1741-1775; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; Boston Massacre, 1770) (Google Books)

Brown, William Hill. The Power of Sympathy (Boston: I. Thomas, printer, 1789) ("sentimental/seduction"; set in Boston, Belleview, New York; first American novel) (Seduction) (INCEST; LETTERS;

MORALITY) (Amazon and Google Books) (Findlit.com)

Bryson, John. Valiant Libertine (New York: Appleton-Century, 1942) (Revolution) (Siege, 1775-76; Sieges) (Google Books)

Buckley, Andrew. The Bostoner (Cape Cod, Mass.: Stage Harbor Press, 1999) (18th-century plot focuses on a pirate called "the Bostoner"; there's also a related 20th-century plot focusing on a

descendant who is a paralegal victim of a Boston court bomb blast) (Kendrick, John; Cape Cod) (Amazon and Google Books)

Burk, John. Bunker-Hill; or The death of General Warren: An Historic Tragedy in Five Acts (New York: Printed by T. Greenleaf, 1797 [Google Books, 1891 ed.]) (Warren, Joseph;

Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Drama) (Google Books)

Butters, Dorothy Gilman. The Bells of Freedom (Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1963) (Juvenile) (1775-76) (Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Indentured servants) (Amazon and Google

Books)

-----. Ten Leagues to Boston Town (Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1962) (Juvenile ) (Google Books)

Butterworth, Hezekiah. The Patriot Schoolmaster; or, The Adventures of the Two Boston Cannon, the "Adams" and "Hancock": A Tale of the Minute Men and the Sons of Liberty (New York: D.

Appleton and Co., 1894 [Google Books]) (Adams, Samuel; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Bynner, Edwin Lassetter. Agnes Surriage (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1886 [Google Books]) (Marblehead; Boston; Hopkington; London; Lisbon; 1740s-50s; 1745 return of Louisburg expedition)

(Google Books)

Carter, Mary J. and Michael Kaplan. The Ruling Passion: Reflections on a Society Under Siege (Weston, MA : Font & Center Press, 1998) (romance) (Revolution; Tea Party)

Carter, Ron. Our Sacred Honor: A Novel (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1998) (religion) (Revolution) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. To Decide Our Destiny: A Novel (Salt Lake City, Utah: Bookcraft, 1999) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Washington,

George; Family) (Amazon and Google Books) (Despite WorldCat seems to be post-Boston. Check.)

Carter, Russell Gordon. A Patriot Lad of Old Boston (Juvenile) (Philadelphia : Penn, 1923) (Revolution)

Cavanaugh, Jack,. The Patriots (Wheaton, Ill. : Victor Books, 1995) (Revolution; Christina faith; Lexington and Concord; siege) (American loyalists) (Amazon and Google Books)

Chambers, Robert William. Cardigan: A Novel (New York, London: Harper & Bros., 1901 [Google Books]) (Chapter XXII on, pp. 370-end, set in Boston, 1774-75) (United States -- History --

Revolution, 1775-1783; New York (State) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Child, Lydia Maria. The Rebels, or Boston before the Revolution (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, 1825) (Revolution) (Google Books)

Clark, Joan. The Hand of Robin Squires (Juvenile) (Toronto: Clarke, Irwin, 1977) (mainly at sea and Nova Scotia, but ends in Boston; slave stealing and more)(Oak Island Treasure Site (N.S.)) (Google

Books)

Clark, Mary Higgins. Aspire to the Heavens (New York: Meredith P, 1969) (rpted. as Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington [New York: Simon and Schuster,

2003]) (third and second from last chapters: "June-November, 1775 Cambridge, Massachusetts" 196-204 and "December, 1775 Cambridge" 205-14 [2003 ed.])

Cobb, Sylvanus. The Maniac's Secret, or, The Privateer of Massachusetts Bay (New York : S. French, 185-? [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U]) (Revolution; Dime novels)

Coffin, Charles Carleton. Daughters of the American Revolution and Their Times, 1769-1776: Historical Romance (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1895 [Internet Archive])

Columbian. An Eulogium on Major General Joseph Warren Who Fell in the Action at Charlestown, June XVII, MDCCLXXV (Boston: Printed by John Boyle in Marlborough-Street, 1781) (Warren,

Joseph; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry)

Cooney, Elledn. Gun Ball Hill: A Novel (Hanover, NH : University Press of New England, 2004) (mainly Maine, but some siege of Boston and Bunker Hill, e,g., "Chapter XX Charlestown") (Amazon and

Google Books)

Cooper, James Fenimore. Lionel Lincoln, Or, The Leaguer of Boston (New York, C. Wiley, 1825 [Google Books, 1881 ed.]) (battle of Bunker Hill; loyalist hero) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution,

1775-1783) (Google Books)

Copeland, Lori. Forever, Ashley (New York: Dell, 1992) (time travel to Revolutionary Boston; romance) (Time travel; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Coverly, Nathaniel. General Warren: or, The Battle of Bunker Hill (Boston: Nathaniel Coverly, Jun'r. [between 1810 and 1814]) (Warren, Joseph; Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775 -- Poetry; United States --

History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns -- Poetry) (may be poem of same title printed anonymously by William McCarty in Songs, Odes, & Other Poems, on National Subjects: Comp.
from Various Sources, vol 3 (Philadelphia: Wm McCarty, 1842: 15-17) [Google Books])

-----. A Song, Composed on the Evacuation of Boston by the British Troops, commanded by General Howe : who were panic struck, and thrown into the utmost confusion, at the appearance of

General Washington ([Boston]: N. Coverly, Jun., [between 1810 and 1814?]) (Howe, William Howe, -- Viscount; | Washington, George; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 --
Poetry) (Google Books)

Cressy, Noah. The Battle and Monument of Bunker-Hill, Compared with the Agonies and Triumphs of the Cross: A Poem (Portland? [Me.: s.n.], 18--?)

Curtis, Alice Turner. A Little Maid of Boston (Philadelphia: Penn Pub. Co., 1933) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Siege, 1775-1776; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783;

Charles River (Mass.) -- History; Military deserters; Washington, George)

Davis, John H. The Hill ( Baltimore, Md.: PublishAmerica, 2005) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Campaigns) (Amazon and Google

Books)

Davis, William Stearns. Gilman of Redford; a Story of Boston & Harvard College on the Eve of the Revolutionary War, 1770-1775 (New York: Macmillan Co., 1927) (Boston (Mass.) -- History --

Revolution, 1775-1783; Harvard College (1636-1780) ) (Amazon and Google Books; Bail 315-16)

Dawes, Thomas. British Lamentation Together with Bunker-Hill Ode (Boston: s.n., 1786) (1 page; opening of Charlestown Bridge) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry; Bridges --

Massachusetts -- Charlestown (Boston); Bridges -- Massachusetts -- Boston; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry) (Google Books)

Dearborn, Nathaniel. Bunker Hill Monument: Commemorative of June 17, 1775, Consecrated, June 17, 1843 ([Boston?] : N. Dearborn, 1843) (Warren, Joseph; Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass.,

1775 -- Poetry; Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.); United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry) (Google Books)

De Forest, John William. A Lover's Revolt (New York, London: Longmans, Green, 1898 [Google Books]) (Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Dell, Pamela. Freedom's Light: A Story about Paul Revere's Midnight Ride (Excelsior, Minn.: Tradition Books, 2003) (Juvenile: ages 9-12) (Boston, 1775) (Revere, Paul; Spies; United States -- History

-- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

De Morgan, John. Fooling the Enemy: A Story of the Siege of Boston (Philadelphia: David McKay, 1904) (Juvenile) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)

Denenberg, Barry. The Journal of William Thomas Emerson: A Revolutionary War Patriot: Boston, Massachusetts, 1774 (New York : Scholastic, 1998) (Juvenile)(Revolution; Orphans; Diaries)

(Amazon and Google Books)

Denison, Mary A. The Days and Ways of the Cocked Hats: or, The Dawn of the Revolution (New York: S.A. Rollo, 1860 [Wright American Fiction 1851-1875, Indiana U])

Denker, Nan. The Bound Girl (New York: Ariel Books, 1957) (Juvenile) (Indentured servants) ("Felicie is forced to flee to America from France because of religious persecution. As an orphan she must

learn to work hard as a servant in a house near Boston. The family she works for grows to love her and comes to her rescue when she innocently provokes disapproval of the colony's
leaders." [source?])

DeWitt, Franklin. Jonathan Hodge and the Secret of Aargone (Mustang, OK: Tate Publishing & Enterprises, 2007) (Combines history and fantasy as hero leaves farm to join Washington's army for siege

of Boston; Revolution) (Amazon and Google Books)

Dokey, Cameron. Katherine: Heart of Freedom (New York: Avon Books, 1997) (Juvenile) (romance) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Donnelly, Susan. "Inoculation." The New Yorker 4 Aug. 2003: 38 (short poem; Cotton Mather) (Keywords: Boston; Diseases; Mothers; Slaves; Mather, Cotton; Smallpox; Cotton Mather studied

smallpox for a while,; Onesimus)

Doyle, Peter Reese. Bunker Hill (Juvenile) (Charlottesville, Va.: Providence Foundation, 1998) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, 1775; Revolution; Christian life) (Amazon)

Duey, Kathleen. Silence and Lily: 1773 (Elementary and junior high school) (New York: Puffin Books, 2007) (Family, Horses; Boston Tea Party; Indentured servants; Slavery) (Amazon and Google

Books)

Eastlake, William The Long, Naked Descent into Boston (New York: Viking Press, 1977) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Edwards, Ben L. One April in Boston (Prospect, CT: Spyglass Books, 2000) (Elementary and junior high school) (Revolution; Telescopes; Geneology) (Google Books)

Emmons, Richard and William. The Battle of Bunker Hill, or The Temple of Liberty; An Historic Poem in Four Cantos (New York: 1839 [Google Books, 1867 ed.])

Emmons, William. 1775. Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill. Remember the heroes of the Revolution! : Just issued from the press, the tenth improved edition of Col. Emmons's renowned

historic poem, illustrative of the first battles fought for liberty and constitutional rights; in four cantos ([Boston, Mass. : s.n., 1865]) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry;
United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)

Falcon, Debra. Midnight's Lady (New York: Kensington, 1995) (romance; Boston Zorro-like hero) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Fast, Howard. April Morning: A Novel (New York: Crown Publishers, 1961) (15-year-old farm boy involved in the battles of Lexington and Concord in April, 1775) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Bunker Hill, The Prequel to the Crossing (New York: Ibooks; London: Simon & Schuster (distributor), 2001) (orig. pub. as Seven Days [Back Cover, Amazon]) (American and British

viewpoints) (Bunker Hill; Revolution) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Seven Days in June: A Novel of the American Revolution (Secaucus, N.J.: Carol Pub., 1994) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)

(Amazon and Google Books)

Favier, Patricia. A Temptation Too Great (London: Robert Hale, 1999) (Refugees; French Americans) (Google Books)

Finlayson, Ann. Redcoat in Boston (New York: F. Warne, 1971) (Juvenile) (1760s-70s) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Fisk, Joseph. A few lines on the happy reduction of Canada: as also, the great fire in Boston, and sickness at Woodbury, in the year 1760.: To which is added, some lines on the remarkable

providence of God, in the year 1761 as also relections on the sins of the times, and some notorious acts of sin ([Boston? : s.n.], Written in the same year, 1761) (16 pages) (Epidemics --
Connecticut -- Woodbury; Fires -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Boston (Mass.) -- Fire, 1760; Woodbury (Conn.) -- History; United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763 -- Poetry)
(Google Books)

Flaccus, Horatius [pseud.]. The Vision of Judgment or The South Church: Ecclesiastical Councils Viewed from Celestial and Satanic Stand-points (New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 1867)

(satire) (Antislavery movements -- New England -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Church history -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Politics and government -- 1775-1865 -Poetry)

Forbes, Esther. Johnny Tremain: A Novel for Old & Young (Juvenile) (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1943) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books))

Foster, Hannah W. The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton A Novel, Founded on Fact (Boston: S. Etheridge, for E. Larkin, 1797 [Google Books 1855 ed.]) (sentimental, seduction)

(New England, including Boston) (Amazon and Google Books)

French, Allen. The Colonials: Revolutionary Boston (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1902 c. 1901 [Google Books 1906 ed.]) (Siege, 1775-1776) (Google Books)

Freneau, Philip Morin. A Voyage to Bost[o]n. A po[em ... By the author of American Liberty, A Poem: General Gage's soliloquy, &c. (Philadelphia, W. Woodhouse, Printed by

Benjamin Towne, 1775 [The Poems of Philip Freneau: Poet of the American Revolution, ed. Fred Lewis Pattee (The University Library, 1902): 158-82 {Google Books}]) (Revolution)

Fulton, Len. The Court Martial of Paul Revere (©1997) (Harvard University -- Drama; Boston (Mass.) -- Drama; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Drama) (Brief Summary,

Dustbooks.com [accessed 31 Mar. 2008])

Geen, James. Hangman: A Tale of the Boston Harbor Islands (Bloomington, IN: 1st Books, 2003) (Pub. Des. and Amazon)

Gilman, Caroline Howard. Ballad for a private centennial celebration in remembrance of Samuel Howard, one of the Boston Rebel Tea Party in 1773. Composed by his octogenerian daughter

([Boston?: 1873?] [Google Books, book publication, 1874, 30-32+, ending pages missing online]) (Boston Tea Party, 1773 -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 --
Poetry; Howard, Samuel B.; Memorial tribute)

McGoldrick, May. Captured Dreams (New York: New American Library, 2003) (romance; pre-Revolution Boston) (Amazon)

Gordon, H. E. Down at the Hub (Norristown, Pa., 18--) (Veterans -- Poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Poetry; Poetry of places)

Graves, Robert. Sergeant Lamb's America (New York: Random House, 1940) ("takes place in the early years of the American War of Independence and is based on the adventures of one

Sergeant Lamb, a Dublin man in the service of His Majesty's Army. It begins with Lamb's early days in Dublin and ends with his arrival in Boston as a member of the regiment taken prisoner
after Burgoyne's surrender at Saratoga." Back Cover [Amazon]) (Boston mobs) (Lamb, Roger; Revolution; Irish participation; Irish) and (Amazon and Google Books)

Grote, Joann A. The American Revolution (Uhrichsville, Ohio : Barbour Pub., 1998) (Juvenile--ages 8-12) (Sons of Liberty) (Boston Tea Party, 1773; Brothers; Christian life) (Amazon and Google

Books)

-----. The American Victory (Uhrichsville, Ohio : Barbour Pub., 1998) (Juvenile--ages 8-12) (father/soldier returns to son in Boston at end of war) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783;

Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Christian life; Fathers and sons) (Amazon and Google Books)

------. Danger in the Harbor: Grain Riots Threaten Boston (Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998) (Elementary and junior high school--ages 9-12) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca.

1600-1775; United States -- History -- Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713; Riots; Christian life) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Kate and the Spies: The American Revolution (Uhrichsville, OH: Barbour Pub., 2004) (Elementary and junior high school) (Tea party) (Revolution 1775-1776; Spies;

Cousins; Family life; Christian life) (Amazon and Google Books)

----. Queen Anne's War (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour, 1998) (children in Boston in 1710) (Queen Anne's War, 1702-1713) (Elementary and junior high school) (Amazon and Google Books)

Guhrke, Laura Lee. The Charade (New York: Sonnet Books, 2000) (romance; heroine, runaway indentured servant in early 1775 Boston caught up in Revolutionary events) (Revolution, 1775-1783)

(Amazon and Google Books)

Gunning, Sally. Bound (New Yorker: HarperCollins, 2008) (partly Boston; mainly Dedham, Medfield, Satucket, Cape Cod; opens March 1756) (Massachusetts -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-

1775; Indentured servants; Cape Cod (Mass.)) (Amazon and Pub. Des. [accessed 12 May 2008])

H. B. C. The Round Table ([Boston, 1885]) (Parker House (Boston, Mass.) -- Poetry; Hotels -- Poetry)

H. S., Descendant of a Revolutionary Officer. The Flag on Bunker Hill ([Waterville, Mass.?: 1862]) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry; United States -- History -- Civil War,

1861-1865 -- Poetry; Flags -- United States; Boston (Mass.) -- Bunker Hill Monument)

H. W. A Poem, descriptive of the terrible fire, which made such shocking devastation in Boston, on the evening of Friday, April 21, 1787, in

which were consumed one house of worship, of which the Rev. Ebenezer Wight was pastor, and upwards of one hundred dwelling-houses and other buildings ... ([Boston]: Sold [by Ezekiel
Russell] at the office next Liberty-Pole., 1787) (Broadside)

Harlow, Joan Hiatt. Midnight Rider (New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2005) (Juvenile--Elementary and junior high) (14-year-old patriot heroine in 1775 Boston) (Spies; Orphans; Household

employees; Indentured servants; Sex role; Horses; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Harr, John Ensor. Dark Eagle: A Novel of Benedict Arnold and the American Revolution (New York: Viking, 1999) (some Boston, e.g., Chapter "17. Boston, March, 1777") (Arnold, Benedict;

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Hastings, Brooke [pseud.]. So Sweet a Sin (New York: Harlequin Books, 1989) (romance) (Massachusetts -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Hawkins, Karen. Catherine and the Pirate (New York: Avon, 2002) (Secondary (senior high) school) (Heroine from proper Boston family, though most action elsewhere; Revolution) (Pirates;

Man-woman relationships; Savanah (Ga.)) (Amazon and Google Books)

Hawthorne, Nathaniel. "Drowne's Wooden Image." Mosses from an Old Manse (2 vols. London: Wiley & Putnam, 1846. 2:59-73[Google Books]) (Long Wharf)

-----. Legends of the Province House (From 1698 to 1776 the seat of British Governor) in Twice-Told Tales (Boston : American Stationers Co., 1837; Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1851.

A new ed. [Google Books 1882 ed.]): I. "Howe's Masquerade" (Howe, William; Siege; March 1776; Governors of Massachusetts Colony), II. "Edward Randolph's Portrait," III. "Lady Eleanore's
Mantle," IV. "Old Esther Dudley."

-----. "My Kinsman, Major Molineux" ( The Snow-Image, and Other Tales . London : H.G. Bohn, 1851[Google Books 1883 Complete Works](1730; Mobs; Pre-Revolution)

-----. Septimius Felton, or The Elixir of Life (Boston : J.R. Osgood, 1872 [Google Books]) (Concord, 1775) (Google Books)

Hayes, John T. Neither Death nor Glory: The O'Bannion Saga (Fort Lauderdale, Fl.: Saddlebag Press, 2001) (Revolution) (Boston (Mass.)--History--Siege, 1775-76)

Hemphill, Kris. A Secret Party in Boston Harbor (Mysteries in Time) (New York: Silver Moon Press, 1998) (Elementary and junior high school)(Boston Tea Party--1773) (Amazon and Google Books)

Henty, George Alfred. True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence (London; Glasgow; Dublin: Blackie & Son, 1884 [Google Books 1885 ed.]) (Juvenile) ("Chapter IV. The

Fight at Lexington"; "Chapter V. Bunker's Hill"; mainly elswehere; British army perspective) (Children --Conduct of life; Conduct of life; Farms; Battles; Indians of North America; Soldiers; Voyages
and travels; Adventure and adventurers; War) (Google Books)

Hilz, Tammy. Once an Angel (New York: Zebra, 2001) (romance; English heroine's unloved Medford/Boston fiancé, Tory loyalist; 1760s; pirate lover) (Amazon)

Hochstetler, J. M. Daughter of Liberty (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2004) (Lexington and Concord; Bunker Hill) (Revolution; Young women; Women spies) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Native Son (Book 2, American Patriot Series) (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Zondervan, 2005) (partly spying in Boston duirng seige) (Amazon and Google Books)

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, James M Bugbee, and N L Frothingham. Memorial. Bunker Hill, 1775, June 17th, 1875 (Boston: J.R. Osgood & Co., 1875) (16 pages) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass.,

1775; Poetry, American; United States -- History -- Revolution -- Military, 1775, June 17 -- Bunker Hill)

Hopkinson, Francis. A Pretty Story (1774). (HUMOR AND SATIRE; AMERICAN REVOLUTION; BRITISH IN THE UNITED STATES; TAXATION - UNITED STATES; U.S. - COLONIAL

PERIOD) (Google Books) (Litfind.com)

Hoppus [us. listed under Marks], Mary A. M. A Great Treason: A Story of the War of Independence (London: Macmillan and Co., 1883 Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 [Google Books]) (some Boston

chapters) (United States -- History -- Revolution; Arnold, Benedict)

Hotchkiss, Chauncey Crafts. In Defiance of the King: A Romance of the American Revolution (New York: D. Appleton, 1895 [Google Books]) (First part Boston and environs) (United States --

History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Howard, Hayden. "The Dipping of the Candlemaker." Ellery Quenn's Mystery Magazine, 1954. Rept. in Murder and Mystery in Boston, ed. Carol-Lyn Rössel Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, and Frank

McSherry, Jr. (New York: Dember Books, 1987): 38-57) (Boston 1722; Benjamin Franklin)

Hughes, Richard. Bound for Boston (Bloomington, Minn.: Abdo & Daughters; Minneapolis, Minn.: Distributed by Rockbottom Books, 1989) (Juvenile) (Revolution; Tea party; Paul Revere; John

Hancock) (Time travel) (Amazon and Google Books)

Ingraham, J[oseph]. H[olt]. Fleming Field, or, The Young Artisan: A Tale of the Days of the Stamp Act (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1845) (Revolution) (Stamp Act, 1765)

-----. The Flying Fish, or, Running the Blockade of Boston Harbor: A Stirring Story of Revolutionary Times (New York: Camp-Fire Library Co., 1877) (Blockade; United States -- History --

Revolution, 1775-1783; Boston Harbor (Mass.))

-----. Neal Nelson, or The Siege of Boston (Boston: Henry L. Williams, 1845) (Siege, 1775-1776)

Iron, N[athaniel]. C[olchester]. Agnes Falkland: A Story of Continental Times (New York: Beadle and Adams, Publishers, 1862) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Bunker Hill, Battle

of, Boston, Mass., 1775; Canadian Invasion, 1775-1776) (Pub/ Des., Harper's Weekly 4 Oct. 1862 [Son of the South; accessed 30 Mar. 2008])

Irving, Washington. "The Devil and Tom Walker." (1830?) (The Works of Washington Irving Vol. 4 The Traveller The Jenson Society, 1907: 449-69 [Google Books]) (Boston and Charles River basin;

1727; see Strand, John, Tom Walker: A Play) (BOSTON; DEVIL; MONEY; SMOKING)

James, Norma Wood. Dawn at Lexington (New York: Longmans, Green, 1957) (Juvenile) (Boston-bookseller apprentice; Cambridge; New York) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Jarrett, Miranda. Moonlight (New York: Pocket Books, 1999) (romance) (Dressmakers -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Ship captains;Love stories; Historical fiction; Boston (Mass.)) (Amazon and

Google Books)

J[ohnnot], A[ndrew]. A poem on the rebuke of God's hand in the awful desolation made by fire in the town of Boston, on the 20th day of March, 1760, by which, in about 6 or 7 hours, between

three and four hundred buildings were consumed:--to which is added, some brief hints on the great conflagration ... (Boston: Printed and sold at Fowle & Draper's printing-office, in
Marlborough-Street., 1760 [A Volume of Records Relating to the Early History of Boston Containing Miscellaneous Records (Boston: Municipal Printing Office, 1900: 88) [Google Books] ) (1
page) (Fires -- Poetry; Fires -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Fires -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Religious aspects; Boston (Mass.) -- Fire, 1760)

Judd, Denis. Return to Treasure Island (London: Joseph, 1978) (part set in Boston around Tea Party) (Buried treasure; Pirates) (Google Books)

Kauffmann, Reginald Wright. Spanish Dollars: Being Further Passages from the Memoirs of Nicholas Rowntree, These Relating Chiefly to the American Colonists' Expedition against Louisburg,

Cape Breton, A. D. 1745 (Philadlephia: The Penn Publishing Co., 1925) (Harvard student hero [Bail 345]) (Louisbourg (N.S.) -- History -- Siege, 1745) (Google Books)

Kneeland, John. An Elegy, Occasioned by the Melancholly Catastrophe, which happen'd in the night of the 10th. of August, 1774 ([Boston]: Sold at the printing-office in Milk-Street [by John

Kneeland], [1774]) (42 lines) (Elegiac poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- Fires and fire prevention; Fires -- Massachusetts)

Knipe, Emilie Benson and Alden Arthur Knipe. A Maid of '76 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915 [Google Books] ) (Boston and environs; London; 1775-76) ((United States -- History --

Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Lake, Deryn. The Governor's Ladies (London: Allison & Busby, 2005) (1775; Thomas Gage; Margaret Gage; Slave girl) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Lawrence, Mildred. Touchmark (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975) (Juvenile) (Boston Tea Party; Paul Revere's ride) (Revolution, 1775-1783; Orphans) (Amazon and Google Books)

Lawson, Robert. Mr. Revere and I: Being an Account of Certain Episodes in the Career of Paul Revere, Esq., as Recently Revealed by his Horse, Scheherazade, Late Pride of His Royal

Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1953) (Elementary and junior high school) (Revere, Paul; Revolution, 1775-1783; Horses) (Amazon and Google Books)

Levy, Harry and Nancy Grossman, Not Over Ten Inches High (New York, McGraw-Hill, 1968) (Juvenile) (1755) (Chimney sweeps; African Americans -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Boston (Mass.) --

History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Dogs) (Google Books)

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Ballad of the French Fleet. October, 1746." In Poems of the "Old South" (Boston: W. F. Gill , 1877: 21-30 [Google Books]) (Old South Church (Boston, Mass.)

-- Poetry) (Edwin D Mead, Context, The Old South Leaflets (Boston: Old South Meeting House, 1903: 16) [Google Books])

Lowell, Robert. My Kinsman, Major Molineux. In The Old Glory (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965: 61-114, rev. ed. 1968) (play version, with changes and additions, of Hawthorne's story of

Boston mob in 1730; see above)

Lutz, Norma Jean. Maggie's Choice (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour, 1998) (Subtitle :Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening added for Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 1998 edition.)

(Juvenile--ages 8-12) (1743-44) (Great Awakening; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; Christian life) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Maggie's Dare: The Great Awakening 1744 (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour, 2005) (Ages 4-8) (1744; Slavery; 12-year-old Boston heroine) (Great Awakening; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial

period, ca. 1600-1775; Christian life) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Smallpox Strikes!: Cotton Mather's Bold Experiment (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour, 1998) (Juvenile--ages 9-12) (1721) (Smallpox; Fathers and sons; Stepfathers) (Amazon and Google Books)

MacDonald, Donna B. The Reluctant Spy ( [S.l.] : 1st Books, 2000) (Sam Adams; General Gage) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books)

Maderich, Robin [pseud. of Celia Ashley]. Faith and Honor (New York: Warner Books, 1989) (romance; Loyalists; Boston widow) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Maillet, Antonine. Trans. Philip Stratford. Pélagie: The Return to a Homeland 1979 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1982) (ten-year trek, 1760s-70s; Acadians return journey from Georgia; one scene

Boston, persecution by Tories) (Amazon and Google Books)

Martin, William. Citizen Washington : A Novel (New York : Warner Books, 1999) (some Boston, mainly seige of 1775-76) (Washington, George; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;

United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; United States -- History -- 1783-1815; Presidents -- United States; Generals) (Amazon and Google Books)

Mason, Connie. Promise Me Forever (New York: Love Spell Books, 1998 c. 1992) (Revolution; Romance; Boston privateer) (Historical fiction; Privateering; Love stories) (Back Cover 1998 reprint

Amazon and Google Books)

Mason, F. Van Wyck. Eagle in the Sky (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1948) (some Boston; 1780-81; French army and navy; Physicians) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)

(Amazon and Google Books

-----. Guns for Rebellion (New York; Doubleday, 1977) (hero, Charlestown native, divided loyalites; mainly Fort Ticonderoga guns to Boston) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

-----. Rivers of Glory (Philadelphia, New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1942) (partly Boston, e.g., Book One Part I Boston, 1778) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Google Books)

Maxwell, William Hamilton. O'Hara; Or, 1798 (London: Andrews, 1825 [Google Books]) (pp. 14-87 Irish O'Hara in Boston May 1775-March 1776 as British officer) (Ireland -- History -- Rebellion of

1798; Ulster (Northern Ireland and Ireland)) (Google Books)

Mellen, Grenville. Ode for the Celebration of the Battle of Bunker-Hill, at the Laying of the Monumental Stone, June 17, 1825 (Boston: Cummings, Hilliard, 1825) (16 pages) (Bunker Hill, Battle of,

1775 -- Poetry; Bunker Hill Monument (Boston, Mass.) -- Poetry) (Review, The North American Review 22 (Jan, 1826): 209-12 [MOA, Cornell U Library; accessed 2 Apr. 2008])

Melmoth, Sydney. The Confessions of Cuthburt: A Ballad; Bunker Hill: A Poem; Migration: A Poem (Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1827 [Google Books])

Miles, Margaret. Charlotte Willett, in 1760s Massachusetts, in the Bracebridge mystery series

-----. A Mischief in the Snow (New York: Bantam Books, 2001) (Winter 1766; counterfeiting) (Embezzlement) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. No Rest for the Dove (New York: Bantam Books, 2000) (Summer 1765; Visitor from Italy; Stamp Act) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Too Soon for Flowers (New York: Bantam, 1999) (Spring 1764; Bostonians move to Bracebridge for safety; Smallpox vaccination) (Smallpox) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. A Wicked Way to Burn (New York: Bantam Books, 1998) (1763; fictional New England village of Bracebridge outside of Boston; Witchcraft accusations) (Amazon and Google Books)

Miller, Susan Martins. The Boston Massacre (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour & Co., 1998) (Elementary and junior high school) (Boston Massacre, 1770; Brothers and sisters; Christian life) (Amazon and

Google Books)

-----. Boston Revolts! (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour Pub., 1998) (children 9-12) (Christmas 1764) (Brothers and sisters; Christian life) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Lizzie and the Redcoat: Stirrings of Revolution in the American Colonies (Uhrichsville, Ohio: Barbour, 2006) (Elementary and junior high school ) (1765) (Revolution) (Compassion;

Christian life) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Lydia the Patriot: The Boston Massacre (Ulrichsville, Ohio: Barbour Pub., 2004) (Juvenile--ages 8-12) (Teenage girls; Boston Massacre, 1770) (Google Books)

Mills, Jane Johnston. First Cap'n General of Liberty Tree: A Biographical Novel Based on the Life of Ebenezer Mackintosh, 18th Century Boston Shoemaker (La Jolla, Calif.:

Jupiter Books, 1979) (Stamp Act; Revolution) (Shoemakers; Mackintosh, Ebenezer: Boston Tea Party, 1773) (Google Books)

Morgan, Ollie. Shed No Tears (New York, N.Y.: Writers Club Press, 2003) (One major character Boston rebel) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google Books))

Morris, Gilbert. The Gentle Rebel (Minneapolis, Minn.: Bethany House, 1988) (Lexington to Bunker Hill) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Winslow family (Fictitious characters);

American loyalists) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Sound the Trumpet (Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1995) (Series: The Liberty Bell, Book 1; partly Boston in revolutionary times; Christian themed) (Indentured servants; United States -- History --

Revolution, 1775-1783; Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775) (Amazon and Google Books)

Morton, Sarah Wentworth. Beacon Hill: A Local Poem, Historic and Descriptive (Boston: Manning and Loring, 1797) (56 pages) (Angela Vietto, Women and Authorship in Revolutionary

America: 140 [Google Books])

Moss, Narissa. Emma's Journal, The Story of a Colonial Girl (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1999) (Juvenile--grades 3-5) (Boston 1774-76)) (Revolution, 1775-1783; Spy stories; Diaries)

(Amazon and Google Books)

Neal, John. "Bunker's Hill." In Songs, Odes, and Other Poems, on National Subjects, Compiled from Various Sources. Part third--military, ed. William McCarty (Philadelphia: Wm. McCarty, 1842. 3

v: 95-97 [Google Books]) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775 -- Poetry)

Nelson, James L. The Blackbirder: Book Two of the Brethren of the Coast (New York: William Morrow, 2001) (mainly Virginia or at sea, but lots of Boston; Africans) (Virginia -- History -- Colonial

period, ca. 1600-1775; Williamsburg (Va.); Slave insurrections; Pirates; Marlowe, Thomas (Fictitious character); Pirates: Slave trade; Plantation owners) (Amazon and Google Books)

Nigro, Don. Horrid Massacre in Boston (New York: Samuel French, Inc., 2000) (dark comedy) (Historical drama, American; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783; Boston (Mass.) --

Drama; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Drama) (Google Books)

Niles, Nathaniel. The American Hero: A Sapphick Ode [new subtitle in later editions: Made on the Battle of Bunker-Hill, and the Burning of Charlestown] (Norwich, Conn.: The Author, 1775)

(Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry) (Google Books)

Norman, Diana. A Catch of Consequence (London: HarperCollins, 2002) (romance; starts in 1765 Boston) (Revolution, 1775-1783; London; Americans (England); Upperclass families) (Amazon and

Google Books)

Olasky, Susan. Will Northaway & the Quest for Liberty (Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 2004) (Juvenile) (Pre-Revolutionary War Boston) (United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775;

Fathers and sons; Father-son relationship; United States -- History -- 1600-1775, Colonial period) (Amazon and Google Books)

Otis, James. Boston Boys of 1775, or, When We Besieged Boston (Boston: Dana Estes, 1900) (Juvenile) (two spies)

-----. The Minute Boys of Boston (Boston: Dana Estes, 1910 [Internet Archive]) (Juvenile) (Revolution, 1775-1783)

-----. Neal, the Miller: A Son of Liberty (Boston: Estes and Lauriet, 1895 [Google Books] (Google Books)

-----. The Signal Boys of '75; a Tale of Boston During the Siege (Boston: Estes and Lauriet, 1897 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Revolution, 1775-1783)

Overfield, Joan. The Cabinetmaker's Daughter (New York, NY : Warner Books, 1988) (Romance: " Blueblooded daughter of a royal cabinetmaker is sent to Boston to conduct business with a

potential supplier." [source?]) (Google Books) [Check to see if this is 19th c.]

Parshall, Craig and Janet. Sons of Glory (Eugene, Or.: Harvest House Publishers, 2008) (Boston Massacre and defense of soldiers) (Revolution, 1775-1783; Adams, John: Lawyers) (Amazon)

Pollard, Josephine. (H.W. McVikar, illus) The Boston Tea Party, December 1773 (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1882 [Google Books]) (Juvenile) (Wit and humor, Juvenile; Tea -- Juvenile

poetry; Taxation -- Juvenile poetry; Revolutions -- Juvenile poetry; Boston Tea Party, 1773 -- Juvenile poetry; Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile poetry)

Pottle, Russell A. Patriot Royal (Williamsburg, Va.: Chestnut Hill Pub., 1996) (wealthy Bostonian Charles Royal joins rebels) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon)

Rafferty, S. S. "The Massachusetts Peep-O'Night" (1984). Rept. in Murder and Mystery in Boston, ed. Carol-Lyn Rössel Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, and Frank McSherry, Jr. (New York: Dember

Books, 1987): 74-98 (5 March 1772 (two-year memorial of Massacre; con-woman posing as royalty)

Rand, Edward A. Fifer-boy of the Boston Siege (Boston: A.I. Bradley & Co., 1900)(Revolution, 1775-1783; Sieges)

Rappaport, Doreen. The Boston Coffee Party (New York: Harper & Row, 1988). (Juvenile--grades K-3) (Revolution) (Amazon and Google Books)

Reeman, Kimberly Jordan. Coronach (UK: Gardners Books/Author House 2007) (mainly elsewhere but c. pp. 650-700 set in Revolutionary Boston; siege; Bunker Hill) (Amazon and Google Books)

Reit, Seymour. Guns for General Washington (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990) (Elementary and junior high school) (1775; "transporting 183 cannons from Fort Ticonderoga to

Boston") (Knox, Henry; Revolution, 1775-1783; Fort Ticonderoga) (Amazon and Google Books)

Rice, Patricia. Rebel Dreams (New York: Penguin, 1991) (romance; heroine, Boston warehouse owner; hero, British ship captain; Revolutionary period) (Summary, FictionDB, accessed 26 Jun. 2008)

Rich, Elisha. A Poem on the Late Distress of the Town of Boston With some Remarks of the sudden Flight of the Ministerial Troops, after plundering and Destroying the Property of the Worthy

Inhabitants, they left the town in the greatest confusion imaginable, not allowing themselves time to take with them great part of their Warlike Stores, In short, they fled like
Murderer's pursued by the Hand of Justice (Chelmsford, Mass.: Printed and sold at N. Coverly's printing-office, 1776 [American Memory, accessed 31 Mar. 2008]) (45 stanzas; one-page
broadside; George Washington) (Boston (Mass.) -- Siege, 1775-1776; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Poetry)(Juvenile) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775) (Google
Books)

Richmond, Robert P. Powder for Bunker Hill (Philadelphia: Macrae Smith, 1968) (Juvenile) (Bunker Hill, Battle of, Boston, Mass., 1775) (Google Books)

Rinaldi, Ann. The Fifth of March (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1993) (Young Adult) (Boston Massacre: Rachel Marsh, 14-year-old indentured servant in the John and

Abigail Adams household, is embroiled in Revolutionary unrest) (Boston Massacre; Indentured servants; Adams, John; Adams; Abigail) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. The Secret of Sarah Revere (Juvenile) (San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1995) (Young Adult) (Revere, Paul; Spies; Silversmiths; Fathers and daughters) (Amazon and Google Books)

Roberts, Kenneth Lewis. Lydia Bailey (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1947) (partly, Maine lawyer in 1799-1800 Boston fighting Alien and Sedition laws; mainly, Haiti; 1952 film) (United States -- History

-- Constitutional period, 1789-1809; Haiti -- History -- Revolution, 1791-1804; Tripoli (Libya); Slave trade) (Google Books)

-----. Northwest Passage (Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1937) (narrator artist and Harvard student; some Boston scenes; Chapters II and III Harvard 1759 [Bail 346])

(United States -- History -- French and Indian War, 1755-1763; Rogers, Robert; Rogers' Rangers) (Amazon and Google Books)

-----. Oliver Wiswell (New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1940) (Loyalists in Boston during Revolution and elsewhere; 1775-83) (United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783) (Amazon and Google

Books)

Robinson, [Mrs.] J[ohn]. H[ovey]. The Boston Conspiracy or, The Royal Police. A Tale of 1773-75 (Boston: Dow & Jackson, 1847) (Revolution, 1775-1783)

-----. Evelyn, the Child of the Revolution. A Romance of Real Life (Boston: Hotchkiss, 1850) (Boston (Mass.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783)

-----. The Rebel Spy; or, The King's Volunteers. A Romance of the Siege of Boston (Boston: F. Gleason's Pub. Hall, 1852)

Robinson, Gertrude. Sons of Liberty (New York: Dutton, 1941) (Juvenile) (Revolution, 1775-1783) (