biography
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Le Fanu, (Joseph) Sheridan
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pronunciation:
[lefuhnyoo]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1814–73)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in Dublin, Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and was called to the bar in 1839, but soon abandoned law for journalism. He began writing for the Dublin University Magazine, of which he became editor and proprietor (1869), and later bought three Dublin newspapers. Of his 14 novels, the best-known are The House by the Churchyard (1863) and Uncle Silas (1864). He also wrote short stories, mainly of the supernatural, such as In a Glass Darkly (1872). |
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