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Rowland Evans Robinson
1833–1900
Known for warm, observant stories of rural Vermont, this nineteenth-century writer brought local speech, landscape, and everyday people vividly to life. He was also an artist and farmer, giving his fiction a strong sense of place and lived experience.
3 Audiobooks
A Hero of Ticonderoga
by Rowland Evans Robinson
In New England Fields and Woods
by Rowland Evans Robinson
Vermont: A Study of Independence
by Rowland Evans Robinson
About the author
Born in Ferrisburg, Vermont, in 1833, Rowland Evans Robinson grew up at Rokeby, his family's farm. He later trained in New York City as an engraver and illustrator before returning to Vermont, where he balanced farm life with writing and drawing.
Robinson became best known for novels and short stories set in rural Vermont. His work is often remembered for its close attention to local dialect, natural detail, and the social world of ordinary people. Alongside fiction, he also wrote history and nature pieces, including Vermont: A Study of Independence.
He died in 1900, but his writing still offers a lively picture of nineteenth-century New England. Readers interested in regional fiction, American realism, and Vermont history may find his books especially rewarding.