name: T.S. Arthur
birth_date: 1809-06-06 00:00:00
death_date: 1885-03-06 00:00:00
genres: Self Help Books, Temperance Novels
avg_rating: 3.51
ratings_count: 628
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. Founder of the magazines Arthur's Home Gazette, Arthur's Home Magazine, and The Children's Hour, and editor of the Baltimore Athenaeum and Baltimore Saturday Visitor. Librarian Note: There is more than one author by this name in the Goodreads database.Timothy Shay Arthur was a popular 19th-century American author. He is famously known for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There, which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public. Founder of the magazines Arthur's Home Gazette, Arthur's Home Magazine, and The Children's Hour, and editor of the Baltimore Athenaeum and Baltimore Saturday Visitor. ...more