HUBBARD, Elbert Green [1856-1915] -- American writer, editor and printer
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a/k/a
Fra Elbertus
Elbert Hubbard, of East Aurora, New York was a philosopher, soap salesman, entrepreneur, vaudville performer, bohemian, bigamist, horseman, humorist, printer, novelist, moralist, farmer, egotist, liar, plagiarist, avid supporter of big business, avid defender of individual rights, anti-intellectual, supporter of the arts, male chauvinist, pro-feminist, and college drop-out.I.Y. Hashimoto
Whitman College
Influenced by William Morris (the writer and craftsman), he established at East Aurora, NY, the Roycroft Shop, named after two 17th century printers, where he produced in the style of the Arts and Craft Movement: pottery, leather and metal work, and objets d'art of various kinds. There he also operated a hotel and published a pocket-sized monthly magazine, the Philistine (1895-1915).
The Philistine was considered scandalous, although it's difficult now to see why, and was a success, with a paid circulation of over 200,000. He also published a larger magazine, the Fra, and numerous chiefly biographical sketches, Little Journeys, and other essays, ultimately filling 14 volumes. Chief among these was his phenomenal Message to Garcia (1899), with a record sales of 40 million copies!
Roycroft employed over 500 craftsmen, working in a pseudo-communal organization at very low wages. From 1900, Hubbard would spend summers on a lecture tour, and his slight frame and "Bohemian" dress, with a ribbon bow tie, became a familiar sight on speaking platforms from coast to coast.
He and his second wife perished
in the sinking of the Lusitania by a German U-boat, 7 May 1915.
Chronology |
1895 | Founded at East Aurora, NY, the Roycroft Shop to revive old handicrafts |
1895-1915 | Founded, edited and wrote for the monthly magazine The Philistine |
1908-1917 | Founded and edited The Fra |
Selected Works |
Bookmarks (off-site links) |
- Ixquick Metasearch
- Works by
- Analyses, critiques and interpretations
- Quotations
- Aphorisms Galore! -- Authors: Elbert Hubbard
- Elbert Hubbard - Author details and biography - The Quotations Page
- Quotez - Hubbard, Elbert Green
- Elbert Hubbard on Work a few of his thoughts on the work ethic [archive]
- For sale
- Writings
- Elbert Hubbard of East Aurora The English Who's Who for 1913 offers
- Elbert Hubbard - selections
- A Message to Garcia
The authors of The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature call the piece "one of the most extraordinary documents ever issued in the United States."
- A Message to Garcia
- A Message to Garcia by Elbert Hubbard (a better-formatted example)
- A Translation of the Japanese Translation of "A Message to Garcia"
- Reviews and criticisms
- Roycroft and the Arts and Crafts Movement
- Works about
- Biographical
- Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
- [Tramp Poet] Use your browser to find "Hubbard" -- for a description of how it was at Roycroft Shop
- Chronologies, synopses
- Specific periods, events, aspects. Trivia.
- Genealogy
- Memorials, tributes, shrines
- Bibliographies and Link Farms
- Discussion
- Biographical
- Collections, archives - Papers
- Historical context, background
- Lusitania
- Lusitania sinking
- The Lusitania in 8 parts
- Part II: Lusitania - Simpson's Account - The Churchill Centre
- Lusitania - The Churchill Centre
- WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, Protest Over the Sinking of the Lusitania
- Lusitania Controversy A German propaganda piece
- Sinking of the Lusitania, The (1918) A 1918 animated short
- German medal commemorating the sinking of the Lusitania
- Places (residences, etc)
- Lusitania
- Gallery
