An African Millionaire

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An African Millionaire
Written by Edgar Wallace
Date premiered1904
Original languageEnglish
GenreDrama

An African Millionaire is a 1904 play by the British writer Edgar Wallace, then a journalist working for the Daily Mail .

It was his first play, and proved to be a major flop, running for only six performances in a Cape Town theatre, before being withdrawn after a very poor reception from critics. [1] Wallace had previously spent several years in South Africa working as a journalist, and modelled the story on the life of Cecil Rhodes. His expectations that the play would be a hit and then transfer to London and other cities of the Empire provided unfounded. [1]

Wallace's popular thriller novel The Four Just Men was published the following year launching his career as a fiction author.

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  1. 1 2 Clark, p. 93

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