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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Egerton Castle (1858–1920)

Castle, Egerton. An English author and journalist; born March 12, 1858; died in 1920. He was publisher and part owner of the Liverpool Mercury, served on the staff of the Saturday Review. Among his numerous works are: ‘Schools and Masters of Fence’ (1884); ‘Consequences of a Novel’ (1891); ‘La Bella and Others’ (1892); ‘The Light of Scarthey’ (1895); ‘The Jerningham Letters’ (1896); ‘The Pride of Jennico’ (1898); ‘The Bath Comedy’ (these last two novels written with his wife Agnes Castle); ‘Desperate Remedies’ (a play written for Richard Mansfield); ‘The Secret Orchard’ (1900) (dramatized for Mr. and Mrs. Kendal); ‘The House of Romance,’ ‘The Star Dreamer’ (1903); ‘If Youth but Knew.’