Walter Raymond Explained

Walter Raymond
Birth Date:	13 March 1852
Death Place:	Southampton, England
Occupation:	Novelist
Spouse:	Mary Johnston
Children:	8

Walter Raymond (13 March 1852 – 2 April 1931) was an English novelist.

He wrote many novels between 1890 and 1928, primarily based in Somerset, and also wrote under the pseudonym Tom Cobbleigh. Some of his titles include Gentleman Upcott's Daughter (1892), Love and Quiet Life (1894),^[1] Fortune's Darling (1901), and Verity Thurston (1926).

Walter Raymond married Mary Johnston in 1878. They had five daughters and three sons.^[2] He died in Southampton on 2 April 1931 at the age of 79.^{[3] [4] [5]} There is a memorial to him in Yeovil Public Library in Somerset, designed by William Worrall.^[6]

Raymond's work is long out of print and currently gets little attention, although some novels are now available for free online.^[7]

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Selected publications

• Book: Love and quiet life. 1894.
• Book: Tryphena in love. 1895.
• Book: In the smoke of war; a story of civil strife. 1895. Raymond . Walter .
• Book: Charity Chance. 1896.
• Book: Two men o' Mendip. 1899. ^[8]
• Book: A tangled web. 1899.
• Book: The book of simple delights. 1906. Raymond . Walter .
• Book: The book of crafts and character. 1907.
• Book: English country life. 1910. Book: 1911 edition.
• Book: The revenues of the wicked. 1911.

as Tom Cobbleigh

• Book: Taken at his word. 1892. Vol. 2
• Book: Gentleman Upcott's daughter. 1893.

External links

• Gentleman Upcott's daughter (1892) (at archive.org)
• Article on Walter Raymond from Feb. 1895 edition of The Bookman (New York)
• Latest News from 29 July 2022 : https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/20586989.new-zealand-artists-family-tree-links-yeovil/ New Zealand artist's family tree has links to Yeovil in Somerset County Gazette, England
• https://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/20586989.new-zealand-artists-family-tree-links-yeovil/
• Wilmington artist Elisabeth Chant influential 75 years after death (starnewsonline.com) - Family of William Raymond Yeovil
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Notes and References

1. (24 December 1894). More Prose Bucolics (book review), The New York Times
2. Web site: Walter Raymond. Exmoor National Park.
3. (3 April 1931). Walter Raymond, Novelist, Dies at 79, The New York Times
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=-XMTAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA13 Walter Raymond: Author of "Gentleman Upcott's Daughter," "Love and Quiet Life," Etc.
5. [Nathan Haskell Dole|Dole, Nathan Haskell]
6. ‘Walter Raymond memorial’ in Western Gazette, 9 February 1940, and ‘Memorial to Walter Raymond: Mrs J. B. Clark unveils plaque’ in Taunton Courier, 2 August 1947
7. Web site: Walter Raymond . Somerset History . 5 August 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140624141157/http://www.somersethistory.co.uk/walter-raymond.html . 24 June 2014.
8. Review of Two Men o' Mendip by Walter Raymond. The Athenaeum. 3725. March 18, 1899.