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JAMES PAYN (1830-1898)

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JAMES See also:PAYN (1830-1898)  , See also:English novelist, was See also:born at See also:Cheltenham, on the 28th of See also:February 1830, his See also:father being clerk to the See also:Thames Commissioners and treasurer to the See also:county of See also:Berkshire . He was educated at See also:Eton, and afterwards entered the Military See also:Academy at See also:Woolwich; but his See also:health was not equal to the demands of a military career, and he proceeded in 1847 to Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge . He was among the most popular men of his See also:time, and served as See also:president of the See also:Union . Before going to Cambridge he had published some verses in See also:Leigh See also:Hunt's See also:Journal, and while still an undergraduate put forth a See also:volume of Stories from See also:Boccaccio in 1852, and in 1853 a volume of Poems . In the same See also:year he See also:left Cambridge, and shortly afterwards married See also:Miss Louisa See also:Adelaide Edlin, See also:sister of See also:Sir See also:Peter Edlin . He then settled down in the See also:Lake See also:district to a See also:literary career and contributed regularly to See also:Household Words and See also:Chambers's Journal . In 1858 he removed to See also:Edinburgh to See also:act as See also:joint-editor of the latter periodical . He became See also:sole editor in 1859, and conducted the See also:magazine with much success for fifteen years . He removed to See also:London in 1861 . In the pages of the Journal he published in 1864 his most popular See also:story, Lost Sir Massingberd . From this time he was always engaged in novel-See also:writing, among the most popular of his productions being Married Beneath Him (1865), Carlyon's Year (1868), By See also:Proxy (1878), and The Talk of the See also:Town (1885) . In 1883 he succeeded See also:Leslie See also:Stephen as editor of the See also:Corn/till Magazine and continued in the See also:post until the breakdown of his health in 1896 .

He was also literary adviser to Messrs See also:

Smith, See also:Elder & See also:Company . His publications included a Handbook to the English Lakes (1859), and various volumes of occasional essays, See also:Maxims by a See also:Man of the See also:World (1869), Some Private Views (1881), Some Literary Recollections (1884) . A See also:posthumous See also:work, The Backwater of See also:Life (1899), revealed much of his own See also:personality in a See also:mood of kindly, sensible reflection upon See also:familiar topics . He died in London, on the 25th of See also:March 1898 . A See also:biographical introduction to The Backwater of Life was furnished by Sir Leslie Stephen .

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