Richard Marsh (Bernard Heldmann)

Minna Vuohelainen (City St George's, University of London)

Ed. by Jessica Gossling, Goldsmiths College, University of London
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.08: English Writing and Culture of the early Twentieth Century , 1900-1945.
Vol. editors: Chris Baldick (Goldsmiths College, University of London), Peter Childs (Birmingham Newman University), Louise McDonald (Birmingham Newman University), Andrew Radford (University of Glasgow)

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Born 12 Oct 1857
Died 9 Aug 1915
Activity 1893-1918

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Born in England
Active in England

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Story-writer

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Richard Marsh (1857–1915) was a prolific and versatile British author of popular genre fiction who is now best known for his urban gothic novel

The Beetle: A Mystery

(1897). Born Richard Bernard Heldmann, the author began his career as Bernard Heldmann, writing boys’ stories for the juvenile market before reinventing himself as Richard Marsh, a middlebrow author of gothic, crime, romance, and comic fiction. Recognised during his lifetime as a professional provider of entertaining leisure reading, he is now increasingly acknowledged as a fascinatingly ambiguous figure within the fin-de-siècle literary landscape, simultaneously representative of and marginal to his time.

Richard Bernard Heldmann was born in St John’s Wood, London, on 12 October 1857, the first child of Joseph Heldmann

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Citation: Vuohelainen, Minna. "Richard Marsh (Bernard Heldmann)". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 09 December 2024 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14128, accessed 30 December 2024.]