Fairground Fiction
Stories about, or set in,
the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
REVIEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS ABOUT WORLD’S FAIR FICTION
THE LIVING INFINITE imagines Princess Eulaliaโs visit to the Worldโs Fair
"The White City was a young woman in a wedding gown. It was an undiscovered country." --ย The Living Infinite by Chantel Acevedo The Infanta Eulalia of Spain She was the Queen of the Fair and the toast of the town, but the love affair between the Spanish Princess and Chicago was short-lived. After 47 days of travel that included visits to Puerto Rico, Cuba, Washington DC, and New York, the Infanta Eulalia of Spain pulled into Chicago on June 7, 1893, as one of the most anticipated and celebrated guests of the Columbia Exposition. The city extended [...]
VINTAGE FICTION INVOLVING THE 1893 WORLD’S FAIR
- Burnett, Frances Hodgson Two Little Pilgrims Progress. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1895.ย [Available at Archive.orgย and Amazon]
- Burnham, Clara Louise Sweet Clover: A Romance of the White City. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894. [Available atย Archive.org]
- Butterworth, Hezekiah Zigzag Journeys in the White City. Estes and Lauriat, 1894.ย [Available at Archive.org]
- Cobb, Weldon J. A Worldโs Fair Mystery. Melbourne Publishing, 1892.
- Crowley, Mary Catherine The City of Wonders: A Souvenir of the Worldโs Fair. William Graham Co., 1894. Reprinted here.
- Dockarty, A. J. (โEbenezer Slimmensโ) Midway Plaisance: The Experience of an Innocent Boy from Vermont in the Famous Midway. Chicago World Book, 1894.
- Dramond, Alonzo E. A Secret of the Midway Plaisance. Byron S Adams, 1893.
- Ferris, George Washington Gale Car No. –: A Romance of the Ferris Wheel. The Narrative of James Black. Corbitt & Skidmore, 1893.
- Finley, Martha Elsie at the World’s Fair. Dodd, Mead, 1894. [Available atย Archive.orgย andย Amazon]
- Holley, Marietta Samantha at the Fair.ย Funk & Wagnalls, 1893. [Available atย Archive.orgย andย Amazon]
- Jenks, Tudor The Century Worldโs Fair Book for Boys and Girls, Being the Adventures of Harry and Philip with their Tutor, Mr. Douglas, at the Worldโs Columbian Exposition. The Century Co., 1893. [Available atย Archive.org]
- Neely, F. Tennyson (โTennysonโ) A Tale of the World’s Fair. P. T. Neeley, 1890.ย [Available at Archive.org]
- Neville, Edith Alice Ashland: a Romance of the Worldโs Fair. Peter Fenelon Collier, 1893. [Available at Archive.orgย andย Amazon]
- Rathborne, St. George The Bachelor of the Midway. Mascot Pub. Co., 1894. [Available at Archive.org]
- [Stead, William Thomas] From the Old World to the New; or, A Christmas Story of the Worldโs Fair, 1893. Review of Reviews, 1892. [Available at Archive.org]
- Stevens, Charles McClellan (โQuondamโ) The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair. Laird & Lee, 1893.ย [Available at Archive.org and Amazon]
- Stevens, Charles McClellan (โQuondamโ) The Egyptian Harp Girl: A Mystery of the Peristyle. Laird & Lee, 1894.
- [UNKNOWN] A Peep at the Worldโs Fair. Raphael Tuck & Sons, 1893?
- [UNKNOWN] Jeremiah Judkinโs Trip to the Fair: Being a Truthful Account of a Most Extraordinary Occurrence. Woolson Spice Co., 1894.
- [UNKNOWN] Short Stories with a Glimpse at the Columbian Exposition. N. Malloy, 1893?
- Van Deventer, Emma Murdoch Against Odds: A Detective Story. Rand McNally, 1894; reprinted in Hartman, Donald K. (Ed.) Fairground Fiction: Detective Stories of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Epoch Books, 1992. [Available atย Amazon]
- Ward, A. B. (Alice Bailey) โA Medley of the Midway Plaisanceโ in The Luck of a Good for Nothing. Outing Publishing Co. 1895.
- Western, Carl T. Adventures of Reuben and Cynthy at the World’s Fair, As Told by Themselves. Wellington Pub. Co., 1893.
- Whitson, John Harvey Chicago Charlie, the Columbian Detective. Beadle & Adams, 1893. Hartman, Donald K. (Ed.) Fairground Fiction: Detective Stories of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Epoch Books, 1992. [Available atย Amazon]
- Yandell, Enid; Jean Loughborough; Laura Hayes Three Girls in a Flat; Knight Leonard and Co., 1892. [Available at Archive.orgย andย Amazon]