Charles Lever

Standard Name: Lever, Charles

Connections

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Friends, Associates Jane Francesca Lady Wilde
Jane Francesca Wilde developed a close friendship with Sir William Rowan Hamilton , whom she first met at a dinner party held in April 1855. The Wildes' social circle included notable figures from science, politics...
Intertextuality and Influence Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
COCE headed her book with two lines from Thomas Campion : Alas, poor book . . . go spread thy papery wings. / Thy lightness cannot help or hurt my fame.
qtd. in
O’Conor Eccles, Charlotte. Modern Men. Leadenhall Press, 1887.
prelims
She walks a...
Literary responses Mary Ann Browne
As it began its course of posthumous publication, the Dublin University Magazine praised MAB for staying out of the masculine fields of analysis and abstract thought. This set a tone for later comments: as for...
Textual Production Anne Marsh
Her prefatory praise of Sir Walter Scott for having made the English understand Scotland, and of Charles Lever for only now beginning to make the English understand Ireland, has led careless readers to suppose that...
Textual Production John Strange Winter
This collection begins with a preface revisiting her statement in Cavalry Life that she was attempting to represent barracks life more faithfully than others had done. While asserting that a large class of writers has...

Timeline

31 August 1806: Charles Lever, novelist and editor, was born...

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31 August 1806

Charles Lever , novelist and editor, was born at Dublin.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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January 1833: The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly...

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January 1833

The first issues appeared of two Irish monthly periodicals: the successful Dublin University Magazine and the short-lived Dublin University Review, and Quarterly Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press, 1966–1989, 5 vols.
4: 193-195, 196-7, 199, 206-7, 214
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press, 2002, 2 vols.
Sadleir, Michael. “Dublin University Magazine: Its History, Contents and Bibliography”. The Bibliographical Society of Ireland, 1938, pp. 59-81.

February 1837-June 1842: Charles Lever's The Confessions of Harry...

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February 1837-June 1842

Charles Lever 's The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer was serialised very irregularly in the Dublin University Magazine.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

By 2 May 1857: Irish novelist Charles Lever published The...

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By 2 May 1857

Irish novelist Charles Lever published The Fortunes of Glencore.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
1540: 559-60
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

October 1870-March 1872: Charles Lever's last novel, Lord Kilgobbin,...

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October 1870-March 1872

Charles Lever 's last novel, Lord Kilgobbin, was serialised in the Cornhill.
Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989.

1 June 1872: Charles Lever, novelist and editor, died...

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1 June 1872

Charles Lever , novelist and editor, died at Trieste, Italy.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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