Lucy Walford

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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.
Black and white oval photograph of Lucy Walford, set against a light yellow background. She is wearing a dark, long-sleeved dress with a touch of lace at the neckline. Her dark curly hair is pulled back.

Milestones

17 April 1845

Lucy Bethia Colquhoun (later LW ) was born at 11 Brighton Crescent, Portobello, near Edinburgh.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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.
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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 .
New York Times. New York Times Company.
(15 September 1894): 3
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate.
268

22 January 1914

LW 's last novel, David and Jonathan on the Riviera, was published in London the year before she died.
OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive.
627 (22 January 1914): 34

11 May 1915

LW died at her home, 17 Warwick Square in the Pimlico district of London .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

Biography

LW wrote under her birth name once before marriage. After marrying, she usually wrote as L. B. Walford, and occasionally in late years as Mrs L. B. Walford.
British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo.

Birth and Family

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