R. A. H. Goodyear

Robert Arthur Hanson (R.A.H.) Goodyear (1877 – 24 November 1948) was an English author of children's stories, primarily in a boys' school setting.[1]

Born in Yorkshire, Goodyear attended Archbishop Holgate's Grammar School in Barnsley. At age seventeen he was first published with a serial in The Boy's Friend periodical. In his career, he mostly produced popular fiction for boys, as well as sportswriting and guides for writers.[2]

Bibliography

  • Forge of Foxenby (1920)
  • The Boys of Castle Cliff School (1921)
  • The Boys of Tudorville (1921)
  • Luckless Leo's Schooldays (1921)
  • Tom and Tim at School (1921)
  • Two Terms at Linglands (1921)
  • The White House Boys (1922)
  • The Four Schools (1922)
  • The Greenway Heathens (1922)
  • Topsy-Turvey Academy (1922)
  • The Worst Boy in Town (1922)
  • The Captain and the Kings (1923)
  • Jack O' Langsett: A Public School Story (1923)
  • The Life of the School (1923)
  • Tom at Tollbar School (1923)
  • The Fifth Form at Beck House (1924)
  • Strickland of the Sixth (1928)

References

  1. ^ Cooper, John; Jonathan Cooper (1998). Children's fiction, 1900-1950. Ashgate Publishing. p. 1927. ISBN 9781859282892.
  2. ^ Benjamin Watson (1992). English Schoolboy Stories: An Annotated Bibliography of Hardcover Fiction. Scarecrow Press. p. 62. ISBN 0810825724. Retrieved 16 April 2015.

Further reading

  • Banham, Christopher Mark (May 2006), Boys of England and Edwin J. Brett, 1866-99 (PDF), Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, School of History
  • Goodyear, R.A.H. (February 1926), "An Old Boys Periodicals" (PDF), Vanity Fair, 2 (19): 83–85
  • Goodyear, R.A.H. (November 1930), "An Early Coloured Boys' Periodical" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 4 (8): 7
  • Goodyear, R.A.H. (June 1947), "Heart-Winning Old Boys' Books" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 5 (9): 131–33
  • Goodyear, R.A.H. (September 1947), "Early Struggles of a Boy's Author" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 5 (10): 149–51
  • Horton, Almon (May 1948), "R. A. H. Goodyear" (PDF), The Collector's Miscellany, 5 (12): 179–80, 190
  • Horton, Almon (October 1949), "The Career of a Popular Boy's Story Writer" (PDF), Story Paper Collector, 36 (2): 153–55


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