Small image of a man handing a book to a women across a counter.

At the Circulating Library

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901

Author: Augustus Charles Bickley

Author: Augustus Charles Bickley (1857–1902)

Biography: Augustus Charles Bickley was born in 1857 in Birmingham. By his early twenties he was working as an author and journalist in London. Bickley wrote popular biographies of Archibald Campbell Tait (the Archbishop of Canterbury) in 1882 and George Fox the Quaker in 1884 as well as contributing to The Dictionary of National Biography. In addition, he wrote two undistinguished novels. He died in 1902 in London.

Author Tags:

References: British Census (1881, 1891, 1901)

Fiction Titles:

  1. Midst Surrey Hills: A Rural Story.  3 vol.  London: Ward and Downey, 1890.
  2. Handfasted.  3 vol.  London: Ward and Downey, 1890.