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.
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.

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1910, xi, 317 pp.
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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 ...
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, 1910, xi, 317 pp.
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Timeline

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

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1875

Lucy Walford 's light-hearted novel Mr. Smith: A Part of His Life appeared in Edinburgh and London before publication by Tauchnitz in Germany the following year.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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

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By 13 October 1877

Lucy Walford published Pauline, a novel.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2607 (1877): 464

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

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By 23 August 1884

Lucy Walford 's novel The Baby's Grandmother was published.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
2965 (1884): 234

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.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3173 (1888): 223
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

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.
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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 .
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.

1902: Lucy Walford published her novel Charlot...

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1902

Lucy Walford published her novel Charlotte.
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1908: Lucy Walford published the novel Leonore...

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1908

Lucy Walford published the novel Leonore Stubbs.
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1910: Lucy Walford's autobiography, Recollections...

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1910

Lucy Walford 's autobiography, Recollections of a Scottish Novelist, appeared.
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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.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.

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, 386 pp.
Walford, Lucy. “Cheerful Christianity”. Good Words, No. 23, pp. 238-40.
Walford, Lucy. Cousins. New Edition, William Blackwood and Sons, 1879.
Walford, Lucy. David and Jonathan on the Riviera. 1914.
Walford, Lucy. Four Biographies from Blackwood. Blackwood, 1888, 312 pp.
Walford, Lucy. Iva Kildare. Longmans, Green and Co., 1897.
Walford, Lucy. Leonore Stubbs. Longmans , 1908, 344 pp.
Walford, Lucy. Memories of Victorian London. Edward Arnold, 1912, xii, 351 pp.
Walford, Lucy. Mr. Smith. Stereotype Edition., Vol.
2 vols.
, William Blackwood and Sons, 1875.
Walford, Lucy. Mr. Smith. New Edition, Longmans, Green and Co., 1897.
Walford, Lucy. Pauline. New Edition, William Blackwood and Sons, 1877, 2 vols.
Walford, Lucy. Recollections of a Scottish Novelist. Williams and Norgate, 1910, xi, 317 pp.
Walford, Lucy. The Baby’s Grandmother. Blackwood, 1884, 3 vol.
Walford, Lucy. The Baby’s Grandmother. Henry Holt and Company, 1884.
Walford, Lucy. The Enlightenment of Olivia. Longmans, 1907.
Walford, Lucy. The Havoc of a Smile. Spencer Blackett, 1890.
Walford, Lucy. “The Managing Lady Teresa”. English Illustrated Magazine, pp. 504-7.
Walford, Lucy. The Matchmaker. Longmans, 1894, 3 vols.
Walford, Lucy. Troublesome Daughters. New Edition, William Blackwood and Sons, 1880.
Walford, Lucy. “What Young Girls Read and Enjoy”. Practical Teacher, Vol.
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, No. 6, pp. 279-81.