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Richard Marsh (author)
Richard Marsh (12 October 1857 – 9 August 1915) was the pseudonym of the English author born Richard Bernard Heldmann. A best-selling and prolific author of the late 19th century and the Edwardian period, Marsh is best known now for his supernatural thriller novel ''The Beetle'', which was published the same year as Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' (1897), and was initially even more popular.〔''Beetle'' by Richard Marsh, Wordsworth Editions, 2007, ISBN 978-1-84022-609-6, pg. vii.〕 ''The Beetle'' remained in print until 1960. Marsh produced nearly 80 volumes of fiction and numerous short stories, in genres including horror, crime, romance and humour. Many of these have been republished recently, beginning with The Beetle during 2004. Marsh's grandson Robert Aickman was a notable writer of short "strange stories".
==Biography==
Richard Bernard Heldmann was born on the 12th October 1857, in North London, to lace merchant Joseph Heldmann (1827–96) and Emma Marsh (1830-1911), a lace-manufacturer’s daughter. Heldmann began publishing fiction during 1880, in the form of boys’ school and adventure stories, for magazine publications.〔Minna Vuohelainen, ("Victorian Fiction Research Guide 35: Richard Marsh" ), 2009, pg. 3〕 The most important of these was Union Jack, a quality boys' weekly magazine associated with authors G. A. Henty (1832-1902) and W.H.G. Kingston (1814–80). Henty promoted the young Heldmann to the position of co-editor during October 1882, but Heldmann’s association with the publication was ended abruptly during June 1883.〔Minna Vuohelainen, ("Victorian Fiction Research Guide 35: Richard Marsh" ), 2009, pg. 3〕 After this, Bernard Heldmann published no further fiction by that name, beginning to use the pseudonym ‘Richard Marsh’ a few years' later.
For a long time the reasons for the end of Heldmann’s business relationship with Henty and his adoption of a pseudonym were a mystery, with some scholars suggesting that Heldmann was anxious to obscure his father’s German-Jewish origins. It has been discovered recently that in fact Heldmann had been sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour, during April 1884, for issuing a series of forged cheques in Britain and France during 1883.〔Callum James, ("Callum James’s Literary Detective Agency, Case #1: Why Was Richard Marsh?” ''Front Free Endpaper'' ) 30 November 2009.〕 Heldmann adopted his pseudonym on his release from jail, and fictions by ‘Richard Marsh’ began appearing in literary periodicals during 1888, with two novels being published during 1893. Marsh wrote and published prolifically during the 1890s and the early years of the 20th century. He died from heart disease in Haywards Heath in Sussex on 9 August 1915. Several of his novels were published posthumously.
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