biography
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Young, Francis Brett
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| lived:
| (1884–1954)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Halesowen, West Midlands, C England, UK. Established first as a physician, with a period as ship's doctor, he achieved celebrity as a writer with Portrait of Clare (1927, James Tait Black). From then on he wrote a succession of novels of leisurely charm, characterized by a deep love of his native country. Noteworthy titles are My Brother Jonathan (1928), Far Forest (1936), Dr Bradley Remembers (1935), A Man about the House (1942), and Portrait of a Village (1951). |
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