Sir Walter Besant (14 August 1836 – 9 June 1901) was an English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant was his brother, and another brother, Frank...

novelist, wrote a number of successful novels in collaboration with Walter Besant. He was born in Northampton, and was educated at Cambridge University...

married the cleric Frank Besant (1840–1917), younger brother of Walter Besant, an evangelical, serious Anglican. The Rev. Frank Besant was a graduate of Emmanuel...

William Henry Besant FRS (1 November 1828 – 2 June 1917) was a British mathematician, brother of novelist Walter Besant. Another brother, Frank, was the...

and Round About a Great Estate (1880), that has drawn most admirers. Walter Besant wrote of his reaction on first reading Jefferies: "Why, we must have...

neither; in 1857 Charles Dickens termed it "London-over-the-Border". Walter Besant described East London as an area north of the Thames and east of the...

orator Derek Michael Besant (born 1950), Canadian artist Walter Besant (1836–1901), English novelist and historian W. H. Besant (1828–1917), British mathematician...

inspired by the Chronicles. Chronicles L'Horloge amoureux Méliador Walter Besant (1911). "Froissart, Jean". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica...

mostly destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. According to Sir Walter Besant, "There was no house in [London] more interesting than this". The original...

of Authors, which had been founded by his friend and fellow novelist Walter Besant. The inconsistent quality of Collins's dramatic and fictional works...

The Inner House is a novel by Walter Besant published in 1888. It is set a few centuries in the future and is a dystopian fantasy about a society which...

He was also involved in collaborations with Alexander Duffield, Sir Walter Besant, Andrew Lang, F. C. Grove and Camille Prévost and Lilian Moubrey. A...

Barts Health NHS Trust. In 1882 novelist and social commentator Sir Walter Besant proposed a Palace of Delight with concert halls, reading rooms, picture...

acquired some fine buildings, and the New Town began to be built. By 1882, Walter Besant was able to describe East London as a city in its own right, on account...

Calamo, it is the motto of the Authors' Club of London, founded by Walter Besant in 1891. In another Latinized form, Doctrina Fortior Armis, it is the...

Canary Wharf Pier. London portal Henry Mayhew George Robert Sims Sir Walter Besant Clement Attlee Colin Gwyer & Associates Ltd v London Wharf (Limehouse)...

Robert Freke Gould, The Revd Adolphus Frederick Alexander Woodford, Walter Besant, John Paul Rylands, Major Sisson Cooper Pratt, William James Hughan...

Press, 1999), Robin Roberts points out that a similar plot was used by Walter Besant in his 1882 anti-feminist dystopia, The Revolt of Man. "Angel One" featured...

comedy released in 2006. Additional authors include Clement Scott, Walter Besant, Grace Luce Irwin and Arnold Bennett. Chamber play Nicholas Cooper,...

passages of the work had not been able to win over all Victorian critics. Walter Besant criticised the work in his 1875 novel With Harp and Crown, singling...

Muirhead's 1927 guidebook to London and its Environs Westminster, by Sir Walter Besant and Geraldine Edith Mitton and A. Murray Smith, 1902, from Project Gutenberg...

and the hope of a true dream of victory. The Ivory Gate, a novel by Walter Besant, describing a solicitor with a split personality. The utopian thoughts...

Views of London, Westminster & Southwark. London: Spottiswoode & Co. Walter Besant. London (Harper & Bros., 1892) Charles Welch (1893–1894). Notes on London...

of the Future (1887) by Anna Bowman Dodd The Inner House (1888) by Walter Besant Caesar's Column (1890) by Ignatius L. Donnelly Pictures of the Socialistic...

"exquisitely wild, fantastic, [and] impossible". In the late 19th century, Walter Besant wrote that Alice in Wonderland "was a book of that extremely rare kind...

venue manager. Mabel Besant-Scott, English Theosophist. Sir Walter Besant, English novelist and historian. William Henry Besant, British mathematician...

– all of his children died before having children of their own. Sir Walter Besant, a biographer of Cook, described Cook as being "over six feet high"...

related to City of Westminster. City of Westminster Westminster, by Sir Walter Besant and Geraldine Edith Mitton and A. Murray Smith, 1902, from Project Gutenberg...

The Monks of Thelema is a novel by Walter Besant and James Rice. It was published in 1878 by Chatto & Windus, London. This novel includes descriptions...

architecture in Portsmouth Dockyard. Victorian novelist and historian Sir Walter Besant documented his 1840s childhood in By Celia's Arbour: A Tale of Portsmouth...