William Bury Westall (7 February 1834 – 1903) was an English novelist born in Old Accrington, Lancashire, England.
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. 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); and Birch Dene (1889) which contains portraits of London and is evocative of the Industrial Revolution.
Notes
- ^ John Sutherland. "Westall, William Bury" in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Literature. 1989
External links
- Works by William Bury Westall at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about William Bury Westall at the Internet Archive
- William Westall at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- William Westall at Library of Congress, with 34 library catalogue records
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