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	George Edalji - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		George Ernest Thompson Edalji (March 1876 – June 17, 1953) was the eldest of three children of Shapurji Edalji and Charlotte Stoneham.
		His father was of East Indian descent (born a Parsi in Bombay), and his mother English (born in Shropshire).
		Edalji became a solicitor in Birmingham, England during the early 1900s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Edalji (253 words)

	JournalStar.com :: Printable Version
		George, a quiet lad, is the son of a Scottish mother and the local Anglican vicar, who was born a Parsee in India.
		The local police suspect George is writing the letters and that he is part of a gang that has been mutilating the animals.
		George’s surname, Edalji, and his brown skin have no doubt played a part in his arrest and the verdict.
	www.journalstar.com /articles/2006/01/29/sunday_am/doc43d7cd7f37259408735839.prt (524 words)

	The George Edalji Case
		George Edalji was the eldest son of three for Shapurji Edalji and Charlotte Stoneham.
		George Edalji's father was a Parsi who became vicar in the 1870s of the Great Wyrley in Staffordshire.
		However, even after this result George Edalji was never compensated for the three years he had spent in prison and he was still considered guilty of writing the letters against his family.
	www.birmingham.gov.uk /edalji.bcc (686 words)

	LitKicks: Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
		When one bully accosts George on the playground, taunting, "You aren't a right sort!" we think at first maybe it is simply because George is shy and awkward, or maybe even because he is smarter than the other kids.
		George Edalji studied law and became an attorney.
		What troubled Edalji in spite of his gratitude is that Doyle's case, upon close examination, was no less circumstantial than the one that put George Edalji behind bars in the first place.
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	Arthur Conan Doyle as Defender of the Unjustly Accused
		George was convicted in what was very much a kangaroo court where the Chief Constable, and his associates in Staffordshire, railroaded George Edalji into one of His Majesty's prisons.
		Following Edalji's conviction and the start of a campaign by many prominent people for the release of Edalji, another similar maiming took place but this did not lead to a reappraisal of Edalji's conviction, it merely intensified a smear campaign against the Edaljis, conducted by the Chief Constable.
		The Edalji case was an early twentieth-century of the intransigence of bureaucrats and the extent of their efforts to protect each other when confronted by an individual who sought justice and protection after being railroaded for an offence it was most implausible to consider he had committed.
	www.victorianweb.org /authors/doyle/weaver1.html (1133 words)

	Amazon.ca: Editorial Reviews Books: Arthur & George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		George's mother is English; she is the niece of the previous vicar, Compson.
		George Edalji's name is cleared, and the Court of Criminal Appeal is set up to avoid such miscarriages of justice in the future.
		George's wish to be an Englishman does result in his acquisition of one quintessential middle-class English trait: a polite snobbishness which remains with him for the rest of his life.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/books/0679314172/reviews (3751 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The year was 1902 and the bumbling police force arrested George Edalji, a 27-year-old timid and myopic solicitor, the son of the local Parsee vicar.
		Although the blameless Edalji was granted a pardon, he received no apology or compensation for his false arrest and imprisonment.
		George Edalji is a pioneer in this regard.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=8567 (523 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
		George is deeply attached to the facts, while early in life Arthur discovers the “essential connection between narrative and reward” (12).
		George has trouble believing that he was a victim of race prejudice (235).
		Meek, is amused at George’s sense of outrage when he reads the factual errors and outright lies in the newspapers’ reports of his case (119–20; 122–23).
	randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=030726310X&view=rg (887 words)

	The Chronicles of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The George Edalji Case
		George Edalji was named as the person behind of the hideous crimes.
		George Edalji, vicar’s son and former solicitor, was found guilty and sentenced to seven years’ hard labor.
		The handwriting expert who testified that Edalji’s handwriting matched the writing on the taunting letters was discovered to have made a serious mistake on another case causing an innocent man to be convicted.
	www.siracd.com /life_case1.shtml (898 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Arthur and George - Julian Barnes - Hardcover
		George finds safe harbour in the reliability of rules, and grows up to become a solicitor, putting his faith in the insulating value of British justice.
		Edalji was the son of a Parsi father (who was a Shropshire vicar), and a Scots mother.
		In 1903, George, a solicitor, was accused of writing obscene, threatening letters to his own family and of mutilating cattle in his farm community.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?userid=AG6jp62DdM&cds2Pid=8236&isbn=030726310X (1606 words)

	*Arthur & George* - Julian Barnes - Printable Version
		George Edalji really was arrested and imprisoned; Arthur Conan Doyle really did help to clear his name, and really did have a wacky interest in Spiritualism.
		The case is very carefully constructed by Barnes and concerns a series of threatening letters sent to the vicarage where George lived with his parents and sister; this campaign followed by a series of brutal animal mutilations, with all the letters and documents reproduced in the book coming from the real case.
		It is only after George is inexplicably freed from prison, but is not given a reprieve, that he writes to Conan Doyle to help clear his name and enable him to practise law again.
	www.threemonkeysonline.com /threemon_printable_review.php?id=109 (1340 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| FICTION: Arthur & George (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		George Edalji, the son of an Indian vicar and a Scottish woman, was convicted of mutilating a coal-mine pony in a rural parish in 1903 and served three years in prison.
		Ultimately, Edalji was granted a free pardon, and the well-publicized case helped lead to the creation of an appeals court.
		The subject is relevant to the story -- Doyle undertook Edalji's case to redeem his sense of moral purpose after his wife died -- but Barnes' skills with concision and narrative compression seem to have let him down this time.
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	Arthur & George - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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	The Case of George Edalji (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Edalji's story began even before he was born, when his father, a man of Parsee ancestry, married an Englishwoman, converted to Christianity, and ultimately became the spiritual leader of his small Staffordshire community.
		The police, already preconditioned to believe George Edalji was the culprit, investigated the scene hastily, then returned to the vicarage to arrest the preacher's son.
		George's whereabouts during the previous evening were corroborated by several witnesses who placed him far from the crime scene.
	www.thehistorynet.com /bh/blgeorge_edalji (882 words)

	Arthur & George - Julian Barnes
		Edalji's background, as the son of a vicar (who had been born a Parsi in India, but married a Scottish woman), living in fairly humble, rural circumstances, with no friends and concentrating only on his studies, is also fairly intriguing.
		When Edalji was still a youth his family was already targeted by a prankster cum stalker who did his best to make their lives miserable, especially by doing things in their name: sending letters summoning people to the vicarage or posting newspaper advertisements of things or services for sale in their name.
		The police suspected George of the crimes (for no particularly good reason, beyond perhaps that he is an odd character that doesn't really fit in), and eventually they arrested him for one of the attacks.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/barnesj/arthur.htm (2339 words)

	SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE -- PART TWO
		The elder Edalji had married an Englishwoman and the family, including their three children, were often the butts of practical jokes like the insertion of fake advertisements using their name in the local paper.
		When the key to the local grammar school was found on Edalji's doorstep, Anson wrote to his father and stated that he knew that George was responsible for the theft of the key and would listen to no protestations of innocence from him.
		The Edalji home was searched and while nothing of real importance was found, it is believed that the police may have planted evidence to connect a jacket of George's to one of the scenes of the crime.
	www.prairieghosts.com /doyle2.html (3802 words)

	Arthur & George (ISBN 030726310X): Very Well Said (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		George and his friends continued to campaign to have his name cleared; and it was at this stage, two thirds through the book, that Arthur took up George's case.
		George Edalji is a bit more obscure, being the son of a Parsi pastor (a contradiction, surely, but truth is stranger than fiction) and an Scotswoman.
		George is almost the stereotypical Englishman, armed with a placid demeanour and firm belief in the rule of law, yet his skin marks him as someone of differing values, and therefore must be feared.
	www.verywellsaid.com /titles/a/arthur-and-george-030726310x.php (10086 words)

	Asking the Wrong Questions: Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
		With a criminal conviction on his record, Edalji couldn't practice law, and he turned to Doyle for help in obtaining a pardon and compensation from the Home Office (although significantly altered, the Edalji case was obviously an inspiration for a sub-plot in Michael Chabon's novella The Final Solution).
		George never plays Watson to Arthur's Holmes (and frankly, if there's a Holmes between the two it is the dispassionate, observant George), and the interactions between them are never more than polite.
		George is a solitary, stoic individual, used to a very simple life and not given to complaining, which explains his ability to withstand his incarceration as well as he does.
	wrongquestions.blogspot.com /2006/04/arthur-george-by-julian-barnes.html (2016 words)

	Bookreporter.com - ARTHUR & GEORGE by Julian Barnes
		George wants nothing more than to become a respected lawyer; Arthur's ambitions run toward the study of medicine, but his dream is to rescue his mother from her meager existence.
		By then George Edalji has been wrongfully imprisoned for libel and unspeakable acts of violence, and Arthur Doyle has been knighted and is the world-renowned author and creator of Sherlock Holmes.
		This book is based on a real-life incident that resulted in elevating George Edalji's case to the front pages of the world press and eventually led to a major change in English law to allow appeals to be heard by a higher court.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews2/030726310X.asp (551 words)

	Sports Awards
		Meanwhile, Edalji is the son of an Indian immigrant and his Scottish wife; Edalji's father is a parish priest in Great Wyrley, where Edalji is raised as an often ostracized outsider.
		Doyle had Edalji's eyes tested, and concluded that the young man could hardly have seen more than a few yards in front of his face, let alone seen his way clear to kill livestock in the middle of the night.
		In George there is an ironic long-suffering awareness of the reality around him, even as he seems not to see things as clearly as others might.
	www.cleveland.com /sites/sportsawards/sa.ssf?/weblogs/print.ssf?/mtlogs/cleve_bookreviews/archives/print113248.html (691 words)

	Borzoi Reader \| Catalog \| Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
		The discussion questions, topics, and suggested reading that follow are intended to enhance your group’s conversation about Arthur and George, Julian Barnes’s moving account of the intersection of the lives of Arthur Conan Doyle, world-famous writer of the Sherlock Holmes stories, and George Edalji, a Birmingham solicitor imprisoned for dreadfully gruesome crimes.
		George Edalji is the son of a Scottish mother and a Church of England vicar who was born a Parsee in Bombay.
		Highly intelligent, straitlaced and conscientious, George becomes a solicitor and writes a book about railway law of which he is very proud.
	www.randomhouse.com /knopf/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307263100&view=rg (1231 words)

	Book Review - Arthur & George by Julian Barnes
		George Edalji's father was a Parsee from India who converted to the Anglican Church, and his mother was Scottish.
		George never thought of himself as anything other than English, although the Edalji family was an ill fit in the English countryside.
		George was a quiet boy, with no friends or social life outside of his family.
	www.reviewsofbooks.com /arthur_and_george/review (1353 words)

	HNN - HuntingtonNews.Net
		Edalji was the son of a Parsi father from Bombay and a Scottish mother.
		It was a mistake on the part of the church: Many of the denizens of Edalji’s tiny town of Great Wyrley were prejudiced toward the mixed-race family, which led to the tragedy of young George’s life.
		George Edalji was a near-sighted, studious boy who grew up to become a lawyer in Birmingham.
	www.huntingtonnews.net /columns/060124-kinchen-review.html (1022 words)

	Northwest Indiana News: nwitimes.com
		Edalji isn't exonerated so he is unable to resume practicing law.
		He sets out to investigate, to "make a noise," to have Edalji acquitted so he can practice law again, and be paid money for his wrongful imprisonment.
		Edalji, whose mind is sharp, can see Doyle make some mistakes.
	nwitimes.com /articles/2006/02/15/entertainment/entertainment/b1660f783054d5b38625711000625464.txt (411 words)

	Amazon.com: Arthur & George: Books: Julian Barnes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		We slowly come to realize that George is half-Indian, that Arthur is the famous Doyle, that the woman he loves, chastely, is not his wife and, sadly, that George will not prevail over the forces ranged against him.
		When George, desperate to resume his law career after imprisonment, sends Arthur the sad chronicle of his history, Arthur sees immediately that he could not be guilty and sets out to clear his name.
		Taking up George's cause in some way is a diversion from his moral pains and is an overt display of being the honorable public figure taking up the cause of a poor unfortunate.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/030726310X?v=glance (2551 words)

	Arthur and George - Reviewed by Ann Skea - Eclectica Magazine v10n1
		So, he brought his intelligence and his imaginative powers to bear on an actual case in which a young, myopic, half-caste solicitor, George Edalji, had been wrongly convicted of maiming and killing a neighbour's horse.
		Edalji suffered three years of his seven year sentence of penal servitude before being released without explanation and, most importantly, without pardon.
		For the time that it took to obtain George Edalji's pardon, Arthur (as he is called throughout this book) turned from writer to sleuth.
	www.eclectica.org /v10n1/skea_barnes.html (671 words)

	Salon.com Books \| "Arthur & George"
		Barnes' latest novel, the rousing and elegant "Arthur & George," is like a protracted negotiation between Barnes and Kavanaugh, and the mingling of a little detection into the literary author's work has produced his most substantial novel yet.
		Edalji, the son of a Scottish woman and an Indian-born Anglican vicar assigned to a rural parish, was falsely convicted of a series of nocturnal livestock mutilations and sentenced to seven years in prison.
		Freedom's not just another word George Lakoff, bestselling author of "Don't Think of an Elephant," says that liberals have foolishly allowed conservatives to claim ownership of "freedom" -- even though the progressive version is the one Americans actually believe in.
	www.salon.com /books/review/2006/02/01/barnes/?source=salon.rss (459 words)

	LA Weekly
		Anonymous letters claim that Edalji is the head of a mysterious gang of thugs perpetrating the heinous acts.
		Edalji, the solicitor who believes in the justness of British law as ardently as his father believes in the Bible, is put on trial and, ensnared in a web of absurdly circumstantial “evidence,” is found guilty and sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment.
		The Edalji case, in other words — the shameful corruption of it, at which he will rail furiously — is just what he’s looking for.
	www.laweekly.com /index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=12390&Itemid=9 (1305 words)

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