A writer's autobiography

(Just not mine.)

Robert Charles Benchley, born Isle of Wight, September 15, 1807. Shipped as a cabin boy on the Florence J. Marble, 1815. Arrested for bigamy and murder in Port Said, 1817. Released 1820. Wrote Tale of Two Cities. Married Princess Anastasia of Portugal, 1831. Children: Prince Rupprecht and several little girls. Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 1850. Editor of Godeys Ladies Book 1851–1856. Began Les Misérables, 1870, finished by Victor Hugo. Died 1871. Buried in Westminster Abbey.