Thomas Mayne Reid
Irish British novelist · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1818 to 1883 · aged 65
Thomas Mayne Reid was an Irish 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.
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"Captain" Reid wrote adventure novels akin to those by Frederick Marryat (1792-1848), and Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894). 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.
