biography
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Paul, Charles Kegan
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| male
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| lived:
| (1828–1902)
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| biography:
| Writer and publisher, born in White Laekington, Somerset, SW England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a chaplain at Eton (1852), and vicar at Sturminster Hall (1862). He wrote religious works and edited the New Quarterly Magazine, but in 1874 left the Church, taking over a publishing firm in 1877 which became C Kegan Paul & Co. Among his first publications were the monthly Nineteenth Century, and the works of G W Cox, Tennyson, Meredith, and Stevenson. He became a Roman Catholic and published Biographical Sketches (1883), works on religion, and translations from Goethe and Pascal. |
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