Male : Poet, Novelist, Playwright & Prose Writer. Married his cousin, Isabelle Devis, in 1835. Inherited and lived at Albury House in Surrey. A terrible stutterer in his early life he turned to poetry and achieved great fame (Especially in America), but today he is barely read or remembered. All his works are out of print.

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Marylebone, London

Date of Birth : 1810 Date of Death : 1889 Age : 79

Other Work : Barrister 1835

Education : Charterhouse & Christ Church, Oxford

1832-1840
Sacra Poesis (1832 Nisbet)
Proverbial Philosophy : A Book of Thoughts and Arguments, originally Treated (1838 Hatchard)
[This ran to four series which were published in 60 editions. In the USA it sold 1 million copies, but Tupper received very little in royalties for they were all pirated editions]
(c1876 Revised Edition) - 4 vols
Geraldine, a Sequel to Coleridge's Christabel, with Other Poems (1838 Joseph Rickerby)
(1846 Saxon & Kelt, Boston)
A Modern Pyramid to Commemorate a Septuagint of Worthies : Poems & Essays (1839)

1841-1845
St Martha's, near Guildford, Surrey (1841 Guildford)
(Ed) An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-Pages (1841)
Proverbial Philosophy : 2nd Series (1842)
The Crock of Gold : A Rural Novel (1844)
Heart : A Social Novel (1844)
The Twins : A Domestic Novel (1844)
A Thousand Lines Now Offered to the World We Live In (1845)

1846-1850
Probabilities : An Aid to Faith (1846)
An Author's Mind (1847)
The Loving Ballad to Brother Jonathan (1848)
Hactenus : More Droppings from the Pen that wrote "A Thousand Lines" (1848 Hatchard)
King Veric (1849)
Surrey : A Rapid View of its Principal Interests in Persons and Places,
also St Martha's - A Poem (1849 Guildford) - with J Tudor
King Alfred's Poems Turned into English Metres (1850)
The Complete Prose Works (1850)
The Complete Poetical Works (1850)
Farley Heath : A Record of its Roman Remains and Other Antiquities (1850 Guildford)
Ballads for the Times (1850)
A Hymn for All Nations (1850)
[Penned for the Great Exhibition of 1851, it was translated into 30 languages]

1851-1860
Half a Dozen No-Popery Ballads (1851)
A Dirge for Wellington (1852)
Poetical Works (1852)
A Prophetic Ode (1852)
Half a Dozen Ballads for Australian Emigrants (1853)
A Batch of War Ballads (1854)
A Dozen Ballads for the Times about Church Abuses (1854)
A Dozen Ballads for the Times about White Slavery (1854)
Lyrics of the Heart and Mind (1854)
A Missionary Ballad (1855)
Paterfamilias's Diary of Everybody's Tour (1856)
Rides and Reveries of the Late Mr Aesop Smith (1858 Hurst & Blackett)
Stephan Langton (nd. 1858 Hurst & Blackett) - 2 vols
Some Verse & Prose about National Rifle Clubs (1858)
Alfred : A Patriotic Play (1858)
Three Hundred Sonnets (1860)

After 1861
Cithara : A Selection from the Lyrics (1863)
Our Greeting to the Princess Alexandra (1863)
Ode for the 300th Birthday of Shakespeare (1864)
Plan of the Ritualistic Campaign (1856)
[Re-issued in 1868 as "The Anti-Ritualistic Satire"]
Raleigh : His Life and Death (1866) - Play
A Selection from The Works (1866)
(Trans) La Bannierer sur le Char de la Victoire by John Sullivan (1866)
(Trans) Elegie sur la Mort de Lord Palmerston by John Sullivan (1866)
Proverbial Philosophy : 3rd Series (1867)
Our Canadian Dominion : Half a Dozen Ballads about a King for Canada (1868)
Twenty One Protestant Ballads (1868)
A Creed and Hymns (1870)
Fifty of the Protestant Ballads (1874)
Select Miscellaneous Poems (1874)
Washington (1876) - Play
Three Five-Act Plays & 12 Dramatic Scenes (1882)
(Trans) A Victor Hugo by John Sullivan (1885)
My Life as an Author (1886)
Jubilate ! : An Offering for 1887 (1887)

READING
Ralf Buchmann : Martin Tupper and the Victorian Middle-Class Mind (1941 Bern)
Derek Hudson : Martin Tupper - His Rise and Fall (1949)