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English writer of novels (1815-1882)

English writer of novels (1815-1882)

A distinguished English novelist; born in London, April 24, 1815; died there, Dec. 6, 1882. He published: "The Macdermots of Ballydoran" (1847); "The Kellys and the O'Kellys" (1848); "La Vendee" (1850); "The Warden" (1855); "Barchester Towers" (1857); "The Three Clerks" (1857); "Doctor Thorne" (1858); "The Bertrams" (1859); "The West Indies and the Spanish Main" (1859); "Castle Richmond" (1860); "Framley Parsonage" (1861); "Tales of All Countries" (1861); "Orley Farm" (1862); "The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson" (1862); "North America" (1862); "Rachel Ray" (1863); "The Small House at Allington" (1864); "The Belton Estate" (1864); "Hunting Sketches" (1864); "Can You Forgive Her?\" (1865); "Miss Mackenzie" (1865); "Clergymen of the Church of England" (1866); "Traveling Sketches" (1866); "Lotta Schmidt, and Other Stories" (1867); "The Claverings" (1867); "The Last Chronicle of Barset" (1867); "Nina Balatka" (anonymous: 1867); "Linda Tressel" (do.: 1868); "British Sports and Pastimes" (edited: 1868); "Phineas Finn, the Irish Member" (1869); "He Knew He Was Right" (1869); "Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite" (1870); "An Editor's Tales" (1870); "The Vicar of Bullhampton" (1870); "Caesar's Commentaries" (edited: 1870); "Mary Gresley" (1871); "Ralph the Heir" (1871); "The Eustace Diamonds" (1872); "The Golden Lion of Granpere" (1872); "Australia and New Zealand" (1873); "Phineas Redux" (1873); "Harry Heathcote of Gangoil" (1874); "South Australia and Western Australia", "Victoria and Tasmania", and "New South Wales and Queensland" (all 1874); "Lady Anna" (1874); "The Way we Live Now" (1875); "The Prime Minister" (1876); "The American Senator" (1877); "South Africa" (1877); "Is he Popenjoy?\" (1878); "John Caldigate" (1879); "An Eye for an Eye" (1879); "Cousin Henry" (1879); "Thackeray" in "English Men of Letters" (1879); "The Duke's Children" (1880); "Life of Cicero" (1880); "Ayala's Angel" (1881); "Dr. Wortle's School" (1881); "Why Frau Frohmann Raised her Prices, and Other Stories" (1881); "The Fixed Period" (1882); "Kept in the Dark" (1882); "Lord Palmerston" in "English Political Leaders" (1882); "Marion Fay" (1882); "Mr. Scarborough's Family" (1883). Posthumously appeared: his "Autobiography" (1883); "The Land Leaguers" (1883, unfinished); and "An Old Man's Love" (1884).