Name Vaughan Wilkins Role Novelist | Died February 1959, Ross Movies Dangerous Exile | |
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Spouse Mary Isabel Stanistreet Powell (m. 1930) Books Fanfare for a Witch, Napoleon's Submarine, Husband for Victoria People also search for Mary Isabel Stanistreet Powell, Brian Desmond Hurst, Patrick Kirwan, Robin Estridge, Peter Bezencenet | ||
William Vaughan Wilkins (March 6, 1890 – February, 1959) was an English historical novelist and journalist. He has been described as Welsh, and some of his books have Welsh settings, but there does not seem to be any evidence for Welsh origins.
Biography
Vaughan Wilkins was born in Camberwell, London. His father, William Henry Wilkins, was a clergyman (born in Nottingham in 1857) and his mother, Charlotte Wilkins, née Law, a voice teacher (born in London). He married Mary Isabel Stanistreet and had two children. He spent some time working as a journalist for the Daily Express. Wilkins was noted for his novel And So-Victoria about Queen Victoria. Fanfare for a Witch focuses on intrigue in the court of George II. Wilkins also wrote two "lost world" fantasy novels inspired by Celtic mythology, The City of Frozen Fire (1950) and Valley Beyond Time (1955). His grave is in the churchyard in Farnsfield, Notts and states that his birthplace was Ross-on-Wye.