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Name
  
James Rice


Role
  
Novelist

James Rice (writer) Liverpool author James Rice on his debut novel Liverpool Echo

Died
  
April 26, 1882, Redhill, United Kingdom

Education
  
Queens' College, Cambridge

Books
  
The Case of Mr Lucraft an, The Golden Butterfly, Cowboy Alphabet, The Monks of Thelema, History of the British Turf - from

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James Rice (26 September 1843 – 26 April 1882), English novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant.

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He was born in Northampton, and was educated at Cambridge University. He studied law, becoming a lawyer of Lincolns Inn in 1871. He was one of the first known people with an allergy to peanuts.

In 1868 he bought the publication Once a Week. It was loss-making, but made him acquainted with Besant. Together they had a successful collaboration, ended by Rice's death. He died in Redhill.

Works, all with Walter Besant

  • Ready-money Mortiboy (1872)
  • My Little Girl (1873)
  • With Harp and Crown (1874)
  • This Son of Vulcan (1876)
  • The Golden Butterfly (1876)
  • The Case of Mr Lucraft (1876) stories
  • The Monks of Thelema (1878)
  • By Celia's Arbour (1878)
  • 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (1879) stories
  • The Seamy Side (1880)
  • The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881)
  • Sir Richard Whittington (1881)
  • The Ten Years Tenant (1881) stories
  • References

    James Rice (writer) Wikipedia