biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1812–87)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in London, UK. He ran away from Westminster School, and collaborated with his brother Augustus (1826–75) in writing numerous successful novels, such as The Good Genius that Turns Everything to Gold (1847) and Whom to Marry (1848). He wrote on many subjects, his best-known work being the classic social survey, London Labour and the London Poor (4 vols, 1851–62). Another brother, Horace (1816–72), was also a collaborator. In 1841, with Mark Lemon and Joseph Stirling Coyne, Henry founded the humorous magazine, Punch. |
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