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George Horton: the literary diplomat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2016

Brian Coleman
Brian Coleman*
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George Horton was a man of letters and United States Consul in Greece and Turkey at a time of social and political change. He writes of the re-taking of Smyrna by the Turkish army in September 1922. His account, however, goes beyond the blame and events to a demonization of Muslims, in general, and of Turks, in particular. In several of his novels, written more than two decades before the events of September 1922, he had already identified the Turk as the stock-in-trade villain of Western civilization. In his account of Smyrna, he writes not as historian, but as publicist.

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Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , 2006 , pp. 81 - 93
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Copyright © The Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham 2006 

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1 The Book Buyer, 23.2 (September 1901), 87-8.

2 G. Horton, A Fair Brigand(Chicago and New York 1899; London 1900); republished as A Fair Insurgent(London 1906).

3 G. Horton, The Tempting of Father Anthony(Chicago 1901); dedicated ‘To Katherine D. Horton'.

4 G. Horton, Like Another Helen.Illustrated by C.M. Relyea (Indianapolis 1901; New York 1901; London [printed in Brooklyn, New York, c.1901]; Toronto, n.d.). ‘Dedicated by kind permission to His Royal Highness George of Greece High Commissioner to Crete'.

5 G. Horton, The Long Straight Road.Illustrated by Troy and Margaret West Kinney (Indianapolis 1902; London 1902; New York 1912; Toronto, n.d.). Dedicated ‘To Charles E. Russell, Poet, Gentleman, Friend'.

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9 Horton first married Carrie Nichols of Indian Springs, Nevada County, California, in 1879. His wife died a few years later. They had one daughter, Georgia or Giorgianna. He married Katherine Deaborough Bogart in 1893 in Chicago. They had one daughter, Dorothy Alice. Their marriage ended in 1901, and his wife succeeded in regaining custody of their child in 1903. In 1909, he married Katherine Sacopoulo in Athens. They had one daughter, Nancy Phyllis.

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15 Horton, Recollections Grave and Gay, 219.

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70 The British Library, The Library of Congress and Princeton University Library identify The Unspeakable Turkas a work by Horton. It is a collection of cartoons from Punchon Turkey. It was published in Britain towards the beginning of the First World War. Horton's name is nowhere mentioned, and his daughter, Nancy Horton, in a letter to the author of 28 July 2003, writes that it ‘is something I know nothing about'.

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