biography
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| lived:
| (1814–84)
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| biography:
| Novelist and playwright, born in Ipsden House, Oxfordshire, SC England, UK. He studied at Oxford, and was called to the bar in 1843, but never practised. He first tried to write for the stage in 1850, producing about 13 dramas. His life after 1852 is a succession of plays by which he lost money, and novels that won profit and fame. These novels illustrate social injustice and cruelty in one form or another, and his writing is realistic and vivid. They include Peg Woffington (1852), Hard Cash (1863), and A Woman-hater (1877). His masterpiece was his long historical novel of the 15th-c, The Cloister and the Hearth (1861). |
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