RICE, JAMES

RICE, JAMES
   novelist, born at Northampton, educated at Cambridge; designed for the law, but took to literature; owned and edited Once a Week; best known as the successful collaborateur of WALTER BESANT (q.v. BESANT, SIR WALTER) in such popular novels as "The Golden Butterfly," "Ready-Money Mortiboy," &c. (1844-1882).

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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