Lucy Walford

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Standard Name: Walford, Lucy
Birth Name: Lucy Bethia Colquhoun
Indexed Name: L. B. Walford
Indexed Name: Mrs L. B. Walford
Used Form: LB Walford
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.

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Intertextuality and Influence Catherine Sinclair
Holiday House was an important book for one of CS 's great-nieces, who became the popular writer Lucy Walford , and was among the favourite childhood reading of poet and playwright Anne Ridler .
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate.
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Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Sinclair
Politician, agriculturalist, and statistician Sir John Sinclair of Ulbster , first baronet (1754-1835), used to joke that he had six-and-thirty feet of daughters.
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate.
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Family and Intimate relationships Catherine Sinclair
Several members of CS 's extended family were published authors. Her elder half-sister Janet published religious works. The best-known in her own day was her great-niece Lucy Walford , romantic novelist (whom Coventry Patmore ...

Timeline

1875: Lucy Walford's light-hearted novel Mr. Smith:...

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1875

Lucy Walford 's light-heartednovelMr. Smith: A Part of His Life appeared in Edinburgh and London before publication by Tauchnitz in Germany the following year.

By 13 October 1877: Lucy Walford published Pauline, a novel....

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By 13 October 1877

Lucy Walford published Pauline, a novel.

By 23 August 1884: Lucy Walford's novel The Baby's Grandmother...

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By 23 August 1884

Lucy Walford 's novelThe Baby's Grandmother was published.

By 18 August 1888: Lucy Walford published Four Biographies from...

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By 18 August 1888

Lucy Walford published Four Biographies from Blackwood's.

1890: Scottish author Lucy Walford published The...

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1890

Scottish author Lucy Walford published The Havoc of a Smile, a story of a young man's unrequited love for his dazzling cousin.

1894: Lucy Walford's The Matchmaker was published...

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1894

Lucy Walford 's The Matchmaker was published as the last three-volume novel by Mudie's Circulating Library .

1902: Lucy Walford published her novel Charlot...

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1902

Lucy Walford published her novelCharlotte.

1908: Lucy Walford published the novel Leonore...

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1908

Lucy Walford published the novelLeonore Stubbs.

1910: Lucy Walford's autobiography, Recollections...

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1910

Lucy Walford 's autobiography, Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, appeared.

1912: Memories of Victorian London was published....

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1912

Memories of Victorian London was published. It contains a variety of gossip alongside Lucy Walford 's writing of her later life.

Texts

Walford, Lucy. A Bubble. A. Constable, 1895.
Walford, Lucy. A Stiff-Necked Generation. W. Blackwood and Sons, 1889.
Walford, Lucy. Charlotte. Longmans & Co., 1902.
Walford, Lucy. “Cheerful Christianity”. Good Words, No. 23, pp. 238-40.
Walford, Lucy. Cousins. William Blackwood and Sons, 1879.
Walford, Lucy. David and Jonathan on the Riviera. 1914.
Walford, Lucy. Four Biographies from <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl="j">Blackwood</span>. Blackwood, 1888.
Walford, Lucy. Iva Kildare. Longmans, Green and Co., 1897.
Walford, Lucy. Leonore Stubbs. Longmans , 1908.
Walford, Lucy. Memories of Victorian London. Edward Arnold, 1912.
Walford, Lucy. Mr. Smith. William Blackwood and Sons, 1875.
Walford, Lucy. Pauline. William Blackwood and Sons, 1877.
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate, 1910.
Walford, Lucy. The Baby’s Grandmother. Blackwood, 1884.
Walford, Lucy. The Baby’s Grandmother. Henry Holt and Company, 1884.
Walford, Lucy. The Enlightenment of Olivia. Longmans, 1907.
Walford, Lucy. “The Managing Lady Teresa”. English Illustrated Magazine, pp. 504-7.
Walford, Lucy. The Matchmaker. Longmans, 1894.
Walford, Lucy. Troublesome Daughters. William Blackwood and Sons, 1880.
Walford, Lucy. “What Young Girls Read and Enjoy”. Practical Teacher, Vol.
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