Stanley John Weyman

Background

Stanley John Weyman was born on 7 August 1855 in Ludlow, Shropshire, the second son of a solicitor.

Education

He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and at Christ Church, Oxford.

He took his degree in modern history in 1877, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1881, joining the Oxford circuit.

Career

He took his degree in modern history in 1877, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1881, joining the Oxford circuit. He had been practising as a barrister for eight years when he made his reputation as a novelist by a series of romances dealing with French history; The House of the Wolf (1889), A Gentleman of France (1893), Under the Red Robe (1894), Memoirs of a Minister of France (1895), &c. Among his later novels were: Shrewsbury (1897), The Castle Inn (1898), Sophia (1900), Count Hannibal (1901), In King's Byways (1902), The Long Night (1903), The Abbess of Vlaye (1904), Starvecrow Farm (1903), Ckippinge (1906).

The shortage of briefs gave him time to write, his story "King Pippin and Sweet Clive" appearing in the Cornhill Magazine, although its editor, James Payn, himself a novelist, told Weyman it was easier to make a living writing novels. Weyman viewed himself as a historian and so he was particularly encouraged by positive notices for an article he wrote on Oliver Cromwell that was published in the English Historical Review.

Achievements

• His most popular works were written in 1890–1895 and set in late 16th and early 17th-century France. While very successful at the time, he is now largely forgotten.

Works

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  • The Castle Inn (1898, by Stanley J. Weyman (World's Classics): Stanley John Weyman

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  • Starvecrow Farm

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  • The New Rector

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  • The Long Night

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  • Under the Red Robe

    (Under the Red Robe By Stanley John Weyman)

  • Chippinge Borough
  • The House of the Wolf; a romance
  • The Story of Francis Cludde
  • A Little Wizard
  • The Red Cockade
  • The King's Stratagem and Other Stories

Personality

He had little success as a barrister as he was shy, nervous and soft-spoken.

Connections

He married Charlotte Panting at Great Fransham, Norfolk and moved with her to Ruthin in Wales for the rest of his life. Weyman died on 10 April 1928, his wife surviving him by four years; they had no children.

Wife:

Charlotte Pantin