R. H. Mottram
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Ralph Hale Mottram (1883-1971) was an English writer, known as a novelist, particularly for the Spanish Farm books, and as a war poet of World War I. He went from being a bank clerk in Norwich, before the war, to becoming mayor there. The Spanish Farm won the 1924 Hawthornden Prize.
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- Repose and other verses (1907) as J. Marjoram
- New Poems (1909) as J. Marjoram
- The Spanish Farm (1924) trilogy with Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four and The Crime at Vanderlynden’s
- Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four (1925)
- The Crime at Vanderlynden's (1926)
- Our Mr. Dormer (1927) trilogy with The Boroughmonger and Castle Island
- The Apple Disdained (1928)
- Ten Years Ago. Armistice and other memories (1928)
- The English Miss (1938)
- A History of Financial Speculation (1929)
- The Boroughmonger (1929)
- A Rich Man’s Daughter (1930)
- Europa’s Beast (1930)
- The New Providence (1930)
- Poems Old and New (1930)
- Three Men’s War (1930) with John Easton and Eric Partridge
- The Lost Christmas Presents (1931)
- Castle Island (1931)
- John Crome of Norwich (1931)
- The Headless Hound and other stories (1931)
- Dazzle (1932)
- At the Sign of The Lame Dog (1933)
- East Anglia (1933)
- Bumphrey’s (1934)
- Flower Pot End (1935)
- Journey to the Western Front Twenty Years After (1936)
- The Westminster Bank 1836-1936 (1936)
- Portrait of an Unknown Victorian (1936)
- Old England (1937)
- Time to Be Going (1937)
- Autobiography with a Difference (1939)
- Miss Lavington (1939)
- You Can’t Have It Back! (1939)
- Trader's Dream The Romance of the British East India Company (1939)
- Visit of the Princess - a Romance of the 1960's (1946)
- Hibbert Houses, A Record (1947)
- Norfolk (1948)
- The Glories of Norwich Cathedral (1948)
- Come to the Bower (1949)
- East Anglia, a new guide book (1951)
- The Broads (1952)
- The Part That Is Missing (1952)
- If Stones Could Speak (1953) social history of Norwich
- John Galsworthy (1953) biography
- The Window Seat or Life Observed (1954)
- For Some We Loved (1956) biography of John Galsworthy and his wife
- Another Window Seat (1957)
- Buxton the Liberator (1958) biography of Thomas F. Buxton the abolitionist
- Vanities and Verities (1958)
- Time’s Increase (1961)
- To Hell with Crabb Robinson (1962)
- Behind the Shutters (1968)
- 12 Poems (1968)