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His books are still being sold, and he still talked about. scope_creepTalk 08:18, 30 March 2019 (UTC)}} F.O. Mann (1885-1935) was a British writer best known for his novels and for his edited publication of the works of Thomas Deloney. Mann was educated at Oxford University and had a long career as a civil servant three government agencies: the Ministry of Munitions, the Ministry of Labour and the Board of Education. He was noted for his comic novels which were published in England and in the United States. Among them are his popular social comedy, Albert Grope - The Story of a Belated Victorian (1931) and its sequel, Grope Carries On (1932). He was born Francis Oscar Mann in London in December 1885, the son of Frederick Chesterton Mann (1851-1922) and Emma Holloway Mann (1853-1930). He died on June 26, 1935, aged forty nine. Literary Landmarks of 1935; Joseph A. Brandt, "Books Abroad", Vol. 10., No. 1 (Winter, 1936), pp. 17-27 Selected Works of F.O. Mann The Works of Thomas Deloney from the Earliest Extant Editions and Broadsides, with an Introduction and Notes, edited by Francis Oscar Mann (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1912 The Devil in a Nunnery, and Other Mediaeval Tales (London, Constable & Co.1914) The Sisters and Other Tales in Verse (1927) Albert Grope - The Story of a Belated Victorian (1931) The Old Woman Talks (1932) Grope Carries On - Being the Further Adventures of Albert Grope (1932) Blow & Clee (1936) References |
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