W. L. George

W. L. George

Walter Lionel George (1882 – 1926) was an English writer, born and brought up in Paris, France. He was known for novels and writings on feminism.

He was working as a journalist in London, when the success of "A Bed of Roses" (1911), about a woman's descent into prostitution, allowed him to write full time. [Sandra Kemp, Charlotte Mitchell, David Trotter, "Edwardian Fiction: An Oxford Companion" (1997), p. 146.]

George Orwell included him in a 1945 list of "natural" novelists, not inhibited by "good taste". [With Leonard Merrick, J. D. Beresford, Ernest Raymond, May Sinclair, and A. S. M. Hutchinson. Orwell, "Good Bad Books" (1945.] According to Alec Waugh, he was commercially successful, helpful in practical terms to upcoming authors, but unpopular in the literary world for his subject matter, his hack journalism, and his left-wing views.

Works

*"Engines of Social Progress" (1907)
*"France in the twentieth century" (1908)
*"A Bed of Roses" (1911) novel
*"City of Light: A Novel of Modern Paris" (1912)
*"Woman and Tomorrow" (1913)
*"Until the Day Break" (1913)
*"Dramatic Actualities" (1914)
*"Olga Nazimov and Other Stories" (1915)
*"Israel Kalisch" (1915)
*"Anatole France" (1915)
*"The Intelligence of Woman" (1916)
*"The Strangers' Wedding or the Comedy of a Romantic" (1916)
*"The Making of an Englishman" (1917) novel
*"The Second Blooming" (1917)
*"A Novelist on Novels" (1918)
*"Literary Chapters" (1918)
*"Blind Alley" (1919)
*"Eddies of the Day" (1919)
*"Caliban" (1920)
*"The Confession of Ursula Trent" (1921)
*"A London Mosaic" (1921) illustrations Philippe Forbes-Robertson.
*"Hail Columbia! Random Impressions Of A Conservative English Radical" (1921)
*"Her Unwelcome Husband" (1922)
*"The Stiff Lip" (1922)
*"The Ordeal of Monica Mary
*"One Of The Guilty" (1923)
*"The Triumph of Gallio" (1924) novel
*"The Story of Woman" (1925)
*"Historic Lovers" (1925)
*"Gifts of Sheba" (1926) novel
*"Children of the Morning" (1927)
*"The Selected Short Stories of W.L. George" (1927)
*"The Little Beloved"

References

*Alec Waugh (1967), "My Brother Evelyn and Other Portraits", pp.105-114

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