James Rice (writer)
James Rice, English novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant.
He was born in Northampton, and was educated at Cambridge University.
He studied law, becoming a lawyer of Lincoln's Inn in 1871.
In 1868, he bought the publication Once a Week. 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.
Works, all with Walter Besant
- Ready-Money Mortiboy
- My Little Girl
- With Harp and Crown
- This Son of Vulcan
- The Golden Butterfly
- The Case of Mr Lucraft stories
- The Monks of Thelema
- By Celia's Arbour. A Tale of Portsmouth Town.
- 'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay stories
- The Seamy Side
- The Chaplain of the Fleet
- Sir Richard Whittington
- All Sorts and Conditions of Men, An Impossible Story
- stories