Author:John Pendleton Kennedy

John Pendleton Kennedy
(1795–1870)

John Pendleton Kennedy

Works

• The Red Book (1818–19, two volumes).
• A Discourse on the Life and Character of William Wirt, Late Attorney General of the United States, 1834 (short work) Internet Archive identifier: adiscourseonlif00kenngoog
• Swallow Barn: Or, A Sojourn in the Old Dominion (1832). § Internet Archive identifier: swallowbarnorsou00kennrich
• Horse-Shoe Robinson: A Tale of the Tory Ascendency in South Carolina, in 1780 (1835). Internet Archive identifier: horseshoerobins03kenngoog
• Letters of a man of the times, to the citizens of Baltimore, 1836 (short work) Internet Archive identifier: lettersofmanofti00kenn
• Rob of the Bowl: A Legend of St. Inigoe's (1838). § Internet Archive identifier: robofbowllegend00kenniala
• Annals of Quodlibet [under pen-name Solomon Secondthoughts] (1840). Internet Archive identifier: quodlibetcontai00kenngoog
• Defence of the Whigs [under pen-name A Member of the Twenty-seventh Congress] (1844). Internet Archive identifier: defenceofthewing00kennrich
• Discourse on the Life and Character of George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore, 1845 Internet Archive identifier: discourseonlife00socigoog
• Memoirs of the Life of William Wirt (1849, two volumes). Internet Archive identifier: memoirsoflifeofw01lckenn, Internet Archive identifier: memoirslifewill13kenngoog
• The Blackwater chronicle, 1853 Internet Archive identifier: cu31924028787491
• The Great Drama: An Appeal to Maryland, Baltimore, reprinted from the Washington National Intelligencer of May 9, 1861. short work Internet Archive identifier: greatdramaan00kenn
• The Border States: Their Power and Duty in the Present Disordered Condition of the Country (1861). Internet Archive identifier: borderstatesthe00kenngoog
• Slavery the mere pretext for the rebellion; not its cause, 1863 Internet Archive identifier: slaverymereprete00kenn
• Autograph Leaves of Our Country's Authors (1864) co-edited by John P. Kennedy and Alexander Bliss
• Mr. Paul Ambrose's Letters on the Rebellion [under pen-name Paul Ambrose] (1865). Internet Archive identifier: mrambroseslette00kenngoog
• Collected Works of John Pendleton Kennedy (1870–72, ten volumes).
• At Home and Abroad: A Series of Essays: With a Journal in Europe in 1867–68 (1872, essays). Internet Archive identifier: athomeandabroad00kenngoog

§ Published under Kennedy's pen-name Mark Littleton.

Works about Kennedy

• "John Pendleton Kennedy" in Southern Life in Southern Literature (1917), edited by Maurice Garland Fulton
• The Life of John Pendleton Kennedy (1871), by Henry Theodore Tuckerman (external scan)
• Tributes to the memory of Hon. John Pendleton Kennedy (1871) (external scan)
• "John Pendleton Kennedy, John Esten Cooke, and other southern novelists." in Pioneers of southern literature (1903), by Samuel Albert Link (external scan)
• "Kennedy, John Pendleton," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)