Charles Jeremiah Wells

(1800 c.-1879)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Wells, Charles, 1800-1879 NRA: Wells Charles Jeremiah (?1799-1879) Poet DNB: Wells, Charles Jeremiah (c.1800–1879), lawyer and poet LBT ID: ChWells1879 VIAF ID: 27801480 LOC ID: n83021578	B/BAP: 1800 DIED: 1879-02-17
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A sometimes friend of John Keats, he was educated under John Clarke at Enfield and worked as a London solicitor before 1830. He published two volumes of verse later taken up by the Pre-Raphaelite poets.
REFERENCES TO Charles Jeremiah Wells: William Carew Hazlitt, Memoirs of William Hazlitt. With Portions of his Correspondence 2 vols (London: Richard Bentley, 1867) Ch. XIX Found 3: ¶ 21 ¶ 22 ¶ n1