Works
While a clerk Fargus had written the words for various songs, adopting the pen name Hugh Conway in memory of his training-ship days. James Williams Arrowsmith, the Bristol printer and publisher, took an interest in his work, and Fargus's first short story appeared in Arrowsmith's Miscellany. In 1883 Fargus published through J. W. Arrowsmith his first long story, Called Back, of which over 350,000 copies were sold within four years. One admirer was the American poet Emily Dickinson. A stage version of the book was produced in London in 1884, and in that year Fargus published another story, Dark Days.
Ordered to the Riviera for his health, Fargus caught typhoid fever and died in Monte Carlo. Several other books by him appeared posthumously, notably A Family Affair, which was serialized in the English Illustrated Magazine in 1884-5 and first published in volume form in 1885.
Long after his death, one of his novels was filmed as The Last Rose of Summer (1920).
His son, Archibald, was a first-class cricketer, scholar and clergyman.
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