| 词条 | J. S. Fletcher |
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Early life and educationFletcher was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, the son of a clergyman. His father died when he was eight months old, and after which his grandmother raised him on a farm in Darrington, near Pontefract. He was educated at Silcoates School in Wakefield, and after some study of law, he became a journalist.[2][4] Writing careerAt age 20, Fletcher began working in journalism, as a sub-editor in London. He subsequently returned to his native Yorkshire, where he worked first on the Leeds Mercury using the pseudonym A Son of the Soil, and then as a special correspondent for the Yorkshire Post covering Edward VII's coronation in 1902.[2] Fletcher's first books published were poetry. He then moved on to write numerous works of historical fiction and history, many dealing with Yorkshire, which led to his selection as a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[2] Fletcher wrote several novels of rural life in imitation of Richard Jefferies, beginning with The Wonderful Wapentake (1894).[4] Michael Sadleir stated that Fletcher's historical novel, When Charles I Was King (1892), was his best work.[4] In 1914, Fletcher wrote his first detective novel and went on to write over a hundred more, many featuring the private investigator Ronald Camberwell.[3] Fletcher is sometimes incorrectly described as a "Golden Age" author, but he is in fact an almost exact contemporary of Conan Doyle. Most of his books considerably pre-date that era, and even those few published within it do not conform to the closed form and strict rules professed, if not unfailingly observed, by the Golden Age writers. Personal lifeHe was married to the Irish writer Rosamond Langbridge, with whom he had one son,[4] Rev Valentine Fletcher, who has subsequently held various ministries across Yorkshire, including Bradford and Sedbergh.[2] DeathFletcher died in 1935, one week short of his 72nd birthday. He was survived by his wife Rosamond and son Valentine.[2][5] Popular works
References1. ^{{cite news |author= |title=J.S. Fletcher Dies; Popular Novelist |url= |work=The New York Times |agency= |date=1935-02-01 |page=21}} 2. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 {{cite news| author=Freeman, Sarah|url= http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/How-fame-eluded-a-man.1488700.jp |work=Yorkshire Post|title=How Fame Eluded a Man of Many Words|date=8 May 2006}} 3. ^1 {{cite news |author=Greene, Hugh (editor)|title= Introduction| work=Further Rivals of Sherlock Holmes| publisher= Penguin Books|date= 1973| isbn= 0-14-003891-4}} 4. ^1 2 3 {{cite book|author=Sutherland, John|title= The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction| publisher= Stanford University Press| date= 1990|isbn= 0-8047-1842-3|page= 228}} 5. ^https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0282024/bio bio 6. ^{{cite book|author=Fletcher, J.S.|url=http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008664868 |title=The Paradise Mystery|date= 1921}} Further readingEllis, Roger and Richard Williams, J. S. Fletcher: A Bibliographical Checklist of the British First Editions. Dragonby Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-1-871122-21-3}} External links
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