Answer:

reade

Answer	Crossword Clue
READE	"The Cloister and the Hearth" novelist Charles
READE	Author of "The Cloister and the Hearth"
READE	NYC's Walter ..... Theater

READE	"Peg Woffington" author
READE	Duane ..., pharmacy chain
READE	Author of The Cloister and the Hearth
READE	English author Charles
READE	Walter ..... Theaters
READE	"The Cloister and the Hearth" author
READE	Novelist Charles
READE	"Hard Cash" author

READE	"Peg Woffington" novelist
READE	"Hard Cash" novelist
READE	"The Cloister and the Hearth" writer
READE	Novelist of Victorian England
READE	Aptly name novelist
READE	"Peg Woffington" author Charles
READE	Aptly named author Charles
READE	Aptly named novelist Charles

READE	Aptly named novelist
READE	Aptly named author
READE	"The Cloister and the Hearth" author Charles
READE	Charles who wrote "The Cloister and the Hearth"
READE	"Hard Cash" novelist Charles
READE	"The Cloister and the Hearth" writer Charles
READE	"The Cloister and the Hearth" novelist
READE	English novelist Charles

READE	19th-century English novelist Charles
READE	English novelist Charles ....
READE	Aptly-named author
READE	Aptly-named novelist
READE	"Christie Johnstone" novelist
READE	British novelist
READE	English novelist
READE	British author

READE	19th-century British novelist
READE	Walter who has a New York movie theater named after him
READE	Author of "Hard Cash."
READE	Author of "Cloister and the Hearth," 1861.
READE	Author of The Cloister and the Hearth.