Charles Kent (English writer)

Charles Kent (English writer)
Charles (William Charles Mark) Kent (1823-1902) was an English poet, biographer, and journalist, born in London. After completing his education at Prior Park and Oscott, he became editor of the Sun (1845–70), studied law at the same time and was called to the bar in 1859 as a member of Middle Temple, but thereafter devoted himself to literature. He edited Weekly Register, a Roman Catholic paper (1874–81).
A personal friend of Charles Dickens, he contributed to Household Words and All the Year Round under Dickens's editorship and to other periodicals. Several volumes of poems, published previously in the forties, fifties, and sixties, provided the materials for his collected Poems (1870).
In later years he gave himself largely to editorial work—chiefly complete editions of the greater English writers, memoirs, and critiques, and notably Burns (1874), Lamb (1875 and 1893), Moore (1879), Father Prout (1881), and Lord Lytton (1875, 1883, and 1898). He also wrote Leigh Hunt as an Essayist (1888), The Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton (1883), and The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens (1884).
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Publications
Works
Poems (1870)
A mythological dictionary (1870)
Charles Dickens as a Reader (1872)
Leigh Hunt as an Essayist (1888)
The Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton (1883)
The Humour and Pathos of Charles Dickens (1884)
Contributions to the DNB
Charles Michael Baggs
Peter Augustine Baines
William Barrett
Hezekiah Linthicum Bateman
Sidney Frances Bateman
William Beckford
Edward Bellasis
John Chippendall Montesquieu Bellew
Craven Fitzhardinge Berkeley
Francis Henry Fitzhardinge Berkeley
George Charles Grantley Fitzhardinge Berkeley
Mary Berry
Henry Digby Best
Charles Bindley
John Augustine Birdsall
William Blanchard
Countess Marguerite of Blessington
John William Bowden
George Bowyer
James Yorke Bramston
John Briggs (1788-1861)
James Brown
Thomas Joseph Brown
William Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer
James Calderbank
Leonard Calderbank
Thomas Carrick
Thomas Chatterton
Henry Cockton
William Hepworth Dixon
Charles Dolman
John Doran
Count D'Orsay, Alfred Guillaume Gabriel
George Errington
Frederick John Fargus
Henry Ibbot Field
John Forster
James Robert Hope-Scott
Edward George Fitzalan-Howard
Henry Charles Howard
Henry Granville Fitzalan- Howard
Joseph Howe
William Blanchard Jerrold
Augustin Louis Josse
Frances Maria Kelly
Miles Gerald Keon
Charles Mackay
Pasquale Paoli
Charles Reade
Alfred Bate Richards
George Rose (1817-1882)
Marmion W. Savage
John Palgrave Simpson
George Augustus Frederick Percy Sydney Smythe
Tom Taylor
George Walter Thornbury
George Alfred Walker
Nicholas Patrick Stephen Wiseman
Contributions to Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)
Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer
Pseudonym Mark Rochester
The Derby Ministry: A Series of Cabinet Pictures (1858)
The Gladstone Government: Being Cabinet Pictures (1869)
Works about Kent
Obituary: Mr. Charles Kent, man of letters in The Times
Charles Kent in Notes by the Way by J. C. Francis, (1909).
External links
Charles Kent Papers. James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
1823 births
1902 deaths
English male poets
English biographers
Charles Dickens
Writers from London
People educated at Prior Park College
Alumni of St Mary's College, Oscott
Members of the Middle Temple
English male novelists
Male biographers