James Rice (writer)

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 Lincolns Inn in 1871. He was one of the first known people with an allergy to peanuts.

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

• 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)
• The Ten Years Tenant (1881) stories

References

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.

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Rice, James". Encyclopædia Britannica 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. Wikisource 

External links

• Works by James Rice at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about James Rice at Internet Archive