George Manville Fenn (1831–1909)
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Œuvres de George Manville Fenn
Yussuf the guide [microform]: Being the strange story of the travels in Asia Minor of Burne the lawyer, Preston the… (2008) 5 exemplaires
The World of Wit and Humour 4 exemplaires
The chaplain's craze; being the mystery of Findon frairs 2 exemplaires
Dead Man's Land Being the Voyage to Zimbambangwe of certain and uncertain blacks and whites (2009) 2 exemplaires
A Crimson Crime 2 exemplaires
The grand chaco : a boy's adventures in a unknown land 2 exemplaires
Memoir of Benjamin Franklin Stevens 1 exemplaire
Happy Playmates: A Volume of Original Pictures, Stories and Verses — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Beneath the sea 1 exemplaire
The Vibart affair 1 exemplaire
Coming home to roost 1 exemplaire
Haunted by Spirits 1 exemplaire
In the wilds of New Mexico 1 exemplaire
The clerk of Portwick 1 exemplaire
Vince the Rebel on the Sanctuary in the Bog 1 exemplaire
Webs in the way 1 exemplaire
Bent, not broken 1 exemplaire
Mahme Nousie 1 exemplaire
The lass that loved a soldier 1 exemplaire
The case of Ailsa Gray 1 exemplaire
Pretty Polly 1 exemplaire
High play 1 exemplaire
A woman worth winning 1 exemplaire
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Stories Jolly, Stories New, Stories Strange, and Stories True: A Series of New and Original Tales for Boys and Girls… — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
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- Nom légal
- Fenn, George Manville
- Date de naissance
- 1831-01-03
- Date de décès
- 1909-08-26
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Pimlico, London, England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Isleworth, London, England, UK
- Études
- Battersea Training College for Teachers
- Professions
- teacher (Lincolnshire)
Editor (Cassell's Magazine) - Relations
- Leake, Susanna (wife)
- Courte biographie
- Fenn, the third child and eldest son of a butler, Charles Fenn, was largely self-educated, teaching himself French, German and Italian. After studying at Battersea Training College for Teachers (1851-4), he became the master of a national school at Alford, Lincolnshire. He later became a printer, editor and publisher of short-lived periodicals, before attracting the attention of Charles Dickens and others with a sketch for All the Year Round in 1864. He contributed to Chambers's Journal and Once a Week. In 1866, he wrote a series of articles on working-class life for the newspaper The Star. These were collected and republished in four volumes. They were followed by a similar series in the Weekly Times.
Meanwhile he was married in 1855 to Susanna Leak, daughter of John Leak of Alford. They had two sons and six daughters.
Fenn's first story for boys, Hollowdell Grange, appeared in 1867. It was followed by a long list of other novels for juveniles and adults. Having become editor of Cassell's Magazine in 1870, he purchased Once a Week and edited it until it closed in 1879. He also wrote for the theatre.
Fenn and his family lived at Syon Lodge, Isleworth, Middlesex, where he built up a library of 25,000 volumes and took up telescope making. His last book was a biography of a great fellow writer of boys' stories, George Alfred Henty. He died at home on 26 August 1909.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 159
- Aussi par
- 6
- Membres
- 513
- Popularité
- #48,356
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 440
- Langues
- 2