Theodore Goodridge Roberts
| Theodore Goodridge Roberts | |
|---|---|
| Born | George Edward Theodore Goodridge Roberts July 7, 1877 Fredericton, New Brunswick |
| Died | February 24, 1953 (aged 75) Digby, Nova Scotia |
| Resting place | Forest Hill Cemetery, Fredericton |
| Occupation | novelist |
| Language | English |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Citizenship | British subject |
| Alma mater | U of New Brunswick |
| Notable works | The Harbour Master, The Leather Bottle |
| Notable awards | FRSC |
| Spouse | Frances Seymour Allen |
| Children | William Goodridge, Dorothy Mary Gostwick, Theodora Frances Bliss, Loveday |
Theodore Goodridge Roberts (July 7, 1877 – February 24, 1953) was a Canadian novelist and poet. He was the author of thirty-four novels and over one hundred published stories and poems.
He was the brother of poet Charles G.D. Roberts, and the father of painter Goodridge Roberts.
He was born George Edwards Theodore Goodridge Roberts in Fredericton, to Emma Wetmore Bliss and Anglican Rev. George Goodridge Roberts. The poet Charles G.D. Roberts, and the writers William Carman Roberts and Jane Roberts MacDonald, were his siblings.
He published his first poem in 1899, when he was eleven, in the New York Independent (where his cousin Bliss Carman was working), and his first prose piece (a comparison of the Battle of Waterloo and the Battle of Gettysburg) in the Century two years later.
Roberts attended Fredericton Collegiate School, though (since school records were lost in a fire) the exact years are unknown. He later went to University of New Brunswick (UNB), but left without graduating. He published poetry in UNB's University Magazine.
In 1897 he moved to New York City, living with his brothers Charles and William and working at The Independent. In 1898 the magazine sent him to Cuba, as a special correspondent, to cover the Spanish–American War. While on the island he contracted malaria—he was sent back to New York and consulted specialists, who sent him back to Fredericton "to die."
An unnamed surgeon saved Roberts's life, and he was nursed back to heath by Frances Seymour Allen (whom he would subsequently marry). The next year he travelled to Newfoundland, where he helped to found and edit The Newfoundland Magazine. He published his first book of poetry (Northand Lyrics, an anthology edited by Charles G.D. Roberts and featuring his three siblings) in 1899, and his first novel, The House of Isstens, in 1900.
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