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Arthur Mee

Male : Prolific Writer and Editor. Married Amy Fratson in 1897.
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Stapleford, Nottinghamshire

Date of Birth : 1875 Date of Death : 1943 Age : 68

Other Work : Editor of the Nottingham Evening News at age of 20. Went to work for the Daily Mail in London
Joseph Chamberlain : A Romance of Modern Politics (1900)
Lord Salisbury
(1901)
King and Emperor : The Life- History of Edward VII
(1901)
England's Mission by England's Statesmen
(1903)
Arthur Mee's Gift Book
(1917)
Books of the Prohibition Crusade
The Fiddlers
(1917)
The Parasite
(1917)
S.O.S.
(1917)
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Defeat or Victory
(1918)
Who Giveth Us the Victory
(1918)
Little Treasure Island
(1920)
Every Child's Creed
(1921)
Arthur Mee's Hero Book
(1921)
Arthur Mee's Golden Year
(1922)
Arthur Mee's Wonderful Day
(1923)
The Children's Bible
(1924)
One Thousand Beautiful Things
(1925 Hodder & Stoughton)
Arthur Mee's Talks to Boys
(1925)
Arthur Mee's Talks to Girls
(1925)
The Children's Life of Jesus
(1926)
The Pocket Bible
(1926)
The Children's Shakespeare
(1926)
The Book of Everlasting Things
(1927)
The Children's Hour
(1928)
The Lovliest Stories in the World
(1929)
The Children's Bunyan
(1929)
Arthur Mee's Story Book
(1930)
Jesus Said
(1931)
God Knows
(1935)
They Never Came Back
(1936)
Dreams Come True
(1936)
Heroes of the Bible
(1936)
Heroes of Freedom
(1936)
Salute the King
(1937)
One Thousand Famous Things
(1937)
The Rainbow Books
(All 1938)
Shall We Live Again ?
Life Calls to Youth
Good Morning Young England
One Hundred Lovely Things
Our Life's Star
Little Brother Ishi
The Broken Dream of Wilbur Wright
Christ Passing By
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Why We had to Go to War
(1939)
Arthur Mee's Blackout Book
(1939)
Arthur Mee's Book of the Flag
(1941)
Call the Witness
(1941)
Nineteen-Forty : Our Finest Hour
(1941)
Immortal Dawn
(1942)
Wonderful Year
(1943)

The King's England
A New Domesday Book of 10,000 Towns & Villages
Edited by Arthur Mee
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
36 County volumes published from 1936
Enchanted Land
London
Cheshire
Cornwall
Derbyshire
Devon
(1949)
Durham, Twixt Tyne and Tees
(1953)
Gloucestershire
Kent
Lake Counties
(1937)
Lancashire
Leicestershire & Rutland
Nottinghamshire
Northumberland
(1952)
Staffordshire
Surrey
Sussex
Warwickshire
Yorkshire : North Riding
(1941)
Yorkshire : West Riding
(1941)
Yorkshire : East Riding with York
(1941)

Serial Publications
First issued in fortnightly parts
Harmsworth Self Educator
(1905-7) - 48 parts, 8 vols
Harmsworth History of the World
(1907-9) - 51 parts, 8 vols
The Children's Encyclopaedia
(1908-10) - 50 parts, 8 vols
The World's Great Books
(1909-10) - 30 parts, 5 vols
Harmsworth Natural History
(1910-11) - 39 parts, 3 vols
Harmsworth Popular Science
(1911-13) - 43 parts, 7 vols
New Harmsworth Self Educator
(1913-15) - 49 parts, 7 vols
The Children's Encyclopaedia : New & Enlarged Edition
(1922-5) - 59 parts, 10 vols
The Children's Treasure House
(1926-8) - 42 parts, 7 vols
I See All : A Pictorial Encyclopaedia
(1928-30) - 50 parts, 5 vols
Arthur Mee's Thousand Heroes
(1933-4) - 38 weekly parts, 2 vols

READING
Sir John Hammerton : Child of Wonder - An Intimate Biography of Arthur Mee
(1946 Hodder & Stoughton 12/6)


Related Writers

Domesday Book
Surrey
Sussex


See also

Cumbria & The Lake District
Kent, The County Of