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Edmund Hodgson Yates

English journalist and novelist
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July 3, 1831, Edinburgh
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May 20, 1894, London (aged 62)
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Edmund Hodgson Yates (born July 3, 1831, Edinburgh—died May 20, 1894, London) was an English journalist and novelist who made both the gossip column and the society paper respectable. The son of the actor Frederick Henry Yates and the actress Elizabeth Yates, Edmund Hodgson Yates began working at age 16 in the London general post office and rose to become head of the missing-letters department before retiring in 1872. In the early 1850s he began writing criticism and poetry for various popular journals and then began working as an editor while collaborating in the writing of theatrical farces. He also ...(100 of 291 words)

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