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Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I (of II)

By Edmund Downey

2020-09-10 02:17:09

FROM THE PREFACE........When Charles Lever died (in 1872), his daughters were anxious that his biography should be written by Major Frank Dwyer, but Dwyer was unwilling to undertake the task, and Dr. W. J. Fitzpatrick volunteered his services. In 189 ... Read more
FROM THE PREFACE........When Charles Lever died (in 1872), his daughters were anxious that his biography should be written by Major Frank Dwyer, but Dwyer was unwilling to undertake the task, and Dr. W. J. Fitzpatrick volunteered his services. In 1896 I asked Mrs. Nevill, the novelist’s eldest daughter if she would be willing to furnish a new biography of her father. In replying to me, Mrs. Nevill said that although she felt “most intensely the utter inefficiency of Mr. Fitzpatrick’s ‘Life,’” she feared her health would not permit her to undertake a task so serious as the one I proposed, but she would willingly give me any help in her power either for a new biography or for a revised edition of the existing ‘Life.’ Less

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File size457.954 KB
Print pages414
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1330466919
Edmund Downey (nom de plume F. M. Allen) (24 July 1856, Waterford – 11 February 1937, Waterford) was an Irish novelist, newspaper editor, and publisher. After education at Catholic University Hig...

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