Robert Edward Francillon

Born in Gloucester, Francillon trained as a barrister but turned to journalism. He was at various times a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine and an editor of Tatler. He contributed for many years to the Christmas numbers of The Gentleman's Magazine,{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article35720729 |title=Recent Publications |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=13 April 1929 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}} and sold many short stories to newspapers. (Most of those that were published in Australia can be read on-line thanks to the Trove service of the National Library of Australia.) His novel Jack Doyle's Daughter lets a Lincolnshire gentleman loose in Bohemian London. It has been called an "incoherent" tale involving an "heiress with six possible fathers".John Sutherland's Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (1988), quoted in XIX Century Fiction, Part I, A–K (Jarndyce, Bloomsbury, 2019).

Francillon's review "George Eliot's First Romance (1876)" defends Daniel Deronda from early critics. He notes that as a romance it differs in kind from Adam Bede or Middlemarch: "It lies so far outside George Eliot's other works in every important respect as to make direct comparison impossible."Gentleman's Magazine, vol. 17, October 1876, pp. 411–413. Reprinted in [https://books.google.com/books?id=G5Ebd-fvEIUC&q=R.+E.+Francillon Bloom's Classical Critical Views. George Eliot], ed. Harold Bloom, 2009 {{ISBN|978-1-6041-3433-9}}. Retrieved 12 December 2019.

In 1890, Francillon was reported to be the managing editor of the London newspaper The Globe.{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202813768 |title=Religious News |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XXII |issue=6305 |location=South Australia |date=28 November 1890 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}

Along with Swinburne, Francillon, belonged to Thomas Purnell's literary club "Decemviri", and was an early member of the neo-Jacobite body known as the Order of the White Rose.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Francillon married a daughter of the composer John Barnett, who was also a goddaughter of Franz Liszt.{{Cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article207917743 |title=Musical Notes |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XXXI |issue=8839 |location=South Australia |date=1 April 1899 |accessdate=11 May 2017 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}

;Short stories and novelettes, published in Australian newspapers

• Olympia{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159452743 |title=Advertising |newspaper=Adelaide Observer |volume=XXXII |issue=1744 |location=South Australia |date=6 March 1875 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• A Queen of Trumps{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226056318 |title=A Queen of Trumps |newspaper=Hamilton Spectator |issue=2968 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 October 1879 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Queen Cophetua{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197734032 |title=New Tale for the "Observer" |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XI |issue=3335 |location=South Australia |date=17 December 1879 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• A Bad Bargain{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88575829 |title=A Bad Bargain |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |volume=XXXIX. |issue=8,478 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=9 September 1882 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=1 (Supplement to The Bendigo Advertiser) |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Esther's Glove{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article225495773 |title=Esther's Glove |newspaper=Hamilton Spectator |issue=3532 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=16 June 1883 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• The Seal of the Snake{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article204446997 |title=New Tale for the "Evening Journal" |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XX |issue=5840 |location=South Australia |date=13 March 1888 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• The Way of the Wind, first published in the London Almanac in 1888{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148114252 |title=The Way of the Wind. |newspaper=The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser |volume=8 |issue=402 |location=South Australia |date=15 June 1888 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Golden Rod{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3038362 |title=Our Short Story |newspaper=The West Australian |volume=8 |issue=2,021 |location=Western Australia |date=30 July 1892 |accessdate=11 May 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• No Conjuror{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88965566 |title=Short Stories by Well-Known Authors |newspaper=Bendigo Advertiser |volume=XLI |issue=11,816 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=11 March 1893 |accessdate=11 May 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Fad and Her Fetish{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article192515479 |title=Complete Story |newspaper=The Week |volume=LII |issue=1,347 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=18 October 1901 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=34 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• The Luck of Luke Parris{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article175156552 |title=The Luck of Luke Parris |newspaper=The Telegraph (Brisbane) |issue=9,195 |location=Queensland, Australia |date=10 May 1902 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=13 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Veni, Vidi, Vici{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111069371 |title=Veni, Vidi, Vici |newspaper=Freeman's Journal |volume=LIII |issue=3334 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 November 1902 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• A Learned Lady{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226183339 |title=A Learned Lady. |newspaper=Hamilton Spectator |issue=7037 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 March 1906 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Silver and Gold{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article200843966 |title=Our Complete Story |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XL |issue=10997 |location=South Australia |date=12 May 1906 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Double Sixes{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article163686960 |title=Double Sixes |newspaper=The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser |volume=LXXXII |issue=2348 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=7 November 1906 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=1195 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• M or N{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article208649793 |title=Short Story |newspaper=Evening Journal (Adelaide) |volume=XLII |issue=11774 |location=South Australia |date=12 December 1908 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• Owen Murtagh's Girl{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article122127822 |title=Owen Murtagh's Girl |newspaper=Weekly Times |issue=2,331 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=11 April 1914 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}
• An Obstinate Blockhead{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article158377258 |title=Story |newspaper=The Northern Champion |volume=15 |issue=1589 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 April 1928 |accessdate=10 May 2017 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}

;Songs

• {{Citation |author1=Frederic Hymen Cowen |author2=R. E. Francillon (lyricist) |title=It was a dream |date=1870 |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/173221678 |accessdate=2017-05-10}}
• {{Citation |author1=Frederic Hymen Cowen |author2=R. E. Francillon (lyricist) |title=Why}}{{cite news |newspaper=The Athenaeum |number=2516 |date=1876-01-15 |title=Concerts |page=99 |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uga1.32108057734165&seq=111}}
• {{Citation |author1=Frederic Hymen Cowen |author2=R. E. Francillon (lyricist) |title=Almost |date=1880 |publisher=Boosey & Co.; Melbourne: Nicholson & Ascherberg |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/32001954 |accessdate=2017-05-10}}

;Books

• {{Citation |author=R. E. Francillon |title=Earl's Dene: a novel |date=1871 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |location=New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-tkhAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3}}
• {{Citation |author=R. E. Francillon |title=Rare Good Luck: a fortune in seven strokes |date=1877 |publisher=D. Appleton & Co. |location=New York |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433074855879&seq=7}}
• {{Citation |author=R. E. Francillon |title=Golden Bells: a peal in seven changes |date=1886 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |location=New York |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433074855648&seq=7}}
• {{Citation |author=R. E. Francillon |title=A Christmas Rose: a blossom in seven petals |date=1888 |publisher=Harper & Brothers |location=New York |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hw39we&seq=11}}
• {{Citation |author=R. E. Francillon |title=Ropes of Sand: a novel |date=1893 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |location=London |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6781000}}
• {{Citation |author=R. E. Francillon |title=Jack Doyle's Daughter |date=1894 |publisher=Chatto & Windus |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/6780940}}
• {{Citation |author=R. E. Francillon |title=Mid-Victorian Memories |date=1900 |publisher=Hodder |location=London |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/1300150}}

{{cite encyclopedia |entry=Francillon, Robert Edward |title=Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern |editor=Charles Dudley Warner |volume=29 |page=199 |publisher=J. A. Hill & Company |location=New York |year=1902 |orig-year=1896 |url=https://archive.org/details/libraryofworldsbv29warn/page/199 |quote=An English novelist; born at Gloucester, 1841. Among his novels are: 'Pearl and Emerald' (1872); 'Queen Cophetua' (1880); 'King or Knave' (1888). He wrote also many Christmas stories, as 'Streaked with Gold'; 'Rare Good Luck'; 'In the Dark'; and the cantatas 'The Rose Maiden' and 'The Corsair.' He delights in realistic descriptions of scenes of adventure.}}

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