Reade
CHARLES, an English novelist; born in Ipsden House, Oxfordshire, England, June 8, 1814. He was educated at Oxford. In 1843 he was called to the bar as a member of Lincoln's Inn, but READER devoted himself to fiction writing. His first works to attract attention were "Peg Woffington" and "Christie Johnstone." Among his subsequent works are: "The Course of True Love"; "White Lies"; "The Cloister and the Hearth" "Hard Cash"; "Griffith Gaunt"; "Put Yourself in His Place"; "A Terrible Temptation"; "Never Too Late to Mend"; "Foul Play," etc.; and the plays "Gold Masks and Faces" (with Tom Taylor); "A Scuttled Ship" (with Boucicault). His last novel was "A Perilous Secret." He died in London, England, April 11, 1884.