Christianity taught men that love is worth more than intelligence

Novelist and historian                          

Selected Works:

Fiction:

The Alabaster Box - 1900
Alfred - 3rd ed - 1899
All in a Garden Fair - 3 volumes 1883.
All Sorts and Conditions of Men - 3 volumes 1882
Armorel of Lyonesse - 3 volumes 1890
The Bell of St. Paul's - 3 volumes 1889
Beyond the Dreams of Avarice - 1895
Blind Love - By Wilkie Collins, completed and with preface by W. Besant - 3 volumes 1890
By Celia’s Arbour: A tale of Portsmouth town - With James Rice - Reprinted from The Graphic - 3 volumes 1878
The Captains' Room etc - 3 vols

The Case of Mr. Lucraft and other tales - By the authors of Ready Money Mortiboy - with James Rice - 2 volumes 1876

The Changeling - 1898
The Chaplain of the Fleet - With James Rice - 3 volumes 1881
Children of Gibeon - 2nd edition - 3 volumes 1886
The City of Refuge - 3 volumes 1896
Dorothy Forster - 3 volumes 1884
Doubts of Dives - Speculative fiction in which a rich and poor man exchange bodies
A Five Years' Tryst and other stories - 1902
For Britain's Soldiers - By W.L. Alden, Sir W. Besant etc., with preface by C.J.C. Hyne - 1900
For Faith and Freedom - 3 volumes 1889
A Fountain Sealed - 1897
The Fourth Generation - 1900
The Golden Butterfly - With James Rice - 3 volumes 1876
Herr Paulus - 3 volumes 1888
The Holy Rose &c - 1890
In Deacon's Orders &c - 1895
The Ivory Gate - 3 volumes 1893
The Lady of Lynn - 1901
The Master Craftsman - 2 volumes 1896
The Monks of Thelema - With James Rice - 3 volumes 1878
My Little Girl - By the authors of Ready-money Mortiboy - With James Rice - 3 volumes 1873
No Other Way - 1902
The Orange Girl - 1899
Ready-Money Mortiboy - Repr. from Once a Week - With James Rice - 3 volumes 1872- Repr. of 1885 edition Bath, 1974
The Rebel Queen - 3 volumes 1893
The Revolt of Man - 1882 - Speculative fiction: traditional roles of sexes are reversed
St. Katherine's by the Tower - 3 volumes 1891
The Seamy Side - With James Rice - 3 volumes 2nd. edition 1880
The Ten Years' Tenant and other stories - With James Rice - 3 vols
This Son of Vulcan - By the authors of Ready-Money Mortiboy - With James Rice - 3 volumes 1876
To Call Her Mine &c - 1889
Twas in Trafalgar's Bay and other stories - With James Rice - 2nd edition - 1879
Uncle Jack &c - 1885
Verbena, Camellia, Stephanotis, &c - 1892
With Harp and Crown - By the authors of “Ready-Money Mortiboy.” With James Rice - 3 volumes 1875
The World Went Very Well Then - 3 volumes 1887.                          

Sister-in-law was Annie Besant (nee Wood)