author

Edward Charles Booth

1872–1954

Best known for old-school adventure stories for younger readers, this British writer and teacher also worked as a schoolmaster and produced a long list of boys' novels in the early 20th century.

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The post-girl

The post-girl

by Edward Charles Booth

About the author

Born in 1872 and dying in 1954, Edward Charles Booth was a British writer remembered mainly for juvenile fiction and adventure tales. The information available on his Wikipedia entry identifies him as both an author and a teacher, which fits the strong school-story and boys'-adventure flavor of his work.

Booth wrote during the late Victorian and early modern publishing era, when magazines and popular fiction for young readers were thriving. His books are associated with brisk storytelling, practical heroics, and the kind of disciplined, energetic tone that was common in British fiction for boys of that period.

Reliable biographical detail appears to be fairly limited online, so it is safest to present him as a British author-teacher whose reputation rests on his adventure writing for younger audiences rather than on a large public literary profile.