Francis Prevost
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Harry Francis Prevost Battersby (1862 – 1949) most well known as H. F. P. Battersby was a poet, novelist journalist and psychical researcher, who published under the name Francis Prevost.
Biography
Battersby was born in 1862, the son of a major-general. He graduated with distinction from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and initially joined the Royal Irish Rifles before moving into journalism. He served as the Boer War correspondent for the Morning Post. In 1909, he married Frances Muriel Saunders. He saw active service again during the First World War.
Works
Poems
- Melilot (1886)
- Fires of Greenwood (1887)
Novels and short fiction
- Rust of Gold (1895)
- The Avenging Hour (1896)
- False Dawn (1897)
- In The Web of War (1900) non fiction
- The Plague of the Heart (1902)
Plays
- The Way of War (1902)
- Voice of Duty (1904)
Translator
- Tolstoi's Christ's Christianity and What to Do
Parapsychology
- Psychic Certainties (1930)
- Man Outside Himself (1942)
References
- Prevost, Francis, in The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
- Prevost, Francis, in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction (ed. John Sutherland)
- A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin (John William Cousin), 1849–1910.
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