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Cecil Roberts


(Edric Cecil Mornington Roberts)
UK flag (1892 - 1976)

Cecil Roberts was born in Nottingham in 1892. He began his career as a civil servant, then moved into journalism at The Evening Post. From 1915 - 1919 he was literary editor of the Liverpool Post. During the Great War. He was also a special correspondent for the British services. In 1920 he became editor of the Nottingham Journal, making him the youngest ever editor of a morning newspaper in Britain.

Roberts published his first novel in 1922, and went on to write over thirty novels, as well as poetry, travel writing, biography, and a number of volumes of autobiography.

In the Second World War, Roberts worked for Lord Halifax, the British Ambassador to the USA.

Cecil Roberts died on 20th December 1976. He had donated his papers to Churchill College, Cambridge, the previous year.
 
 
Series
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Pilgrim Cottage
   Gone Rustic (1934)
   The Guests Arrive (1934)
   Gone Rambling (1935)
   Volcano (1935)
   Gone Afield (1936)
   Gone Sunwards (1936)
   And So To Bath (1940)
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Novels
   Tale of Young Lovers (1922)
   Scissors (1923)
   Sails of Sunset (1924)
   The Love Rack (1925)
   Little Mrs. Manington (1926)
   Sagusto (1927)
   David and Diana (1928)
   Goose Fair (1928)
   Indiana Jane (1929)
   Havana Bound (1930)
   Bargain Basement (1931)
   One Small Candle (1942)
   The Labyrinth (1944)
   So Immortal a Flower (1944)
   And So to America (1946)
   Eight for Eternity (1947)
   And So to Rome (1950)
   A Terrace in the Sun (1951)
   The Remarkable Young Man (1954)
   Portal to Paradise (1955)
   Love Is Like That (1957)
   Wide Is the Horizon (1962)
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Collections
   The Youth of Beauty (poems) (1915)
   Twenty-six Poems (poems) (1917)
   Charing Cross (poems) (1919)
   Poems (poems) (1920)
   Selected Poems (poems) (1960)
   A Flight of Birds (1966)
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