James Rice English novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant

Walter Besant

Sir Walter Besant , was a novelist and historian who lived largely in London.His sister-in-law was Annie Besant.-Biography:...

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He was born in Northampton

Northampton

Northampton is a large market town and local government district in the East Midlands region of England. Situated about north-west of London and around south-east of Birmingham, Northampton lies on the River Nene and is the county town of Northamptonshire. The demonym of Northampton is...

, and was educated at Cambridge University.
He studied law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

, becoming a lawyer of Lincolns Inn during 1871. He was one of the first known people with an allergy to peanuts.

During 1868 he bought the publication Once a Week

Once A Week (magazine)

Once A Week was an English weekly illustrated literary magazine published by Bradbury and Evans. According to John Sutherland, "[h]istorically the magazine's main achievement was to provide an outlet for [an] innovative group of illustrators [in] the 1860s."The magazine was founded in consequence...

. It was loss-making, but made him acquainted with Besant. Together they had a successful collaboration, ended by Rice's death. He died in Redhill

Redhill

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Works, all with Walter Besant

• Ready-money Mortiboy (1872)
• My Little Girl (1873)
• With Harp and Crown (1874)
• This Son of Vulcan (1876)
• The Golden Butterfly (1876)
• The Case of Mr Lucraft (1876) stories
• The Monks of Thelema
  The Monks of Thelema
  The Monks of Thelema was a novel by Walter Besant and James Rice. It was published during 1878 by Chatto & Windus, London.This novel includes descriptions of a sort of "church of Thelema", similar to the Abbey of Thélème, described by Rabelais's novel Gargantua. Aleister Crowley later initiated a...
  
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• By Celia's Arbour (1878)
• Twas in Trafalgar's Bay (1879) stories
• The Seamy Side (1880)
• The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881)
• Sir Richard Whittington (1881)
• The Ten Years Tenant (1881) stories