Individuals >> Lester, Charles Edwards ( Berkeley ) (1815-1890)

Historian.

A. L. Rawson identifies Lester as a Pfaffian, writing that "Charles Edward Lester was more suave and polite [than some of the other Pfaffians]. If he differed from any one it was in a cordial way. His strong point was criticism of England’s course during our Civil War. On that theme he held forth to willing ears, some of which had been stunned by the roar of conflict. He afterward wrote a book on ’The Glory and Shame of England,’ which brought him money and fame and the consulship at Venice" (106). Lester’s link to Pfaff’s is uncertain, as no source confirms Rawson’s statements.

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References & Biographical Resources

Haynes, John Edward. Pseudonyms of Authors: Including Anonyms and Initialisms. New York, 1882. [more about this work]

This text identifies the following pseudonym: Berkeley (106). [pages: 106]

Rawson, A. L. "A Bygone Bohemia." Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. 1896. 96-107. [more about this work]

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Wilson, James Grant and John Fiske, eds. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume III, Grinnwell-Lockwood. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1888. [more about this work]

Appleton claims Lester to be a descendant of Jonathan Edwards on his maternal side. [pages: 698]