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Vivian, E(velyn) Charles (Henry); pseudonym of Charles Cannell (1882-1947) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/vivian_e_charles


Vivian, Herbert (1865-1940) (items) (chron.)
Born in Chichester; educated at Harrow and Cambridge; founder of Royalist International; author, journalist and foreign correspondent.


Volk, Gordon (1885-1962) (items) (chron.)
Born in Brighton; educated at College de Dieppe; author and journalist.


Vynne, Nora (1864-1914) (items) (chron.)
See www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803120306174


Waddell, C(harles) C(arey) (1868-1930) (items) (chron.)
Born in Ohio; graduate of Marietta College; newspaperman in Ohio before becoming full-time writer.


Wain, Louis (1860-1939) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Wain


Wakefield, G(eorge) W(illiam) (1887-1942) (items) (chron.)
See britishcomics.fandom.com/wiki/George_William_Wakefield


Walford, L(ucy) B(ethia Colquhoun) (1845-1915) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Bethia_Walford


Walford, P(ercival John) (1893-1978) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.com/2019/03/p-walford.html


Walker, David (Harry) (1911-1992) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Walker_(author)


Walker, Frank H. (fl. 1890s-1910s) (items) (chron.)
Lived in Chicago, Illinois.


Walker, Rowland (1876-1947) (items) (chron.)
Author and journalist.


Walkey, S(amuel) (1871-1953) (items) (chron.)
Born in Cornwall.


Wallace, Bryan Edgar (1904-1971) (items) (chron.)
Son of (Richard Horatio) Edgar Wallace. Educated at Cambridge; screenwriter, Diplomatic Secretary at British Embassy in Madrid; owned a chateau in France, but died in Columbus, Ohio.


Wallace, (George) Carlton (1903-1980) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/carlton-wallace.html


Wallace, (Richard Horatio) Edgar (1875-1932) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Wallace


Wallace, Helen (Grace) (1853-1944) (items) (chron.)
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland; died in Torquay, England.


Wallage, Peter (1928-2011); used pseudonym Peter Bruce (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.com/2009/04/peter-wallage.html


Waller, S(amuel) E(dmund) (1850-1903) (items) (chron.)
See www.askart.com/artist_bio/Samuel_Edmund_Waller/11136594/Samuel_Edmund_Waller.aspx


Wallis, George C(harles) (1871-1956) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wallis_george_c


Walsh, George E(thelbert) (1865-1941) (items) (chron.)
Born in Brooklyn.


Walsh, J(ames) M(organ) (1897-1952) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/walsh_j_m


Walsh, Thomas (1875-1928) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Walsh_(poet)


Walshe, Douglas (Thomas George) (1880-1952) (items) (chron.)
Father of Elisabeth Ayrton.


Ward, A(rthur Henry) Sarsfield (1883-1959); used pseudonym Sax Rohmer (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sax_Rohmer


Ward, Atkinson (1882-1965) (items) (chron.)
Husband of Elizabeth Rebecca Ward.


Ward, Elizabeth Rebecca (1880-1978); used pseudonym Fay Inchfawn (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Rebecca_Ward


Ward, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps; [Mrs. Herbert Dickinson Ward; born Mary Gray Phelps] (1844-1911); previously known as Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stuart_Phelps_Ward


Ward, Mrs. Humphry (1851-1920) (items) (chron.)
Born in Tasmania; came to England in 1856; lived successively in Birmingham, Oxford and London.


Warner, P(elham) F(rancis) (1873-1963) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelham_Warner


Warren, F(rancis) H(owlett) (1886-1960) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2017/11/f-h-warren.html


Warren, (Thomas) J(ohn) Russell (1886-1954) (items) (chron.)
Born in Reading, England; died in Hertford; journalist.


Warwick, Francis (Alister) (1902-1975) (items) (chron.)
Son of Sidney Warwick.


Warwick, (Harry) Sidney (1871-1953) (items) (chron.)
Educated at St. Peter’s, York, and Oxford. Father of Francis Warwick.


Waters, Kenneth L(ee) (1914-1996) (items) (chron.)
See sclfind.libs.uga.edu/sclfind/view?docId=ead/ms2972.xml


Watkins-Pitchford, Denys (James) (1905-1990) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denys_Watkins-Pitchford


Watson, Rosamund Marriott; [née Ball] (1860-1911); used pseudonym Graham R. Tomson (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosamund_Marriott_Watson


Watson, W(illiam) (1858-1925) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Watson_(botanist)


Watson, William (1858-1935) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Watson_(poet)


Watt, J. Lauchlan Maclean (1868-?) (items) (chron.)
See tinyurl.com/LauchlanMacleanWatt


Watt, J(ohn) Millar (1895-1975) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Millar_Watt


Watt, Lauchlan MacLean (1867-1957) (items) (chron.)
Educated at Edinburgh University; clergyman, Church of Scotland.


Way, (Robert) Bernard (1890-1958) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.com/2008/10/r-barnard-way.html


Weatherly, Frederic E(dward) (1848-1929) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederic_Weatherly


Webb, Archibald (Bertram) (1887-1944) (items) (chron.)
See www.lookandlearn.com/blog/11017/archibald-webb-artist/


Webb, Kaye; [i.e., Kathleen Webb] (1914-1996) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaye_Webb


Webb, Matthew (1848-1883) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Webb


Webster, [Captain] F(rederick) A(nnesley) M(ichael) (1886-1949) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/webster_f_a_m


Wedgwood, [Lady] C(icely) V(eronica) (1910-1997) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Wedgwood


Weigall, G(erald) J(ohn) V(illiers) (1870-1944) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Weigall


Weir, Rosemary (née Green) (1905-1994) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2006/11/rosemary-weir.html


Welch, Ann (Courtenay) (1917-2002) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Welch


Wells, G. A. (fl. 1910s-1930s) (items) (chron.)
See tellersofweirdtales.blogspot.com/2023/04/ga-wells-first-story-of-far-north.html


Wells, H(erbert) G(eorge) (1866-1946) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells


Wells, William H. (fl. 1920s-1940s) (items) (chron.)
Perhaps advertising agent and sales executive William Henson Wells (1886?-1958). Not to be confused with educationist William Hughes Wells (1859-1919).


Westerman, Percy F(rancis) (1876-1959) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/westerman_percy_f


Weston, [Dame] Agnes (Elizabeth) (1840-1918) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Weston


Weston, George (Thomas) (1880-1965) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/weston_george


Weston, Jessie (1867-1944) (items) (chron.)
See www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803121918671


Wharton, Philip (, 1st Duke of Wharton) (1698-1731) (items)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Wharton,_1st_Duke_of_Wharton


Wheeler, Edward L(ytton) (c1854-1885) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lytton_Wheeler


Whishaw, Fred(erick James) (1854-1934) (items) (chron.)
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia; his family came to England when he was a baby; studied at Leamington College and Uppingham; back St. Petersburg 1870-1884; began a career as a musican and became a well-known and successful tenor; was a translator of Dostoevsky’s works from the Russian; then writer of numerous schoolboy stories.


White, Arnold (Henry) (1848-1925) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_White


White, Fred M(errick) (1859-1935) (items) (chron.)
See www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/white_fred_m


White, Matthew (B., Jr.) (1857-1940) (items) (chron.)
See pulpflakes.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/matthew-white-jr.html


White, Robb, III (1909-1990) (items) (chron.)
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robb_White


Whitear, A(lbert) R(ichard) (1906-1989) (items) (chron.)
See bearalley.blogspot.com/2007/02/r-whitear.html



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