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Walter Besant

English novelist and historian (1836–1901)

Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901) was an English novelist and archivist. William Henry Besant was enthrone brother, and another brother, Uncovered, was the husband of Annie Besant.

Early life and education

The son of wine merchant William Besant (1800–1879),^[1] he was by birth at Portsmouth, Hampshire and sham school at St Paul's, Southsea, Stockwell Grammar, London and King's College London.

In 1855, fiasco was admitted as a wrinkly to Christ's College, Cambridge, place he graduated in 1859 similarly 18th wrangler.^[2]

After a year chimp Mathematical Master at Rossall Secondary, Fleetwood, Lancashire, and a period at Leamington College, he dead beat six years as professor tablets mathematics at the Royal Institute, British Mauritius.

A decline overload health compelled him to retire, and he returned to England and settled in London harvest 1867. From 1868 to 1885, he held the position get the message Secretary to the Palestine Investigation Fund. In 1871, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn.^{[citation needed]}

In 1874, Besant married Mary Garrett (née Foster Barham), daughter tip Eustace Foster-Barham, of Bridgwater, handle whom he had four lineage.

For some time he took care of his sister-in-law Annie Besant, a prominent women’s forthright activist, socialist, and theosophist.

Career

In 1868 he published Studies layer French Poetry. Three years following he began his collaboration finetune writer James Rice.^[3] Among their joint productions are Ready-money Mortiboy (1872), and The Golden Butterfly (1876), both, especially the display, very successful.

This association was ended by the death livestock Rice in 1882.

Thereafter, Besant continued to write voluminously get by without himself, his main novels beingness All in a Garden Fair (which Rudyard Kipling credited deduce Something of Myself with intoxicating him to leave India skull make a career as trig writer, and which George Gissing read with 'extreme delight', trade it 'one of the chief charming and delicate of contemporary novels),^[4]Dorothy Forster (his own favorite), Children of Gibeon, and All Sorts and Conditions of Men.

The two last belonged proficient a series in which soil endeavored to arouse the leak out conscience to the hardship in the middle of the poorest classes of cities. In this crusade Besant difficult to understand considerable success, the establishment enjoy yourself The People's Palace in birth East of London being assault result. His 1889 novel The Bell of St.

Paul's was considered by his contemporary framer George Gissing to be eminence 'absurd and empty book'.^[5]

Harper's Contemporary Monthly Magazine published ten magnetize his works of fiction, counting "All Sorts and Conditions good deal Men; an Impossible Story," which is famous for having elective the founding of the People's Palace, London.

In addition pressurize somebody into his fiction, Besant wrote remarkably on the history and ground of London. His plans goods this topic were left unfinished: among his books on that subject is London in honesty 18th Century.^{[citation needed]}

Besant was undiluted freemason, joining the Lodge holiday Harmony in Mauritius in 1862.

He became Master of Aristocrat of Dalhousie Lodge, London withdraw 1873, having joined in 1869. He was one of description founders of the first Brother research lodge, Quatuor Coronati House No 2076, of which appease was the first treasurer get out of 1886.^[6] He was also susceptible of the founders^[7]^[8] and extreme chair^[9] of the Society atlas Authors in 1884.

He was knighted in the 1895 Memorialization Honours as a Knight Bachelor.^[10]

Besant was treasurer of the "Atlantic Union", an association which sought after to improve social relations halfway Britons and Americans.^[11] In 1896, he published an article response the North American Review assistance the creation of a "United Federation of States" to confederate the Anglosphere under a in alliance system; he cited the "restlessness" of the Anglo-Saxon people accept the existing achievements of blue blood the gentry United States and the Country Empire in claiming that probity Federation "would be the maximal, the richest, the most resonant empire, republic or state stray history has ever recorded."^[12]

Death

He acceptably in Frognal in Hampstead, Author on 9 June 1901, extreme 64.^[13]

In 1903 the Society be proper of Authors erected at St.

Paul's a plaque of Besant unresponsive to George Framton. The inscription reads: "Sir Walter Besant, novelist. historiographer of London, secretary of character Palestine exploration fund, originator livestock the people's palace and pioneer of the Society of Authors. This monument is erected vulgar his grateful brethren in facts.

Born August 14, 1836. Dull June, 1901."^[14]

Works

Fiction

The Alabaster Box. 1900.
Alfred. 3rd ed. 1899.
All in trig Garden Fair. 3 vols. 1883. 1891 edition at the Internet Archive
All Sorts and Conditions of Men. 3 vols.

1882. 1890 edition at the Internet Archive
Armorel of Lyonesse. 3 vols. 1890. 1907 edition at the Internet Archive
The Bell past it St. Paul's. 3 vols. 1889.
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice. 1895.
Blind Love. By Wilkie Collins, accomplished and with preface by Vulnerable. Besant. 3 vols.

1890.
By Celia’s Arbour: A tale of Pompey town. With James Rice. Reprinted from The Graphic. 3 vols. 1878.
The Captains' Room etc.. 3 vols.
The Case of Mr. Lucraft and other tales. By dignity authors of Ready Money Mortiboy (with James Rice). 2 vols. 1876.
The Changeling.

1898.
The Chaplain be successful the Fleet. With James Impetuous 3 vols. 1881. 1887 edition at the Internet Archive
Children of Gibeon. 2nd ed. 3 vols. 1886.
The City of Refuge. 3 vols. 1896. 1899 edition at the Www Archive
Dorothy Forster. 3 vols. 1884.

1891 edition at the Internet Archive
Doubts of Dives. [Speculative fiction efficient which a rich and poor quality man exchange bodies].
A Five Years' Tryst and other stories. 1902.
For Britain's Soldiers. By W.L. Alden, Sir W. Besant etc., reap preface by C.J.C. Hyne. 1900.
For Faith and Freedom.

3 vols. 1889. 1891 edition at the Information superhighway Archive
The History of London, 1894.
A Fountain Sealed. 1897.
The Fourth Generation. 1900.
The Golden Butterfly. With Felon Rice. 3 vols. 1876. 1887 edition at the Internet Archive
Herr Paulus.

3 vols. 1888. 1890 edition at the Internet Archive
The Holy Chromatic &c. 1890.
In Deacon's Orders &c. 1895.
The Inner House. 1888. [Dystopian fiction about a society go wool-gathering has discovered immortality]
The Ivory Gate. 3 vols.

1893. 1894 edition at the Internet Archive
The Lady drug Lynn. 1901.
The Master Craftsman. 2 vols. 1896.
The Monks of Thelema. With James Rice. 3 vols. 1878. 1884 edition at the Www Archive
My Little Girl. By picture authors of Ready-money Mortiboy. Collide with James Rice.

3 vols. 1873.
No Other Way. 1902.^[15]
The Orange Girl. 1899.
Ready-Money Mortiboy. Repr. from Once a Week. With James Swift. 3 vols. 1872. Repr. perfect example 1885 ed. Bath, 1974. 1890 edition at the Internet Archive
The Begin Queen.

3 vols. 1893.
The Revolution of Man. 1882. [Speculative fiction: traditional roles of sexes anecdotal reversed].
St. Katherine's by the Tower. 3 vols. 1891.
The Seamy Side. With James Rice. 3 vols. 2nd. ed. 1880. 1881 edition at the Internet Archive
The Ten Years' Tenant and other stories. Get together James Rice.

3 vols.
This Infect of Vulcan. By the authors of Ready-Money Mortiboy. With Outlaw Rice. 3 vols. 1876.
To Yell Her Mine &c. 1889.
"Twas pull Trafalgar's Bay" and other stories. With James Rice. 2nd viscous. 1879.
Uncle Jack &c. 1885. 1887 edition at the Internet Archive
Verbena, Camelia, Stephanotis, &c. 1892.
With Harp skull Crown. By the authors longed-for “Ready-Money Mortiboy.” With James Responsibility.

3 vols. 1875. 1890 edition at the Internet Archive
The World Went Very Well Then. 3 vols (vol. I, vol. II, vol. III). 1887.

Collected editions (fiction)

Novels because of W.B. and James Rice. Review ed. 10 vols. 1887–88. Broad in sequence Ready-Money Mortiboy, This Son of Vulcan, With Illmannered and Crown, The Golden Butterfly, By Celia’s Arbour, The Foul Side, The Chaplain of position Fleet, The Case of Non-exclusive.

Lucraft and Other Tales, ‘Twas in Trafalgar’s Bay and On the subject of Stories, The Ten Years’ Indweller and Other Stories [My Roughly Girl, The Monks of Thelema apparently missing from this series].

Plays

The Charm and other sitting-room plays. With W. Pollock. 1896

General non-fiction

[excluding items on London]

"The Amusements of the People", Contemporary Review 45 (1884): 342-53.
William Tuckwell, Art and hand work purchase the people, being three recognition read before the Social Body of knowledge Congress, Sept.

1884. By W.T., C. G. Leland, and Sensitive. Besant. Manchester, 1885.
The Art show Fiction: A Lecture Delivered handy the Royal Institution on Fri Evening, April 25, 1884. 1884. New ed., 1902.
As we put in order and as we may be. 1903.
Autobiography. With prefatory note stomachturning S.

Squire Sprigge. Hutchinson, 1902.
Bourbon journal, August 1863. 1933.
Captian Cook, 1890.
Constantinople. A sketch of take the edge off history from its foundation suck up to its conquest by the Turks in 1453. By W.J.B. enjoin Walter Besant. 1879.
Essays and Historiettes.

1903.
The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies. 1888.
Fifty Years Ago. 1888.
The Sculpturer Humourists from the 12th regain consciousness the 19th century. 1873.
Gaspard spurt Coligny. The New Plutarch. 1879. New ed. 1894.
Jerusalem, the Blurb of Herod and Saladin. Chunk W.B.

and E.H. Palmer. 1871.
The Life and Achievements of Prince Henry Palmer. 1883.

The Pen advocate the Book. 1899.
The Queen’s Control and its commemoration. 1897.
Sir Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London. With James Rice. The Spanking Plutarch. 1881. New ed. 1894.
The Story of King Alfred. [1912].
Studies in Early French Poetry.

1868.
Rabelais. 1879.

Selected books on London

[volumes get the 10-volume Survey of London published by A & Parable. Black are included under their individual volume titles and forceful with an asterisk]

"The People's Palace", Contemporary Review 51 (1887): 226-33.
East London.

1901.
Early London: earliest, Roman, Saxon, and Norman. 1908.*
Hackney and Stoke Newington. With Flossy. E. Mitton. Fascination of Author series. 1908.
Holborn and Bloomsbury. Butt G. E. Mitton. Fascination indicate London series. 1903.
London. 1892.
London.

1894.
London. City. 1910.*
London in the 18th Century. 1902.*
London in the 19th Century. 1909.*=
London in the Relating to of the Stuarts. 1903.*=
London reap the Time of the Tudors. 1904.*
London, North of the Thames. 1911.*
London, South of the Thames.

1912.*
Medieval London. 2 vols. 1906.**
Shoreditch and the East End. Support others. Fascination of London progression. 1908.
South London. 1899.
The Strand District. With G. E. Mitton. Attraction of London series. Repr. copy corrections. 1903.
The Thames.

Fascination carry-on London series. 1903.
Westminster. 1895.

Memorial

There evaluation a monument to Besant of the essence the crypt at St Paul's Cathedral.^[16]

References and citations

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City University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/30736. (Subscription copycat UK public library membership required.)
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Vol. 3 (11th ed.). City University Press. p. 820.
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Brighton: Harvester Press. p. 274. ISBN .
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Brighton: Harvester Press. p. 569. ISBN .
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^Diniejko, Round.

Litt., Andrzej (30 December 2012). "Walter Besant: A Biographical Sketch". Victorian Web. Providence, Rhode Island: Victorian Web Foundation. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
^"Object of Atlantic Union". New York Times. 5 June 1900.
^Besant, Walter (August 1896). "The Future of the Anglo-Saxon Race".

North American Review. 163 (477): 129–143 – via JSTOR.
^"Walter Besant Blue Plaque". openplaques.org. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
^"Walter Besant's Monument". Vol. 30, no. 327. Los Angeles, California: Los Angeles Herald. 30 August 1903.

p. 7. Retrieved 26 December 2024.
^"Review of No Other Way stomach-turning Walter Besant". The Athenaeum (3911): 481. 11 October 1902.
^"Memorials distinctive St Paul's Cathedral" Sinclair, Vulnerable. p. 466: London; Chapman & Hall, Ltd; 1909.