Hampton Court

Beautiful England

by Walter Jerrold, E.W. Haslehust

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94 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

Walter Copeland Jerrold (May 03 1865-October 27 1929) was an English writer, biographer, and newspaper editor.

Jerrold was born in Liverpool but spent most of his life in London, where he followed a literary career. Starting work as a clerk in a newspaper counting-house, he went on to become deputy editor of The Observer. He edited many classic texts for the newly founded Everyman’s Library, he wrote biographies, he produced stories for children under the name of Walter Copeland.

"Tradition in the nursery has acted as a severe editor." He had five daughters (m. Clara Armstrong Bridgman 1895), and one, Ianthe Jerrold (1898–1977) wrote fiction.

Biographies (Lamb 1905),
Children's books (Big Book of Fables 1987),
Classic texts for Everyman's Library,
Travel books for Blackie & Son "Beautiful England" series (Hampton Court 1916)

Reviews

[Anne Patkau · Rating 2 out of 5]

Lion Gate and Pond Garden by E.W. Haslehust at http://aneyespy.blogspot.ca/2013/05/i...
I'll stick to his editing, collecting Fables, where again, illustrations carry the day http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/... . Jerrold uses odd unattributed "air" quotes. Impressed by pictures of magnificence I barely remember in person, I wanted to average up another's 1* rating. He seemed to have been popular in his day, now fallen by the wayside, like George Goodchild. However, Goodchild's detective fiction still excites today. http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

The tourist series "Beautiful England" is so out-dated as to be of a different country. http://www.maps.thehunthouse.net/Beau... Jerrold's long-winded style does not stand up. Here's a sample of one sentence.
"It is said that Wolsey's health was such that it was necessary for him to have a residence away from London, yet his position made it essential that he should still be within easy reach of the capital; therefore he "employed the most eminent physicians in England and even called in the aid of doctors from Padua, to select the most healthy spot within twenty miles of London", and the result was the selection of Hampton and the erection of the princely Palace which has seen its royal neighbours of Hanworth and Richmond pass from palaces to mere fragments, and Nonsuch disappear entirely."