1. Edward Rose was an English playwright, best known for his adaptations of novels for the stage, mainly The Prisoner of Zenda.
11 Facts About Edward Rose
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Edward Rose was the theatre critic for The Sunday Times.
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Edward Rose was born in Swaffham, Norfolk, on 7 August 1849, son of Caleb Rose, a physician, and his first wife, Isabella Morse.
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Edward Rose worked in the solicitors firm Cobbold and Yarrington for four years, from 1868 to 1872.
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Edward Rose was a regular contributor to the Illustrated London News, specifically, the English Homes series, and was the theatre critic for the Sunday Times starting in 1894 and continuing until at least 1897.
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Edward Rose later adapted other works of Anthony Hope, but none reached the same level of success.
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Edward Rose married Elizabeth Ann Gould, and had two daughters, Lucy and Dorothy.
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Edward Rose served for a while as the Vice-President of the Playgoer's Club, and was a member of the Fabian Society.
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In 1902, Rose published The Rose Reader "a new way of teaching to read," that used only words that were spelled the way they sounded, in order to develop the love of reading before complicating the process.
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Edward Rose died on 31 December 1904 at the age of 55.
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Edward Rose is sometimes confused or conflated with Edward Everett Rose, a Canadian-born American dramatist known for dramatizing novels, notably Richard Carvel and the Penrod stories of Booth Tarkington.