C. F. Keary

Charles Francis Keary (1848 - 25 October 1917) was an English scholar and historian. In his later work as a novelist he influenced the modernist writer James Joyce. The late 19th-century English novelist George Gissing read four of Keary's works, including three novels, in the first 31 days of 1896. He found the novel Herbert Vanlennert, "a long, conscientious, uninspired book". Charles was born to a Galway Irish family which had settled in the industrial Midlands borough of Stoke-on-Trent. He was the son of William Keary, who in 1874 would become the first mayor of Stoke-on-Trent. He was schooled at Marlborough College and took his degree at Trinity College, Cambridge.