to her and her type. She revealed that she was the anonymous writer from whom Yates had been requesting work for the last two years. Prompted by Yates's surprise that she was not a man, she decided to write under her own name in future. In 1885 he was sentenced to four months' imprisonment for libelling Lord Lonsdale, yet in later life enjoyed a second career as a county magistrate. Yates was also the author of, and performed in, Invitations at Egyptian Hall, London, which ran in 1862–1863. The work was a highly successful comedy in which he and Harold Littledale Power posed as hosts to a variety of singers and actors. Power also performed songs and imitations. Edmund Yates wrote his autobiography titled Edmund Yates, His Recollections and Experiences, the first edition of which was published by Richard Bentley and Son in 1884. Assessments Marie Corelli wrote of him: "Too hastily judged by some, and maligned by others, he was to those who recognised his real character 'a man among men' – a frank friend, an equally frank foe, and an open hater of all things mean and false and hypocritical." According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, "He had been the typical flâneur in the literary world of the period, an entertaining writer and talker, with a talent for publicity of the modern type—developed, no doubt, from his theatrical parentage—which, through his imitators, was destined to have considerable influence on journalism." Works After Office-Hours (1861) Running the Gauntlet (1865) For Better, for Worse (1864) The Business of Pleasure (1865) Land at Last (1866) Kissing the Rod (1866) Broken to Harness: A Story of English Domestic Life (2v., 1866) The Forlorn Hope (2v., 1867) The Rock Ahead (1868) Wrecked in Port (2v., 1869) A Righted Wrong (1870) Dr. Wainwright's Patient (2v., 1871) The Yellow Flag (1872) A Waiting Race (2v., 1872) Castaway (2v., 1872) Nobody’s Fortune (2v., 1872) The Yellow Flag (2v., 1873) The Impending Sword (2v., 1874; sometimes cited as Impeding) Two by Tricks (1874) Black Sheep (1874) A Silent Witness (2v., 1875) Going to the Bad (1876) Strangely enough, most of Yates's works, although they appeared in English, were apparently originally published in Leipzig, Germany. References External links Edmund Yates Papers in The University of Queensland Library – Victorian Fiction Research Guide Letters of George Augustus Sala to Edmund Yates – Victorian Fiction Research Guide Edmund Yates