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Sir Walter Besant NPG Ax5417

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Herbert Rose Barraud, published by Richard Bentley & Son

Walter Besant was a novelist and campaigner for author's rights, whose best work describing social evils in London's East End helped set in motion movements to aid the poor. In 1871 Besant began a literary collaboration with James Rice, editor of Once a Week, which lasted until Rice's death in 1882; during that time they jointly produced nine popular novels. Besant's most famous novel was his first, All Sorts and Conditions of Men, based on his impressions of the East London slums. It was... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

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