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Joseph Henry Shorthouse
1903Mar, 4

Joseph Henry Shorthouse

Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (b. 1834)
Joseph Henry Shorthouse (9 September 1834 – 4 March 1903) was an English novelist. His first novel, John Inglesant, was particularly admired as a "philosophical romance". It discusses a religious intrigue in the English 17th century.

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