Called Back (novel)

Called Back is an 1883 mystery/romance novel written by Englishman Frederick John Fargus under the pseudonym Hugh Conway[1] and published in Bristol by J. W. Arrowsmith.

Over 350,000 copies were sold within four years and a stage version was produced in London in 1884. The book was popular during the 1880s in Amherst, Massachusetts, a fact that has been correlated with the use of the phrase "called back" by American poet Emily Dickinson in her late life.[2] She was impressed by the book, which a friend sent her.[3] She used the title in a later letter.[4] In what was evidently the last letter she wrote shortly before she died in May 1886, she simply wrote, "Little Cousins, Called back. Emily."[5]

Notes
  1. Frederick Wilse Bateson (1940). The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. CUP Archive. p. 540. GGKEY:SQT257C7TNL.
  2. Martha Nell Smith; Mary Loeffelholz (12 December 2013). A Companion to Emily Dickinson. Wiley. p. 82. ISBN 978-1-118-83602-6.
  3. Emily Dickinson (1971). Selected letters. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 315.
  4. Barton Levi St Armand (27 June 1986). Emily Dickinson and Her Culture: The Soul's Society. CUP Archive. p. 21. ISBN 978-0-521-33978-0.
  5. Johnson, Thomas H., ed. (1965). The Letters of Emily Dickinson (Second ed.). Harvard University Press. p. 906.
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