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In Hospital - William Ernest Henley
In Hospital
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William Ernest Henley
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William Ernest Henley
William Ernest Henley was born on 23rd August 1849, in Gloucester, England.
He attended Crypt Grammar School in Gloucester where the poet, scholar, and theologian, T. E. Brown, was headmaster. Brown had a made a huge impression on the young Henley and the two struck up a lifelong friendship. Henley claimed Brown to be a man of Genius – the first I’d ever seen
, and upon Brown’s death in 1897, Henley wrote an admiring obituary to him in the New Review.
From the age of 12, Henley suffered from tuberculosis of the bone which eventually resulted in his left leg having to be amputated below the knee. According to Robert Louis Stevenson’s letters, the character of Long John Silver was inspired by his friend Henley.
In 1867, Henley