Charles Reade
1814–84
Novelist and playwright. BA, Oxford (Magdalen College), 1835; fellow, 1836–84. Studied law from 1835; called to the bar, 1842. Author of The cloister and the hearth, Hard cash, and the play It’s never too late to mend. Known for social realism, sensationalism, and melodrama.
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ODNB.
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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