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LAWRENCE, GEORGE ALFRED (1827–1876)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 305 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAWRENCE, See also:GEORGE See also:ALFRED (1827–1876) , See also:English novelist, was See also:born at Braxted, See also:Essex, on the 25th of See also:March 1827, and was educated at See also:Rugby and at Balliol See also:college, See also:Oxford. He was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple in 1852, but soon abandoned the See also:law for literature. In 1857 he published, anonymously, his first novel, See also:Guy See also:Livingstone, or Thorough. The See also:book achieved a very large See also:sale, and had nine or ten successors of a similar type, the best perhaps being See also:Sword and See also:Gown (1859). Lawrence may be regarded as the originator in English fiction of the beau sabreur type of See also:hero, See also:great in See also:sport and love and See also:war. He died at See also:Edinburgh on the 23rd of See also:September 1876.

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