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THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHRIE (1856- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 742 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOMAS ANSTEY GUTHRIE (1856- )  , known by the pseudonym of F . Anstey,
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English novelist, was born in
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Kensington,
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London, on the 8th of August 1856 . He was educated at King's College, London, and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1880 . But the popular success of his story
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Vice-Versa (1882) with its topsy turvy substitution of a
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father for his schoolboy son, at once made his reputation as a humorist of an
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original type . He published in 1883 a serious novel, The Giant's Robe; but, in spite of its excellence, he discovered (and again in 1889 with The
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Pariah) that it was not as a serious novelist but as a humorist that the public insisted on regarding him . As such his reputation was further confirmed.by The Black Poodle (1884), The Tinted
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Venus (1885), A Fallen Idol (1886), and other
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works . He became an important member of the staff of Purich, in which his " Voces populi " and his humorous parodies of a reciter's stock-piece (" Burglar
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Bill," &c.) represent his best
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work . In 1901 his successful
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farce The Man from Blankley's, based on a story which originally appeared in
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Punch, was first produced at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, in London .

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