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Charles Anderson Read (born 1841, Sligo, Ireland; d.1878, Surrey, England) was an Irish journalist, novelist and anthologist.

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Life

He was born to a landowning family near Sligo. He had a business in Rathfriland, County Down, but when it failed he moved to London, becoming a journalist.[ citation needed ]

He produced numerous sketches, poems, short tales, and nine novels. [1] Two much-acclaimed novels were Savourneen Dheelish (1869) and Aileen Aroon (1870). The former dealt with the same episode as William Carleton's short story Wildgoose Lodge, i.e. the Wildgoose Lodge Murders of 1816. Before his death, in Surrey in 1878, he had completed three of four projected volumes of The Cabinet of Irish Literature. The final volume was edited by T. P. O'Connor. [2] [3]

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References

  1. Stephen Brown: A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction (1910)
  2. "Charles Anderson Read". Dictionary of Ulster Biography (1993). Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 5 July 2009.
  3. "Charles Anderson Read". Answers.com. Retrieved 5 July 2009.