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WARREN, SAMUEL (1807-1877)

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WARREN, See also:SAMUEL (1807-1877) , See also:English lawyer and author, son of Dr Samuel Warren, See also:rector of All Souls', Ancoats, See also:Manchester, was See also:born near See also:Wrexham in Denbighshire on the 23rd of May 1807. The See also:elder Samuel Warren (1781—1862) became a Wesleyan See also:minister, but was expelled by See also:Conference in 1835 on See also:account of his attitude towards proposals for the See also:establishment of a theological training See also:college at Manchester. He formed a new association, the members of which were nicknamed Warrenites, and this See also:developed into the See also:United Methodist See also:Free Churches. Warren himself took orders in the See also:Church of See also:England. His son, the younger Samuel Warren, studied See also:medicine at the University of See also:Edinburgh, but abandoned this to study for the English See also:bar. He entered the Inner See also:Temple in 1828, and was successful in his profession. He took See also:silk in r851, was made See also:recorder of See also:Hull in 1852, represented See also:Midhurst in See also:parliament for three years (1856-1859) and was rewarded in 1859 with a mastership in lunacy. He had already written a See also:good See also:deal on the subject of See also:insanity in its legal aspects, and he was always a determined opponent of the rising school of medical alienists who were more and more in favour of reducing certain forms of See also:crime to a See also:state of See also:mental See also:aberration which should not be punished outside of asylums. Meantime he had made much more brilliant success in fiction. Very See also:early in his career he had begun to write for See also:Blackwood. His Passages from the See also:Diary of a See also:Late Physician were published in that See also:magazine between See also:August 183o and August 1837, and appeared in collected See also:form in 1838. These realistic See also:short stories, with a somewhat morbid See also:interest shielded under a moral purpose, were extremely popular.

Warren's brief experience as a medical student thus stood him in good See also:

stead. But his See also:great success was Ten Thousand a See also:Year, which ran in Blackwood from See also:October 1839 to August 1841, and was published separately immediately on its conclusion. Critics complained of the coarse workmanship, the banality of the moralizing, the crudeness of the pathos, the farcical extravagance of the See also:humour; but meantime the See also:work proved one of the most popular novels of the See also:century. Of the higher qualities of See also:imagination and See also:passion Warren was destitute, but his sketches of See also:character, especially farcical character—Tittlebat See also:Titmouse, Oily Gammon, Mr Quicksilver (an open See also:caricature of See also:Lord See also:Brougham)—are bold and strong, forcibly imprinted on the memory, and the interest of the See also:story is made to run with a powerful current. For several years Warren was known as the author of Ten Thousand a Year, and many tales were told of his open See also:pride in the achievement. In 1847 he made another venture, but Now and Then was not a success. The See also:Lily and the See also:Bee, a See also:squib on the Crystal See also:Palace, published in 1851, though it had the See also:honour of See also:translation into See also:Italian, was a See also:signal failure. A pessimistic dissertation on The Intellectual and Moral Development of the See also:Age, published in 1853, also See also:fell See also:flat, and thenceforth Warren, after See also:publishing his See also:Works: See also:Critical and Imaginative, in four volumes in 18J4i retired on his laurels. He died in See also:London on the 29th of See also:July 1877. Warren also wrote several legal works of repute—Introduction to See also:Law Studies (1835), Extracts from See also:Blackstone (1837), See also:Manual of See also:Parliamentary Law (1852).

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