The Gaspee Incident in Fiction

• Gaspee, by Alex Gabbard, (2006) GP Press, historical fiction.
  
• Time and Tide, a play by Rosetta Desrosiers, 2002, Gaspee Days Committee
• That Gaspee Affair, A Radio Drama, by Walter Hackett (1941).  Oxford Press, Providence.  Originally aired in 1939 on WJAR radio.
• When We Destroyed the Gaspee, by James Otis Kaler (1901):  Boston, D. Estes & Co. Library of Congress # 01018525.  Hard to find, but we have it on-line!  By the author of Toby Tyler Joins the Circus series.
• In Defense of Liberty:  A Story of the Burning Schooner Gaspee in 1772, (c1908): by William Pendleton Chipman.  New York: A. L. Burt Co.  280 pages. Part of the "Navy Boys in Defense of Liberty" series.  Library of Congress # 08010281.
• The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, H. P. Lovecraft (1927):  Passing references to the incident, but great characterizations of many of the crew that burnt the Gaspee, caught-up in a horror thriller in 1771. Book review by Weldon Whipple of www.whipple.org
• The Shunned House, H. P. Lovecraft, (1926): Again, passing references and characterizations amidst a haunted house. Both of these Lovecraft novels can sporadically be found on-line by searching for the titles and author with Google.
  
• Rogue's Wager by Thomas G. Briody (1995):  Murder mystery with the Gaspee Days Parade at the climax.
• "The Log of Matthew Roving", Naval History Magazine, serial, (beginning Oct 2000):  Chapter 2.  Boy travels back in time to the age of sail and the attack on the Gaspee
• Rise to Rebellion, Jeff Shaara (2000). Great historical fiction about the men and events that led our nation to independence, includes the Gaspee Affair.
  
• "The Indictment of Deputy Governor Darius Sessions", Skit.Gaspee Days Committee.  Presented May 2002.
• "The Indictment of Abial Brown", Skit, Gaspee Days Committee, presented May 2003
• "The Indictment of Joseph Brown", Skit, Gaspee Days Committee, Presented June, 2004.
• "The Indictment of Governor Stephen Hopkins", skit, Gaspee Days Committee, Presented May, 2007.
  

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Originally Posted to Gaspee Virtual Archives 12/2000   Rev. 5/2007  Fiction.htm