Called Back is an 1883 mystery/romance novel written by Englishman Frederick John Fargus under the pseudonym Hugh Conway[1] and published in Bristol by J. W. Arrowsmith.
Over 350,000 copies were sold within four years, and Fargus produced a stage version in London in 1884.
The book was popular during the 1880s in Amherst, Massachusetts, a fact that has been correlated with the use of the phrase "called back" by American poet Emily Dickinson in her later life.
[2] The book, which a friend sent to her, impressed her.
[4] In what was evidently the last letter she composed shortly before she died in May 1886, she simply wrote, "Little Cousins, Called back.