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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Arthur Wing Pinero
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(1855–1934, kt 1909) Playwright whose first successes were all farces (particularly The Magistrate, 1885), but who established himself as a serious dramatist in 1893 with The *Second Mrs Tanqueray. Of his later plays the best known is a comedy, *Trelawny of the 'Wells'.
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