A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Appendix of Living Writers/Battersby, Harry Francis Prevost
Battersby, Harry Francis Prevost ("Francis Prevost").—Poet, novelist, and war correspondent. Poems, Melilot (1886), Fires of Greenwood (1887). Novels, Rust of Gold (1895), The Avenging Hour (1896), False Dawn (1897), The Plague of the Heart (1902), etc.; joint translator of Tolstoi's Christ's Christianity and What to Do. Plays, The Way of War (1902), and Voice of Duty (1904).