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Who is Edmund Downey?

The Irish author, editor and publisher Edmund Downey (1856-1937) was working for William Tinsley in 1883 when Tinsley published Downey’s first collection of stories Anchor-Watch Yarns and George Moore’s first novel A Modern Lover.

A few years later, the partnership of Edmund Downey and American author Osbert Dudley Ward (1857–1949) published Moore’s sixth novel Mike Fletcher (1889, reissued 1899). Their London-based firm specialized in Irish writers.