Robert Wilson

Robert Wilson was a British author born in 1846 and died in 1893. The main work clearly linked to him in library and public-domain records is The Life and Times of Queen Victoria, a large illustrated history published by Cassell in the late 1880s and early 1890s.

That book was designed on an ambitious scale, tracing Queen Victoria's early life, reign, and the wider events of the Victorian age. Public-domain editions and catalog records show it appeared in multiple volumes, and one editorial note explains that the opening chapters were written by Edmund Ollier before Wilson carried the project forward.

Little biographical information about Wilson himself was easy to confirm from the sources reviewed, so the safest picture is of a professional late-19th-century historical writer whose reputation now rests chiefly on this substantial royal biography.