Edmund Yates
Running the Gauntlet
(Echo Library June 20, 2019)
, Reprint of an Earlier ed. edition
Edmund Hodgson Yates (1831-94) was a British journalist, novelist and dramatist. He was born in Einburgh and educated at Highgate School in London from 1840-46 before taking a position as clerk in the General Post Office. He then embarked on a career in journalism, working on the Court Journal and then the Daily News. His first book My Haunts and their Frequenters was published in 1854, followed by a succession of novels and plays. As a contributor to All the Year Round and Household Words be became a friend of Charles Dickens and at one time was his near neighbour in Doughty Street. He was perhaps best known as proprietor and editor of The World, a society newspaper he established with Eustace Clare Grenville Murray and edited under the pen name of Atlas. In 1884 he was sentenced to 4 months' imprisonment for libelling Lord Lonsdale, but some years later enjoyed a second career as a county magistrate. This novel was first published in 1865 and is reprinted from a later edition of 1867.
- ISBN
- 140689513X / 9781406895131
- Weight
- 15.5 oz.
- Dimensions
- 6.0 x 0.7 in.
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