Walter Jerrold

Walter Copeland Jerrold (1865–1929) was an English writer, biographer and newspaper editor.^[1]

Life and work

Jerrold was born in Liverpool, the son of Thomas Serle Jerrold and Jane Matilda Copeland (who were first cousins), and one of 11 children.^[2] His family had strong theatrical connections: Both his grandfather Douglas William Jerrold and uncle William Blanchard Jerrold were notable dramatists, and his great grandfather Samuel Jerrold was an actor and theater manager.^[3]

Jerrold spent most of his life in London, starting work as a clerk in a newspaper counting-house, and going on to become deputy editor of The Observer. He edited many classic texts for the newly founded Everyman's Library, wrote biographies, travel books (for the "Beautiful England" series - published by Blackie and Son Limited),^[4] edited children's books, and produced stories for children under the name of Walter Copeland.

On 23 July 1895 he married Clara Armstrong Bridgeman (2 December 1861–1937) at Kensington Register Office.^[2] Though the first-born son died young, of five daughters (one set twins), Ianthe Jerrold (1898–1977), became a fiction writer.^[5]

Books (selected)

Mrs. Caudle's curtain lectures, Douglas William Jerrold, a comic series originally published in Punch magazine; introduction by Walter Jerrold

Biographical

• Thomas Hood: his life and times. (A. Rivers, 1907).
• Charles Lamb (London: George Bell & sons, 1905).
• Douglas Jerrold, Dramatist And Wit (Hodder and Stoughton, 1914)
• Earl Kitchener of Khartoum ( W.A. Hammond, 1916)

Children

• The Big Book of Fables (Lamboll, London 1987) ISBN 1851701060

Travel

• Surrey (Dutton, 1901)
• Highways and Byways in Kent (MacMillan, 1907)
• Shakespeare Land (Dana Estes & Co. Boston).
• Norwich and the Broads (Blackie & Son, 1910).
• The Thames (Blackie & Son, 1910)
• Hampton Court (Blackie & Son, 1912)
• Folkestone and Dover (Blackie & Son, 1920).
• The Heart of London (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1924)
• Through London's highways (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1924)
• In London's by-ways (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1925)
• Rambles in Greater London (Blackie and Son, Ltd, 1925)

References

1. "Walter Jerrold". randomhouse.com.
2. "Family Tree of Walter Copeland Jerrold". Retrieved 8 June 2013.
3. Samuel Jerrold.
4. "Beautiful England". thehunthouse.net. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
5. "gadetection / Jerrold, Ianthe". pbworks.com. Retrieved 20 January 2015.

External links

• Walter Jerrold (Randomhouse.com listing).
• Works by Walter Jerrold at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Walter Jerrold at Internet Archive