Background
Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, on the 8th of June 1814 to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at least four brothers.
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Hillsborough and its outlying suburbs make bricks by the million, spin and weave both wool and cotton, forge in steel from the finest needle up to a ship's armor, and so add considerably to the kingdom's wealth. But industry so vast, working by steam on a limited space, has been fatal to beauty: Hillsborough, though built on one of the loveliest sites in England, is perhaps the most hideous town in creation. All ups and down and back slums. Not one of its wriggling, broken-backed streets has handsome shops in an unbroken row. Houses seem to have battled in the air, and stuck wherever they tumbled down dead out of the melee. But worst of all, the city is pockmarked with public-houses, and bristles with high round chimneys. These are not confined to a locality, but stuck all over the place like cloves in an orange. They defy the law, and belch forth massy volumes of black smoke, that hang like acres of crape over the place, and veil the sun and the blue sky even in the brightest day. But in a fogwhy, the air of Hillsborough looks a thing to plow, if you want a dirty job.
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Charles Reade was born at Ipsden, Oxfordshire, on the 8th of June 1814 to John Reade and Anne Marie Scott-Waring, and had at least four brothers.
He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he obtained a lifelong fellowship which allowed him sufficient leisure for writing.
He was subsequently dean of arts and vice-president, taking his degree of D. C. L. in 1847. His name was entered at Lincoln's Inn in 1836; he was elected Vinerian Fellow in 1842, and was called to the bar in 1843. He kept his fellowship at Magdalen all his life but, after taking his degree, he spent most of his time in London.
Reade began his literary career as a dramatist, and he chose to have "dramatist" stand first in the list of his occupations on his tombstone. [4] As an author, he always had an eye to stage effect in scene and situation as well as in dialogue. But Reade's reputation was made by the two-act comedy, Masks and Faces, in which he collaborated with Tom Taylor. He made his name as a novelist in 1856, when he published It Is Never Too Late to Mend, a novel written to reform abuses in prison discipline and the treatment of criminals. The truth of some details was challenged, and Reade defended himself vigorously. n 1861 Reade published what would become his most famous work, based on a few lines by the medieval humanist Erasmus about the life of his parents.
Reade's novels were popular, and he was among England's highest-paid novelists.
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Reade and his late wife had an adopted daughter. He cut off relations with her after she eloped at age sixteen with an actor.
