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John Forster

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born

April 02, 1812 in Newcastle upon Tyne, The United Kingdom

died

February 02, 1876

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John Forster was an English biographer, a critic and a Charles Dickens' friend.
He contributed to "The True Sun", "The Morning Chronicle" and "The Examiner", of which he was literary and dramatic critic.
His "Lives of the Statesmen of the Commonwealth (1836-1839)" published in 1840 obtained immediate recognition, making Forster a prominent figure in a distinguished circle of literary men which included Leigh Hunt, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Thomas Noon Talfourd, Albany Fonblanque, Walter Savage Landor, Robert Browning, Thomas Carlyle and Charles Dickens.
On the death of his friend Alexander Dyce, Forster undertook the publication of his third edition of Shakespeare.
Works
"Lives of Eminent British Statesmen" (1840)
"Treatise on the Popular Progress...more

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Books by John Forster

Average rating: 4.13 · 23 ratings · 2 reviews · 42 distinct works

	Life of Charles Dickens 411 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1874 — 20 editions	My rating:
	The Life of Charles Dickens: The Illustrated Edition by John Forster, Holly Furneaux, Jane Smiley 350 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Historical and Biographical Essays V2 (1858) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Reflections, Physical and Moral: Upon the Various and Numerous Uncommon Phenomena in the Air, Water, or Earth (1756) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Charles Dickens' Leben (1873) 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Life of Charles Dickens 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	The Life of Charles Dickens 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith, Vol. 2 000 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith Vol. 1 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Sir John Eliot: A Biography. 1590-1632 Volume 1 000 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: