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English author
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
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