James Rice (writer)

For other people named James Rice, see James Rice (disambiguation).

James Rice (26 September 1843 – 26 April 1882), English novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant.[1]

He was born in Northampton, and was educated at Cambridge University.[2] He studied law, becoming a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn in 1871.

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

1890 Yellowback cover of Ready-Money Mortiboy
  • 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. A Tale of Portsmouth Town. (1878)[3]
  • 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (1879) stories[4]
  • The Seamy Side (1880)
  • The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881)
  • Sir Richard Whittington (1881)
  • All Sorts and Conditions of Men, An Impossible Story
  • The Ten Years Tenant (1881) stories[5]

References

  1. ^ Besant, Walter (29 April 1882). "Obituary. Mr. J. Rice". The Athenæum (2844): 540.
  2. ^ "Rice, Samuel James (RY865SJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^ Walter Besant; James Rice (1878). By Celia's Arbour. A Tale of Portsmouth Town. (Reprinted from the "Graphic") [...] In Three Volumes. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, Crown Buildings, 188, Fleet Street, E.C. OCLC 1230903784. Volume I, volume II, and volume III.
  4. ^ Besant, Walter; Rice, James (c. 1879). 'Twas in Trafalgar's bay, and other stories. The Piccadilly novels. London: Chatto & Windus.
  5. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rice, James" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 290.


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