Sir Walter Besant

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14 August 1836

Writer and reformer Walter Besant was born in St George's Square, Portsea, near Portsmouth, in Hampshire.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.

9 June 1901

SWB , writer and reformer, died at Frognal End, Hampstead.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
The Concise Dictionary of National Biography: From Earliest Times to 1985. Oxford University Press.

Biography

14 August 1836

Writer and reformer Walter Besant was born in St George's Square, Portsea, near Portsmouth, in Hampshire.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
In 1874 SWB married Mary Forster-Barham . They had four children.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.

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