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Charles James Lever , 1806-72, Irish novelist. He began his career as a practicing physician. His early novels appeared periodically in the Dublin University Magazine, whose editorship he assumed in 1842. A prolific writer, Lever is best known for his farcical picaresque novels of Irish military life, notably Harry Lorrequer (1839) and Charles O'Malley (1841). In his later work he became more serious and his novels more carefully constructed, but he diminished in popularity.

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Lever, Charles (1806–72), novelist born in Dublin, qualified as an MD. His first novels, Harry Lorrequer (1839), Charles O'Malley (1841), and Jack Hinton the Guardsman (1843), were extremely popular. In 1842 he became editor of the Dublin University Magazine. Tom Burke of Ours (1844) and The Knight of Gwynne (1847) were notable among the stream of his racy, anecdotal works. In 1845 he left Ireland and eventually settled in Italy. His other novels include The Dodd Family Abroad (1852–4), Sir Jasper Crew (1855), The Fortunes of Glencore (1857), and Lord Kilgobbin (1872).

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