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Francis St. Clair

Best known for a vivid early-1900s study of the Philippine revolutionary society Katipunan, this author wrote under the name Francis St. Clair while also being identified as J. Brecknock Watson. His work blends history and biography and reflects the politics of its era.

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The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune

The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune

by Francis St. Clair

About the author

Francis St. Clair is chiefly known for The Katipunan; or, The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune, published in Manila in 1902. Library and ebook records identify him as the author of that illustrated historical and biographical study of the Katipunan and the Philippine Revolution.

Project Gutenberg also lists J. Brecknock Watson as an alias for Francis St. Clair, suggesting that St. Clair was a pen name or alternate byline connected with the same writer. In the records available here, this is the only clearly confirmed work tied to the name.

Because reliable biographical information about the person behind the name is scarce in the sources reviewed, it is safest to remember Francis St. Clair as a little-documented early twentieth-century author whose surviving reputation rests on this single, historically notable book.