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WILLIAM PETT RIDGE (1864- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 317 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WILLIAM PETT See also:RIDGE (1864- )  , See also:English author, was See also:born at Chartham, near See also:Canterbury, and was educated at Marden, See also:Kent, and at the See also:Birkbeck See also:Institute, See also:London . He was for some See also:time a clerk in the Railway Clearing See also:House, and began about 1891 to write humorous sketches for the St See also:James's See also:Gazette and other papers . He secured his first striking success, in See also:volume See also:form, with Hord Em'ly (1898), an excellent example of his ability to draw humorous portraits of See also:lower class See also:life . His later books include A Son of the See also:State (1899), A Breaker of See also:Laws (1900), Lost See also:Property (1902), Erb (1903), Mrs Caler's Business (1905), The Wickhamses (1906), &c .

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