Warwick Woodlands: Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago

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Henry William Herbert (1807-1858) who sometimes wrote under the pen name Frank Forester, was an English novelist and writer on sport. Herbert was born in London, he was educated at Eton College and at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated BA in 1830. To escape his debts, he emigrated to the United States, and from 1831 to 1839 taught Greek in a private school in New York City. In 1833 he started the American Monthly Magazine, which he edited, in conjunction with A. D. Patterson, till 1835. In 1834 he published his first novel, The Brothers: a Tale of the Fronde, which was followed by a number of others that achieved popularity including: The Warwick Woodlands; or, Things as They Were Twenty Years Ago (1845), Isabel Graham (1848), Pierre the Partisan (1848), Frank Forester and His Friends (1849) and Dermot O'Brien (1849).