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I am looking for a biography of author Louis Creswicke - does anybody have any information to share?

Ndlovu,

Is there no introduction to him in his works?

I can't find any biography of Louis Creswicke. I will keep looking ...

Ndlovu
When I first went on-line, I looked for some background on Louis Creswicke and - like David - I found zero. He was clearly a popular/semi-popular novelist of the time; in the front of SATW there is a reference to what is apparently a novel titled "Roxane" and there must have been others as there was an "etc". Once, the IL establishment had a"Chambers Biographical Dictionary" - but it vanished many years ago. I recall that it contained many bios of once popular authors. I would imagine that the author of such a popular series of books such as SATW would leave a trace somewhere.
Not much help, I know.
Regards
IL.

Did some Creswicke digging just now. At the turn of 1899-1900, he was a contemporary of Conan Doyle, Le Quex and a certain WSC. In 1904, Louis Creswicke also wrote a bio of the Right Honorable Joseph Chamberlain (including illustrations, portraits and cartoons). A listing of authors shows his address as 86 Barkston Gardens, SW (London, I suppose). Found more than was there when I looked quite some time ago.
IL.

Hello Ndlovu

I suggest you get in contact with Dr Roger Stearn, he is the Review Editor for Soldiers of the Queen (Victorian Military Society). He has done a lot of work with the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and knows alot about Creswicke's contemporaries.

His email is [email protected]

Good luck.

Meurig