Cecil Edric Mornington Roberts (18 May 1892 – 20 December 1976) was an English

England

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 journalist

Journalist

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 , poet

Poetry

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, dramatist

Drama

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 and novelist.

Roberts worked as a journalist on the Liverpool Post during World War I

World War I

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, as literary editor and then as a war correspondent. From 1920 for five years he edited the Nottingham Journal. In 1922 he stood for Parliament for the Liberal Party

Liberal Party (UK)

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.

During World War II

World War II

World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

 Roberts worked for Lord Halifax, who was British Ambassador to the United States.

Works

• Twenty-Six Poems (1917)
• Training The Airmen (1919)
• Poems (1920)
• Tale of Young Lovers (1922) drama
• Scissors (1923)
• Sails of Sunset (1924)
• The Love Rack (1925)
• Little Mrs Manington (1926)
• The Diary of Russell Beresford (1927) editor
• Sagusto (1927)
• David and Diana (1928)
• Indiana Jane (1929)
• Pamela's Spring Song (1929)
• Goose Fair (1929)
• Havana Bound (1930)
• Spears Against Us (1930)
• Bargain Basement (1931)
• Half Way: An Autobiography (1931)
• Alfred Fripp (1932) biography
• Pilgrim Cottage (1933) trilogy includes The Guests Arrive and Volcano
• Gone Rustic (1934)
• The Guests Arrive (1934)
• Volcano (1935)
• Gone Rambling (1935)
• Gone Afield (1936)
• Gone Sunwards (1936)
• Victoria, Four-Thirty (1937)
• They Wanted to Live (1939)
• And So to Bath
  And So to Bath
  And So to Bath is a novel by Cecil Roberts first published in 1940.Roberts lived in Oxfordshire and was familiar with the Old Bath Road as far as Maidenhead at which point he would turn off....
  
  (1940)
• A Man Arose (1941) poem on Winston Churchill
• Letters from Jim (1941) editor
• One Small Candle (1942)
• So Immortal a Flower (1944)
• The Labyrinth (1944)
• And So to America (1946)
• Eight for Eternity (1947)
• And So to Rome (1950)
• A Terrace in the Sun (1951)
• One Year of Life (1952) memoir
• The Remarkable Young Man (1954)
• Portal to Paradise: An Italian Excursion (1955)
• Love Is Like That (1957)
• Selected Poems (1960)
• Wide Is the Horizon (1962)
• Grand Cruise (1963)
• A Flight of Birds (1966)
• The Growing Boy (1967) autobiography (i)
• The Years of Promise autobiography (ii)
• The Bright Twenties (1970) autobiography (iii)
• Sunshine and Shadow (1972) autobiography (iv)
• Pleasant Years (1974) autobiography (v)