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Henley was an infirm child. It soon became clear that he suffered from tubercular arthritis. In early adulth000d he was treated in Edinburgh by Lister and had to have a foot amputated. His experiences in hospital produced Hospital Sketches, published in the Cornhill Magazine (1875).
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Martin, B. (1989). William Ernest Henley. In: Martin, B. (eds) The Nineteenth Century (1798–1900). Macmillan Anthologies of English Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20159-4_61
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