Charles Anderson Read (born 1841,

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; d.1878,

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) was an

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journalist, novelist and anthologist.

Life

He was born to a landowning family near Sligo. He had a business in

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, but when it failed he moved to

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, becoming a journalist. He produced numerous sketches, poems, short tales, and nine novels. Stephen Brown: A Reader’s Guide to Irish Fiction (1910) Two much-acclaimed novels were ''Savourneen Dheelish'' (1869) and ''Aileen Aroon'' (1870). The former dealt with the same episode as

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's short story ''Wildgoose Lodge'', i.e. the

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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

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Select bibliography

*''Love's Service'' *''Savourneen Dheelish'' (1869) *''Aileen Aroon'' (1870) *''The Cabinet of Irish Literature'' (3 volumes) (1876–1878)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Read, Charles Anderson Irish poets Writers from County Sligo 1841 births 1878 deaths 19th-century poets