Francis Prevost

Harry Francis Prevost Battersby (1862–1949) was a poet, novelist and journalist, who published under the name Francis Prevost.

Biography

Battersby was born in 1862, the son of a major-general. He graduated with distinction from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and initially joined the Royal Irish Rifles before moving into journalism. He served as the Boer War correspondent for the Morning Post. In 1909, he married Frances Muriel Saunders. He saw active service again during the First World War.

Works

Poems

• Melilot (1886)
• Fires of Greenwood (1887)

Novels and short fiction

• Rust of Gold (1895)
• The Avenging Hour (1896)
• False Dawn (1897)
• In The Web of War (1900)
• The Plague of the Heart (1902)

Plays

• The Way of War (1902)
• Voice of Duty (1904)

Translator

• Tolstoi's Christ's Christianity and What to Do

Parapsychology

• Psychic Certainties (1930)
• Man Outside Himself (1942)

References

• Prevost, Francis, in The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
• Prevost, Francis, in The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction (ed. John Sutherland)
• A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin (John William Cousin), 1849–1910.