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.) in such popular novels as “The Golden Butterfly,” “Ready-Money Mortiboy,” &c. (1844‒1882).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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