“But the day is yet far off when the historian shall jostle the novelist out of his place.”
About William Brighty Rands
24 December 1823–23 April 1882
William Brighty Rands was born on 24 December 1823, in Chelsea, then a district on the western edge of London and already a place where commerce, domestic life, artistic ambition, and metropolitan poverty met in close quarters. He died on 23 April 1882, having lived only fifty-eight years, and his name is now far less…