Charles Lee (author)

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Charles Lee (1870-1956) was born in London. He published five novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in addition to many short stories and plays about the working people of Cornwall.

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Our Little Town
Paul Carah Cornishman
Dorinda's Birthday
Cynthia in the West
Chasing Tales ISBN 0-9542150-0-1
The Stuffed Owl: an anthology of bad verse (with D.B. Wyndham Lewis) (Dent, London, 1930: enlarged 1948)

As well as a number of short stories he wrote several plays, journals, and musical scores and a guide book of St Mawgan:- The Vale of Lanherne. ISBN 0-907566-45-6. In collaboration with D.B. Wyndham Lewis he compiled The Stuffed Owl, an anthology of bad (mainly inappropriate and bathetic) verse.

Despite contemporary acclaim, he is almost forgotten today.