British Juvenile Story Papers and Pocket Libraries Index

Biographical Notes: Page 1

Abbott, J(ohn) H(enry) M(acartney) (1874-1953) (items) (chron.)

Born and educated in Australia; later a journalist in London.

Abdullah, Achmed; pseudonym of Alexander Nicholayevitch Romanoff (1881-1945) (items) (chron.); name given in full as Achmed Abdullah Nadir Khan el-Durani el Iddrissyeh.

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achmed_Abdullah

Abel, Robert (1857-1936) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Abel

Abney, [Sir] W(illiam) de W(iveleslie) (1843-1920) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Wiveleslie_Abney

Abrahams, H(arold) M(aurice) (1899-1978) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Abrahams

Adams, Agnes (Louise Logan) (1891-1951) (items) (chron.)

See www.goodreads.com/author/show/4470892.Agnes_Adams

Adams, [Sir] John (1857-1934); used pseudonym Skelton Kuppord (items) (chron.)

Scots clergyman and professor at London University.

Adams, Morley (Punshon) (1876-1954) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/03/morley-adams.html

Adams, Oscar Fay (1855-1919) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Fay_Adams

Adams, W(illiam) H(enry) Davenport (1828-1891) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Davenport_Adams

Adcock, A(rthur) St. John (1864-1930) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_St_John_Adcock

Adcock, Frederick (1874-1951) (items) (chron.)

Brother of A. St. John Adcock.

Addison, Joseph (1672-1719) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Addison

Adeler, Max; pseudonym of Charles H. Clark (1841-1915) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/adeler_max

Agnew, Stephen H(amilton) (?-1916) (items) (chron.)

Evidently a pseudonym for a soldier who died in military action.

Aide, (Charles) Hamilton (1826-1906) (items) (chron.); name also given as Charles Hamilton Aidé and Charles Hamilton Aïdé.

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Hamilton_Aide

Aimard, Gustave (1818-1883) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/aimard_gustave

Ainsworth, W(illiam) Harrison (1805-1882) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/william-harrison-ainsworth.html

Albanesi, Effie Adelaide Maria; [Madame Albanesi; born Effie Henderson] (1859-1936) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/effie-adelaide-rowlands.html

Alcock, C(harles) W(illiam) (1842-1907) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_W._Alcock

Aldin, Cecil (Charles Windsor) (1870-1935) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/cecil-aldin.html

Aldous, Allan (Charles) (1911-2000) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/allan-aldous.html

Alexander, Sidney A. (1866-1948) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_A._Alexander

Alexandrine of Denmark, Queen; [born Alexandrine Auguste of Mecklenburg-Schwerin] (1879-1952) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrine_of_Mecklenburg-Schwerin

Allen, Audrey Mayhew (1870-?) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladys_in_Grammarland

Allen, (Charles) Grant (Blairfindie) (1848-1899) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_Allen

Allen, (Albert Thomas) Trevor (1891-1983) (items) (chron.)

See janus.lib.cam.ac.uk/db/node.xsp?id=EAD%2FGBR%2F0012%2FMS%20Add.8420

Allighan, Garry (1895-1977) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/allighan_garry

Allingham, Helen; [born Helen Mary Elizabeth Paterson] (1848-1926) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Allingham

Allingham, Herbert (John) (1867-1936) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/fifty-years-in-fiction-factory-working.html

Allingham, Margery (Louise) (1904-1966) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margery_Allingham

Alma-Tadema, [Sir] Lawrence (1836-1912) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Alma-Tadema

Ambler, C(hristopher) Gifford (1886-1965) (items) (chron.)

See ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Christopher_Gifford_Ambler_(1886-1965)

Ames, Delano (1906-1987) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delano_Ames

Anderson, James (1853-1911) (items) (chron.)

A minister, who died in Dyce, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

Anderson, Paul L(ewis) (1880-1956) (items) (chron.)

Author and photographer. Born in Trenton, New Jersey; died in Short Hills, New Jersey.

Andrew, Colin (Henderson) (1933-2013) (items) (chron.)

See ukcomics.fandom.com/wiki/Colin_Andrew_(1933-2013)

Andrews, Allen (1913-1985) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/12/allen-andrews.html

Andrews, Graham (1948- ) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/andrews_graham

Andrews, Mary Raymond Shipman; [Mrs. William Shankland Andrews] (1860-1936) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Raymond_Andrews

Angell, Clare (1874-1932?) (items) (chron.)

See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.co.uk/2016/07/clare-angell-1874-1932-part-one.html

Angell, (Alice) Maude (1870-1944) (items) (chron.)

See www.artbiogs.co.uk/1/artists/angell-alice-maude

Anstey, F.; pseudonym of Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856-1934) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/anstey_f

Anstruther, [Dame] Eva (Isabella Henrietta) (1869-1935) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Anstruther

Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arbuthnot

Archer, H(ubert) G(raves) (1869-1940) (items) (chron.)

Man of private means but clearly a railway enthusiast. First name sometimes turns up as Herbert, which it does in the 1911 census, but his probate is as Hubert.

Arkell, Reginald (1882-1959) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Arkell

Armitt, Annie (1850-1933) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Armitt

Armour, R(obert) C(outts) (1874-1945) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/armour_r_coutts

Armour, Richard (Willard) (1906-1989) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armour

Armstrong, Anthony; pseudonym of George A. A. Willis (1897-1976) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/armstrong_anthony

Armstrong, Martin (Donisthorpe) (1882-1974) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Armstrong_(writer)

Arnaud, (Germaine) Yvonne (1890-1958) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Arnaud

Arnold, Channing (1869-1938) (items) (chron.)

See librivox.org/author/10627

Arnold, [Sir] Edwin (1832-1904) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Arnold

Arnold, Edwin Lester (Linden) (1857-1935) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/arnold_edwin_l

Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Arnold

Arnold, Ralph (Crispian Marshall) (1906-1970) (items) (chron.)

Born in Kent.

Arvonen, (Margaret) Helen (1937-?) (items) (chron.)

Born in Canada, maybe in 1940—sources differ; married Sulo Arvonen in 1960; in 1996 she was referred to as “the late Helen Arvonen, author.”

Ashford, Daisy; [i.e., Margaret Mary Julia Ashford] (1881-1972) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daisy_Ashford

Asimov, Isaac; [anglicized from Isaak Iudich Azimov] (1920-1992) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov

Atholl, Justin; pseudonym of Sidney Denham (1906-1968) (items) (chron.)

See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/justin-atholl.html

Atkins, Frank; [i.e., Francis Henry Atkins, Sr.] (1847-1927) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Henry_Atkins

Atkins, Frank Howard (1882-1921) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Howard_Atkins

Austen, Jane (1775-1817) (items)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen

Austen, Winifred (Marie Louise) (1876-1964) (items) (chron.)

See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winifred_Austen

Austin, F(rederick) Britten (1885-1941) (items) (chron.)

See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/austin_f_britten