James Redding Ware (1832-1909) was an author, journalist and lexicographer. John Simpson is the Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
‘Plunges the reader straight into the late 19th-century Bartholomew
Fair of undeserving paupers, loafers, Ally Slopers, theatrical
types and demi-mondaines.’
*The Spectator*
‘I hope J. Redding Ware studies comes into its own, or at least
that others discover him. How often is it worth reading a
dictionary just for the stories?’
*Inside Higher Ed*
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