Sir Walter Besant
Male : Novelist,
Biographer. Founder of the Society of Authors. Married Mary
Foster-Barham in 1874. Founded the Society of Authors in 1884
Nationality : English
Place of Birth : Portsea, Hampshire
Date of Birth : 1836 Date of Death : 1901 Age : 65
Education : King's College, London & Christ's College, Cambridge
1868-1875
Studies in Early French Poetry (1868 Macmillan)
Jerusalem : The City of Herod & Saladin (1871 Bentley) - with E H Palmer
The French Humorists from the 12th to the 19th Century (1873 Bentley)
Ready-Money Mortiboy : A Matter-of-Fact Story (1873 Tinsley) - 3 vols. Anon. with James Rice
When George II was King (1872 Sampson Low) - 2 vols
My Little Girl (1873 Tinsley) - 3 vols. with J Rice
The Strange Adventures of a Phaeton 1874 Macmillan) - with J Rice
Ready-Money Mortiboy (1874 Henry S King) - with J Rice
Ready-Money (1875 French) - Play with James Rice as "Walter Maurice"
With Harp and Crown (1875 Tinsley) - 3 vols. with J Rice
1876-1880
This Son of Vulcan (1876 Sampson Low) - 3 vols. with J Rice
The Case of Mr Lucraft & Other Tales (1876 Sampson Low) - 2 vols. with J Rice
The Golden Butterfly (1876 Tinsley) - 3 vols. with J Rice
Such a Good Man (1877 Sampson Low) - 3 vols. with J Rice
(Ed) The Literary Remains of C F T Drake (1877)
A Book of French (1877)
The Monks of Thelema (1878 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols. with J Rice
A Tale of Portsmouth Town (1878 Sampson Low) - 3 vols
By Celia's Arbour (1878 Sampson Low) - 3 vols. - with J Rice
Such a Good Man ! (1879) - with J Rice
Gaspard de Coligny (1879 Marcus Ward)
Constantinople (1879 Seeley) - with W J Brodbribb
Rabelais (1879 Blackwood)
'Twas in Trafalgar's Bay & Other Stories (1879 Chatto & Windus)
A Family Name (c1880 London)
The Seamy Side (1880 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols. with J Rice
1881-1885
The Chaplain of the Fleet (1881 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols. With J Rice
The Ten Years' Tenant & Other Stories (1881 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols. With J Rice
Sunrise : A Story of These Times (1881 Sampson Low)
Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London (1881 Marcus Ward) - With J Rice
(Ed) The Survey of Western Palestine (1881-3) - with E H Palmer
All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Revolt of Man (1882 Blackwood) - Anon
All in a Garden Fair : The Simple Story of 3 Boys & A Girl (1883 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £200
The Captain's Room (1883 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Life in an Hospital : An East End Chapter (1883 E Fisher)
(Ed) Readings in Rabelais (1883)
The Life and Achievements of Edward Henry Palmer (1883 Murray)
Dorothy Forster (1884 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Art of Fiction : A Lecture Delivered at the Royal Institution (1884 Chatto & Windus) - 39pp Pb
Uncle Jack (1885 Chatto & Windus)
1886-1888
Children of Gibeon (1886 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Twenty-One Years' Work 1865-86 (1886 Bentley)
Katharine Regina (1887 Arrowsmith)
The World Went Very Well Then (1887 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Ballad-Monger (1887) - with J Rice
Herr Paulus his Rise, his Greatness and his Fall (1888 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £200
The Inner House (1888 Arrowsmith)
Fifty Years Ago (1888 Chatto & Windus)
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies (1888 Chatto & Windus) (1889 C & W 2nd Ed)
1889-1890
Captain Cook (1889 Macmillan)
The Bell of St Paul's (1889 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
For Faith and Freedom (1889 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Doubts of Dives (1889 Arrowsmith, Bristol & Simpkin Marshall, London) - Pb
To Call Her Mine (1889 Chatto & Windus)
Armorel of Lyonesse (1890 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £250
The Holy Rose (1890 Chatto & Windus)
The Demoniac (1890 Arrowsmith, Bristol & Simpkin Marshall, London) - Pb
Correspondence on the Distribution of Pensions to Literature (1890)
Literary Handmaid of the Church (the SPCK) (1890 London)
1891-1895
St Katharine's by the Tower (1891 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Ivory Gate (1892 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Verbena Camellia Stephanotis (1892 Chatto & Windus)
London (1892 Chatto & Windus)
The History of London (1893 Longmans)
The Rebel Queen (1893 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice (1895 Chatto & Windus)
In Deacon's Orders (1895 Chatto & Windus)
Westminster (1895 Chatto & Windus) - Francis S Walker
Thirty Years' Work 1865-1895 (1895)
1896-1900
The Master Craftsman (1896 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
The Charm and Other Drawing-Room Plays (1896 Chatto & Windus) - with Walter H Pollock
The City of Refuge (1896 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Revolt of Man (1896 Chatto & Windus)
A Fountain Sealed (1897 Chatto & Windus)
The Changeling (1898 Chapman & Hall)
The Rise of the Empire (1897 H Marshall)
The Queen's Reign and Its Commemoration (1897 Werner)
The Pen and the Book (1899 Burleigh)
South London (1899 Chatto & Windus) (1901 London. New Ed)
The Orange Girl (1899 Chatto & Windus)
The Alabaster Box (1900 Burleigh)
The Fourth Generation (1900 Chatto & Windus)
AFTER 1901
The Lady of Lynn (1901 Chatto & Windus) - G Demain-Hammond
The Story of King Alfred (1901 Newnes)
East London (1901 Chatto & Windus) - L R Hill
A Five Years' Tryst & Other Stories (1902 Methuen 6/-)
No Other Way (1902 Chatto & Windus) - Charles D Ward
Westminster (1902) - with G E Mitton
The Strand District (1902 A & C Black) - with G E Mitton
Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant (1902 Hutchinson) (1902 Dodd Mead)
Holburn and Bloomsbury (1903) - with G E Mitton
As We Are and As We May Be (1903 Chatto & Windus)
Essays and Historiettes (1903 Chatto & Windus)
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London (1903-12 A & C Black) - 10 vols
London in the 18thC (1903)
London in the Time of the Stuarts (1903)
London in the Time of the Tudors (1904)
Mediaeval London (1906) - 2 vols
Early London : Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon & Norman (1908)
London in the 19thC (1909)
London : The City (1910)
London North of the Thames (1911)
London South of the Thames (1912)
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The Thames (1903 A & C Black)
Shoreditch and East End (1908)
Bourbon Journal : August 1863 (1933 Besant & Co)