Ernest Raymond

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Ernest Raymond

1888–1974

Best known for the World War I novel Tell England, this prolific British writer published more than fifty books and kept readers coming back for decades. His fiction often blended emotional intensity with a sharp eye for moral conflict, including the celebrated We, the Accused.

2 Audiobooks

Tell England: A Study in a Generation

Tell England: A Study in a Generation

by Ernest Raymond

Daphne Bruno

Daphne Bruno

by Ernest Raymond

About the author

Born on 31 December 1888 and dying on 14 May 1974, Ernest Raymond was a British novelist whose career stretched across much of the 20th century. He is most closely associated with Tell England (1922), the book that first made his name, and with We, the Accused (1935), another of his best-known works.

Raymond wrote extensively, producing more than fifty books over his lifetime. He was educated at St Paul's School and Chichester Theological College, and he was ordained into the Anglican ministry before later leaving clerical life and turning fully to writing.

Later in life he also published autobiography, including The Story of My Days, 1888–1922 and Please You, Draw Near, 1922–1968. He was appointed OBE in 1972, a late recognition for a long and productive literary career.