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CHARLES JAMES (1806-1872).-Novelist, _b._ at Dublin, and _ed._ at Trinity Coll. there. He studied medicine at Goettingen, and practised at various places in Ireland. In 1837 he contributed to the _Dublin University Magazine_ his first novel, _Harry Lorrequer_, and the immediate and wide acceptance which it found decided him to devote himself to literature. He accordingly followed it with _Charles O'Malley_ (1840), his most popular book. After this scarcely a year passed without an addition to the list of his light-hearted, breezy, rollicking stories, among which may be mentioned _Jack Hinton_ (1842), _Tom Burke of Ours_, _Arthur O'Leary_, and _The Dodd Family Abroad_. _The O'Donoghue_ and _The Knight of Gwynne_ (1847) are more in the nature of historical romances. In 1864 he contributed to _Blackwood's Magazine_ a series of miscellaneous papers, _Cornelius O'Dowd on Men, Women, and Things in General_. L.'s life was largely spent abroad. After practising his profession in Brussels 1840-42 he returned to Dublin to ed. the _Dublin University Magazine_, which he did until 1845, after which he went to Italy, settled at Florence, and thereafter was British Consul successively at Spezzia and Trieste, at the latter of which he _d._ He continued to produce novels up to the end of his life. Among the later ones are _Sir Brooke Fosbrooke_, _The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly_, and _Lord Kilgobbin_ (1872).