Dates

• Existence: fl 1878 - 1895

Biography

Walter Bloomfield was the son of the last surviving nephew of the poet Robert Bloomfield, manuscript material by whom he donated to the British Museum. He was the author of a novel, 'Holdenhurst Hall' (London: T. Fisher Unwin, and New York: Robert Bonner's Sons, 1895), which was criticised by H. G. Wells in the 'Saturday Review' as having 'a style of almost Egyptian massiveness' which crushed 'a common weed of a story'. He edited and contributed prefaces to reprints of works by Robert Bloomfield: 'The history of Little Davy's new hat (London, New York: George Routledge and Sons, [1878]); 'The bird and insects' post-office' (London: Griffith and Farran, 1880); and 'The drunken father: a ballad (London: National Temperance Publication Depôt, c. 1881).

Found in 1 Collection or Record: