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Mortimer Collins (1827 - 1876), novelist, son of a solicitor at
Plymouth, was for a time a teacher of mathematics in Guernsey. Settling
in Berkshire he adopted a literary life, and was a prolific author,
writing largely for periodicals. He also wrote a good deal of occasional
and humorous verse, and several novels, including Sweet Anne Page
(1868), Two Plunges for a Pearl (1872), Mr. Carrington (1873), under
the name of "R.T. Cotton," and A Fight with Fortune (1876).
- This article is originally from A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature.
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