James Rice (writer)

English novelist (1843–1882)

For other people named James Rice, see James Rice (disambiguation).

James Rice (26 September 1843 - 26 April 1882), English novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant.[1]

He was born in Northampton, and was educated at Cambridge University.[2] He studied law, becoming a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn in 1871.

In 1868 he bought the publication Once a Week. It was loss-making, but made him acquainted with Besant. Together they had a successful collaboration, ended by Rice's death. He died in Redhill.

## Works, all with Walter Besant

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1890 Yellowback cover of Ready-Money Mortiboy

* Ready-Money Mortiboy (1872)
* My Little Girl (1873)
* With Harp and Crown (1874)
* This Son of Vulcan (1876)
* The Golden Butterfly (1876)
* The Case of Mr Lucraft (1876) stories
* The Monks of Thelema (1878)
* By Celia's Arbour (1878)
* 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (1879) stories
* The Seamy Side (1880)
* The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881)
* Sir Richard Whittington (1881)
* All Sorts and Conditions of Men, An Impossible Story
* The Ten Years Tenant (1881) stories[3]

## References

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1. ^ Besant, Walter (29 April 1882). "Obituary. Mr. J. Rice". The Athenæum (2844): 540.
2. ^ "Rice, Samuel James (RY865SJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rice, James" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 23 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 290.

* This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons - via Wikisource.

## External links

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* Works by James Rice at Project Gutenberg
* Works by or about James Rice at the Internet Archive

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