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was launched, with Charles Dickens as editor, and Maginn wrote the prologue and contributed over the next several years a series of "Shakespeare Papers" that examined characters in counter-intuitive fashion (e.g., the key to Falstaff is his melancholy). From "The Man in the Bell"
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One of the most brilliant periodical writers of his time, Maginn left little permanent work behind him. In his later years, 1842, his intemperate habits landed him in
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in August 1842, survived by his wife Ellen, and daughters Annie and Ellen, and son John. His nephew
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The Military Sketch-Book: Reminiscences of Seventeen Years Service Abroad and At Home
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a newspaper that he edited along with a fellow graduate of
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A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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Cork
Walton-on-Thames
Surrey
Irish
Cork
Blackwood's Magazine
London
Paris
The Representative
John Murray
Tory
Trinity College, Dublin
Stanley Lees Giffard
Fraser's Magazine
Grantley Berkeley
debtor's prison
Insolvent Debtor's Act
tuberculosis
Punch
Walton-on-Thames
Francis Maginn
British Deaf Association
Matthew Arnold
On Translating Homer

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Cousin, John William
A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature
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