Frederic W. Beasley

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Frederic W. Beasley

1808–1878

A 19th-century Episcopal minister and writer, he published poetry, essays, and fiction under his own name and under the pseudonym Caspar Almore. His work has the reflective, literary feel of someone equally at home in the pulpit and on the page.

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Papers from Overlook-House

Papers from Overlook-House

by Frederic W. Beasley

About the author

Born in 1808 and dying in 1878, Frederic W. Beasley was an American author and Episcopal clergyman. Library records connect him with works including Henry Venola, the duellist: a poem and Papers from Overlook-House, showing a career that ranged across verse and prose.

He also wrote as Caspar Almore, a pseudonym attached to Caspar Almore, or Frederick Williamson Beasley / Papers from Overlook-House in bookseller records. That mix of literary identities suggests a writer comfortable moving between public religious life and a more personal, imaginative voice.

Although detailed biographical information is limited in the sources I could confirm, the surviving catalog records and memorial listings point to a long 19th-century life devoted to both ministry and literature.