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Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
1845–1894
A Boston-born historian with a lawyer’s training, he wrote clear, thoughtful books on the American Revolution and on France before 1789. His work is still remembered for careful research and a readable style.
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The Eve of the French Revolution
by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
Die Hessen und die andern deutschen Hilfstruppen im Kriege gross-britanniens gegen Amerika, 1776-1783
by Edward J. (Edward Jackson) Lowell
About the author
Born in Boston in 1845, Edward Jackson Lowell graduated from Harvard in 1867 and spent time studying and traveling in Europe before briefly practicing law in Massachusetts. He later turned to history, the field for which he is best known.
Lowell wrote on major subjects in Atlantic history, including The Hessians and Other German Auxiliaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War and The Eve of the French Revolution. Contemporary and later reference sources describe him as both a lawyer and a historian, and his historical writing was noted for its serious research.
He died in 1894 at the age of 48. Though not as widely known now as some writers from the Lowell family, he left behind substantial works that still interest readers of Revolutionary-era and French history.