William Bury Westall
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates William Bury Westall (7 February 1834 – 1903) was an English novelist born in Old Accrington, Lancashire, England.[1]
Originally a businessman, he later became a journalist who also wrote about 30 pot-boiler romantic novels with titles including The Old Factory, The Phantom City: A Volcanic Romance, Strange Crimes and Her Ladyship's Secret.[1] Among his novels are Her Two Millions (1897) with its autobiographical element and descriptions of how a Swiss newspaper is run (Westall worked as an editor of Swiss Times);[1] and Birch Dene (1889) which contains portraits of London and is evocative of the Industrial Revolution.[1]
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- ↑ a b c d John Sutherland. "Westall, William Bury" in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. 1989
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