Charles (James) Lever Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 10 pages of information about the life of Charles (James) Lever.

Charles (James) Lever Biography

This Biography consists of approximately 10 pages of information about the life of Charles (James) Lever.
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Dictionary of Literary Biography on Charles (James) Lever

Now little read or critically studied, Charles Lever was for thirty years one of the most popular novelists in England. His career is a paradigm of Victorian novel publishing, demonstrating the varied problems of magazine serialization, monthly numbers, "three-decker" novels, and "library" editions. Lever is also significant because he dealt with subjects beyond the sphere of interest of other Victorian writers: the military; English expatriates and tourists on the Continent; and, most importantly, Ireland.

Born in Dublin to James Lever, a building contractor from Lancashire, and Julia Candler Lever, Charles James Lever was a member of the Anglo-Irish class, a fact which had great influence on his career. Charles attended various academies in Dublin starting at the age of three, and gained a reputation as a prankster. Pretending to help a slow-witted fellow student learn his lessons, for example, Lever would fill the boy's mind with outrageously altered...

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