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{{Short description|German-born Canadian novelist and translator (1879 – 1948)}}
{{For|the Native American author Fred Grove (born Frederick Herridge, 1913–2008)|Fred Grove}}
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'''Frederick Philip Grove''' (February 14, 1879 &ndash; September 9, 1948) was a [[German Empire|German]]-born [[Canada|Canadian]] [[novelist]] and [[translator]].
'''Frederick Philip Grove''' (February 14, 1879 – September 9, 1948) was a [[German Empire|German]]-born [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[novelist]] and [[translator]].


He was a prolific translator in Germany, working under his original name '''Felix Paul Greve''' and posing as a [[dandy]], before he left Berlin to start a new life in North America in late July 1909. Settling in Manitoba, Canada, in 1912, he became a well known Canadian fiction writer exploring Western prairie pioneer life in vibrant multi-cultural communities. A [[bigamist]],<ref>Gammel, Irene. ''Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, 155</ref> Grove constructed his entire life as an intricate web of fact and fiction. He died in 1948 on his estate in Simcoe, Ontario, where he had resided since 1930.
He was a prolific translator in Germany, working under his original name '''Felix Paul Greve''' and posing as a [[dandy]], before he left Berlin to start a new life in North America in late July 1909. Settling in [[Manitoba]], Canada, in 1912, he became a well known Canadian fiction writer exploring Western prairie pioneer life in vibrant multi-cultural communities. A [[bigamist]],<ref>Gammel, Irene. ''Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, 155</ref> Grove constructed his entire life as an intricate web of fact and fiction. He died in 1948 on his estate in [[Simcoe, Ontario]], where he had resided since 1930.


==Life==
==Life==


===Early life in Europe===
===Early life in Europe===
Grove was born Felix Paul Greve in [[Radomno]], [[West Prussia]], but was brought up in [[Hamburg]] where he graduated with the ''[[Abitur]]'' from the [[Gymnasium (Germany)|Gymnasium]] Johanneum in 1898. After studying [[classical language]]s and [[archaeology]] in [[Bonn]], he became a prolific [[translator]] of [[world literature]] and a member of [[Stefan George]]'s homoerotic group, the ''[[George-Kreis]]'', around 1900. During his year in Munich, he befriended [[Karl Wolfskehl]], and briefly shared an address with [[Thomas Mann]] at the Pension Gisels from August to September 1902. In early 1903, amidst scandal, he settled in [[Palermo]], Italy, with [[Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven|Else Plötz Endell]], the wife of renowned architect [[August Endell]] (she would later become Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven). In his 1946 autobiography ''In Search of Myself'', Grove suggests that despite the homoerotic context of his work up to late 1902, his first sexual encounter with Elsa determined his sexuality: “If I had not always been so, I had become definitely, finally heterosexual.”<ref>qtd. in Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 127.</ref>
Grove was born Felix Paul Greve in [[Radomno]], [[West Prussia]], but was brought up in [[Hamburg]] where he graduated with the ''[[Abitur]]'' from the [[Gymnasium (Germany)|Gymnasium]] Johanneum in 1898. After studying [[classical language]]s and [[archaeology]] in [[Bonn]], he became a prolific [[translator]] of [[world literature]] and a member of [[Stefan George]]'s homoerotic group, the ''[[George-Kreis]]'', around 1900. During his year in Munich, he befriended [[Karl Wolfskehl]], and briefly shared an address with [[Thomas Mann]] at the Pension Gisels from August to September 1902. In early 1903, amidst scandal, he settled in [[Palermo]], Italy, with [[Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven|Else Plötz Endell]], the wife of renowned architect [[August Endell]] (she would later become Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven). In his 1946 autobiography ''In Search of Myself'', Grove suggests that despite the homoerotic context of his work up to late 1902, his first sexual encounter with Elsa determined his sexuality: "If I had not always been so, I had become definitely, finally heterosexual."<ref>qtd. in Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 127.</ref>


Grove’s rising career took a dramatic downward spin that followed his alliance with Else. Unable to repay loans made by his intimate friend and wealthy patron Herman Kilian, he was promptly charged and convicted of [[fraud]]; from 1903–04, he served a deeply humiliating one-year sentence in the penitentiary in Bonn, leaving his reputation destroyed. Much suggests that Kilian (whose Anglo-German ancestry Grove would later appropriate for himself in his Canadian autobiographies) had acted from motives of jealousy. While in prison, Grove composed his first novel, ''Fanny Essler'', a thinly veiled ''[[roman à clef]]'' about Else’s sexual adventures, including her marriage with August Endell.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 132.</ref> The novel, which moreover poked fun at the [[George-Kreis|Stefan George circle]], prompted a complete break from George’s coterie. From 1904 to early 1906, the pair lived in voluntary exile, first in [[Wollerau]], Switzerland, then in [[Paris-Plage]], France, from where Grove paid [[H. G. Wells]] a few visits in his Sandhurst villa just across the Channel. In 1906, the couple returned to [[Berlin]], where they were married on August 22, 1907.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 144.</ref>
Grove's rising career took a dramatic downward spin that followed his alliance with Else. Unable to repay loans made by his intimate friend and wealthy patron Herman Kilian, he was promptly charged and convicted of [[fraud]]; from 1903–04, he served a deeply humiliating one-year sentence in the penitentiary in Bonn, leaving his reputation destroyed. Much suggests that Kilian (whose Anglo-German ancestry Grove would later appropriate for himself in his Canadian autobiographies) had acted from motives of jealousy. While in prison, Grove composed his first novel, ''Fanny Essler'', a thinly veiled ''[[roman à clef]]'' about Else's sexual adventures, including her marriage with August Endell.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 132.</ref> The novel, which moreover poked fun at the [[George-Kreis|Stefan George circle]], prompted a complete break from George's coterie. From 1904 to early 1906, the pair lived in voluntary exile, first in [[Wollerau]], Switzerland, then in [[Paris-Plage]], France, from where Grove paid [[H. G. Wells]] a few visits in his Sandhurst villa just across the Channel. In 1906, the couple returned to [[Berlin]], where they were married on August 22, 1907.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 144.</ref>


===Life in North America===
===Life in North America===
By 1909, Grove was again in deep financial trouble, having double-sold his latest German translation, [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''Prosa Werke'' in four volumes.<ref>See Temple Scott's edition, which is extant in Grove's Library Collection at the UMA. See also the opening pages of Grove's 1927 ''Search for America'', which provides details that led to the discovery of FPG's transatlantic passage in October 1998, shortly after the "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his death</ref> With his wife’s help, he staged his suicide<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 145.</ref> and departed for North America on the [[White Star Line]]r ''[[SS Megantic]]'' in late July 1909. His wife joined him a year later in [[Pittsburgh]], and the couple farmed near [[Sparta, Kentucky]], until 1911, when Grove left her permanently. She modeled for artists in nearby [[Cincinnati]], and later became well known in [[New York City|New York]] [[dada]] circles as the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven after her marriage in 1913 to the German Baron Leopold von Freytag-Loringhoven. Grove moved west and stayed on a large [[Bonanza farm]] near Fargo (based on the Amenia & Sharon Land Company) in the late summer of 1912.
By 1909, Grove was again in deep financial trouble, having double-sold his latest German translation, [[Jonathan Swift]]'s ''Prosa Werke'' in four volumes.<ref>See Temple Scott's edition, which is extant in Grove's Library Collection at the UMA. See also the opening pages of Grove's 1927 ''Search for America'', which provides details that led to the discovery of FPG's transatlantic passage in October 1998, shortly after the "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his death</ref> With his wife's help, he staged his suicide<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 145.</ref> and departed for North America on the [[White Star Line]]'s ''[[SS Megantic]]'' in late July 1909. His wife joined him a year later in [[Pittsburgh]], and the couple farmed near [[Sparta, Kentucky]], until 1911, when Grove left her permanently. She modeled for artists in nearby [[Cincinnati]], and later became well known in [[New York City|New York]] [[dada]] circles as the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven after her marriage in 1913 to the German Baron Leopold von Freytag-Loringhoven. Grove moved west and stayed on a large [[Bonanza farm]] near Fargo (based on the Amenia & Sharon Land Company) in the late summer of 1912.


In 1912 Grove, whose legal name was still Greve, arrived in [[Manitoba]], Canada, where he changed his name to Frederick Philip Grove and married a young schoolteacher, Catherine Wiens, on August 2, 1914.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 154.</ref> There are no records of a divorce from his first wife, who details in her memoir that he had suddenly deserted her.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 153.</ref> He first taught in rural areas, such as [[Rural Municipality of Stanley|Haskett]], [[Winkler, Manitoba|Winkler]], [[Virden, Manitoba|Virden]], and [[Gladstone, Manitoba|Gladstone]], but after settling in [[Rapid City, Manitoba|Rapid City]] in 1922, he devoted himself entirely to his writing career. In 1927, Grove and his wife lost their only child, Phyllis May, shortly before her twelfth birthday, which was devastating. In 1928-29, Grove went on three coast-to-coast lecture tours, before the couple moved to [[Ontario]] in the fall of 1929. There, their son, Arthur Leonard Grove, was born on October 14, 1930.<ref>Leonard Grove was a lawyer who lived in Toronto. He died in October 2006, just a few days shy of his 76th birthday.</ref> Grove briefly became an editor with Graphic Publishers, who had published his first autobiographical novel, ''A Search for America'', in 1927, before moving to [[Simcoe, Ontario|Simcoe]], [[Ontario]]. From there, he continued to write despite increasing ill-health, until he suffered a crippling stroke in late 1946. While in Simcoe, he ran for the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] in the 1943 [[Ontario general election, 1943|Ontario general election]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Klassen|first=Henry Cornelius|title=The Canadian West : social change and economic development|year=1977|publisher=University of Calgary Press|location=Calgary|page=27|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=861706}}</ref>
In 1912 Grove, whose legal name was still Greve, arrived in [[Manitoba]], Canada, where he changed his name to Frederick Philip Grove and married a young schoolteacher, Catherine Wiens, on August 2, 1914.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 154.</ref> There are no records of a divorce from his first wife, who details in her memoir that he had suddenly deserted her.<ref>Gammel, ''Baroness Elsa'', 153.</ref> He first taught in rural areas, such as [[Rural Municipality of Stanley|Haskett]], [[Winkler, Manitoba|Winkler]], [[Virden, Manitoba|Virden]], and [[Gladstone, Manitoba|Gladstone]], but after settling in [[Rapid City, Manitoba|Rapid City]] in 1922, he devoted himself entirely to his writing career. In 1927, Grove and his wife suffered the devastating loss of their only child, Phyllis May, shortly before her twelfth birthday. In 1928–29, Grove went on three coast-to-coast lecture tours, before the couple moved to [[Ontario]] in the fall of 1929. There, their son, Arthur Leonard Grove, was born on October 14, 1930.<ref>Leonard Grove was a lawyer who lived in Toronto. He died in October 2006, just a few days shy of his 76th birthday.</ref> Grove briefly became an editor with Graphic Publishers, who had published his first autobiographical novel, ''A Search for America'', in 1927, before moving to [[Simcoe, Ontario]]. From there, he continued to write despite increasing ill-health, until he suffered a crippling stroke in late 1946. While in Simcoe, he ran for the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] (CCF) in the [[1943 Ontario general election]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Klassen|first=Henry Cornelius|title=The Canadian West : social change and economic development|year=1977|publisher=[[University of Calgary Press]]|location=Calgary|page=27|url=http://www.ourfutureourpast.ca/loc_hist/page.aspx?id=861706}}</ref>


==Work and legacy==
==Work and legacy==
Frederick Philip Grove is best known for exploring the [[Canadian West]] and its pioneer landscape in non-fiction and semi-fictionalized works such as ''Over Prairie Trails'', ''Settlers of the Marsh'', ''A Search for America'', and ''In Search of Myself''. “Grove gave a voice to the land-hungry pioneers of the West, but also cloaked his past in the ostensible honesty of the prairie pioneer novel.”<ref>Gammel, Irene. “Staging Personalities in Modernism and Realism.” ''Cambridge History of Canadian Literature''. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009, 251.</ref>
Frederick Philip Grove is best known for exploring the [[Canadian West]] and its pioneer landscape in non-fiction and semi-fictionalized works such as ''[[Over Prairie Trails]]'', ''[[Settlers of the Marsh]]'', ''[[A Search for America]]'', and ''[[In Search of Myself]]''. "Grove gave a voice to the land-hungry pioneers of the West, but also cloaked his past in the ostensible honesty of the prairie pioneer novel."<ref>Gammel, Irene. "Staging Personalities in Modernism and Realism." ''Cambridge History of Canadian Literature''. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller. Cambridge: [[Cambridge University Press]], 2009, 251.</ref>


Known for his rugged realism and naturalism, Grove created memorable pioneer characters, such as Niels Lindstedt, the hardworking and sexually naive [[Swedish immigration to North America|Swedish immigrant]] pioneer in ''Settlers of the Marsh'' (1925); Abe Spalding, the noble but single-minded pioneer in ''Fruits of the Earth'', and John Elliot, the aging and tragic patriarch in ''Our Daily Bread''. Grove patriarchs are all strong and tragic, often lacking the words to change their fates. In contrast, Grove’s female characters are survivors, verbally nimble and often assuming traditionally male roles. Most important, Grove’s novels all evoke the polyglot world of immigrants.
Known for his rugged realism and naturalism, Grove created memorable pioneer characters, such as Niels Lindstedt, the hardworking and sexually naive [[Swedish immigration to North America|Swedish immigrant]] pioneer in ''Settlers of the Marsh'' (1925); Abe Spalding, the noble but single-minded pioneer in ''Fruits of the Earth'', and John Elliot, the aging and tragic patriarch in ''Our Daily Bread''. Grove patriarchs are all strong and tragic, often lacking the words to change their fates. In contrast, Grove's female characters are survivors, verbally nimble and often assuming traditionally male roles. Most important, Grove's novels all evoke the polyglot world of immigrants.


His novels are populated with a remarkable diversity of Swedish, German, French, Icelandic, and Ukrainian immigrants, offering a vibrant [[multi-culturalism]] as a vision for Canada’s social fabric. As an author he assumed the role of “spokesperson for the young Canadian nation,” who cleverly staged himself as “an adopted son [in Canada]” in lecture tours, essays, and advertisements.<ref>Gammel, “Staging Personalities,” 252.</ref>
His novels are populated with a range of Swedish, German, French, Icelandic, and Ukrainian immigrants, offering a vibrant [[multi-culturalism]] as a vision for Canada's social fabric. As an author he assumed the role of "spokesperson for the young Canadian nation," who cleverly staged himself as "an adopted son [in Canada]" in lecture tours, essays, and advertisements.<ref>Gammel, "Staging Personalities," 252.</ref>


Grove also experimented with forms of modernism, both in staging fictionalized selves in his [[Biography in literature|autobiographical fiction]], and in experimenting with unreliable narrators and time shifts in his late novel, ''The Master of the Mill''.<ref>Gammel, “Staging Personalities,” 254.</ref>
Grove also experimented with forms of modernism, both in staging fictionalized selves in his [[Biography in literature|autobiographical fiction]], and in experimenting with unreliable narrators and time shifts in his late novel, ''[[The Master of the Mill]]''.<ref>Gammel, "Staging Personalities," 254.</ref>


==Grove's Archives==
==Grove's Archives==
Grove's papers were acquired by the University of Manitoba (UM) from his widow Catherine Wiens in the early 1960s. This source collection fills 24 archival boxes, and contain many published and unpublished manuscripts, typescripts, and notebooks, as well as six German poems in Grove'e hand - one of which is obviously related to Greve's published poem "Erster Sturm" (1907). -- <small>A voluminous Finding Aid for Mss 2 was prepared in 1972. [see the UM catalogue description of the [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/bis_FPGCollMs2.html collection's contents]</small>
Grove's papers were acquired by the [[University of Manitoba]] (UM) from his widow Catherine Wiens in the early 1960s. This source collection fills 24 archival boxes, and contains many published and unpublished manuscripts, typescripts, and notebooks, as well as six German poems in Grove's hand—one of which is obviously related to Greve's published poem "Erster Sturm" (1907). – <small>A voluminous Finding Aid for Mss 2 was prepared in 1972. [see the UM catalogue description of the [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/bis_FPGCollMs2.html collection's contents]</small>


Since the mid-1990s, the UM's '''FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/index.html Collections Website]''' has made available numerous big & small e-texts by/about FPG and the Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL), as well as bio-bibliographical information, notably:
Since the mid-1990s, the UM's '''FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/index.html Collections Website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809013028/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/index.html |date=2016-08-09 }}''' has made available numerous big & small e-texts by/about FPG and the Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL), as well as bio-bibliographical information, notably:
* A [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/index.html '''list'''] of the FPG (Greve/Grove) Sources & Documents held at the University of Manitoba Archives
* A [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/index.html '''list'''] of the FPG (Greve/Grove) Sources & Documents held at the University of Manitoba Archives
*A [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/descr.html '''description'''] of the FPG (Greve/Grove) Sources & Documents held at the University of Manitoba Archives (based on a promotional brochure distributed at the 1996 Learneds Societies' Convention in Ottawa )
*A [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/descr.html '''description'''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808235807/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/descr.html |date=2016-08-08 }} of the FPG (Greve/Grove) Sources & Documents held at the University of Manitoba Archives (based on a promotional brochure distributed at the 1996 Learneds Societies' Convention in Ottawa )
*A [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/aboutEeds.html '''brief history'''] of UMA e-Projects
*A [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/aboutEeds.html '''brief history'''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140313225720/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/source_docs/aboutEeds.html |date=2014-03-13 }} of UMA e-Projects


'''Related Source- & Research Collections'''
'''Related Source- & Research Collections'''


In addition to the central Grove Collection Mss 2, the University of Manitoba Grove Archives have the following sources and research collections:
In addition to the central Grove Collection Mss 2, the University of Manitoba Grove Archives have the following sources and research collections:


'''Professor D. O. Spettigue's Research Papers''' (Mss 57, 1985 & 1995, 16 Boxes) document the sensational discovery of the FPG identity in 1971. They also includethree German poems and two letters Thomas Mann sent to Grovefrom Princeton in 1939. -- An additional Spettigue cluster was acquired in January 1995. It included Greve's correspondence with [[André Gide]], [[Karl Wolfskehl]], [[O. A. H. Schmitz]], and contained materials related to the English translation of Greve's 1905 novel ''Fanny Essler.'' -- <small>Thanks to professors Spettigue and Hjartarson's capital finding in ca. 1987 that Greve's Else became the New York dadaist Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL), the Spettigue Collections' curator Gaby Divay was able to obtain, in early 1991, FrL's autobiography in typescript and manuscript form from the University of Maryland in exchange for a ''Fanny Essler'' microfilm. </small>
'''Professor D. O. Spettigue's Research Papers''' (Mss 57, 1985 & 1995, 16 Boxes) document the sensational discovery of the FPG identity in 1971. They also include three German poems and two letters Thomas Mann sent to Grove from Princeton in 1939. – An additional Spettigue cluster was acquired in January 1995. It included Greve's correspondence with [[André Gide]], [[Karl Wolfskehl]], [[O. A. H. Schmitz]], and contained materials related to the English translation of Greve's 1905 novel ''Fanny Essler.'' – <small>Thanks to professors Spettigue and Hjartarson's capital finding in ca. 1987 that Greve's Else became the New York dadaist Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL), the Spettigue Collections' curator Gaby Divay was able to obtain, in early 1991, FrL's autobiography in typescript and manuscript form from the University of Maryland in exchange for a ''Fanny Essler'' microfilm. </small>


'''Professor Margaret Stobie's Collection''' (Mss 13, 2 Boxes) documents Grove's early teaching activities in Manitoba, and contains Grove's first Canadian publication, the sprawling article "Rousseau als Erzieher" in the German newspaper ''Der Nordwesten'' (Nov./Dec. 1914).
'''Professor Margaret Stobie's Collection''' (Mss 13, 2 Boxes) documents Grove's early teaching activities in Manitoba, and contains Grove's first Canadian publication, the sprawling article "Rousseau als Erzieher" in the German newspaper ''Der Nordwesten'' (Nov./Dec. 1914).
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'''Dr. Gaby Divay's Research Papers''' (Mss 12, 8 Boxes, ongoing) contain many documents pertaining to her FPG & FrL discoveries such as:
'''Dr. Gaby Divay's Research Papers''' (Mss 12, 8 Boxes, ongoing) contain many documents pertaining to her FPG & FrL discoveries such as:
* six manuscript poems Greve submitted in 1902 for publication in Stefan George's prestigious ''Blätter für die Kunst'', and six sonnets he translated from Dante's ''Vita Nuova'' in 1898 (<small>both clusters were found in the Stefan-George-Archiv, Stuttgart, in May 1990, copies courtesy of Dr. Ute Oelmann)</small>
* six manuscript poems Greve submitted in 1902 for publication in Stefan George's prestigious ''Blätter für die Kunst'', and six sonnets he translated from Dante's ''Vita Nuova'' in 1898 (<small>both clusters were found in the Stefan-George-Archiv, Stuttgart, in May 1990, copies courtesy of Dr. Ute Oelmann)</small>
* Claude Martin's 1976 masterly edition of [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/gide_conv/index.html Gide's 1904 '''Conversation avec un allemand'''] (with two confessional letters by Greve)
* Claude Martin's 1976 masterly edition of [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/gide_conv/index.html Gide's 1904 '''Conversation avec un allemand'''] (with two confessional letters by Greve)
* Centennial e-Ed. in Germ & Eng. of [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~divay/FEPoems05/index.html '''seven poems'''] published in 1904/5 under the joint pseud. 'Fanny Essler' in ''Die Freistatt'' <small>(found in the [https://www.dla-marbach.de/en/ DLA], Marbach, in April 1990)</small>
* Centennial e-Ed. in Germ & Eng. of [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~divay/FEPoems05/index.html '''seven poems'''] published in 1904/5 under the joint pseud. 'Fanny Essler' in ''Die Freistatt'' <small>(found in the [https://www.dla-marbach.de/en/ DLA], Marbach, in April 1990)</small>
* '''Greve's passage''' to North America on the White Star Liner [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_megantic.html ''Megantic''] from Liverpool to Montreal in July 1909 <small>(found shortly after the 1998 international FPG Anniversary Symposium)</small>
* '''Greve's passage''' to North America on the White Star Liner [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_megantic.html ''Megantic''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809014319/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_megantic.html |date=2016-08-09 }} from Liverpool to Montreal in July 1909 <small>(found shortly after the 1998 international FPG Anniversary Symposium)</small>
* the [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill-pgs/ill_amenia.html '''Bonanza Farm'''] "in the Dakotas" described in ''A Search for America'' (1925) <small>(found in March 1996 at the [https://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/ NDSU] archives, Fargo, & video-recorded as the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota's 1996 '''LCMND Presidential Dinner Address''' at the University of Winnipeg)</small>
* the [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill-pgs/ill_amenia.html '''Bonanza Farm''']{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} "in the Dakotas" described in ''A Search for America'' (1925) <small>(found in March 1996 at the [https://library.ndsu.edu/ndsuarchives/ NDSU] archives, Fargo, & video-recorded as the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota's 1996 '''LCMND Presidential Dinner Address''' at the University of Winnipeg)</small>
* Else & Greve's [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_sparta.html '''Sparta, Kentucky'''], location in 1910/11 (known ONLY from her poem "Schalk" in the University of Maryland, College Park, FrL Collection; discovered there in April 1991, & included as facsimile 49b in FPG's Poetry Ed. published in Dec. 1993. -- [e-Ed.] of this poem in comparison with Greve's "Erster Sturm") http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/txt_frlSchalkFEsonsFPG1stSturm.html
* Else & Greve's [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_sparta.html '''Sparta, Kentucky'''], location in 1910/11 (known ONLY from her poem "Schalk" in the University of Maryland, College Park, FrL Collection; discovered there in April 1991, & included as facsimile 49b in FPG's Poetry Ed. published in Dec. 1993. – [e-Ed.] of this poem in comparison with Greve's "Erster Sturm") http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/txt_frlSchalkFEsonsFPG1stSturm.html
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_sparta.html
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_sparta.html
* two NYT articles about FPG & FrL (found in 2004 via ProQuest: [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/cri_pittsbNYTsep1910.html '''Pittsburgh arrest'''] for cross-dressing & smoking in public, Sep. 1910, and about [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_frlNYT5dec1915doc.html '''FrL's 1915 modelling jobs'''] in NY
* two NYT articles about FPG & FrL (found in 2004 via ProQuest: [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/cri_pittsbNYTsep1910.html '''Pittsburgh arrest'''] for cross-dressing & smoking in public, Sep. 1910, and about [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_frlNYT5dec1915doc.html '''FrL's 1915 modelling jobs'''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809001012/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_frlNYT5dec1915doc.html |date=2016-08-09 }} in NY
* two FrL images showing her in exotic garb & pose (found in 2006 at the Library of Congress' Bain Collection): [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_nyLCcost.html one showing '''FrL alone'''], the other showing FrL [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_nyLCwClaudeMcKay.html leaning on Jamaican poet '''Claude McKay''']
* two FrL images showing her in exotic garb & pose (found in 2006 at the Library of Congress' Bain Collection): [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_nyLCcost.html one showing '''FrL alone'''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808234537/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_nyLCcost.html |date=2016-08-08 }}, the other showing FrL [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/frl/ill_nyLCwClaudeMcKay.html leaning on Jamaican poet '''Claude McKay''']


'''FPG Book Collections: Greve's Translations & Grove's Library'''
'''FPG Book Collections: Greve's Translations & Grove's Library'''
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The Grove Library & the Greve Translations Collections are available online:
The Grove Library & the Greve Translations Collections are available online:
* The [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/fpglib/index.html '''Grove Library Collection'''] of some 500 titles contains many of the incredible number of books Grove translated into German when he was Greve. Most notable are perhaps certain Meredith titles, & a complete set of Temple Scott's Swift edition.
* The [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/fpglib/index.html '''Grove Library Collection'''] of some 500 titles contains many of the incredible number of books Grove translated into German when he was Greve. Most notable are perhaps certain Meredith titles, & a complete set of Temple Scott's Swift edition.
* The [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/transl/index.html '''FPG Translations Collection'''] reflects a complete record of Greve's titanic efforts, 1898–1909, starting out with Dante sonnets, Oscar Wilde texts & criticism, Browning, Dowson, Pater, Meredith, Swinburne (both of whom died in 1909 when Greve chose voluntary exile), H. G. Wells, Balzac, Flaubert, & Gide, as well as all 12 v. from Burton's Arabian Nights.
* The [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/transl/index.html '''FPG Translations Collection'''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160310200934/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/transl/index.html |date=2016-03-10 }} reflects a complete record of Greve's titanic efforts, 1898–1909, starting out with Dante sonnets, Oscar Wilde texts & criticism, Browning, Dowson, Pater, Meredith, Swinburne (both of whom died in 1909 when Greve chose voluntary exile), H. G. Wells, Balzac, Flaubert, & Gide, as well as all 12 v. from Burton's Arabian Nights.


'''"In Memoriam FPG": 1998 Anniversary Symposium'''
'''"In Memoriam FPG": 1998 Anniversary Symposium'''
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'''Grove''': a modification of the author's real name, Greve. On the Immigration Manifesto of the White Star Liner Megantic on July 31, 1909, Grove's name was smudged, though the central vowel looks like an "o".
'''Grove''': a modification of the author's real name, Greve. On the Immigration Manifesto of the White Star Liner Megantic on July 31, 1909, Grove's name was smudged, though the central vowel looks like an "o".


'''Fanny Essler''': Joint pseudonym for F.P. Greve and Else Greve used in 1904-05, for poem published in ''Die Freistatt''.
'''Fanny Essler''': Joint pseudonym for F.P. Greve and Else Greve used in 1904–05, for poem published in ''Die Freistatt''.


'''F. C. Gerden''': used in correspondence with his Insel publishers for translations of decadent literature (Dowson, Browning).
'''F. C. Gerden''': used in correspondence with his Insel publishers for translations of decadent literature (Dowson, Browning).


'''Konrad Thorer''': used for translations of [[Cervantes]] and Lesage.
'''Konrad Thorer''': used for translations of works by [[Miguel de Cervantes]] and [[Alain-René Lesage]].


'''Andrew R. Rutherford''': a pseudonym suggested (but not used) for his first Canadian book ''Over Prairie Trails'' (1922); the name, which references Grove's friend Herman Kilian's maternal grandfather, a renowned [[Scotland|Scottish]] judge, also appears in relation to his unpublished typescript in the [[University of Manitoba]] Archives, Jane Atkinson (ca. 1923, e-publ. 2000).
'''Andrew R. Rutherford''': a pseudonym suggested (but not used) for his first Canadian book ''Over Prairie Trails'' (1922); the name, which references Grove's friend Herman Kilian's maternal grandfather, a renowned [[Scotland|Scottish]] judge, also appears in relation to his unpublished typescript in the [[University of Manitoba]] Archives, Jane Atkinson (ca. 1923, e-publ. 2000).


==Works about Grove==
==Works about Grove==
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wrote a poem entitled “Kinship,” which is dedicated to Grove: “Memory to F.P.G.” In this poem, she juxtaposes the beginning and the ending of their ten-year relationship, using eroticized horseback riding as a metaphor for a highly charged journey through memory.<ref>Freytag-Loringhoven, ''Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven''. Ed. Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, 240-41, 380.</ref>
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wrote a poem entitled "Kinship," which is dedicated to Grove: "Memory to F.P.G." In this poem, she juxtaposes the beginning and the ending of their ten-year relationship, using eroticized horseback riding as a metaphor for a highly charged journey through memory.<ref>Freytag-Loringhoven, ''Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven''. Ed. Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, 240–41, 380.</ref>


The Canadian [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [http://www.tortureforpleasure.com/ Torture for Pleasure] quote directly from Groves' novel Settlers of the Marsh in their song "[http://www.tortureforpleasure.com/music.php TETELESTAI (Sweet Darkness)]," released independently in 2013.
The Canadian [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [http://www.tortureforpleasure.com/ Torture for Pleasure] quote from Groves' novel ''Settlers of the Marsh'' in their song "[http://www.tortureforpleasure.com/music.php TETELESTAI (Sweet Darkness)]," released independently in 2013.


==Biographies and scholarship==
==Biographies and scholarship==
D. O. Spettigue discovered Grove’s identity behind a web of fiction in October 1971 in the [[British Museum]]. Uncovering Grove’s prison incarceration in Germany, Spettigue published his findings in his 1973 book ''FPG: The European Years''. This monograph was followed by Paul I. Hjartarson’s volume of essays, ''A Stranger to My Life'', and prompted the translation of Grove’s German fiction into English, ''Fanny Essler'', and ''The Master Mason’s House'', both closely based on the life of Grove’s first wife Elsa Plötz (aka The Baroness). [[Desmond Pacey]] edited ''The Letters of F.P. Grove'' in addition to publishing a monograph, ''Frederick Philip Grove'', while Margaret Stobie explored Grove’s teaching years in Manitoba in her book, ''Frederick Philip Grove''.
D. O. Spettigue discovered Grove's identity behind a web of fiction in October 1971 in the [[British Museum]]. Uncovering Grove's prison incarceration in Germany, Spettigue published his findings in his 1973 book ''FPG: The European Years''. This monograph was followed by Paul I. Hjartarson's volume of essays, ''A Stranger to My Life'', and prompted the translation of Grove's German fiction into English, ''Fanny Essler'', and ''The Master Mason’s House'', both closely based on the life of Grove's first wife Elsa Plötz (aka The Baroness). [[Desmond Pacey]] edited ''The Letters of F.P. Grove'' in addition to publishing a monograph, ''Frederick Philip Grove'', while Margaret Stobie explored Grove's teaching years in Manitoba in her book, ''Frederick Philip Grove''.


Leading later efforts to establish the identity of Greve/Grove by unearthing new biographical information and relevant records, Klaus Martens has been "the chief pioneer" (W.J. Keith). Exploring both the European and Canadian contexts, Martens published ''Felix Paul Greves Karriere'' (in German), ''Felix Paul Greve - André Gide'' (correspondence in English, French, and German), and ''F. P. Grove in Europe and Canada: Translated Lives'', the first well documented biography of the author in English. Martens' vast compilation ''Over Canadian Trails: F.P. Grove in New Letters and Documents'' includes the most extensive published collection of letters from and to Grove, including the Phelps correspondence, documents, many photographs, and much relevant commentary by the editor. This was preceded by Martens' ''A Dirge for My Daughter'', a careful edition of selected poems by Grove which includes photographs and reproductions of handwritten letters and notes. In addition to his Grove monographs and editions, Martens published numerous articles on both Grove and Else Plötz.
Leading later efforts to establish the identity of Greve/Grove by unearthing new biographical information and relevant records, Klaus Martens has been "the chief pioneer" (W.J. Keith). Exploring both the European and Canadian contexts, Martens published ''Felix Paul Greves Karriere'' (in German), ''Felix Paul Greve – André Gide'' (correspondence in English, French, and German), and ''F. P. Grove in Europe and Canada: Translated Lives'', the first well documented biography of the author in English. Martens' vast compilation ''Over Canadian Trails: F.P. Grove in New Letters and Documents'' includes the most extensive published collection of letters from and to Grove, including the Phelps correspondence, documents, many photographs, and much relevant commentary by the editor. This was preceded by Martens' ''A Dirge for My Daughter'', a careful edition of selected poems by Grove which includes photographs and reproductions of handwritten letters and notes. In addition to his Grove monographs and editions, Martens published numerous articles on both Grove and Else Plötz.


In her book ''Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove'', [[Irene Gammel]] examined the gender relationships of Grove’s fiction, focussing in particular on his sexualized (and modern) female figures and the overexposed relationships of power. Gammel also traced Grove’s relationship with Elsa Plötz (Baroness Elsa) in her biography ''Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity'', documenting that the couple had been legally married and that Grove’s reasons for hiding his identity had much to do with his fear of being discovered by his former wife, the dada artist Baroness Elsa. It has also been argued, by Martens in ''Over Canadian Trails'', perhaps more persuasively, that Greve understandably changed his identity in order to escape internment as a German national at the outbreak of the Great War.
In her book ''Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove'', [[Irene Gammel]] examined the gender relationships of Grove's fiction, focussing in particular on his sexualized (and modern) female figures and the overexposed relationships of power. Gammel also traced Grove's relationship with Elsa Plötz (Baroness Elsa) in her biography ''Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity'', documenting that the couple had been legally married and that Grove's reasons for hiding his identity had much to do with his fear of being discovered by his former wife, the dada artist Baroness Elsa. It has also been argued, by Martens in ''Over Canadian Trails'', perhaps more persuasively, that Greve understandably changed his identity in order to escape internment as a German national at the outbreak of the Great War.


In his essay "Felix Paul Greve, The Eulenburg Scandal, and Frederick Philip Grove," Richard Cavell proposed a queering approach to Grove’s work, while Paul Hjartarson and Tracy Kulba’s collection ''Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve'' assembles a range of perspectives by a number of scholars, including the editors, as well as Jutta Ernst, Klaus Martens, and Paul Morris.
In his essay "Felix Paul Greve, The Eulenburg Scandal, and Frederick Philip Grove," Richard Cavell proposed a queering approach to Grove's work, while Paul Hjartarson and Tracy Kulba's collection ''Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve'' assembles a range of perspectives by a number of scholars, including the editors, as well as Jutta Ernst, Klaus Martens, and Paul Morris.


A great deal of research results have been provided by Dr. Gaby Divay at the University of Manitoba Archives, who also published a comprehensive edition of Grove’s, Greve's and "Fanny Essler"s poetry in December 1993, and as an [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/pEd/index.html e-Edition] in 2007.
A great deal of research results have been provided by Dr. Gaby Divay at the University of Manitoba Archives, who also published a comprehensive edition of Grove's, Greve's and "Fanny Essler"s poetry in December 1993, and as an [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/pEd/index.html e-Edition] in 2007.


==Further research and portraits==
==Further research and portraits==
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#gre Greve] in Germany & Europe, 1879-1909
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#gre Greve] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808235714/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#gre |date=2016-08-08 }} in Germany & Europe, 1879–1909
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#fpg FPG] in the USA, 1909-1912
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#fpg FPG] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808235714/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#fpg |date=2016-08-08 }} in the USA, 1909–1912
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#gro Grove] in Canada, 1912-1948
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#gro Grove] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160808235714/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/bio/chron.html#gro |date=2016-08-08 }} in Canada, 1912–1948
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill-pgs/ill_gro1921SolarAshf.html "Solar Grove"] (UMA 1996)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140313224321/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill-pgs/ill_gro1921SolarAshf.html "Solar Grove"] (UMA 1996)
* [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill-pgs/SixSolGrCollage.html "Six Times Solar Grove"] (UMA 2005)
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140313212851/http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill-pgs/SixSolGrCollage.html "Six Times Solar Grove"] (UMA 2005)


==Works==
==Works==
'''Felix Paul Greve, 1901-1909'''
'''Felix Paul Greve, 1901–1909'''
* ''Wanderungen'' (Poems) - 1902
* ''Wanderungen'' (Poems) – 1902
* ''Helena und Damon (Play) - 1902
* ''Helena und Damon (Play) – 1902
* ''Gedichte/Ein Portrait: Drei Sonette/ Gedichte'', Von Fanny Essler (joint pseud. for F. P. Greve & Else Endell/Freytag-Loringhoven) in ''Die Freistatt'' - 1904/5
* ''Gedichte/Ein Portrait: Drei Sonette/ Gedichte'', Von Fanny Essler (joint pseud. for F. P. Greve & Else Endell/Freytag-Loringhoven) in ''Die Freistatt'' – 1904/5
** [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~divay/FEPoems05/index.html#toc Bilingual e-Edition] UMA 2005
** [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~divay/FEPoems05/index.html#toc Bilingual e-Edition] UMA 2005
* ''Fanny Essler: ein Berliner Roman'' (about Else Plötz, Endell, Greve, & later von Freytag-Loringhoven) - 1905
* ''Fanny Essler: ein Berliner Roman'' (about Else Plötz, Endell, Greve, & later von Freytag-Loringhoven) – 1905
** ''Fanny Essler: a novel'' (Engl. Transl., 2v.) - 1984
** ''Fanny Essler: a novel'' (Engl. Transl., 2v.) – 1984
* ''Maurermeister Ihles Haus'' (about Else von Freytag-Loringhoven) - 1906
* ''Maurermeister Ihles Haus'' (about Else von Freytag-Loringhoven) – 1906
** ''The Master Mason's House'' (Engl. Transl.) - 1976
** ''The Master Mason's House'' (Engl. Transl.) – 1976
* [''Der Sentimentalist'' (Novel) - announced ca. 1907)]
* [''Der Sentimentalist'' (Novel) – announced ca. 1907)]
* [''Der heimliche Adel'' (Drama) - announced ca. 1907)]
* [''Der heimliche Adel'' (Drama) – announced ca. 1907)]


'''Frederick Philip Grove, 1914-1948'''
'''Frederick Philip Grove, 1914–1948'''
* ''Rousseau als Erzieher'' (Essay by "Fred Grove", Winkler, Manitoba) - ''Der Nordwesten'' (Winnipeg), 1914
* ''Rousseau als Erzieher'' (Essay by "Fred Grove", Winkler, Manitoba) – ''Der Nordwesten'' (Winnipeg), 1914
* ''Over Prairie Trails'' (Essays) - 1922
* ''[https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6111 Over Prairie Trails]'' (Essays) – 1922
* ''The Turn of the Year'' (Essays) - 1923
* ''The Turn of the Year'' (Essays) – 1923
* ''Settlers of the Marsh'' (Novel)- 1925
* ''[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200861.txt Settlers of the Marsh]'' (Novel)- 1925
* ''A Search for America'' (Autobiogr. Novel) - (1927
* ''[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300631h.html A Search for America]'' (Autobiogr. Novel) – (1927
** [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/etexts/Search-America2005/index.html e-Edition] with Introduction & Commentaries, UMA - 2000/5
** [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/etexts/Search-America2005/index.html e-Edition] with Introduction & Commentaries, UMA – 2000/5
* ''Our Daily Bread'' (Novel) - 1928
* ''[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300091.txt Our Daily Bread]'' (Novel) – 1928
* ''It Needs to Be Said'' (Essays) - 1929
* ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20080301 It Needs to be Said]'' (Essays) – 1929
* ''[http://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20090906 The Yoke of Life]'' (Novel) - 1930
* ''[https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20090906 The Yoke of Life]'' (Novel) – 1930
* ''Fruits of the Earth'' (Novel) - 1933
* ''[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300861.txt Fruits of the Earth]'' (Novel) – 1933
* ''Two Generations'' (Novel) - 1939
* ''Two Generations'' (Novel) – 1939
* ''The Master of The Mill'' (Novel) - 1944
* ''[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300171.txt The Master of the Mill]'' (Novel) – 1944
* ''In Search of Myself'' (Autobiography) - 1946 (Won Governor General's Award)
* ''In Search of Myself'' (Autobiography) – 1946 (Won Governor General's Award)
** [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/etexts/Search-Myself/index.html e-Edition], UMA - 2007
** [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/etexts/Search-Myself/index.html e-Edition], UMA – 2007
* ''Consider Her Ways'' (Novel) - 1947
* ''[http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201151.txt Consider Her Ways]'' (Novel) – 1947


'''Posthumous'''
'''Posthumous'''
* ''Tales from the Margin'' (Short Stories) - 1971
* ''Tales from the Margin'' (Short Stories) – 1971
* ''Letters of Frederick Philip Grove'' (contains letters by Felix Paul Greve) - 1976
* ''Letters of Frederick Philip Grove'' (contains letters by Felix Paul Greve) – 1976
* ''The Adventure of Leonard Broadus'' (1983, 2015)
* ''The Adventure of Leonard Broadus'' (1983, 2015)
** Boys' novel first published in a heavily redacted version in a church magazine in the 1940s; original manuscript published in ''Canadian Children's Literature'' in 1983 and in [https://www.rocksmillspress.com/grove.html book form] in 2015<ref>{{Cite book|title = Preface to The Adventure of Leonard Broadus|last = Rubio|first = Jen|publisher = Rock's Mills Press|year = 2015|isbn = 9781772440041|location = Oakville, ON|pages = 3–6}}</ref>
** Boys' novel first published in a heavily redacted version in a church magazine in the 1940s; original manuscript published in ''Canadian Children's Literature'' in 1983 and in [https://www.rocksmillspress.com/grove.html book form] in 2015<ref>{{Cite book|title = Preface to The Adventure of Leonard Broadus|last = Rubio|first = Jen|publisher = Rock's Mills Press|year = 2015|isbn = 9781772440041|location = Oakville, ON|pages = 3–6}}</ref>
* ''Poems/Gedichte'' by/von Frederick Philip Grove, Felix Paul Greve, und 'Fanny Essler' - 1993
* ''Poems/Gedichte'' by/von Frederick Philip Grove, Felix Paul Greve, und 'Fanny Essler' - 1993
* ''A Dirge for My Daughter, Poems by Frederick Philip Grove'' - 2006
* ''A Dirge for My Daughter, Poems by Frederick Philip Grove'' - 2006
** [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/pEd/index.html Historical-critical e-Edition], UMA - 2007
** [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/pEd/index.html Historical-critical e-Edition], UMA – 2007
* ''Jane Atkinson'' (ts. Novel, ca. 1923) [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/etexts/Jane-Atkinson2005/index.html e-Edition], UMA - 2000
* ''Jane Atkinson'' (ts. Novel, ca. 1923) [http://www.umanitoba.ca/libraries/units/archives/collections/fpg/etexts/Jane-Atkinson2005/index.html e-Edition], UMA – 2000


'''Related e-Editions''' by/about FPG (Greve/Grove)
'''Related books''' by/about FPG (Greve/Grove)
* "Greve's & Freytag-Loringhovens 'Fanny Essler' Poems: FPG's or Else's?" [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~divay/FEArt/index.html e-Edition], UMA - 2005
* "Greve's & Freytag-Loringhovens 'Fanny Essler' Poems: FPG's or Else's?", UMA – 2005

'''Grove e-Editions at Gutenberg Projects'''
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0201151.txt Consider Her Ways] - 1947
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300861.txt Fruits of the Earth] - 1933
* [http://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20080301 It Needs to be Said] - 1929
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300171.txt The Master of the Mill] - 1944
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300091.txt Our Daily Bread] - 1928
* [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/6111 Over Prairie Trails] - 1922
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300631h.html A Search for America] - 1927
* [http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200861.txt Settlers of the Marsh] - 1925


==References==
==References==
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===Further reading===
===Further reading===
* Cavell, Richard. "Felix Paul Greve, The Eulenburg Scandal, and Frederick Philip Grove," ''Essays on Canadian Writing'' 62 (1998): 12-45 (Special Issue on Paraliterary Scandals in Canada).
* Cavell, Richard. "Felix Paul Greve, The Eulenburg Scandal, and Frederick Philip Grove," ''Essays on Canadian Writing'' 62 (1998): 12–45 (Special Issue on Paraliterary Scandals in Canada).
* Divay, Gaby. "Fanny Essler's Poems: Felix Paul Greve's or Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's?" ''Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Literature'' v.1 (1994): 165-197. -- [e-Ed., 2006].
* Divay, Gaby. "Fanny Essler's Poems: Felix Paul Greve's or Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's?" ''Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Literature'' v.1 (1994): 165–197. – [e-Ed., 2006].
* Divay, Gaby. "Felix Paul Greve/Frederick Philip Grove's passage to America: the discovery of the author's arrival in North America and its implications," ''New Worlds: Discovering & Constructing the Unknown in Anglophone Literature (presented to Walter Pache on the occasion of his 60th Birthday)''. München: Verlag Ernst Vögel, 2000, 111-132. [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/critic/bioPass98INDEX.html e-Ed.], 2006]
* Divay, Gaby. "Felix Paul Greve/Frederick Philip Grove's passage to America: the discovery of the author's arrival in North America and its implications," ''New Worlds: Discovering & Constructing the Unknown in Anglophone Literature (presented to Walter Pache on the occasion of his 60th Birthday)''. München: Verlag Ernst Vögel, 2000, 111–132. [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/critic/bioPass98INDEX.html e-Ed.], 2006]
* Divay, Gaby. "Frederick Philip Grove's German Heritage: the Evidence in the University of Manitoba's Archival Collections," ''German-Canadian Studies in the Nineties: Results & Projects''. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 1993, 37-58.
* Divay, Gaby. "Frederick Philip Grove's German Heritage: the Evidence in the University of Manitoba's Archival Collections," ''German-Canadian Studies in the Nineties: Results & Projects''. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 1993, 37–58.
* Divay, Gaby. "Names, Pseudonyms, Monograms, and Titles in F. P. Grove/Greve's Work." ''German-Canadian Yearbook'' Bd. 14 (1995): 129-151. -- [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~divay/ps/fpgBioHerit92.html e-Ed.], 1907]
* Divay, Gaby.''Names, Pseudonyms, Monograms, and Titles in F. P. Grove / Greve's Work.'' In: ''German-Canadian Yearbook – Deutsch-kanadisches Jahrbuch,'' vol. 14, 1995, {{ISSN|0316-8603}} pp 129–151 – [http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~divay/ps/fpgBioHerit92.html e-Ed.], 1907]
* Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa. ''Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven''. Ed. Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
* Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa. ''Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven''. Ed. Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
* Gammel, Irene. ''Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove''. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994.
* Gammel, Irene. ''Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove''. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994.
* Gammel, Irene. ''Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
* Gammel, Irene. ''Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity''. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
* Gammel, Irene. “Staging Personalities in Modernism and Realism.” ''Cambridge History of Canadian Literature''. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 247-71.
* Gammel, Irene. ''Staging Personalities in Modernism and Realism.'' IN: ''The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature''. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 247–71
* Martens, Klaus. "J'écris en hâte et Fièvreusement: Felix Paul Greve - André Gide. Korrespondenz und Dokumentation". Saarbrücken: Röhrig Verlag, 1999.
* Martens, Klaus: ''"J'écris en hâte et fièvreusement". Felix Paul Greve – [[André Gide]]. Korrespondenz und Dokumentation''. Röhrig Verlag, Saarbrücken 1999
* Martens, Klaus. "Translated Lives. F.P. Grove in Europe and Canada". Edmonton, AB: The University of Alberta Press, 2001.
* Martens, Klaus: ''Translated Lives. F. P. Grove in Europe and Canada''. Edmonton, AB: The University of Alberta Press, 2001
* Martens, Klaus. "Over Canadian Trails. F.P. Grove in New Letters and Documents". Würzburg: Königshausen und Neumann, 2007.
* Martens, Klaus: ''Over Canadian Trails. F.P. Grove in New Letters and Documents''. Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg 2007


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For the Native American author Fred Grove (born Frederick Herridge, 1913–2008), see Fred Grove.
Black and white photo of Grove seated at a desk, looking down and writing.
Grove circa 1921

Frederick Philip Grove (February 14, 1879 – September 9, 1948) was a German-born Canadian novelist and translator.

He was a prolific translator in Germany, working under his original name Felix Paul Greve and posing as a dandy, before he left Berlin to start a new life in North America in late July 1909. Settling in Manitoba, Canada, in 1912, he became a well known Canadian fiction writer exploring Western prairie pioneer life in vibrant multi-cultural communities. A bigamist,[1] Grove constructed his entire life as an intricate web of fact and fiction. He died in 1948 on his estate in Simcoe, Ontario, where he had resided since 1930.

Life

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Early life in Europe

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Grove was born Felix Paul Greve in Radomno, West Prussia, but was brought up in Hamburg where he graduated with the Abitur from the Gymnasium Johanneum in 1898. After studying classical languages and archaeology in Bonn, he became a prolific translator of world literature and a member of Stefan George's homoerotic group, the George-Kreis, around 1900. During his year in Munich, he befriended Karl Wolfskehl, and briefly shared an address with Thomas Mann at the Pension Gisels from August to September 1902. In early 1903, amidst scandal, he settled in Palermo, Italy, with Else Plötz Endell, the wife of renowned architect August Endell (she would later become Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven). In his 1946 autobiography In Search of Myself, Grove suggests that despite the homoerotic context of his work up to late 1902, his first sexual encounter with Elsa determined his sexuality: "If I had not always been so, I had become definitely, finally heterosexual."[2]

Grove's rising career took a dramatic downward spin that followed his alliance with Else. Unable to repay loans made by his intimate friend and wealthy patron Herman Kilian, he was promptly charged and convicted of fraud; from 1903–04, he served a deeply humiliating one-year sentence in the penitentiary in Bonn, leaving his reputation destroyed. Much suggests that Kilian (whose Anglo-German ancestry Grove would later appropriate for himself in his Canadian autobiographies) had acted from motives of jealousy. While in prison, Grove composed his first novel, Fanny Essler, a thinly veiled roman à clef about Else's sexual adventures, including her marriage with August Endell.[3] The novel, which moreover poked fun at the Stefan George circle, prompted a complete break from George's coterie. From 1904 to early 1906, the pair lived in voluntary exile, first in Wollerau, Switzerland, then in Paris-Plage, France, from where Grove paid H. G. Wells a few visits in his Sandhurst villa just across the Channel. In 1906, the couple returned to Berlin, where they were married on August 22, 1907.[4]

Life in North America

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By 1909, Grove was again in deep financial trouble, having double-sold his latest German translation, Jonathan Swift's Prosa Werke in four volumes.[5] With his wife's help, he staged his suicide[6] and departed for North America on the White Star Line's SS Megantic in late July 1909. His wife joined him a year later in Pittsburgh, and the couple farmed near Sparta, Kentucky, until 1911, when Grove left her permanently. She modeled for artists in nearby Cincinnati, and later became well known in New York dada circles as the Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven after her marriage in 1913 to the German Baron Leopold von Freytag-Loringhoven. Grove moved west and stayed on a large Bonanza farm near Fargo (based on the Amenia & Sharon Land Company) in the late summer of 1912.

In 1912 Grove, whose legal name was still Greve, arrived in Manitoba, Canada, where he changed his name to Frederick Philip Grove and married a young schoolteacher, Catherine Wiens, on August 2, 1914.[7] There are no records of a divorce from his first wife, who details in her memoir that he had suddenly deserted her.[8] He first taught in rural areas, such as Haskett, Winkler, Virden, and Gladstone, but after settling in Rapid City in 1922, he devoted himself entirely to his writing career. In 1927, Grove and his wife suffered the devastating loss of their only child, Phyllis May, shortly before her twelfth birthday. In 1928–29, Grove went on three coast-to-coast lecture tours, before the couple moved to Ontario in the fall of 1929. There, their son, Arthur Leonard Grove, was born on October 14, 1930.[9] Grove briefly became an editor with Graphic Publishers, who had published his first autobiographical novel, A Search for America, in 1927, before moving to Simcoe, Ontario. From there, he continued to write despite increasing ill-health, until he suffered a crippling stroke in late 1946. While in Simcoe, he ran for the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in the 1943 Ontario general election.[10]

Work and legacy

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Frederick Philip Grove is best known for exploring the Canadian West and its pioneer landscape in non-fiction and semi-fictionalized works such as Over Prairie Trails, Settlers of the Marsh, A Search for America, and In Search of Myself. "Grove gave a voice to the land-hungry pioneers of the West, but also cloaked his past in the ostensible honesty of the prairie pioneer novel."[11]

Known for his rugged realism and naturalism, Grove created memorable pioneer characters, such as Niels Lindstedt, the hardworking and sexually naive Swedish immigrant pioneer in Settlers of the Marsh (1925); Abe Spalding, the noble but single-minded pioneer in Fruits of the Earth, and John Elliot, the aging and tragic patriarch in Our Daily Bread. Grove patriarchs are all strong and tragic, often lacking the words to change their fates. In contrast, Grove's female characters are survivors, verbally nimble and often assuming traditionally male roles. Most important, Grove's novels all evoke the polyglot world of immigrants.

His novels are populated with a range of Swedish, German, French, Icelandic, and Ukrainian immigrants, offering a vibrant multi-culturalism as a vision for Canada's social fabric. As an author he assumed the role of "spokesperson for the young Canadian nation," who cleverly staged himself as "an adopted son [in Canada]" in lecture tours, essays, and advertisements.[12]

Grove also experimented with forms of modernism, both in staging fictionalized selves in his autobiographical fiction, and in experimenting with unreliable narrators and time shifts in his late novel, The Master of the Mill.[13]

Grove's Archives

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Grove's papers were acquired by the University of Manitoba (UM) from his widow Catherine Wiens in the early 1960s. This source collection fills 24 archival boxes, and contains many published and unpublished manuscripts, typescripts, and notebooks, as well as six German poems in Grove's hand—one of which is obviously related to Greve's published poem "Erster Sturm" (1907). – A voluminous Finding Aid for Mss 2 was prepared in 1972. [see the UM catalogue description of the collection's contents

Since the mid-1990s, the UM's FPG (Greve/Grove) & FrL Collections Website Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine has made available numerous big & small e-texts by/about FPG and the Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL), as well as bio-bibliographical information, notably:

  • A list of the FPG (Greve/Grove) Sources & Documents held at the University of Manitoba Archives
  • A description Archived 2016-08-08 at the Wayback Machine of the FPG (Greve/Grove) Sources & Documents held at the University of Manitoba Archives (based on a promotional brochure distributed at the 1996 Learneds Societies' Convention in Ottawa )
  • A brief history Archived 2014-03-13 at the Wayback Machine of UMA e-Projects

Related Source- & Research Collections

In addition to the central Grove Collection Mss 2, the University of Manitoba Grove Archives have the following sources and research collections:

Professor D. O. Spettigue's Research Papers (Mss 57, 1985 & 1995, 16 Boxes) document the sensational discovery of the FPG identity in 1971. They also include three German poems and two letters Thomas Mann sent to Grove from Princeton in 1939. – An additional Spettigue cluster was acquired in January 1995. It included Greve's correspondence with André Gide, Karl Wolfskehl, O. A. H. Schmitz, and contained materials related to the English translation of Greve's 1905 novel Fanny Essler. – Thanks to professors Spettigue and Hjartarson's capital finding in ca. 1987 that Greve's Else became the New York dadaist Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (FrL), the Spettigue Collections' curator Gaby Divay was able to obtain, in early 1991, FrL's autobiography in typescript and manuscript form from the University of Maryland in exchange for a Fanny Essler microfilm.

Professor Margaret Stobie's Collection (Mss 13, 2 Boxes) documents Grove's early teaching activities in Manitoba, and contains Grove's first Canadian publication, the sprawling article "Rousseau als Erzieher" in the German newspaper Der Nordwesten (Nov./Dec. 1914).

Dr. Gaby Divay's Research Papers (Mss 12, 8 Boxes, ongoing) contain many documents pertaining to her FPG & FrL discoveries such as:

  • six manuscript poems Greve submitted in 1902 for publication in Stefan George's prestigious Blätter für die Kunst, and six sonnets he translated from Dante's Vita Nuova in 1898 (both clusters were found in the Stefan-George-Archiv, Stuttgart, in May 1990, copies courtesy of Dr. Ute Oelmann)
  • Claude Martin's 1976 masterly edition of Gide's 1904 Conversation avec un allemand (with two confessional letters by Greve)
  • Centennial e-Ed. in Germ & Eng. of seven poems published in 1904/5 under the joint pseud. 'Fanny Essler' in Die Freistatt (found in the DLA, Marbach, in April 1990)
  • Greve's passage to North America on the White Star Liner Megantic Archived 2016-08-09 at the Wayback Machine from Liverpool to Montreal in July 1909 (found shortly after the 1998 international FPG Anniversary Symposium)
  • the Bonanza Farm[permanent dead link] "in the Dakotas" described in A Search for America (1925) (found in March 1996 at the NDSU archives, Fargo, & video-recorded as the Linguistic Circle of Manitoba & North Dakota's 1996 LCMND Presidential Dinner Address at the University of Winnipeg)
  • Else & Greve's Sparta, Kentucky, location in 1910/11 (known ONLY from her poem "Schalk" in the University of Maryland, College Park, FrL Collection; discovered there in April 1991, & included as facsimile 49b in FPG's Poetry Ed. published in Dec. 1993. – [e-Ed.] of this poem in comparison with Greve's "Erster Sturm") http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/txt_frlSchalkFEsonsFPG1stSturm.html

http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~fgrove/ill_pgs/ill_sparta.html

FPG Book Collections: Greve's Translations & Grove's Library

The UMA hold all of Grove's and Greve's known publications. Canadian & some foreign theses are also extant in various formats.

The Grove Library & the Greve Translations Collections are available online:

  • The Grove Library Collection of some 500 titles contains many of the incredible number of books Grove translated into German when he was Greve. Most notable are perhaps certain Meredith titles, & a complete set of Temple Scott's Swift edition.
  • The FPG Translations Collection Archived 2016-03-10 at the Wayback Machine reflects a complete record of Greve's titanic efforts, 1898–1909, starting out with Dante sonnets, Oscar Wilde texts & criticism, Browning, Dowson, Pater, Meredith, Swinburne (both of whom died in 1909 when Greve chose voluntary exile), H. G. Wells, Balzac, Flaubert, & Gide, as well as all 12 v. from Burton's Arabian Nights.

"In Memoriam FPG": 1998 Anniversary Symposium The international anniversary symposium "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" was recorded on 12 videos. In 2007, they were digitized & became the Symposium's e-Proceedings.

FPG & FrL Endowment (1995ff) A FPG & FrL Endowment Fund devoted to Greve/Grove and Freytag-Loringhoven projects was established in 1995/96. Promotional brochures, various e-text publications, and the FPG & FrL Website were all partly or entirely funded by this endowment.

Pseudonyms

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Grove used so many aliases that Karl Wolfskehl called him a Pseudologe and referred to his Munchhausiaden.

FPG: he used these initials on both sides of the Atlantic.

Grove: a modification of the author's real name, Greve. On the Immigration Manifesto of the White Star Liner Megantic on July 31, 1909, Grove's name was smudged, though the central vowel looks like an "o".

Fanny Essler: Joint pseudonym for F.P. Greve and Else Greve used in 1904–05, for poem published in Die Freistatt.

F. C. Gerden: used in correspondence with his Insel publishers for translations of decadent literature (Dowson, Browning).

Konrad Thorer: used for translations of works by Miguel de Cervantes and Alain-René Lesage.

Andrew R. Rutherford: a pseudonym suggested (but not used) for his first Canadian book Over Prairie Trails (1922); the name, which references Grove's friend Herman Kilian's maternal grandfather, a renowned Scottish judge, also appears in relation to his unpublished typescript in the University of Manitoba Archives, Jane Atkinson (ca. 1923, e-publ. 2000).

Works about Grove

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven wrote a poem entitled "Kinship," which is dedicated to Grove: "Memory to F.P.G." In this poem, she juxtaposes the beginning and the ending of their ten-year relationship, using eroticized horseback riding as a metaphor for a highly charged journey through memory.[14]

The Canadian heavy metal band Torture for Pleasure quote from Groves' novel Settlers of the Marsh in their song "TETELESTAI (Sweet Darkness)," released independently in 2013.

Biographies and scholarship

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D. O. Spettigue discovered Grove's identity behind a web of fiction in October 1971 in the British Museum. Uncovering Grove's prison incarceration in Germany, Spettigue published his findings in his 1973 book FPG: The European Years. This monograph was followed by Paul I. Hjartarson's volume of essays, A Stranger to My Life, and prompted the translation of Grove's German fiction into English, Fanny Essler, and The Master Mason’s House, both closely based on the life of Grove's first wife Elsa Plötz (aka The Baroness). Desmond Pacey edited The Letters of F.P. Grove in addition to publishing a monograph, Frederick Philip Grove, while Margaret Stobie explored Grove's teaching years in Manitoba in her book, Frederick Philip Grove.

Leading later efforts to establish the identity of Greve/Grove by unearthing new biographical information and relevant records, Klaus Martens has been "the chief pioneer" (W.J. Keith). Exploring both the European and Canadian contexts, Martens published Felix Paul Greves Karriere (in German), Felix Paul Greve – André Gide (correspondence in English, French, and German), and F. P. Grove in Europe and Canada: Translated Lives, the first well documented biography of the author in English. Martens' vast compilation Over Canadian Trails: F.P. Grove in New Letters and Documents includes the most extensive published collection of letters from and to Grove, including the Phelps correspondence, documents, many photographs, and much relevant commentary by the editor. This was preceded by Martens' A Dirge for My Daughter, a careful edition of selected poems by Grove which includes photographs and reproductions of handwritten letters and notes. In addition to his Grove monographs and editions, Martens published numerous articles on both Grove and Else Plötz.

In her book Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove, Irene Gammel examined the gender relationships of Grove's fiction, focussing in particular on his sexualized (and modern) female figures and the overexposed relationships of power. Gammel also traced Grove's relationship with Elsa Plötz (Baroness Elsa) in her biography Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity, documenting that the couple had been legally married and that Grove's reasons for hiding his identity had much to do with his fear of being discovered by his former wife, the dada artist Baroness Elsa. It has also been argued, by Martens in Over Canadian Trails, perhaps more persuasively, that Greve understandably changed his identity in order to escape internment as a German national at the outbreak of the Great War.

In his essay "Felix Paul Greve, The Eulenburg Scandal, and Frederick Philip Grove," Richard Cavell proposed a queering approach to Grove's work, while Paul Hjartarson and Tracy Kulba's collection Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven and Felix Paul Greve assembles a range of perspectives by a number of scholars, including the editors, as well as Jutta Ernst, Klaus Martens, and Paul Morris.

A great deal of research results have been provided by Dr. Gaby Divay at the University of Manitoba Archives, who also published a comprehensive edition of Grove's, Greve's and "Fanny Essler"s poetry in December 1993, and as an e-Edition in 2007.

Further research and portraits

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Works

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Felix Paul Greve, 1901–1909

  • Wanderungen (Poems) – 1902
  • Helena und Damon (Play) – 1902
  • Gedichte/Ein Portrait: Drei Sonette/ Gedichte, Von Fanny Essler (joint pseud. for F. P. Greve & Else Endell/Freytag-Loringhoven) in Die Freistatt – 1904/5
  • Fanny Essler: ein Berliner Roman (about Else Plötz, Endell, Greve, & later von Freytag-Loringhoven) – 1905
    • Fanny Essler: a novel (Engl. Transl., 2v.) – 1984
  • Maurermeister Ihles Haus (about Else von Freytag-Loringhoven) – 1906
    • The Master Mason's House (Engl. Transl.) – 1976
  • [Der Sentimentalist (Novel) – announced ca. 1907)]
  • [Der heimliche Adel (Drama) – announced ca. 1907)]

Frederick Philip Grove, 1914–1948

Posthumous

  • Tales from the Margin (Short Stories) – 1971
  • Letters of Frederick Philip Grove (contains letters by Felix Paul Greve) – 1976
  • The Adventure of Leonard Broadus (1983, 2015)
    • Boys' novel first published in a heavily redacted version in a church magazine in the 1940s; original manuscript published in Canadian Children's Literature in 1983 and in book form in 2015[15]
  • Poems/Gedichte by/von Frederick Philip Grove, Felix Paul Greve, und 'Fanny Essler' - 1993
  • A Dirge for My Daughter, Poems by Frederick Philip Grove - 2006
  • Jane Atkinson (ts. Novel, ca. 1923) e-Edition, UMA – 2000

Related books by/about FPG (Greve/Grove)

  • "Greve's & Freytag-Loringhovens 'Fanny Essler' Poems: FPG's or Else's?", UMA – 2005

References

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  1. ^ Gammel, Irene. Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, 155
  2. ^ qtd. in Gammel, Baroness Elsa, 127.
  3. ^ Gammel, Baroness Elsa, 132.
  4. ^ Gammel, Baroness Elsa, 144.
  5. ^ See Temple Scott's edition, which is extant in Grove's Library Collection at the UMA. See also the opening pages of Grove's 1927 Search for America, which provides details that led to the discovery of FPG's transatlantic passage in October 1998, shortly after the "In Memoriam FPG: 1879-1948-1998" Symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of his death
  6. ^ Gammel, Baroness Elsa, 145.
  7. ^ Gammel, Baroness Elsa, 154.
  8. ^ Gammel, Baroness Elsa, 153.
  9. ^ Leonard Grove was a lawyer who lived in Toronto. He died in October 2006, just a few days shy of his 76th birthday.
  10. ^ Klassen, Henry Cornelius (1977). The Canadian West : social change and economic development. Calgary: University of Calgary Press. p. 27.
  11. ^ Gammel, Irene. "Staging Personalities in Modernism and Realism." Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009, 251.
  12. ^ Gammel, "Staging Personalities," 252.
  13. ^ Gammel, "Staging Personalities," 254.
  14. ^ Freytag-Loringhoven, Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven. Ed. Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011, 240–41, 380.
  15. ^ Rubio, Jen (2015). Preface to The Adventure of Leonard Broadus. Oakville, ON: Rock's Mills Press. pp. 3–6. ISBN 9781772440041.

Further reading

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  • Cavell, Richard. "Felix Paul Greve, The Eulenburg Scandal, and Frederick Philip Grove," Essays on Canadian Writing 62 (1998): 12–45 (Special Issue on Paraliterary Scandals in Canada).
  • Divay, Gaby. "Fanny Essler's Poems: Felix Paul Greve's or Else von Freytag-Loringhoven's?" Arachne: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Language and Literature v.1 (1994): 165–197. – [e-Ed., 2006].
  • Divay, Gaby. "Felix Paul Greve/Frederick Philip Grove's passage to America: the discovery of the author's arrival in North America and its implications," New Worlds: Discovering & Constructing the Unknown in Anglophone Literature (presented to Walter Pache on the occasion of his 60th Birthday). München: Verlag Ernst Vögel, 2000, 111–132. e-Ed., 2006]
  • Divay, Gaby. "Frederick Philip Grove's German Heritage: the Evidence in the University of Manitoba's Archival Collections," German-Canadian Studies in the Nineties: Results & Projects. Toronto: German-Canadian Historical Association, 1993, 37–58.
  • Divay, Gaby.Names, Pseudonyms, Monograms, and Titles in F. P. Grove / Greve's Work. In: German-Canadian Yearbook – Deutsch-kanadisches Jahrbuch, vol. 14, 1995, ISSN 0316-8603 pp 129–151 – e-Ed., 1907]
  • Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa. Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven. Ed. Irene Gammel and Suzanne Zelazo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.
  • Gammel, Irene. Sexualizing Power in Naturalism: Theodore Dreiser and Frederick Philip Grove. Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1994.
  • Gammel, Irene. Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada and Everyday Modernity. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
  • Gammel, Irene. Staging Personalities in Modernism and Realism. IN: The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature. Ed. Coral Ann Howells and Eva-Marie Kröller. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2009. 247–71
  • Martens, Klaus: "J'écris en hâte et fièvreusement". Felix Paul Greve – André Gide. Korrespondenz und Dokumentation. Röhrig Verlag, Saarbrücken 1999
  • Martens, Klaus: Translated Lives. F. P. Grove in Europe and Canada. Edmonton, AB: The University of Alberta Press, 2001
  • Martens, Klaus: Over Canadian Trails. F.P. Grove in New Letters and Documents. Königshausen und Neumann, Würzburg 2007
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