Walter Besant
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Sir Walter Besant was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank, was the husband of Annie Besant.
Besant by 1888
Sir Walter Besant memorial near the Waterloo Bridge
James Rice (writer)
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James Rice, English novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant.
Walter Besant
…rights activist, socialist, and theosophist. In 1868 he published Studies in French Poetry. Three years later he began his collaboration with writer James Rice. Among their joint productions are Ready-money Mortiboy (1872), and The Golden Butterfly (1876), both, especially the latter, very successful. This…
1890 Yellowback cover of Ready-Money Mortiboy