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Walter Besant

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Also known as Sir Walter Besant

English novelist and historian (1836–1901)

Person · Open Library

Born
14 August 1836
Died
9 June 1901
Works
809

Top works

  • Sir Richard Whittington
  • Alfred
  • Miscellaneous fiction
  • Gaspard de Coligny (marquis de Chatillon)
  • Das leben und wirken Edward Henry Palmers ...

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Belgium
Active from
1983

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
7
Total plays
25

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Quotes

  • This work fascinates me more than anything else I have ever done. I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.
  • I lay it down as one of the distinctive characteristics of a good story that it pleases--or rather, seizes--every period of life; that the child, and his elder brother, and his father, and his grandfather, may read it with like enjoyment.
  • The procession from Newgate to Tyburn used to pass along Broad Street, and halt at the great gate of the hospital, in order that the condemned man might take his last draught of ale on earth.
  • Great and Little Wild Streets are called respectively Old and New Weld Streets by Strype. Weld House stood on the site of the present Wild Court, and was during the reign of James II occupied by the Spanish Embassy. In Great Wild Street Benjamin Franklin worked as a journeyman printer.

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