John Edmund Reade

(1800-1870)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Reade, John Edmund, 1800-1870 NRA: Reade John Edmund (1800-1870) Humorist and Novelist DNB: Reade, John Edmund (1800-1870), poet and novelist LBT ID: JoReade1870 VIAF ID: 39773094 LOC ID: n82208578	B/BAP: 1800 DIED: 1870-09-17
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Prolific English poet who boldly plagiarized the works of contemporary romantics; he was a friend of William Jerdan.
REFERENCES TO John Edmund Reade: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 11 November 1838 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 15: Literati Found 1: ¶ n1 Ch. 18: Literary List Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ 12 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XV Found 1: ¶ 2 Clarke, Charles Cowden, 1787-1877, Recollections of Writers (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878) Chapter V. Found 1: ¶ 8