Charles Barnard (writer) explained

Charles Barnard (1838–1920) was an American reporter, playwright and writer who regularly contributed to a number popular fiction magazines, including The Century Magazine, Smith's Magazine, Scribner’s Monthly, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Harper’s Young People, Wide Awake and St. Nicholas.^[1] His works include The Soprano (1969), The Tone-Masters (1871), a biography of Camilla Urso by the name of Camilla (1871), Knights of To-Day (1881), The Whistling Buoy (1887) and The County Fair (1888),^[2] the latter among which was written with Neil Burgess and later adapted into a film of the same name (1920).^[3]

His work has been noted as an often comedic avenue into a particularly broad collection of inventions and activities of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, charting perceptions of tools and technologies from electricity^[4] and telegraphy^{[5] [6]} to common practices of vegetable gardening, the florist business, and fruit growing.^[7]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Contento . William G. . Stephensen-Payne . Phil . 2023 . The FictionMags Index — Barnard, Charles (1838–1920) . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20231104224344/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/fmi/n00/n00488.htm#A169 . 4 November 2023. 4 November 2023 . The FictionMags Index.
2. News: Ford . Charles . Worker Says Easier Here . 7 November 2023 . The Los Angeles Times . 1 December 1912.
3. Book: Warner, Charles Dudley . The Library of the World's Best Literature: An Anthology in Thirty Volumes . Bartleby . 2015 . 2nd . New York.
4. Book: Treen, Kristen . Writing, Medium, Machine: Modern Technographies . Open Humanities Press . 2016 . Pryor . Sean . London . 35–51 . Stereopticon . Trotter . David.
5. Book: Sterne, Jonathan . Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures . University of Illinois Press . 2015 . Parks . Lisa . Illinois . 31–52 . Compression: A Loose History . Starosielski . Nicole.
6. Book: Yandell, Kay . Telegraphies: Indigeneity, Identity, and Nation in America's Nineteenth-Century Virtual Realm . Oxford University Press . 2018 . Oxford . 81–104 . Corsets with Copper Wire: Victorian America’s Cyborg Feminists.
7. Seaton . Beverly . 1981 . Idylls of Agriculture; Or, Nineteenth-Century Success Stories of Farming and Gardening . Agricultural History . 55 . 1 . 21–30 . 3742723 . JSTOR.