James Thomas Fields (1817 - 1881)

Contents 1 Biography 2 Notes 3 Sources 3.1 Acknowledgments

Biography

James was born in 1817. His family name was Field, and the "s" was added later to change it to Fields.

James Fields was a poet, editor, writer, essayist, lecturer and publisher. Fields became the publisher of leading contemporary American writers, with whom he was on terms of close personal friendship. He was also the American publisher of some of the best-known British writers of his time, some of whom he also knew intimately. His personal friends included William Wordsworth, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Dickens, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville and others.

He passed away in 1881.

His wife, Annie Adams Fields, wrote the biography Memoir of James T. Fields, by his Wife (Boston, 1881) and Authors and Friends (Boston, 1896), which also mentions him.

Notes

Marriage record gives his father's name as Michael.

Sources

• "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NW5R-R83 : 10 March 2021), James T. Fields and Annie West Adams, 15 Nov 1854; citing Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 1,433,013.

• Wikipedia: James Thomas Fields

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Stanley Wood for creating Fields-1300 on 21 Nov 13. Click the Changes tab for the details on contributions by Stanley and others.