Name: Black Sheep: A Novel
Author: Edmund Yates
ISBN: 978-1347523469

Black Sheep: A Novel

By Edmund Yates 16 Sep, 2020

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Brief Extract: On the eath of Thomas Moore. An Ingoldsby Poem of his was accepted by Marguerite Power, and appeared amongst distinguished company in the Keepsake for 1853, being noticed encouragingly by the press. That year, before he was twenty-two years old, Yates married, an event that seems to have stimulated him to still greater literary activity. He rapidly found his way into several periodicals, and in 1854 published his first book, a shilling series of reprinted sketches, My Haunts and their Frequenters. The same year began a pleasant intimacy with Dickens, which was kept up until the untimely death of the great novelist, from whom Yates received genial encouragement, particularly when he began to write fiction. In 1854, also, he made the acquaintance of Frank Smedley, who was to edit Cruikshank's Magazine for Bogue, with Yates as one of his coadjutors. The magazine soon came to an end, after establishing a friendship between them, which bore fruit in a joint collection of tales in verse, Mirth and Metre, by two Merry Men. Less

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