BESANT, SIR WALTER

bĭzăntˈ, 1836–1901, English novelist and humanitarian, grad. Christ's College, Cambridge, 1859. He taught at the Royal College of Mauritius from 1861 to 1867. After his return to England he devoted himself to writing and to various causes, among them the improvement of the copyright laws. His first novels (in collaboration with James Rice) won immediate popularity. Romantic and somewhat florid in style, they include The Golden Butterfly (1876) and Ready-Money Mortiboy (1872). Many of Besant's novels, written after the collaboration with Rice, dealt with social problems; among them were All Sorts and Conditions of Men (1882) and Children of Gibeon (1886). Besant was one of the most widely read novelists of the late 19th cent. He was knighted in 1895.

See his autobiography (1902, repr. 1971).

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The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh (1879-1922)
Book by Lady Raleigh, Walter Alexander Raleigh; The Macmillan Company, 1926
Subjects: Explorers--Great Britain--Correspondence, Raleigh, Walter--Sir--1552?-1618--Correspondence
THE LETTERS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1879-1922 VOLUME II -ii- SIR WALTER RALEIGH, TAKEN AT BURFORD PRIORY THE LETTERS OF SIR WALTER RALEIGH 1879-1922 EDITED BY...
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Last Four Lives of Annie Besant
Book by Arthur H. Nethercot; University of Chicago Press, 1963
Subjects: Besant, Annie Wood--1847-1933, India--Politics And Government--1857-1919, Theosophists--Biography
...Sydney V. Edge and Walter Old, both of whom...comments on Mrs Besants northern tour, the...friends" for Mrs Besant. He himself was to...them. Sepharial was Walter R. Old. Kindly, trusting...lecture. For it was Sir William Windeyer...court judgment Annie Besant never forgot--the...
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The Life and Activities of Sir John Hawkins: Musician, Magistrate, and Friend of Johnson
Book by Percy A. Scholes; Oxford University Press, 1953
Subjects: Hawkins, John--Sir--1719-1789
...behind was eminence enough, for in the time of Sir Walter Raleigh and Queen Elizabeth knighthood for sailing...have had in mind the respective exploits of Sir John Hawkins 1532-95 and his son, Sir Richard Hawkins c. 1562-1622 , and to have...
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Sir Joshua Reynolds, a Personal Study
Book by Derek B. Hudson; G. Bles, 1958
Subjects: Reynolds, Joshua--Sir--1723-1792
...Angelica Kauffmann. 1767 49" x 39" DEREK HUDSON SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS A PERSONAL STUDY With Reynolds...IIb CARICATURE GROUP of Sir Charles Turner, Sir William Lowther, Lord Milltown and M. Huet. Painted...
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The Life and Letters of Sir Edmund Gosse
Book by Sir Evan Charteris, Sir Edmund Gosse, Sir Norman Gullick; Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1931
Subjects: Gosse, Edmund--1849-1928
...SIR EDMUND GOSSE The Life and Letters of SIR EDMUND GOSSE CHAPTER ONE IN A...knew nothing except a few volumes of Walter Scott and Uncle Toms Cabin . His acquaintance...with possibly now and then a touch of Sir Vinegar Sponge, soon became one of his...
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journal articles on: Besant Sir Walter  - 18 results

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Interview with Walter L. Arnstein
Journal article; The Historian, Vol. 57, 1995
Subjects: Arnstein, Walter L.--Interviews, Historians--Interviews
...contributed an historiographical essay on Norman Gash, an authority on Sir Robert Peel and the politics of the early nineteenth century...or psychologists or modern literary critics. I agree with what Sir Michael Howard writes about the social sciences in The Lessons...
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Marriage Acts: Stages in the Transformation of Modern Nuptial Culture
Journal article by Lisa O'Connell; Differences, Vol. 11, 1999
Subjects: Feminism, Feminist Criticism, Women, Women--United States
...generated expressions of wonder and incredulity. Sir Walter Besant, an early-twentieth-century man of letters and antiquarian...Memoirs . Vol. 3. London: John Pearson, 1871 . Besant, Sir Walter. The Survey of London: London in the Eighteenth...
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Castles in the Air: The People's Palace, Cultural Reformism, and the East End Working Class
Journal article by Simon Joyce; Victorian Studies, Vol. 39, 1996
Subjects: English Literature--19th Century--History And Criticism, Great Britain--Civilization, Great Britain--History--Victoria, 1837-1901
...assumption -- held in different ways by Besant, Wilde, and the West End press...description" (47). 3 Letter to Sir Edmund Currie , 22 Feb. 1886. In...1884 . -----. Autobiography of Sir Walter Besant . New York: Dodd Mead and Co...
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Revolting Men? Sexual Fears and Fantasies in Writings by Old Men, 1880-1910
Journal article by Ann Heilmann; Critical Survey, Vol. 15, 2003
...Collins, 1884), 118. (7.) Peter Fryer, The Birth Controllers (London: Corgi, 1967), 168-91. (8.) See Earl A. Knies, Sir Walter Besant and the "shrieking sisterhood", Victorian Literature and Culture 21 (1993), 211-32. (9.) Mary Lyndon Shanley, Feminism...
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Lost Theaters of African American Internationalism: Diplomacy and Henry Francis Downing in Luanda and London
Journal article by Brian Russell Roberts; African American Review, Vol. 42, 2008
Subjects: African American dramatists--Works, African American playwrights--Works, African Americans--History, Diplomats--Practice, Downing, Henry Francis--Practice, Downing, Henry Francis--Works, Internationalism--History, United States foreign relations--History
...International, 2001. Mignolo, Walter D. "The Geopolitics of Knowledge...UP of America, 1978. "Mrs. Besant, Sir Harry Johnston and Sir Charles Bruce." African Times...deeper than he acknowledged ("Mrs. Besant"). (32.) Booker T. Washington...
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Future Dreams and Nightmares
Magazine article by Lane Jennings; The Futurist, Vol. 35, September 2001
Subjects: Books--Reviews, British Future Fiction (Book)--Reviews, The Pattern of Expectation 1644-2001 (Book)--Reviews
...Yea and Nay: The Revolt of Man (Sir Walter Besant); Lesbia Newman (Henry Robert Samuel...Great War: The Battle of Dorking (Sir George Tomkyns Chesney); The Invasion of England (Sir William Butler); The Second Armada...
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Edmund Spenser: The Boyhood of a Poet
Magazine article by Donald Bruce; Contemporary Review, Vol. 264, February 1994
Subjects: Poets--Biography, Spenser, Edmund--Biography
...Spenser. Like Spensers Sir Arthegal, and probably...deduced, in 1552. 2. Walter Besant, London, London, 1910...Atheneum, No. 1, pp. 595-6: Walter Thornbury. Old London...London, 1807-8, IV 159-76; Besant, op cit. 173-4; Elizabeth...
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The Most Perfect Man in History?
Magazine article by Barbara Yorke; History Today, Vol. 49, October 1999
Subjects: Alfred, King of Wessex--Conduct of life, Anglo-Saxons--9th century, Kings and rulers--Conduct of life, Middle Ages--United Kingdom, United Kingdom--History, 449-1066 (Anglo-Saxon period)
...Alfred become the epitome of the ideal Victorian that Walter Besant, in a lecture on Alfred in 1897, thought it entirely...like the positivist Frederic Harrison and litterateur Walter Besant, who were associated with them in the promotion of Working...
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The Edwardian Literary Afternoon Part Two: Now Came Still Evening On
Magazine article by Richard Whittington-Egan; Contemporary Review, Vol. 276, May 2000
Subjects: Authors, English--Conduct of life, England--Literature, English literature, 1837-1901 (Victorian age)--Social aspects, Literary movements--England
...he did an about turn and wrote a book to clear Sir Roger of the slur. The old lit. crit. Conundrum...and occult philosophers abounded, from Mrs. Besant to "A.E." And there was the poetry of Walter De La Mare to invest the commonplace with a patina...


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Besant, Sir Walter
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
BESANT, SIR WALTER bizant , 1836 1901, English novelist...Ready-Money Mortiboy (1872). Many of Besants novels, written after the collaboration...1882) and Children of Gibeon (1886). Besant was one of the most widely read novelists...
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Coligny, Gaspard De ChÂtillon, Comte De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...murdered in the massacre of Huguenots instigated by Catherine (see Saint Bartholomews Day, massacre of ). See Sir Walter Besant, Gaspard de Coligny (1879), E. Bersier, Coligny: The Earlier Life of the Great Huguenot (1884...


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