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| Author | Title | Periodical
or Book |
Year | Vol. | No. | Pages | Plot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Max Adeler
a.k.a. Chas. Heber Clark (1841-1915) |
Mr. Columbus Coriander's Gorilla | Half Hours with Great Story Tellers | 1891 | Chicago | Donahue, Henneberry & Co. | n/a | A man dons a gorilla-suit and plays the role of a gorilla for the love of the circus-master's daughter |
| Hamilton Aïdé (1829-1906) | The Italian Boy and His Monkey | A Welcome: Original Contributions in Poetry and Prose | 1863 | London | Emily Faithfull | 96-99 | The life of a poor organ-grinder and his monkey deplored |
| Anonymous | A Baby's Adventure -- Jocko | Christian Advocate | 1884 | 59 | 40 | 646 | Aboard a ship, a monkey takes a baby and climbs the rigging, but eventually brings the infant back down. |
| Anonymous | Female Vivisectors, and How a Missing Monkey Gave the Secret Away | The National Police Gazette | 1880 | 37 | 157 | 6 | A dentist's pet monkey meets a grim fate at the hands of female medical students |
| Anonymous | An Impudent Monkey | Phantasmagoria of Fun (Alfred Crowquill, ed.) | 1843 | London | Richard Bentley | 1: 60-67 | An impudent man portrayed as a monkey |
| Anonymous | 'IT.' The Wonderful Offspring of a Negro Woman and an Ape Which is Puzzling Naturalists | The National Police Gazette | 1887 | 50 | 552 | 6 | A tabloid story of a pair of supposed human-ape offspring |
| Anonymous | Jocko in London | c. 1820 | London (?) | E. Wallis | 8 pp. | An Italian boy comes to London with his monkey | |
| Anonymous | The Man and the Monkey | The Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle | 1817 | 87 | 544 | A monkey steals food from a traveller in India | |
| Anonymous | Milles et Amys (early 15th century) | The History of Fiction, Being a Critical Account of the Most Celebrated Prose Works of Fiction, from the Earliest Greek Romances to the Novels of the Present Day [John Dunlop (ed.)] | 1842 | Philadelphia | Carey and Hart | 1: 272-278 | An ape nursemaid is involved in preserving the lives of the two sons of a pair of Carolingian heroes, returning them to their rightful inheritance |
| Anonymous | A Monkey Story | Western Christian Advocate | 1880 | 47 | 5 | 34 | A simian 'watch-dog' outwits a falcon that has been stealing his master's game |
| Anonymous | Mr. Purdy's Pet. A Sociable Baboon Who Incarnadised Staten Island's Shores | The National Police Gazette | 1886 | 47 | 435 | 6 | A Mr. Purdy gets more than he bargained for when an old sea captain gives him a monkey, and when this monkey gets drunk... |
| Anonymous | The Reminiscences of an Old Monkey | The Cabinet Album; A Collection of Original and Selected Literature | 1830 | London | Hurst, Chance, and Co. | 356-364 | An old monkey recounts his life, loves and capture, and comments on the foibles of humanity. |
| Anonymous | Saru-Kani Kassen; or, The Battle of the Monkey and the Crabs | St. Nicholas; an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks | 1887 | 14 | 4 | 308-313 | A Japanese folktale where monkeys and crabs battle it out to the death over some persimmons |
| Anonymous | Soubrette's Encounter with a Drunken Baboon | The National Police Gazette | 1899 | 74 | 1123 | 3 | An actress' pet monkey gets it hands on some booze, and proceeds to go on a tear |
| Anonymous | Story of an Actress, and her Pet South American Simian Called Patsy O'Reilly [...] | The National Police Gazette | 1900 | 76 | 1182 | 6 | When an actress' pet monkey is abused by hotel staff, it comes back to bite them |
| Anonymous | Stolen by a Monkey | New York Evangelist | 1884 | 55 | 50 | 7 | In the early 17th century a family's pet monkey saves their infant son from their burning English castle |
| Anonymous | [...]Strange and admirable accidents, which lately happened in the kingdom of the Great Magor, or Mogul... [1622] | The Harleian Miscellany | 1809 | III | 421-427. | An ape performs tricks for the Mogul, including the identification of Jesus as the one true God. | |
| H. Atteridge | What the Monkey Found | The Watchman | 1897 | 78 | 14 | 22 | A monkey who drives away little birds from his watering hole, has a rude surprise when he faces an ostrich |
| Matteo Bandello (d. 1555) | Novella XXXIX. A mischievous ape... | The Italian Novelists. (Thomas Roscoe, ed.) | 1825 | London | Septimus Prowett | 3: 34-42 | An ape dressed in a dead woman's clothes frightens priests and relatives alike. |
| G. Linnaeus Banks (1821-1881) | Chapter XIII. Blondin on Four Legs | Blondin; His Life and Performances | 1862 | London | Routledge, Warne, and Routledge | 104-110. | Biography of high-wire artist Blondin, who played an ape in play about a shipwrecked child raised by a monkey. |
| Thomas Bond | A Merry Tale | Topographical and Historical Sketches of the Boroughs of East and West Looe, in the County of Cornwall; with an Account of the Natural and Artificial Curiosities and Picturesque Scenery of the Neighbourhood. | 1823 | London | J. Nichols and Son. | 281-285. | In Elizabethan times an ape, posing is the "Queen's Ape" takes in the gullible inhabitants of the Cornish village of Loo |
| Marie Brown | A Tale of Two Monkeys | Christian Observer | 1899 | 87 | 25 | 18 | The capers of two monkeys amongst a human family |
| Margaret Norris Chapman | What Jocko Did | Christian Advocate | 1902 | 77 | 11 | 413 | An organ-grinder's monkey help little George cheer up and recover from pneumonia |
| George Cooper | Jocko | The Independent | 1884 | 36 | 1854 | 27 | Poem about a monkey who escapes a ship and swims back to his native jungle |
| Elizabeth Paschall Cox (1796-?) | On reading an account of a Wild Man, found in some part of the Spanish dominions; supposed to be thirty years of age. Written by the authoress when very young. | The Cottage Minstrel; or, Verses on Various Subjects. | 1827 | Philadelphia | Joseph Rakestraw | 111-112 | A poem about a Spanish feral man |
| Emma W. Demeritt | The New Engineer of the Valley Railroad | Saint Nicholas; an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks | 1880 | 7 | 2 | 884-886 | A monkey mimics the actions of a railroad engineer and takes some people on an unscheduled train trip. |
| C. Dibdin, Jr. (1768-1833) | The Ape and her Young Ones | Comic Tales and Lyrical Fancies; Including The Chessiad, a Mock-Heroic, in Five Cantos; and The Wreath of Love, in Four Cantos | 1825 | London | G.B. Whittaker | 105-106. | Poem in which tragedy strikes an ape mother as one of her children dies. |
| Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828-1906) | Noureddin and the Fair Persian | 1849 | London | W.S. Johnson | 24 p. | A play wherein an ape is involved tangentially but importantly in a convoluted romantic comedy. | |
| John Gay (1685-1732) | The Monkey who has Seen the World | Fables | 1728 | London | J. Tonson and J. Watts | 52-56 | A monkey which has lived amongst humans beings brings their vices back to his brethren when he escapes. |
| W.H. Gibson | Jocko | Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly | 1887 | 24 | 4 | 395-399 | A monkey lives with a human family who has also rescued a hawk. |
| Walter M. Gibson | Abduction by an Orang Utan of Borneo | The Prison of Weltevreden; and a Glance at the East Indian Archipelago. | 1855 | New York | J.C. Riker | 423-427 | A young native woman is abducted by an orang-utang in Borneo. |
| Julia Goddard [1825(?)-1896] | The Monkey's Story | Saturday Evening Post | 1883 | 62 | 50 | 12 | Narrated by a monkey, this tells of his life in the jungle and his eventual capture |
| Roe L. Hendrick | A Carful of Monkeys | The Youth's Companion | 1901 | 75 | 45 | 589 | A circus boy must think fast when he is stuck in a cage with angry monkeys |
| C.L. Hildreth | Joli | Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly | 1887 | 24 | 1 | 97-100 | Joli, a young lady's monkey, saves the man who loves her from the top of a church steeple |
| Mary Howitt (1799-1888) | The Monkey | The Juvenile Poetical Library; Selected from the Works of Modern British Poets, for the Use of Young Persons from the Age of Twelve Years. (Mrs. Alaric Watts, ed.) | 1839 | London: | Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans. | 27-29 | Children's poem about a monkey |
| Dorothy James | A Companion from China | Christian Union | 1890 | 41 | 26 | 907-908 | When a young girl receives a Chinese monkey from her uncle, it turns out not to be quite as pleasant as she expected. |
| William Lipscomb | The Monkey and the Old Ape | Poems and Translations | 1830 | London | Baldwin and Cradock | 166-167 | A moral tale about "nothing's without toil procur'd". |
| Paul-Hyacinthe Loyson (1873-1921)
transl. Georges Dodds |
My Monkey | Comoedia | 1 Jan. 1909 | Paris | (a daily arts newspaper) | 1-2. | A humorous story of going to see the skull of a missing-link recently arrived in a Paris museum. |
| Sophie McKenzie | The Monkey and the Captain | Congregationalist and Christian World | 1906 | 91 | 18 | 654 | A misbehaving monkey is tossed overboard from a ship, but the captain relents and saves the monkey destined for his daughter |
| Pansy
a.k.a. Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841-1930) |
A Very Sly Fellow | Christian Index | 1887 | 65 | 35 | 7 | An organ-grinder's monkey gets into a house and makes a mess, but the children are blamed |
| Pilpai | Chapter IV, Story XI | The Anvar-I Suhaili; or, The Lights of Canopus; being the Persian version of the Fables of Pilpay; or, The Book "Kalilah and Damnah," Rendered into Persian by Husain Va'iz U'l-Kashifi. (Edward B. Eastwick, transl.) | 1854 | Hertford | Stephen Austin | 345-355 | A wise monkey sacrifices himself to reclaim his people's land from bear invaders |
| The Monkey and the Tortoise | Kalila and Dimna, or, The Fables of Bidpai. (Wyndham Knatchbull, transl.) | 1819 | Oxford | J. Parker | 258-268 | Monkey | |
| Keith Preston | Tarzan | Heroes of Fiction - Types of Pan. Boston/New York | 1919 | Houghton Mifflin | 33 | A Short poem | |
| Genie H. Rosenfeld | The Ape of Leinster. A Bed-time Story | Harper's Bazaar | 1901 | 35 | 1 | A76-A79. | Ape saves child from burning castle, another version of a family legends (see here) |
| Anna H. Smith | Jocko | The Youth's Companion | 1891 | 64 | 51 | 653-654 | A little boy named Willie has trouble getting over the measles, but succeeds with the help of the monkey his family has adopted. |
| Mary A.P. Stansbury | The Monkey and the Monkey Dolls | The Youth's Companion | 1900 | 74 | 10 | 123 | An organ-grinder's monkey has feelings for a little girl's monkey doll |
| Gianfrancesco Straparola (c. 1480 - c. 1557) | Story of Guerrino, only son of Filippomaria, King of Sicily | Facetious Nights by Straparola (W.G. Waters, transl.) | 1901 | 74 | 10 | 123 | A hero is aided in his adventures by a feral man he had released |
| Henry U. Swinnerton | Captured by Orang-Outangs. A Girl's Experience in Sumatra | Christian Observer | 1898 | 86 | 4 | 94 | A 15 year old girl is abducted by orang-outangs on the island of Sumatra |
| Mrs. Wilson Woodrow (1870-1936) | Jam. A Simian
Sonata
by Baroness von Buttin |
Life | 1905 | 46 | 1188 | 145-147 | A monkey interferes in a couple's romance |
| Mrs. Wilson Woodrow (1870-1935) | The Monkey's Point of View | Life | 1901 | 38 | 990 | 329 | A naturalist interviews an orang-outang in this satirical piece |
| Thomas de Yriarte (1750-1791)
transl. R.R. |
The Ape
and the Juggler
from Literary Fables |
Blackwood's Magazine | 1839 | 46 | 204-205 | A fable regarding an ape and a juggler | |
| Author | Title | Periodical
or Book |
Year | Vol. | No. | Pages | Plot |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anonymous | Darwin Vindicated. Establishing a Close Relation Between the Human and the Monkey | The National Police Gazette | 1880 | 36 | 147 | 7 | Mimicry leads to monkey's untimely demise |
| Anonymous | Death from the Bite of a Monkey | News of the World | 1885 | March | 23rd | 2 | Infanticidal monkey in Lancashire |
| Anonymous | Monkeys Go Hopping | News of the World | 1900 | August | 26th | 4 | Escaped monkeys hide out in hop fields |
| Anonymous | -- Untitled -- | News of the World | 1900 | November | 11th | 6 | Should a professor pay the cab fare for his stuffed apes? |
| Anonymous | Rector and His monkey | Weekly Dispatch | 1900 | February | 11th | 8 | A priest's monkey bites child |
| Anonymous | Italian's Frightful Fall | News of the World | 1900 | April | 22nd | 2 | An Italian falls to his death try to catch his monkey |
| Anonymous | Baboon Hunt in a Ship's Rigging | News of the World | 1856 | July | 20th | 7 | A baboon leads sailors on a multi-ship chase. |
| Anonymous | The Balloon Nuisance | News of the World | 1851 | August | 17th | 6 | A monkey balloonist and parachutist. |
| Anonymous | Comic Zoology. The Monkey Tribe | Punchinello | 1870 | June | 4th | 150 | A comic survey of the monkey tribe. |
| Francis Metcalfe | Side Show Studies. The Amorous Baboon | Outing, An Illustrated Monthly Magazine of Recreation | 1905 | 46 | 2 | 165-169 | Tales of a lovesick circus baboon, and a clever circus chimp |
| Anonymous | This "Monk" is a Scrapper | The National Police Gazette | 1900 | 77 | 1206 | 14 | A baboon assaults a police officer |
| Anonymous | A Bad Monkey | The National Police Gazette | 1885 | 46 | 397 | 14 | Organ grinder's monkey taken to court for a dime and a scratch |
| Annie B. Morton | What Poll Found in the Nut | Christian Observer | 1897 | 85 | 15 | 20-22 | Two families, one with a pet monkey, get back together after a meddlesome gossip draws them apart |
| L.D. Nichols | Sam's Monkey | Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls | 1867 | 3 | 3 | 175-185 | A monkey wreaks havoc in the Sumner household |
| Anonymous | Poor Jocko | Hours at Home. A Popular Monthly of Instruction and Recreation | 1867 | 4 | 3 | 272-279 | Incidents from the life of a rather stubborn monkey |
| Anonymous | An Episode in Monkey Life | The Albion, A Journal of News, Politics and Literature | 1854 | 13 | 51 | 603 | Indian monkeys take revenge on the boa which killed and ate one of their own |
| Anonymous | Donetti's Monkey Troupe | Gleason's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion | 1852 | 3 | 3 | 33 | Description of a trained monkey act |
| Anonymous | The Early Train to Versailles. A Baboon Passenger | The Anglo American, a Journal of Literature | 1845 | 5 | 1 | 3-5 | An older lady tells the improbable story of a baboon taking the morning train to Versailles |
| Basil Hall | Vagaries of
a Pet Monkey
from Fragments of Voyages |
The Philadephia Album and Ladies' Literary Portfolio | 1832 | 6 | 26 | 206-207 | A monkey pulls pranks aboard ship |
| Anonymous | A Monkey Trick | Spirit of the Times. A Chronicle of Turf, Agriculture, Field Sports, Literature... | 1849 | 19 | 27 | 317 | A monkey pulls a prank during a stagecoach trip |
| Anonymous | The Monkey and the Looking Glass | St. Nicholas; an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks | 1875 | 2 | 8 | 515 | A monkey reacts poorly to a mirror |
| Anonymous | The Orang Outang | New-England Magazine | 1831 | December | 497-500 | An orang outang in Boston, MA writes home to Java | |
| Mary Abbey. | Mischievous Jocko | Zion's Herald | 1876 | 53 | 9 | 70 | A south American monkey disrupts a household |
| Francis Forrester. | Natural History. -- A Monkey on Horseback | Forrester's Boys' and Girls' Magazine, and Fireside Companion | 1856 | January | 1st | 31-32 | A monkey rides a horse |
| Anonymous | The Adventurous Boy | Atkinson's Casket | 1834 | April | No. 4 | 184-185 | A monkey leads a boy to climb a ship's rigging |
| Mary E. Vandyne. | How the Monkeys Crossed the Stream | Christian Union | 1889 | 39 | 3 | 79 | Monkeys build a simian bridge across a stream |
| Emma Louise. | The Pet Monkey | The Independent | 1869 | 21 | (1071) | 3 | Monkeys build a simian bridge across a stream |
| Anonymous | Monkeys Go Crabbing | Christian Advocate | 1900 | 75 | 24 | 968 | Monkeys capturing crabs in Singapore |
| Anonymous | Extracts from the Life and Death of My Monkey Jacko | The Albion. A Journal of News, Politics, and Literature | 1854 | 13 | 10 | 4 | Train fare for a dog must be paid for a monkey! |
| Anonymous | The Vindictive Monkey | Parley's Magazine | 1837 | January | 1st | 166-167 | A monkey obtains revenge on a man painting as ship who put paint in his mouth |
| Edward Allison Gale. | Society Gleanings. Overheard at a Function of the Tree-top Four Hundred | Puck | 1910 | 66 | 1714 | 10 | Monkey high society gossip |
| Anonymous | An Art Loving Monkey. How Its Passion for the Fine Arts Brought it to Destruction | The National Police Gazette | 1878 | 33 | 55 | 3 | An author's monkey drives his artist neighbour to distraction, leading to violence |
| Anonymous [A.B.C.] | Jocko | The Youth's Companion | 1872 | 45 | 27 | 217 | Young children meet a poor organ grinder, his daughter and monkey |
| Anonymous | A Monkey Murderer | The National Police Gazette | 1883 | 41 | 276 | 7 | An abusive husband is killed by his pet monkey |
| Anonymous | Monkey Stories | The Albion. A Journal of News, Politics and Literature | 1875 | 53 | 42 | 7 | Monkeys' adventures at sea |
| Ruth Argyle | The Story of a Scamp | Arthur's Illustrated Home Magazine | 1879 | 47 | 7 | 355 | A poem about a mischievous pet monkey |
| Colonel Humphreys | The Monkey Who Shaved Himself and his Friends. A Fable | United States Magazine; or, General repository of Ueful Instruction and... | 1794 | 1 | 1 | 56 | A poem about a mischievous pet monkey |
| R.F. Sharpless | Behind the Bars | The Youth's Companion | 1905 | 79 | 35 | 407 | A poem about a zoo monkey with a musical puzzle |
| Hiram | Cats-paw | Merry's Museum and Parley's Magazine | 1856 | 31 | 102 | A monkey uses a cat's paw to get chestnuts out from hot embers | |
| Anonymous | A Monkey Fireman | The Youth's Companion | 1856 | 66 | 10 | iii | A monkey puts out a fire in his cage |
| Anonymous | Gentleman Jocko | The Youth's Companion | 1861 | 35 | 46 | 180 | A well-behaved and a poorly-behaved monkey |
| Anonymous | The Dishonest Milkwoman | The Youth's Companion | 1861 | 35 | 31 | 124 | A monkey throws a dishonest woman's money into the sea |
| Anonymous | While Jocko Dreamed of Cocoanuts. . | St. Nicholas; an Illustrated Magazine for Young Folk | 1900 | 27 | 10 | 891 | A boy who annoys a monkey has the tables turned |
| Anonymous | A Monkey's Memory | The Youth's Companion | 1909 | 83 | 45 | 592 | A monkey recognizes his former owners after several years |
| Anonymous [C.G.] | Anecdotes of a Monkey | The Youth's Companion | 1929 | 3 | 27 | 107 | Some of Jacko's humorous feats |
| Anonymous | Good Jocko | New York Evangelist | 1876 | 47 | 48 | 6 | Jocko makes friends with a dog and her pups |
| Susie M. Best. | Jocko | Godey's Lady's Book | 1892 | 124 | 743 | 452 | A monkey reacts poorly to a mirror |
| Anonymous | Jocko in the Prize Ring | The National Police Gazette | 1883 | 43 | 327 | 7 | Monkey pugilists in the Italian Quarter of NYC |
| Anonymous | Jocko's Morning Call | The National Police Gazette | 1881 | 39 | 218 | 7 | An organ-grinder's monkey's entrance into a young woman's room has dire consequences |
| Anonymous | Mary Musgrave | The Youth's Companion | 1863 | 37 | 11 | 41 | A very calm young woman is not disturbed by the sudden presence of a monkey |
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