W. B. Maxwell
William Babington Maxwell (1866–1938) was a successful British novelist and playwright. Born on 4 June 1866, he was the third surviving child and second eldest son of novelist Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
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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
Bibliography
(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)
- Honour in Pawn (1911) (filmed in 1916)
- 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) (filmed in 1926 as The Gilded Highway)
- A man and his lesson (1919)
- The man who pretended (1929)
- The mirror and the lamp (1918)
- Mrs. Thompson (1911) (filmed in 1919)
- The people of a house (1934)
- The ragged messenger (1904) (filmed in 1917, 1924, and 1930)
- 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 or about W. B. Maxwell at Internet Archive
- Works by W. B. Maxwell at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)