The Wedding Guest: A Friend of the Bride and Bridegroom

Timothy Shay (T.S.) Arthur (June 6 1809 – March 6 1885) was a popular nineteenth-century American author. He is most famous for his temperance novel Ten Nights in a Bar-Room and What I Saw There (1854) which helped demonize alcohol in the eyes of the American public.. He was also the author of dozens of stories for Godeys Ladys Book the most popular American monthly magazine in the antebellum era and he published and edited his own Arthurs Home Magazine a periodical in the Godeys model for many years. Virtually forgotten now Arthur did much to articulate and disseminate the values beliefs and habits that defined respectable decorous middle-class life in antebellum America.