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Samuel Butler (1835-1902)


 

:For the 17th-century author of Hudibras, see Samuel Butler (1612-1680).

Biography

Samuel's friend Henry Festing Jones wrote the authoritative biography: the two-volume Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835-1902): A Memoir (commonly known as Jones's Memoir), published in 1919 and now only available from antiquarian booksellers. Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg.net hosts a shorter "Sketch" by Jones. More recently, Peter Raby has written a life: Samuel Butler: A Biography (Hogarth Press, 1991).

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