About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: George Linnaeus Banks, Talbot Baines Reed, William Booth, Charles Reed, Philip Henry Pye-Smith, Bramwell Booth, Josiah Conder, Thomas William Robertson, George Scott Railton, William Ellis, Marshall Broomhall, John Hoppus, Christopher Newman Hall, Alexander Fletcher, Andrew Reed, Frederick Booth-Tucker, Samuel Oughton, Henry Vincent, Aaron Buzacott, Samuel Sharpe, Joseph Jackson Fuller, William Hone, Mary Hays, Walter B. Woodbury, Edward Stallybrass, William Brock, James Braidwood, James Bronterre O'Brien, Samuel Morley, Isabella Banks, Thomas Binney, Walter Henry Medhurst, James Sherman, Henry Richard, Elijah Cadman, Florence Eleanor Soper, John Jay, Catherine Booth, John Pye-Smith, Robert Halley, Nathaniel Rogers, John Morison, George Leybourne, John Harris, Benjamin Broomhall, Thomas Caulker, Thomas Burchell, John Farrar, Albert Chevalier, Theodore Kitching, John Campbell, Joseph Ketley, Joanna Vassa, Nelly Power, T. Henry Howard, Dilys Grace Edmunds, Tommy Hall, Edward Calvert, Henry Allon, Thomas Wilson, Marie Booth, William Adolphus Knell, Herbert Ormond, Hugh Owen. Excerpt: Talbot Baines Reed (3 April 1852 - 28 November 1893) was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the second half of the 20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy's Own Paper (B.O.P.), in which most of his fiction first appeared. Through his family's business, Reed became a prominent typefounder, and wrote a classic History of the Old English Letter Foundries. Reed's father, Charles Reed, was a successful London printer who later became a Member of Parliament (MP). Talbot attended the City of London School before leaving at 17 to join the family business at the Fann Street type foundry. His literary c...
