Frances Fuller Victor Quotes

American historian, poet, novelist, and journalist (1826–1902)

Frances Auretta Fuller (Barritt) Victor (pen names: Florence Fane, Dorothy D.) (May 23, 1826 – November 14, 1902) was an American historian and historical novelist. She authored the earliest serious historical writings about the Pacific Northwest. Much of her work was misattributed to her editor, Hubert Howe Bancroft.

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Alternative Names: Frances Barritt • Frances Auretta Fuller • Frances Auretta Victor • Frances Auretta Fuller Barritt Victor

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Doesn't a boy forever delight in making a girl cry? Whether it is his sister or cousin or school-fellow, he always has some little feminine victim to vent his mischievous propensities on, with a view to seeing her 'dissolved in tears'; when he adds insult to injury by denominating her a 'cry baby.'

There should be always contemporaneous recorded history. It is my experience that little value attaches to any other evidence, and that confusion results from admitting hearsay testimony. My whole effort has been to weed out worthless authorities and to stamp out prejudices.

The beautiful and favored region of the Northwest Coast is about to assume a commercial importance which is sure to stimulate inquiry concerning the matters herein treated of. I trust enough is contained between the covers of this book to induce the very curious to come and see.