James Rice

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James Rice (26 September 1843 - 26 April 1882), English novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant.

He was born in Northampton, and was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge. He studied law, being called to the bar at Lincolns Inn in 1871.

He drifted into literature, buying in 1868 the publication Once a Week. It was loss-making, but put him in touch with Besant. Together they had a successful collaboration, cut short by Rice's death. He died in Redhill.

[edit] Works, all with Walter Besant

  • Ready-money Mortiboy (1872)
  • My Little Girl (1873
  • With Harp and Crown (1874)
  • This Son of Vulcan (1876)
  • The Golden Butterfly (1876)
  • The Case of Mr Lucraft (1876) stories
  • The Monks of Thelema (1878)
  • By Celia's Arbour (1878)
  • Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (1879) stories
  • The Seamy Side (1880)
  • The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881)
  • Sir Richard Whittington (1881)
  • The Ten Years Tenant (1881) stories

This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.

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