William Pembroke Fetridge

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William Pembroke Fetridge (1827-1896) is a travel writer, publisher, bookseller and periodic distributor. He lives in the Boston area, Massachusetts and in Paris, France.

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Short biography

From ca.1848 W.P. Fetridge lives in East Cambridge, Massachusetts. His sons include Henry Pembroke Fetridge.

Fetridge and Company operated in Boston from 1850 to 1855. In addition to publishing books on various topics, the company also runs retail stores that sell magazines, medical journals, legal journals and foreign news.. The store is known as Periodical Depot or Periodical Arcade , with entrances on Washington Street and State Street.

In 1850, the Periodic Depot publishes and imports "English books," and serves as an agent for: Godey's Lady's Book ; Harper & amp; Your publications such as Harper New Monthly Magazine ; Gleason Picture Picture Room Friends; Our Flag States; Fowler & amp; Wells phrenological works; Hollick's medical works; Graham Magazine ; Sartain Magazine ; Hunt's Merchant's Magazine and Commercial Review ; James Retrospection of Braithwaite Medicine ; Abstract Rankin from Medical Science ; Legal Library ; London Lancet ; "foreign reviews,... British and foreign medical reviews,... Democrats and Whigs,... London newspapers."

The Periodic Arcade also sells the Original Sarsparilla of Jacob Townsend; and "The Balm of a Thousand Flowers," soap compounds "of oil, ash and alcohol." In 1851 the owner of the Periodic Arcade included T.M. Fetridge and Thomas Wagstaff.

The Harper publishing company sent Fetridge to Europe around 1862 to develop travel guides. The first success of Harper Handbook for Tourists led to the latest edition in subsequent years. Fetridge underwent the last part of his life in Paris, where he died in 1896. His son, Henry, took over as editor-in-chief and director of the Fetridge Handbook for Tourists in Europe and the Orient.

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Further reading

Publications selected from Fetridge & amp; Co.

• Warren Colburn. Introduction to algebra, over inductive instruction method. 1851.
• Abner Forbes; J W Greene. The wealthy people of Massachusetts: contains a statement about the famous wealth of about two thousand people, with short sketches of nearly fifteen hundred characters. 1852.
• The slave commotion in Boston, and the trial of Anthony Burns: Contains reports of Faneuil Hall meetings, Batchelder assassinations, Theodore Parker's lesson for the day, speeches of advice from both sides, corrected by themselves, reports from Judge verbatim The decision of Loring , and a detailed description of the embarkation. 1854.
• Alexander Fraser Tytler. A universal history, from the creation of the world to the beginning of the eighteenth century. ca.1855.
• Ann S Stephens. Old old house. 1855.
• Miss Pardoe. Court wife: A novel. 1855.
• Hannah Webster Foster; Jane E Locke. Crickets; or, Eliza Wharton's History. Novel: founded on facts. 1855.

Selected works written by W.P. Fetridge

• Harper Handbook for Tourists in Europe and the East . New-York: Harper & amp; Brothers and sisters. 1862-ca.1885.
• Harper's phrase-book; or, a travel guide book for tourists and school. Be a guide for conversations in English, French, German and Italian, with new and better methods. New York, Harper & amp; Brother, 1868.
• The rise and fall of the Paris commune in 1871; with complete records of bombing, arrest, and burning of the city. New York, Harper & amp; Bros., 1871.

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External links

• WorldCat. Fetridge, W. Pembroke (William Pembroke)

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