Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Mortimer Neal Thomson was an American journalist and humorist who wrote under the pseudonym Q. K. Philander Doesticks. He was born in Riga, New York and grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He attended Michigan University but was expelled along with several others either for his involvement in secret societies or for "too much enterprise in securing subjects for the dissecting room." After a brief period working in theater, he became a journalist and lecturer.
Doesticks: What He Says
Get ready for a wild ride through nineteenth-century America as a quirky narrator shares absurd stories and makes you laugh at the world around you.
By Q. K. Philander Doesticks
The Witches of New York
In old New York, a curious person goes on a wild adventure to reveal the bizarre world of fortune-tellers and the secrets they hide.
By Q. K. Philander Doesticks
Nothing to Say A Slight Slap at Mobocratic Snobbery, Which Has 'Nothing to Do' with 'Nothing to Wear'
Venture into a world where assumptions about wealth and morality are turned upside down, revealing that true honor exists beyond superficial judgments of rich and poor.
By Q. K. Philander Doesticks
What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation? Great Auction Sale of Slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d & 3d, 1859
Experience the heartbreaking sale of human lives as families are torn apart and futures are sold in a shocking slave auction.
By Q. K. Philander Doesticks