Charles Reade
Charles Reade was a British novelist and dramatist, best known for the 1861 historical novel The Cloister and the Hearth.
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Background
- Born in
- Ipsden
- Educated at
- Magdalen College
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Trending topics shown first"Lower a bucket into a well of self-deception, and what comes up must be immortal truth, mustn't it?"
"It must be confessed that a sort of halo of personal grandeur surrounds a great actress."
"The fortunate man is he who, born poor, or nobody, works gradually up to wealth and consideration, and, having got them, dies before he finds they were not worth so much trouble."
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Timeline
1814
Born
Birth1884
Died
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