Chronology of James Branch Cabell's Life and
Published Works

 

1879:

April 14, James Branch Cabell born at 101 East Franklin Street, Richmond, Virginia.

1894:

Matriculated College of William and Mary at age fifteen.

1898:

Graduated from college, where he had taught French and Greek as an undergraduate.

1898-1900:

Worked as a newspaper reporter in New York.

1901:

Reporter in Richmond; first stories accepted for publication; suspected of murder in Richmond.

1902:

Seven stories published in national magazines.

1904:

The Eagle's Shadow.

1905:

The Line of Love.

1907:

Branchiana (genealogy); Gallantry.

1909:

The Cords of Vanity; Chivalry.

1911:

Branch of Abingdom (genealogy).

1911-1913:

Employed in office of the Branch (his uncle's) coal mines in West Virginia

1913:

The Soul of Melicent (later title Domnei); November 8, married Priscilla Bradley Shepard.

1915:

The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck; August 25, Ballard Hartwell Cabell born; The Major's and Their Marriages (his wife's genealogy).

1916:

The Certain Hour; From the Hidden Way.

1917:

The Cream of the Jest.

1919:

Beyond Life; Jurgen (suppressed January 14, 1920, cleared October 19, 1922).

1920:

The Judging of Jurgen.

1921:

Figures of Earth; Taboo; Joseph Hergesheimer; The Jewel Merchants; edited October, November, and December issues of the Reviewer.

1922:

The Lineage of Lichfield.

1923:

The High Place.

1924:

Straws and Prayer-Books.

1926:

The Silver Stallion; The Music from Behind the Moon.

1927:

Something About Eve.

1928:

The White Robe; Ballades from the Hidden Way.

1929:

Sonnets from Antan; The Way of Ecben.

1927-1930:

The Storisende Edition of the The Works of James Branch Cabell with prefaces, in eighteen volumes.

1930:

Some of Us; Between Dawn and Sunrise (selections edited by John Macy).

1932:

These Restless Heads (dropped James from name).

1933:

Special Delivery.

1934:

Smirt; Ladies and Gentlemen.

1935:

Smith.

1936:

Preface to the Past (prefaces from the Storisende Edition).

1937:

Smire.

1938:

The King Was in His Counting House.

1940:

Hamlet Had an Uncle.

1942:

The First Gentleman of America.

1943:

The St. Johns (with A.J. Hanna).

1946:

There Were Two Pirates.

1947:

Let Me Lie.

1948:

The Witch-Woman.

1949:

The Devil's Own Dear Son; March 29, death of Priscilla Bradley Cabell.

1950:

June 15, married Margaret Waller Freeman.

1952:

Quiet Please.

1955:

As I Remember It.

1958:

May 5, died at 3201 Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia.

[This chronology of James Branch Cabell's works published during his lifetime is courtesy of M. Thomas Inge and Edgar E. MacDonald, editors of James Branch Cabell, Centennial Essays, 1983, Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. For a complete bibliography, see James Branch Cabell: A Bibliography of his Writings, Biography and Criticism by Frances Joan Brewer, 1957, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia. See also James Branch Cabell: A Reference Guide by Maurice Duke, 1979, G. K. Hall, Boston, Massachusetts and James Branch Cabell and Richmond-In-Virginia by Edgar MacDonald, 1993, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi. For more information on other titles on the writings and life of James Branch Cabell, please write Special Collections and Archives.]

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