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R. H. (Ralph Hale) Mottram
1883–1971
Best known for the powerful Spanish Farm trilogy, this English writer drew deeply on his First World War experience and his lifelong ties to Norfolk. He also worked across poetry, travel writing, memoir, and local history, building a long and varied literary career.
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The Spanish farm
by R. H. (Ralph Hale) Mottram
The crime at Vanderlynden's
by R. H. (Ralph Hale) Mottram
About the author
Born in Norwich in 1883, R. H. Mottram was an English writer whose work ranged widely across novels, poems, biographies, history, and travel writing. He is most often remembered for the Spanish Farm trilogy, a sequence of First World War novels that helped establish his reputation, and he remained closely associated with Norfolk throughout his life.
Mottram served in the First World War, and that experience shaped some of his best-known writing. Alongside his fiction, he wrote poetry connected with the war and produced a large body of nonfiction over the years. He was also recognized publicly in Norwich, where he later served as Lord Mayor.
He published more than 60 books and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Mottram died in 1971, but he remains a notable voice for readers interested in war writing, English regional life, and the many literary forms a single author can make his own.