W. B. Maxwell

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W.B. Maxwell

William Babington Maxwell (4 June 1866 –1938) was a British novelist.

Biography

Born on June 4, 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon. Though nearly 50 years old at the outbreak of the First World War, he was accepted as a lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers and served in France until 1917.

He wrote The Last Man In, a drama, produced 14 March 1910, at the Royalty Theatre, Glasgow, by the Scottish Repertory Company; and, with George Paston (i. e., Emily Morse Symonds), a farce, The Naked Truth, which was first played at Wyndham's Theatre, London, in April, 1910, and in which Charles Hawtrey played Bernard Darrell. New International Encyclopedia

Works

(Please note: some of the publication dates may not be for the original British edition, but for a later American edition; most, if not all, of Maxwell's works were published on both sides of the Atlantic, some have been translated as well)

• Amos the wanderer (1932)
• And Mr. Wyke Bond (1934)
• The case of Bevan Yorke (1927)
• Children of the night (1925)
• The concave mirror (1931)
• The day’s journey (1923)
• The devil’s garden (1913; later a 1920 silent film The Devil's Garden)
• Elaine at the gates (1924)
• The emotional journey (1936)
• Everslade; men and women III (1938)
• Fernande (1925)
• For better, for worse (1920)
• Gabrielle (1926)
• General Mallock’s shadow (1913)
• Glamour (1919)
• The guarded flame (1906)
• Hill Rise (1907)
• Himself and Mr. Raikes (1929)
• In cotton wool (1912)
• The last man in (1910)
• Life; a study of self (1925)
• Life can never be the same (1919)
• A little more (1922)
• A man and his lesson (1919)
• The man who pretended (1929)
• The mirror and the lamp (1918)
• Mrs. Thompson (1911)
• The people of a house (1934)
• The ragged messenger (1904)
• A remedy against sin, a novel (1920)
• The rest cure; a novel (1910)
• Seymour Charlton (1909)
• Spinster of this parish (1922)
• This is my man (1933)
• Time gathered; autobiography (1938)
• To what green altar? (1930)
• Tudor green (1935)
• Vivien (1905)
• We forget because we must, a story of decades and lustres (1928)
• The Countess of Maybury (1901)
• Fabulous Fancies (1903)

External links

• Works by W. B. Maxwell at Project Gutenberg
• Works by W. B. Maxwell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)