Charles Warren Adams
Charles Warren Adams , pseudonym: Charles Felix , (* 1833 in England , † 1903 in England) was an English lawyer , publisher and opponent of vivisection .
Life
Little is known about Adam's early life. As a lawyer, he was involved in the rescue of the well-known London publishing house Saunders, Otley & Co. after the two owners died. However, this did not succeed and the publishing house was liquidated in 1869. However, the publisher had published two of the lawyer's crime stories under his pseudonym Charles Felix . The first volume in 1864 was entitled Velvet Lawns , the second was published in 1865, entitled The Notting Hill Mystery, with illustrations by George du Maurier , the author of Trilby . The novel had previously been published as a serial in a magazine in 1862 and 1863.
In literary studies, Adam's novel The Notting Hill Mystery is considered to be the first fully-fledged detective novel .
In later years Adams became executive director of the Anti-Vivisection Society , the English society against vivisection . On the board of the Society worked Mildred Coleridge, the great-great-niece of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge and daughter of John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge , who in his career was Attorney General for England and Wales in 1871 and Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales in 1873 . Mildred Coleridge left her family to live with Adams and Adams received allegations from Mildred's brother Bernard. The ensuing libel lawsuits in 1884 and 1886 were won by Adams. The couple married in 1885 and stayed together until Adam's death in 1903. His widow died in 1929.
Publications
- Velvet Lawns . Saunders, Otley & Co., London 1864.
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The Notting Hill Mystery . Saunders, Otley & Co., London 1865.
- German by Boris Greff and Matthias Marx: The Mystery of Notting Hill with illustrations by George du Maurier and an afterword by Jürgen Kaube . The Other Library , Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8477-3004-0 .
- New edition: Poisoned Pen Press, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA 2015, ISBN 978-1-464204807 .
literature
- Mike Ashley: Introduction to the Facsimile Edition of the British Library , London 2012, ISBN 978-0-7123-5859-0 . With the illustrations by du Maurier.
- Wieland Freund : The Secret of 1862 . In: Literary World , March 22, 2014, p. 6
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Adams, Charles Warren |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Felix, Charles (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English lawyer, publisher and anti-vivisectionist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1833 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | England |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1903 |
| Place of death | England |