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1824–1890
Best known for brisk, readable books on Napoleon, Wellington, and the Franco-Prussian War, this Victorian writer brought military history to a wide general audience. He worked as a journalist as well as an author, which helps explain the clear, report-like energy of his prose.
George Hooper was a British journalist and historical writer active in the nineteenth century. Reliable public-domain reference pages identify him as a British journalist, and surviving bibliographic records show that he lived from 1824 to 1890.
His best-known books focus on war and political history, especially major European campaigns and commanders. Confirmed works include The Italian Campaigns of General Bonaparte (1859), Waterloo: the Downfall of the First Napoleon (1862), The Campaign of Sedan, August-September, 1870 (1887), Wellington (1889), and Abraham Fabert, Governor of Sedan (1890).
He was married to the novelist Jane Margaret Hooper, who was often listed in Victorian sources as Mrs. George Hooper. Taken together, his career suggests a writer who specialized in turning complicated military events into lively narrative history for ordinary readers.