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W. P. Shervill

An early 20th-century adventure writer, this author is best remembered for lively boys' fiction that mixes school life, courage, and wartime suspense. The surviving record is thin, but the work points to a storyteller drawn to action, loyalty, and patriotic drama.

2 Audiobooks

Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns

Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns

by W. P. Shervill

Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign

Edgar the Ready: A Tale of the Third Edward's Reign

by W. P. Shervill

About the author

Very little biographical information about W. P. Shervill could be confirmed from the sources available during this search. What can be verified is that Shervill wrote adventure fiction for younger readers and was published by Blackie and Son.

The best-documented title found was Two Daring Young Patriots; or, Outwitting the Huns, a World War I-era adventure that Project Gutenberg identifies as being by W. P. Shervill. The same text also describes Shervill as the author of Edgar the Ready, suggesting a body of historical and action-focused fiction aimed at boys.

Because reliable personal details such as full name, dates, and life history were not clearly available, it is safest to remember Shervill as a somewhat obscure author whose surviving reputation rests mainly on spirited, patriotic adventure stories from the early 1900s.