Author:Robert Overton

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Robert Overton
(1859–1924)

British author of boy's stories and playwright

Works[edit]

  • Queer Fish (1883)
  • A Round Dozen (1884
  • Ten Minutes
  • The Overton Reciter (1889) (external scan)
  • Overton Entertainer
  • Water-Works (1895)
  • Nine and Three (1910)
  • After School (1893)
  • Lights Out
  • The King's Pardon (1895) IA
  • Far from Home (1895)
  • Friend or Fortune? (1897) (external scan)
  • The Record Reciter (1897) (external scan)
  • The Son of the School (1913)
  • The Orphan of Tor College (1905)
  • Decoyed across the Seas (1907)
  • A Chase Round the World (1900)
  • Dangerous Days (1905)
  • Saturday Island (1915)
  • The Three Skippers (1923)
  • The Secret of the Caves
  • The Clue of the Cloak

Plays[edit]

  • Hearts of Oak
  • Next of Kin
  • The Mills of God
  • No Quarter
  • The Man In Possession
  • Purgatory
  • Fortune Favors Fools
  • Splendid Silence
  • A Mad Marriage
  • The Lady Secretary
  • Santa Claus
  • Gertie's Convict
  • Mrs. Seton's Secret
  • Two Negatives

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.


This author died in 1924, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 99 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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