Male : Novelist. Travelled in Europe 1822-7. Married Kate Barker in 1832 or 1833. Lived most of his life on the Continent

Nationality : Irish Place of Birth : Dublin

Date of Birth : 1806 Date of Death : 1872 Age : 66

Other Work : Doctor in Portstewart 1832-7. Physcian to the British Ambassador in Brussels from 1837. Editor of the Dublin University Magazine.

Education : Trinity College, Dublin (medicine) & Gottingen

1839-1845
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer (1839 Wm Curry, Dublin) (1901 Downey) - Phiz. Anon
Charles O'Malley : The Irish Dragoon (1841 Curry) - 2 vols. Anon. Phiz
Jack Hinton, the Guardsman (1843 Curry) (1901 Downey - Phiz )
Our Mess (1843-4 Curry, Dublin / Orr, London / Fraser, Edinburgh) - 3 vols
Tom Burke of Ours (1843 Curry) - 2 vols. Phiz
Arthur O'Leary, edited by His Friend Harry Lorrequer (1844 Colburn) - 3 vols. Anon
[All the above 5 novels first appeared in the "Dublin University Magazine"]
Nuts and Crackers (1845 Orr) (1845 Currey)
The O'Donoghue : A Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago (1845 Wm Curry Jnr, Dublin) (1845 C & H) - Phiz
Tales of the Trains by Tilbury Tram, in parts (1845 Orr) (1845 Curry)
St Patrick's Eve (1845 Chapman & Hall) - Phiz

1846-1850
The Knight of Gwynne : A Tale of the Time of the Union (1847 Chapman & Hall) - Phiz
Diary and Notes of Horace Templeton, Esq (1848 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols. Anon
Offered in 1999 for £450
The Confessions of Con Cregan : The Irish Gil Blas (1849 Orr) - 2 vols. H K Browne
Roland Cashell (1850 Chapman & Hall) - Phiz
Maurice Tiernay : Soldier of Fortune (c1850 Hodgson)

1851-1860
The Daltons, or Three Roads in Life (1852 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols. Phiz
The Dodd Family Abroad (1854 Chapman & Hall) - Phiz
Sir Jasper Carew : His Life & experiences (1855 Thomas Hodgson, London) - Anon
The Martins of Cro' Martin (1856 Chapman & Hall) - Phiz
The Fortunes of Glencore (1857 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Tom Burke of 'Ours' (1857 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Gerald Fitzgerald (c1859 Harper, NY)
Davenport Dunn : A Man of Our Day (1859 C & H) - Phiz

1861-1865
One of Them (1861 Chapman & Hall)
Barrington (1863 Chapman & Hall) - Phiz
A Day's Ride : A Life's Romance (1863 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Cornelius O'Dowd, Upon Men, Women & Other Things in General : 2nd Series
(1864-5 Blackwood) - 3 vols. Anon
Tony Butler (1865 Blackwood) - 3 vols. Anon
A Rent in a Cloud (1865 Chapman & Hall)
A Campaigner At Home (1865)
Luttrell of Arran (1865 Chapman & Hall) - Phiz

1866-1876
Sir Brook Fosbrooke (1866 Blackwood) - 3 vols
The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly (1868 Smith Elder) - 3 vols. Anon
Paul Goslett's Confessions in Love, Law & the Civil Service (1868 Virtue) - Anon
That Boy of Norcott's (1869 Smith Elder)
A Rent in a Cloud (1869 Chapman & Hall)
Lord Kilgobbin : A Tale of Ireland in Our Own Time (1870 Cornhill Magazine, London)
(1872 Smith Elder - 3 vols) (1872 Harper)
One of Them (1872 Routledge) - Phiz
Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men and Women (1874)

After 1877
Charles O'Malley : The Irish Dragoon (1897 Service & Paton, London) - Arthur Rackham
(1899 Nisbet) - Arthur Rackham
Gerald Fitzgerald : The Chevallier (1899 Downey)
The Novels (Edited by Lever's daughter) (1897-9 Downey, London) - 37 vols
Song of a Vagabond Huntsman (1900 NY) - W A Sherwood

READING
W J Fitzpatrick : The Life of Charles Lever (1879 Chapman & Hall) - 2 vols
Edmund Downey : Charles Lever - His Life and Letters (1906 Blackwood) - 2 vols
Lionel Stevenson : Dr Quicksilver - The Life of Charles Lever (1939 Chapman & Hall)
(1939 Russell, NY)
(Ed) Tony Bareham : Charles Lever - New Evaluations (1991)