BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY
- BROOKS, CHARLES WILLIAM SHIRLEY
novelist and journalist, born in London; was on the staff of the Morning Chronicle; sent to Russia to inquire into and report on the condition of the peasantry and labouring classes there, as well as in Syria and Egypt; his report published in his "Russians of the South"; formed a connection with Punch in 1851, writing the "Essence of Parliament," and succeeded Mark Lemon as editor in 1870; he was the author of several works (1816-1874).
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia.
James Wood.
1907.
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