Joyce Cary

Joyce Cary, Irish novelist (died 1957)

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Born: December 7, 1888
Died: March 29, 1957
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius
Birth year: 1888

About Joyce Cary

Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary (7 December 1888 – 29 March 1957), known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. His most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse's Mouth. The family dispersed and Cary had uncles who served in the frontier US Cavalry and the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. Most of the Carys wound up in Great Britain.

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The world when Joyce Cary was born

Joyce Cary was born in 1888. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Headlines and milestones

Top headlineGreat Blizzard of 1888 paralyzes US East Coast
Technology milestoneKodak box camera — "You press the button, we do the rest"
Defining fadKodak camera craze
World population~1.48B

United States snapshot

U.S. leaderGrover Cleveland
U.S. population57.6M

1888 versus 2026

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Measure	1888	2026
Population	57.6M	341 million

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