Arthur Hammond Marshall better known by his pen name

Pen name

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 Archibald Marshall, was an English author, publisher and journalist whose novels were particularly popular in the United States. He published over 50 books and was recognized as a realist in his writing style, and was considered by some as a successor to Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

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. Educated at Cambridge University, he was later (in 1921) made an honorary Doctor of Letters by Yale University. He travelled widely and made numerous notable acquaintances.

Biography

Archibald Marshall's Father, Arthur Marshall (1832–1900), was a businessman in London. Not wishing to join his father's shipping company, Archibald had first intended to be a clergyman and studied theology at Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College, Cambridge

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, where he befriended Bertram Fletcher Robinson

Bertram Fletcher Robinson

Bertram Fletcher Robinson was an English sportsman, journalist, author and Liberal Unionist Party campaigner. Between 1893 and 1907, he wrote nearly 300 published items including a series of short stories that feature a detective called Addington Peace. However, Robinson is perhaps best remembered...

 and Vaughan Williams amongst others. He married the widow Nellie Banks in 1902 (née

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Ellen Pollard), who had three children by her previous marriage to Alfred Banks, and they had one daughter Elizabeth, born in December 1904.

In 1903 he went to live in Beaulieu, Hampshire

Beaulieu, Hampshire

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 where he had a house built. He befriended John, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu

John Douglas-Scott-Montagu, 2nd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu

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, who invited him to be editor of The Car, which was first issued in August 1903. He later wrote a Biography of Lord Montagu in collaboration with Lady Laura Troubridge, which was published in 1930.

Marshall's first published novel was Lord Stirling's Son and the second Peter Binney, Undergraduate; His next, The House of Merrilees had been rejected by a variety of publishers, and after rewriting it in 1904 he established the publishing firm Alston Rivers

Alston Rivers

Alston Rivers Ltd. was a London publishing firm. The firm originally consisted of the Hon L.J. Bathurst and R.B. Byles and had brought out the novels of Whyte Melville and the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. In 1904 it was reconstituted, with Bathurst and Archibald Marshall putting up the money and...

 along with two others, in order to publish it in 1905.

In Cambridge, Marshall had written articles for The Granta

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under R. C. Lehmann

R. C. Lehmann

Rudolph Chambers "R.C." Lehmann was an English writer and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1906 to 1910. As a writer he was best known for three decades in which he was a major contributor to Punch as well as founding editor of Granta magazine.Lehmann was born in...

; when Lehmann became editor of the Daily News

Daily News (UK)

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in 1901, Marshall was appointed as his secretary, and later became literary editor. Marshall befriended G. K. Chesterton

G. K. Chesterton

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, and helped him to obtain a position at the Daily News whilst he held this post. In 1906, he was appointed as Assistant Director of the new Daily Mail

Daily Mail

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Literary Supplement, Books, being promoted to Director six months later. Marshall left the Daily Mail in 1911, hoping to make a living from writing novels, and he moved to Switzerland with his family in 1913. In 1916 he was forced to return to Journalism as the Paris Correspondent of the Daily News. He was later to write short stories for Punch

Punch (magazine)

Punch, or the London Charivari was a British weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841 by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells. Historically, it was most influential in the 1840s and 50s, when it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration...

between 1926 and 1934, many of which were later republished in his books Simple People, Simple Stories and Simple Stories from Punch.

Works

• Lord Stirling's Son (1895)
• Peter Binney Undergraduate (1899)
• The House of Merrilees (1905)
• Richard Baldock
• Exton Manor (1907)
• Many Junes (1906)
• The Squire's Daughter (1909)
• The Eldest Son (1911)
• Sunny Australia (1911)
• The Mystery of Redmarsh Farm (1912)
• The Honour of the Clintons (1913)
• Roding Rectory
• Rank and Riches (1915)
• Upsidonia (1915)
• Watermeads
• The Graftons (1918)
• Abington Abbey (1919)
• The Clintons and Others (1919)
• Sir Harry (1920)
• Wooden (1920)
• A Spring Wal in Provence (1920)
• The Hall and the Grange (1921)
• Big Peter (1922)
• Pippin (1923)

• The Clinton Twins and Other Stories (1923)
• Anthony Dare (1923)
• The Education of Anthony Dare (1924)
• Anthony Dare's Progress (1925)
• Joan and Nancy (1926)
• Simple Stories (1927)
• Young Peggy In Toyland (1928)
• John (1928)
• Simple People (1928)
• Miss Welby at Steen (1929)
• Audacious Ann (1929)
• Simple Stories from Punch (1930)
• Two Families (1931)
• The Appletons of Hern (1931)
• The Lady of the Manor (1932)
• William Speaking (1933)
• Angel Face & Other Stories (1933)
• The Claimants (1933)
• Out and About (1933)
• The Birdikin Family (1932)
• Jimmy the New Boy
• Nothing Hid (1935)
• Mrs Jim