biography
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Crawford, Francis Marion
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| male
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| lived:
| (1854–1909)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Bagni di Lucca, Italy. The son of Thomas Crawford, he studied in the USA and at European universities. Soon after the immediate success of his first novel, Mr Isaacs (1882), he moved to Italy. An inveterate traveller, he used foreign settings in many of his popular historical romances and adventure novels, many of which he adapted for the stage. He wrote the play Francesca da Rimini (1902) especially for Sarah Bernhardt. |
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