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Reid, Mayne, 1818-1883.
Thomas Mayne Reid
Thomas Mayne Reid
(4 April 1818 – 22 October 1883) was a British
novelist
who fought in the
Mexican–American War
(1846–1848). His many works on American life describe colonial policy in the American colonies, the horrors of slave labour, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by
Frederick Marryat
and
Robert Louis Stevenson
. They were set mainly in the
American West
,
Mexico
,
South Africa
, the
Himalayas
, and
Jamaica
. He was an admirer of
Lord Byron
. His novel ''Quadroon'' (1856), an anti-slavery work, was later adapted as a play entitled ''
The Octoroon
'' (1859) by
Dion Boucicault
and produced in New York.
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1883
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