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JAMES RICE (1843-1882)

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 291 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JAMES See also:RICE (1843-1882)  , See also:English novelist, was See also:born at See also:Northampton on the 26th of See also:September 1843 . Educated at Queens' See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he graduated in See also:law in 1867, he was called to the See also:bar at See also:Lincoln's See also:Inn in 1871 . In the meantime (1868) he had bought Once a See also:Week, which proved a losing venture for him, but which brought him into See also:touch with See also:Walter See also:Besant, a contributor [see Besant's See also:preface to the Library Edition (1887) of Ready-See also:money Mortiboy] . There ensued a See also:close friendship and a See also:literary See also:partnership between the two men which lasted ten years until See also:Rice's See also:death, and resulted in a large number of successful novels . The first of them, published anonymously, Rice being responsible for the central figure and the leading situation, was Ready-money Mortiboy (1782), dramatized by them later and unsuccessfully produced at the See also:Court See also:Theatre in 1874 . In rapid See also:succession followed My Little Girl (1873); With See also:Harp and See also:Crown (1874); This Son of See also:Vulcan (1876); The See also:Golden Butterfly (1876), the most popular of their See also:joint productions; The Monks of Thelema (1878); By Celia's See also:Arbour (1878); The Seamy See also:Side (188o) ; The See also:Chaplain of the See also:Fleet (1881); See also:Sir See also:Richard See also:Whittington (1881), and a large number of See also:short stories, some of them reprinted in The See also:Case of Mr Lucraft, &c . (1876), 'Twas in See also:Trafalgar's See also:Bay, &c . (1879), and The Ten Years' See also:Tenant, &c . (1881) . See also:James Rice died at Redhill on the 26th of See also:April 1882 .

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