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Ralph Hale Mottram (30 October 1883 – 16 April 1971) was an English writer, known as a novelist, particularly for the Spanish Farm trilogy,〔Cameron Self, (Mousehold Heath, Norwich ) in ''Literary Norfolk'', 2011. Accessed 24 February 2013.〕 and as a war poet of World War I. His father was the chief clerk of Gurney's Bank in Norwich and Mottram had an idyllic childhood growing up in 'Bank House' - a magnificent George II mansion on Bank Plain - which was later Barclay's Bank and is now a youth centre. The Mottrams were non-conformist and worshipped at the Octagon Chapel, Norwich in Colegate.〔Cameron Self, (Ralph Hale Mottram (1883-1971) ) in ''Literary Norfolk'', 2011. Accessed 24 February 2013.〕 Mottram went from being a bank clerk in Norwich before the war to becoming lord mayor there in 1953. ''The Spanish Farm'' won the 1924 Hawthornden Prize. He also wrote a biography of John Galsworthy. He was a defender (i.e., a conservationist) of Mousehold Heath〔 - a large open space in the heart of Norwich. On St. James' Hill, there is a sculpture, dedicated to him, which depicts the skyline of Norwich.〔 He is buried in the non-denominational Rosary Cemetery, Norwich.〔Cameron Self, (The Rosary Cemetery (Thorpe Hamlet) ) in ''Literary Norfolk'', 2011. Accessed 24 February 2013.〕〔 Being a non-member of the established Church of England, Mottram once said that 'I knew, when I was four years old, exactly where I could be buried.' ==Works== * ''Repose and other verses'' (1907), as J. Marjoram〔(Authors Mos-Moz ), New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors. Accessed 24 February 2013.〕 * ''New Poems'' (1909), as J. Marjoram * ''The Spanish Farm'' (1924), a trilogy with ''Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four'' and ''The Crime at Vanderlynden's'' * ''Sixty-Four, Ninety-Four'' (1925) * ''The Crime at Vanderlynden's'' (1926) * ''Our Mr. Dormer'' (1927), a trilogy with ''The Boroughmonger'' and ''Castle Island'' * ''The Apple Disdained'' (1928) * ''Ten Years Ago. Armistice and other memories'' (1928) * ''The English Miss'' (1938) * ''A History of Financial Speculation'' (1929) * ''The Boroughmonger'' (1929) * ''A Rich Man's Daughter'' (1930) * ''Europa's Beast'' (1930) * ''The New Providence'' (1930) * ''Poems Old and New'' (1930) * ''Three Men's War'' (1930), with John Easton and Eric Partridge * ''The Lost Christmas Presents'' (1931) * ''Castle Island'' (1931) * ''John Crome of Norwich'' (1931) * ''The Headless Hound and other stories'' (1931) * ''Dazzle'' (1932) * ''At the Sign of The Lame Dog'' (1933) * ''East Anglia'' (1933) * ''Bumphrey's'' (1934) * ''Flower Pot End'' (1935) * ''Journey to the Western Front Twenty Years After'' (1936) * ''The Westminster Bank 1836-1936'' (1936) * ''Portrait of an Unknown Victorian'' (1936) * ''Old England'' (1937) * ''Time to Be Going'' (1937) * ''Autobiography with a Difference'' (1939) * ''Miss Lavington'' (1939) * ''You Can't Have It Back!'' (1939) * ''Trader's Dream The Romance of the British East India Company'' (1939) * ''Visit of the Princess - a Romance of the 1960s'' (1946) * ''Hibbert Houses, A Record'' (1947) * ''The English Counties Illustrated'' (1948) (chapters on Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire) * ''Norfolk'' (1948) * ''The Glories of Norwich Cathedral'' (1948) * ''Come to the Bower'' (1949) * ''East Anglia, a new guide book'' (1951) * ''The Broads'' (1952) * ''The Part That Is Missing'' (1952) * ''If Stones Could Speak'' (1953), social history of Norwich * ''John Galsworthy'' (1953), biography * ''The Window Seat or Life Observed'' (1954) * ''For Some We Loved'' (1956), biography of John Galsworthy and his wife * ''Another Window Seat'' (1957) * ''Buxton the Liberator'' (1958), biography of Thomas F. Buxton the abolitionist * ''Vanities and Verities'' (1958) * ''Time's Increase'' (1961) * ''To Hell with Crabb Robinson'' (1962) * ''Behind the Shutters'' (1968) * ''12 Poems'' (1968) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ralph Hale Mottram」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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