biography
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| lived:
| (1809–70)
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| biography:
| Writer and journalist, born in London, UK. In 1841 he helped to establish Punch, or the London Charivari, becoming first joint editor (with Henry Mayhew and Joseph Stirling Coyne), then sole editor from 1843. He also wrote a farce, followed by several melodramas, farces, operettas, children's stories, essays, a Jest Book (1864), and novels - the most notable of which is Falkner Lyle (1866). |
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