This article is about the English Victorian fiction writer. For other people of similar names, see William Russell (disambiguation).
William Russell (1806–1876) was an English writer in the 19th century, producing works of fiction. He is considered among the first and most prolific authors to write 'police memoirs' or detective stories[1][2] (some published under the pseudonym 'Waters' or 'Thomas Waters'). He also wrote nautical adventures (under the pseudonym 'Lieutenant Warneford, R. N.'),[3] and legal stories.[1] He, or his publishers, may have capitalised upon the similarity of his name to his contemporary, Times journalist William Howard Russell.[3]
Russell is thought to have been born in Southampton in 1806,[4] and in the late 1840s started contributing an irregular series of stories to Chambers's Edinburgh Journal between 1849 and 1852.[4] He also contributed to The London Journal, St. James's Magazine, and The Sixpenny Magazine.[3]
Ten of Russell's Chambers detective stories were subsequently published in unauthorised editions in New York in 1852 and 1853, entitled The Recollections of a Policeman. The same ten, plus two additional stories, were then collated into a volume entitled Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer, published in London in 1856[4] (also reprinted with slightly different titles). A further volume with eight additional stories followed in 1859.[4] A collection of his sea stories appeared in Tales of the Coast Guard (also 1856),[3] and Leaves from the Diary of a Law Clerk was published in 1857. Among other works, Autobiography of an English Detective was published in two volumes in 1863.[1]
^ abcdSaunders, Samuel (2018). "'To Pry Unnecessarily into Other Men's Secrets': Crime Writing, Private Spaces and the Mid-Victorian Police Memoir". Law, Crime and History. 1. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
^Saunders, Samuel (2019). "'To get to the very bottom of the social fabric': Mid-Victorian Journalism and the Police Officer, c. 1856-1877". Wilkie Collins Journal. 16. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
^ abcde"Author Information: William Russell". At the Circulating Library: A database of Victorian fiction. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
^ abcde"Mysterious Waters". The Bookhunter on Safari. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
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