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7886 words with corrections in text 33 pp. 8vo. "Richard Whiteing, (Jul.27.1840-Jun.29.1928), English journalist and novelist, was the eldest son of William Whiteing, a clerk in the Stamps Office, and Mary Lander, who died when the boy was an infant. Richard lived with his father at Norfolk Street, the Strand, till nearly eight, when he attended school in an old palace at Bromley-by-Bow, then lived with foster parents at St. John's Wood, where he was taught by a French refugee. Apprenticed for seven years to Benjamin Wyon, a medalist and engraver of seals, Whiteing also attended evening art classes, where he met Ruskin and F.J. Furnivall. In 1866 he was secretary at two pounds a week in Paris for an Anglo-French working-class exhibition, and contributed several satirical articles on political and social subjects to the London "Evening Star". "Mr. Sprouts - His Opinions", concerning a costermonger who gets himself into prison, is a collection of articles. Whiteing acted as Paris correspondent for the London "World" and New York "World", and was correspondent to Geneva for the Alabama Arbitration Claims Commission. His first novel, "The Democracy" (1876), appeared under the pseudonym of "Whyte Thorn". Whiteing's travels took him to Spain, Vienna, Berlin, Russia, Rome and the United States (1878). He spent thirteen years on the London staff of the "Dailey News". "No.5 John Street" is Whiteing's chief claim to remembrance nowadays, a novel on the "Grand Hotel" formula which is ostensibly a report (sent to Pitcairn Islanders) on Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897. Whiteing was granted a civil list pension in 1910 and died at Hampstead, when nearly ninety. In 1869 he had married Helen, daughter of Townsend Harris, first United States minister to Japan. PRINCIPAL WORKS: The Democracy, 1876; The Island, 1888; No.5 John Street, 1899; The Life of Paris, 1900; The Yellow Van, 1903; Ring in the New, 1906; All Moonshine, 1907; Little People (essays), 1908. ABOUT: Whiteing, R. "My Harvest" (autobiography); London Times June 30, 1928." 7886 words with corrections in text 33 pp. 8vo. Seller Inventory # 57341
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