Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910
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Name (Latin)
Stables, Gordon, 1840-1910
Other forms of name
Medicus, 1840-1910
Stables, William Gordon, 1840-1910
Stables, W. Gordon (William Gordon), 1840-1910
Date of birth
1840-05-21
Date of death
1910-05-10
Associated country
Great Britain
Field of activity
Adventure and adventurers--Fiction
Adventure stories
Fiction
Health
Occupation
Novelists
Physicians
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Sources of Information
- Encyclopedia of science fiction website, 11 Mar. 2016(Gordon Stables; born 21 May 1840 in Aberchirder, Banffshire, Scotland; died 10 May 1910 in Twyford, Berkshire, Scottish medical doctor and author of children's fiction, writing well over a hundred novels, primarily for boys; he served as surgeon on a whaling boat and later with the Royal Navy until 1875)
- Marland, H. Health and girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920, 2013:introd. (Dr. Gordon Stables, ex-naval surgeon and author of adventure stories and reams of popular health advice literature; had 30-year stint as health columnist to the Girl's Own Paper)
- Oxford DNB online ed., 11 Mar. 2016(William Gordon Stables, children's writer, was born at Aberchirder, Marnoch, Banffshire, on 21 May between 1837 and 1840; about 1875, he settled at Twyford, Berkshire, and occupied himself full-time in writing under the name Gordon Stables; although best remembered, along with G.A. Henty and G.M. Fenn, as a writer for boys, he was also a nature lover and concerned (perhaps obsessed) with health, as well as writing about cats and dogs; he drew upon his extensive sea travels for the background to his many boys' stories and a majority of these are about the sea; on the formation of the Caravan Club in 1907 he was elected vice-president; books include " Cruise of the land yacht Wanderer" and "The wife's guide to health and happiness"; he died at his house in Twyford, Berkshire, on 10 May 1910)
- Victorian Voices website, 11 Mar. 2016:Victorian health & beauty (lists articles in the Girl's Own Paper by Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N. ("Medicus"); digitised articles display the by-line "Medicus")
- His Born to command, 1892.
- Shaw, V. The classic encyc. of the dog, 1984:CIP t.p. (W. Gordon Stables; C.M., M.D., R.N.)
- Fighting for Cuba, 1928:cover (Gordon C. Stables)
- Annie o' the banks o' Dee, 1899:t.p. (Gordon Stables, M.D., R.N.)