Lucy Walford published more than forty-five books, primarily fiction (novels and short stories), as well as biographies and journalism over the final three decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. She was a popular as well as prolific novelist whose early works in particular garnered high praise. Reviewers tended to prize the conventional romantic plots and simple domestic settings, but also her spirited and comedic tone.
Milestones
May 1869 Her
mother's support led to the publication of a story by Lucy Colquhoun (later LW) in the
Sunday Magazine: "The Merchant's Sermon".
By 15 September 1894 LW published
The Matchmaker, which was notable, she said, as the last three-volume novel accepted by
Mudie's Circulating Library.
22 January 1914 LW's last novel,
David and Jonathan on the Riviera, was published in
London the year before she died.
