Justin McCarthy

Mark Nixon (University of Reading)
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Justin McCarthy was born in Cork in 1830; he attended a private school in that town, and then began work at the

Cork Examiner

; however, it was on arrival in England in 1854 that his literary career began. By 1864 he was the editor of the

Morning Star

and a friend of the likes of John Bright and John Stuart Mill. After a brief journalistic career in the USA, he returned to England, where he became a regular contributor to most of the leading journals of the time and leader-writer for the

Daily News

. He had moderate success as a novelist; although fairly well-regarded at the time, even his better novels such as

Dear Lady Disdain

(1875) and

Miss Misanthrope

(1878) today only retain interest as curiosities. On the publication of

A History of Our Own Times

in 1877, however, he claimed for…

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Citation: Nixon, Mark. "Justin McCarthy". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 21 March 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3027, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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