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Alfred Edgar Coppard (January 4, 1878–January 13, 1957) was an English writer, noted for his influence on the short story form, and poet. Events 46 BC - Titus Labienus defeats Julius Caesar in the Battle of Ruspina. Year 1878 ( MDCCCLXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Events 532 - Nika riots in Constantinople. 888 - Odo Count of Paris becomes King of the Franks Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) The short story is a literary genre of Fictional Prose Narrative that tends to be more concise and to the point than longer works of fiction such He was born, the son of a tailor and a housemaid, in Folkestone, and had little formal education. Folkestone (ˈfoʊkstən is a resort town on the south coast of Kent, England, traditionally known as "The Garden Coast" He left school at the age of nine to work as an errand boy for a Jewish trouser maker in Whitechapel during the period of the Jack-the-Ripper murders.

In the early 1920s, and still unpublished, he was in Oxford and a leading light of a literary group, the New Elizabethans, who met in a pub to read Elizabethan drama. The 1920s is sometimes referred to as the " Jazz Age " or the " Roaring Twenties " when speaking about the United States and Canada Oxford is currently bidding for the 2010 Wikimania Conference Oxford () is a city, and the County town of Oxfordshire, English Renaissance theatre is English drama written between the Reformation and the closure of the theatres in 1642. W. B. Yeats sometimes attended the meetings. At this period he met Richard Hughes and Edgell Rickword, amongst others. Richard Arthur Warren Hughes OBE ( 19 April, 1900 — 28 April 1976) was a British writer of poems short stories novels John Edgell Rickword, MC ( October 22 1898 - March 15 1982) was an English poet and critic and journalist and literary editor

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the old venerable, a story that where Alfred Edgar is at his best in realistic, robust tales of rural life

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