Cecil Roberts

Cecil Roberts

:"This article is about Cecil Roberts the journalist and novelist. For Cecil Roberts, the president of the United Mine Workers of America, see Cecil Roberts (unionist)."

Cecil Edric Mornington Roberts (18 May 1892-20 December 1976) was an English journalist and novelist.

He worked as a journalist on the "Liverpool Post" during World War I, as literary editor and then as a war correspondent. From 1920 for five years he edited the "Nottingham Journal". In 1922 he stood for Parliament for the Liberal Party.

During World War II he worked for Lord Halifax, who was British Ambassador to the United States.

Works

*"Twenty-Six Poems" (1917)
*"Training The Airmen" (1919)
*"Poems" (1920)
*"Tale of Young Lovers" (1922) drama
*"Scissors" (1923)
*"Sails of Sunset" (1924)
*"The Love Rack" (1925)
*"Little Mrs Manington" (1926)
*"The Diary of Russell Beresford" (1927) editor
*"Sagusto" (1927)
*"David and Diana" (1928)
*"Indiana Jane" (1929)
*"Pamela's Spring Song" (1929)
*"Goose Fair" (1929)
*"Havana Bound" (1930)
*"Spears Against Us" (1930)
*"Bargain Basement" (1931)
*"Half Way: An Autobiography" (1931)
*"Alfred Fripp" (1932) biography
*"Pilgrim Cottage" (1933) trilogy includes The Guests Arrive and Volcano
*"Gone Rustic" (1934)
*"The Guests Arrive" (1934)
*"Volcano" (1935)
*"Gone Rambling" (1935)
*"Gone Afield" (1936)
*"Gone Sunwards" (1936)
*"Victoria, Four-Thirty" (1937)
*"They Wanted to Live" (1939)
*"And So to Bath" (1940)
*"A Man Arose" (1941) poem on Winston Churchill
*"Letters from Jim" (1941) editor
*"One Small Candle" (1942)
*"So Immortal a Flower" (1944)
*"The Labyrinth" (1944)
*"And So to America" (1946)
*"Eight for Eternity" (1947)
*"And So to Rome" (1950)
*"A Terrace in the Sun" (1951)
*"One Year of Life" (1952) memoir
*"The Remarkable Young Man" (1954)
*"Portal to Paradise: An Italian Excursion" (1955)
*"Love Is Like That" (1957)
*"Selected Poems" (1960)
*"Wide Is the Horizon" (1962)
*"Grand Cruise" (1963)
*"A Flight of Birds" (1966)
*"The Growing Boy" (1967) autobiography (i)
*"The Years of Promise autobiography (ii)
*"The Bright Twenties" (1970) autobiography (iii)
*"Sunshine and Shadow" (1972) autobiography (iv)
*"Pleasant Years" (1974) autobiography (v)


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