Rice, James

Rice, James

▪ British author
born Sept. 26, 1843, Northampton, Eng.
died April 26, 1882, Redhill

      English novelist best known for his literary partnership with Sir Walter Besant (Besant, Sir Walter).

      Rice was educated at Queens' College, Cambridge, where he graduated in law in 1867. In 1868 Rice bought Once a Week, which proved a losing venture for him but brought him into touch with Besant, (Besant, Sir Walter) who was a contributor. There ensued a close friendship and literary partnership that lasted until Rice's death 10 years later and resulted in a large number of successful novels. To the first, the anonymously published Ready-money Mortiboy (1872), Rice contributed the central figure and the leading situation, dramatized by them later and unsuccessfully produced at the Court Theatre in 1874. This work was followed by My Little Girl (1873); This Son of Vulcan (1876); The Golden Butterfly (1876), the most popular of their joint productions; With Harp and Crown (1877); The Monks of Thelema (1878); By Celia's Arbour (1878); The Seamy Side (1880); The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881); Sir Richard Whittington (1881); and a large number of short stories, some of which were reprinted in The Case of Mr. Lucraft (1876), 'Twas in Trafalgar Bay (1879), and The Ten Years' Tenant (1881).

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