Author:Walter Besant

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Walter Besant (1836–1901)

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British novelist and historian who lived largely in London

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This author wrote articles for the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica.
Articles attributed to this author are designated in EB1911 by the initials "W. Be."

Walter Besant

Works

• All Sorts and Conditions of Men
• Armorel of Lyonesse
• Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
• Children of Gibeon
• Fifty Years Ago
• For Faith and Freedom
• Gaspard de Coligny
• Herr Paulus
• In Deacon's Orders, and Other Stories
• London
• St. Katharine's by the Tower
• The Bell of St. Paul's
• The Ivory Gate
• The Inner House (1888)
• The Rebel Queen
• The World Went Very Well Then
• Verbena Camellia Stephanotis

Contributions to Encyclopædia Britannica

• “Froissart, Jean,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• “Jefferies, Richard,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Works about Besant

• “Besant, Sir Walter,” in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• “Besant, Sir Walter,” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons
• “Besant, Sir Walter,” in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)