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I love this world now only because thou art in it. I respect thee wholly—I respect myself—certain, too, of that coming time, however far away now, when no man shall ever meet any intelligent civilization's disrespect simply because he is similisexual, Uranian!

—Edward Prime-Stevenson,

Imre: A Memorandum (1906)

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Imre:

A Memorandum—

A queer experience novel of love and vulnerability as a character study of isolated Hungarian solider Imre von N. by his lover, Oswald, a displaced noble.

The cover of Imre: A Memorandum (1906) by Xavier Mayne. It has a tan cover with a red border and red text. The epigraph reads, "The Frienship which is Love - the Love which is Friendship." A sticker reads, "NAPLES, / THE ENGLISH BOOK-PRESS / No. 2, Via Chiatamone, / 1908. Below the sticker, in red text, it reads "(Privately Printed, and all Rights Reserved.)
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Her Enemy—

Her Enemy, Some Friends, and Other Personages: Stories and Studies Mostly of Human Hearts. Twenty-eight short stories, several queer, new or adapted and expanded from previously published works. Privately printed in 250 numbered and signed copies. 

Long-Haired Iopas—

A collection of updated and new musical criticism, essays, and related literature. Privately printed in 133 numbered and signed copies. 

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ublications

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An absolute huge thanks goes to C, who allowed me to incorporate their collection of EPS works into this directory.

The Christian Union
And other miscellaneous Harper's publications.
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Harper's Bazar
An art nouveau ilustration of two figures. One wears a blind and the other a mask. A group of identical cloaked figures watch them. Thorned vines wrap around the image, and there is a floating belt ripped in two places.

Illustration by Will H. Bradley

for "Barren Triumph" in Harper's New Monthly.

Harper's Weekly, A Journal of Civilization
Harper's Young People

  • "Glenn Wynthrop's 'Call': A Moral" (Jul 30, 1885) -- Short story

  • "A First Cardinal's Funeral" (Oct 22, 1885)

  • "Representative Roman Catholic Clergy" (1886) -- Vol 38, p. 4.

  • "At Bayreuth in 1889" (Sep 12, 1889)

  • "Every Inch a Mountain" (Feb 26, 1891)

  • "Music" (Feb 26, 1891)

  • "A Scientific Vengeance" (Sep 25, 1890) -- Short story. Also in Her Enemy (1913).

  • "Once: But Not Twice" (Oct 15, 1891) -- Also in Her Enemy (1913).

  • "Signor Carlo" (Feb 18, 1892) -- Poem.

  • "Easter" (Apr 14, 1892) -- Poem.

  • "Her Prescience" (Jun 30, 1892) -- Poem.

  • "Pastourelle" (Feb 16, 1893) -- Poem.

  • "Music" (Mar 23, 1893)

  • "Endurance" (Apr 1893) -- Poem. Also in Musical Courier (Apr 19, 1893).

  • "Music" (Apr 6, 1893)

  • "Music" (Apr 13, 1893)

  • "Music" (May 18, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2320, p19.

  • "Music" (May 25, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2321, p11.

  • "Music" (Jun 1, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2322, p15.

  • "Music" (Jun 8, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2323, p9.

  • "Music" (Jun 15, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2324, p9.

  • "Music" (Jun 22, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2325, p15.

  • "Music: A Short Review" (Jun 29, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2326, p9.

  • "Music" (Aug 31, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2335, p9.

  • "Music" (Sep 7, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2336, p9.

  • "Music" Sep 14, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2337, p9.

  • "Music" (Sep 21, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2338, p9.

  • "Music" (Sep 28, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2339, p9.

  • "Music" (Oct 5, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2340, p9.

  • "Passion Plays at Brixlegg and Erl" (Oct 8, 1893)

  • "Music" (Oct 12, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2341, p9.

  • "Music" (Oct 19, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2342, p9.

  • "Music" (Oct 26, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2343, p9.

  • "Music" (Nov 2, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2344, p11.

  • "Music" (Nov 9, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2345, p9.

  • "Music" (Nov 16, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2346, p9.

  • "Music" (Nov 23, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2347, p9.

  • "Music" (Nov 30, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2348, p9.

  • "Music" (Dec 7, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2349, p9.

  • "Music" (Dec 14, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2350, p9.

  • "Music" (Dec 28, 1893) -- Vol 45, Iss 2352, p9.

  • "Music" (Jan 4, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2353, p9.

  • "Music" (Jan 11, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2354, p9.

  • "Music" (Jan 18, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2355, p9.

  • "Music" (Jan 25, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2356, p9.

  • "Music" (Feb 1, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2357, p9.

  • "Music" (Feb 8, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2358, p9.

  • "Music" (Feb 15, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2359, p9.

  • "Music" (Feb 22, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2360, p9.

  • "Music" (Mar 1, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2361, p9.

  • "Music" (Mar 1, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2362, p9.

  • "The Minstrels: An Allegory" (Mar 8, 1894) -- Poem.

  • "Music" (Mar 8, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2362, p9.

  • "Music" (Mar 15, 1894)  -- Vol 46, Iss 2363, p9.

  • "Music: Vienna, Royal Opera. Dresden, Royal Opera. Paris, Opera. Paris, Opera Comique. Berlin, Royal Opera. Hamburg, City Theater. Leipzia, City Theater" (Mar 15, 1894)  -- Vol 46, Iss 2363, p9.

  • "Music" (Mar 22, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2364, p11.

  • "Music" (Apr 5, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2366, p8.

  • "Music" (Apr 12, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2367, p9.

  • "Music" (Apr 19, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2368, p9.

  • "Music" (Apr 26, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2369, p9.

  • "Music" (May 3, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2370, p9.

  • "Music" (May 10, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2371, p9.

  • "Music" (May 17, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2372, p9.

  • "Music" (May 24, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2373, p9.

  • "Music" (May 31, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2374, p9.

  • "Music: Annual Review" (Jun 7, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2375, p15.

  • "Sangerfest" (Jul 5, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2379, p5.

  • "Music" (Jul 26, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2382, p9.

  • "Music" (Aug 9, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2384, p9.

  • "Music" (Aug 23, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2386, p9.

  • "Music" (Aug 30, 1894)

  • "Music" (Sep 20, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2390, p9.

  • "Music: Parisian Music in September" (Oct 11, 1894) -- Vol 48, Iss 2393, p9.

  • ​"Music" (Oct 18, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2394, p7.

  • ​"Music" (Oct 25, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2395, p9.

  • "Music" (Nov 8, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2397, p15.

  • "Music" (Nov 15, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2398, p9.

  • "Music" (Nov 29, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2400, p9. Credited on p12.

  • "Music" (Dec 6, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2401, p9. Credited on p12.

  • "Music" (Dec 13, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2402, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Dec 20, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2403, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Dec 27, 1894) -- Vol 46, Iss 2404, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Jan 3, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2405, p19. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Jan 10, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2406, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Jan 17, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2407, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Jan 24, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2408, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Jan 31, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2409, p8. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Feb 7, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2410, p8. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Feb 14, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2411, p8. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Feb 21, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2412, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Feb 28, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2413, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Mar 7, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2414, p16. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Mar 14, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2415, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Mar 21, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2416, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Mar 28, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2417, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Apr 4, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2418, p27. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Apr 11, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2419, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Apr 18, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2420, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Old and Young. A Sunday's Sermon" (Apr 25, 1895) -- Poem.

  • "Music" (Apr 25, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2421, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (May 2, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2422, p13. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (May 9, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2423, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (May 16, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2424, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (May 23, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2425, p9. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Sep 5, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2440, p16.

  • "Music" (Sep 12, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2441, p14.

  • "Music" (Sep 19, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2442, p8.

  • "Music" (Sep 26, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2443, p8.

  • "Music" (Oct 3, 1895)  -- Vol 47, Iss 2444, p9.

  • "Music" (Oct 10, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2445, p13.

  • 'Music" (Oct 17, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2446, p8.

  • "Music" (Oct 24, 1895)

  • "Music" (Oct 31, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2448, p8.

  • "A Fairy Story--This is True" (Nov 7, 1895) -- Short story.

  • "Music" (Nov 7, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2449, p13. Uncredited.

  • "Music" (Nov 14, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2450, p9.

  • "Music" (Nov 21, 1895)

  • "Music" (Nov 28, 1895)

  • "Music" (Dec 5, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2453, p11.

  • "Music" (Dec 12, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2454, p9.

  • "Music" (Dec 19, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2455, p10.

  • "Music" (Dec 26, 1895) -- Vol 47, Iss 2456, p9.

  • "Music" (Jan 2, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2457, p19.

  • "Music" (Jan 9, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2458, p9.

  • "Music" (Jan 23, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2460, p8.

  • "Music" (Jan 30, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2461, p9.

  • "Music" (Feb 6, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2462, p13.

  • "Music" (Feb 13, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2463, p9.

  • "Music" (Feb 20, 1896)

  • "Music" (Feb 27, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2465, p11.

  • "Music" (Mar 5, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2466, p19.

  • "Music" (Mar 12, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2467, p8.

  • "Music" (Mar 19, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2468, p9.

  • "Music" (Mar 26, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2469, p9.

  • "Music" (Apr 2, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2470, p11.

  • "Music" (Apr 9, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2471, p9.

  • "Music" (Apr 16, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2472, p9.

  • "Music" (Apr 23, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2473, p9.

  • "Music" (Apr 30, 1896)  -- Vol 48, Iss 2474, p9.

  • "Music: The Coming Bayreuth Festival" (May 7, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2475, p16.

  • "Music" (May 14, 1896) --  Vol 48, Iss 2476, p8.

  • "Music" (May 21, 1896)

  • "Music: New Operas Abroad" (May 28, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2478, p9.

  • "Music" (Jun 4, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2479, p17.

  • "Music: In Paris; June-July, 1896" (Jul 23, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2486, p17.

  • "Music: Autumn Concerts--Notes" (Sep 10, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2493, p19.

  • "Music: Promenade Concerts--The Worcester (Mass.) Festival of 1896" (Sep 17, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2494, p15.

  • "Music: A Table of Errors: Notes" (Sep 24, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2495, p16.

  • "Music: An Orchestra's Biography" (Oct 1, 1896)

  • "Music: The Decline of the Symphony--Notes" (Oct 8, 1896) -- Vol 48, Iss 2497, p16.

The Independent
An illustration by Frederick Stuart Church for "A Cat May Look at a King." A cat with a ruffle collar is singing to a long-haired king on a throne. Animals in clothes surround him. His daughter, a miserable-lloking girl with a lute at her feet, sits slumped on the dias beside him.

Illustration by Frederick Stuart Church for "A Cat May Look at a King" in Harper's Young People.

  • "Dickens. What Should We Think of Him To-day? — Mr. Gissing's Study and the New Gadshill Edition" (May 14, 1898, NYT)

  • "Balzac in English. The George Saintsbury Edition in Popular Form" (Jun. 25, 1898, NYT)

  • "A GERMAN HELLENIST. Poetical and Prose Writings of Friedrich Hoelderlin, the Shelley of the Fatherland" (Feb. 25, 1899, NYT) (English Translation of "Greichanland" poem here, pg 51).

  • "SAINT-SIMON. Miss Wormeley's Translation in Four Beautiful Volumes" (May 6, 1899, NYT)

  • "PEPYS AND HIS DIARY. Completion of the Wheatley Edition Containing New Matter" (Apr. 28, 1900, NYT)

  • "SCHILLER. His Unfinished 'Demetrius' Again Completed" (Aug. 4, 1900, NYT)

  • "VILLAGE LIBRARIES. Mr. E. Irenaeus Stevenson Offers Suggestions on How to Conduct Them" (Aug 16, 1902, NYT)

  • "Opera Repertory Suggestions" (Mar 12, 1939, NYT)

  • "Of a Beethoven Score: The Terzetto, Opus 116" (Sep 8, 1940, NYT)

The New York Times
Misc.
Publicatons

Also known as E. Irenaeus Stevenson, Xavier Mayne, and Robert Antrobus. He added "Prime" to his name after receiving an inheritance in 1899 (Music Lovers' Encyclopedia 1919). Born in Madison, New Jersey, and of French and Scottish ancestry. He went to school at The Freehold Institute, NJ, and became Solicitor of Bar of NJ, though he did not practice by 1911 (Who's Who, 1912). Primarily he worked as a critic and lecturer of literature, music, drama.

 

In 1899 he conducted "The Relation of Music to the Dramatic in History, Fiction, and the Literary Theatre, with Dramatic Illustrations," a trilogy of musical-literary performances in London, Paris, and New York. As part of the performances, he performed or read extracts in at least three languages from different sources of theatre (Jul. 23, 1899, NYT).

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He put his weekly Harper's column on hold in June and traveled with Henry Harkness Flagler through Europe for four months in 1889, visiting Switzerland, Germany, and Austria for leisure, health, and musical study (Harpers Weekly, Jun 24, 1889, & The Musical Courier, Jun 12, 1889, Jul 3, 1889, Sep 4, 1889, & Oct 16, 1889). In particular, they attended the Bayreuth Festival (The Musical Courier, Aug 14, 1889)

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He traveled often and lived between several countries until 1900 (Who's Who, 1903), when his health began to deteriorate, and he lived in Vienna (Music Lovers' Encyclopedia 1919) with frequent trips to the US (Biographical Dictionary of America 1906). His addresses were listed as JS Morgan and Co., 22 Old Broad Street, London, E.C, (Who's Who, 1903-1911), Care of the Fifth Avenue Bank, New York City in the US (Who's Who, 1912), Care of Morgan Grenfell & Co., Paris, France (American Catholic Who's Who, 1931).

 

He was the staff editor of The Independent, NYC and spent 10 years at Harpers and Brothers, where he founded the Music Department of Harper's Weekly.

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his bookplate is rly cool (Princeton's Notabilia)

Biographical Notes

Bibliography

Published Work

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  • The Golden Moon (Mar-Apr 1885)

A young adult novella about keeping secrets from one's parents. A group of boys attempt to obtain a sunken treasure after a ghost reveals its existence to them. Published in the Christian Union. Also known as The Fire Brand Secret.

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Part 1. Part 2. Part 3. Part 4. Part 5. Part 6. Part 7.

 

A young adult novel of the Jacobite/Forty-Five Rebellion. Reprinted as Boyd of Windelstrae. His devotion to Prince Charlie and White Cockades, etc. (1892). Originally intended to be a play (The Critic)

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Reprinted in 1896 as A Matter of Temperament. About music's impact on morality and the weakness of the artistic temperament. Concerns German musicians and features composer Giacomo Meyerbeer. Review.

 

Young adult novel of the romantic friendship between two teen boys and their journey through blackmail and disaster.

 

  • Mystically My Heart: Two Poems (1893)

"Pastorelle" and "Endurance"​

 

As Robert Antrobus. Although only originally credited for the "Editor's Preface," Prime-Stevenson later work, Her Enemies (1913), cites that he is the author of Square of Sevens. Laurence Hutton also states that the divination system and book is "entirely his [Prime Stevenson's] own"  (Harper's, Mar 1897).

 

  • Those Restless Pilgrimages (1896)

Contains two travel articles: 'Autumn Vows' and 'A Little Owl of Florence'

 

  • Mrs. Dee's Encore; or, You Will Will You? (1896)

Serialized in Harper's Bazaar. Also known by its protagonist's name. About Sylvester Sard, a music teacher, and his social circle of artists, hypnotists, and other contemporaries.

 

Chapter I & II / Chapter III / Chapter IV / Chapter IV Cont. & V / Chapter V Cont. / Chapter VI / Chapter VI Cont & VII / Chapter VIII / Chapter IX & X

 

[More Info] As Xavier Mayne. A Queer experience novel of love and vulnerability as a character study of isolated Hungarian solider Imre von N. by his lover, Oswald, a displaced noble.

 

[More Info] As Xavier Mayne. A study, history, and defense of homosexuality and other sexualities. Also contains The Life and Diary of an Uranian Poet: August von Platen (1796-1835).

 

[More Info] Twenty-eight short stories, several queer. 

 

  • Dramatic Stories to Read Aloud (1925)

  • Five Stories Selected from Her Enemy (1925)

Chosen because "represent the more serious and elaborate stories...they are withdrawn, and put together here, for a special purpose." They are: "Weed and Flower, An Art-Theory," "Unbidden" [another dream-story], "A Prisoner Passes," "Elek's Religion," and "Sunrise-Water."

 

  • Long-Haired Iopas: Old Chapters from Twenty-Five Years of Music Criticism (1927)

[More Info] Forty-two essays on musicology. Discussion and outline in Ghosts in the Archives: The Queer Knowledge and Public Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (2018) by Kristin Franseen.

 

  • A Repertory of One Hundred Symphonic Programmes (1932)

Subtitled "For Public Auditions of the Orthophonic Phonograph-Gramophone: With a Prefatory on Programme-Making and Conducting."

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Misc. Contributions:

 

 

In addition, he was the co-editor for the 30-volume Library of the World's Best Literature of 1896-1897 and the assistant editor and translator for the 1897-1898 set published by Warner.

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Music:
 

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Unknown:

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  • Alciphron and Clelia: A Narrative Poem (c1932; mentioned in One Hundred Symphonic Programmes)

  • Charles Brockden Brown: A Pioneer in American Romance (c1911)

  • "En Suisse, 1907: Impressions Nouvelles et Vielles"

  • Fifteen Plain Musical Talks (c1905)

  • Into the Sun -- Novelette. Presumed lost. Final chapter is "Out of the Sun" in Her Enemies.

  • La Casa: un Racconto (c1911) -- In Italian. Also titled under La Casaccia: un Racconto.

  • Metrical translations from some of the French Masters of Drama (Racine, Molière, and others)

  • The Parting Guest: A Romantic Drama (c1931)

  • Red William's Wood

  • Sebastien au Plus Bel Age -- in French. An excerpt is in "Out of the Sun" in Her Enemies.

  • Some Men, and Women, and Music (c1903) A collection of 12 sketches.

  • Toutes les Eaux: Et Autres Nouvelles (c1931)

  • Un Tout Petit Carnet Suisse (c1911) -- in French. Also titled under Un Tout Calepin Suisse)

Bibliography
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