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  • Delderfield's main purpose is to track societal changes across the Victorian and Edwardian eras as the nation's prosperity exploded and wealth became respected.

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    I’ve spent the last few days working through R.F. Delderfield’s autobiography For My Own Amusement, a suitably obscure volume by an author who, after some popularity, appears to have been entirely forgotten by the reading public.  But not by me.  How could I forget him when I’m named after one of his heroines? 

    It’s always interesting to learn about the evolution of your favourite books.  I found out that when he started to write A Horseman Riding By Delderfield had no intention of the character of Claire Derwent playing such a large part.  But, as so often seems to happen to even the most determined authors, Grace, Claire’s rival for the hero’s affections, grew restless with married life and, in defiance of the happy life her creator had intended for her, left her husband and ran off to join the suffragettes, to the ultimate benefit of all involved.

     It is entirely possible for an author to fall hopelessly in love with his heroines.  It had happened to me before, of course, but never quite like this for there was something about Claire Derwent that combined all the physical and spiritual assets I most admire in women.  She was pretty, buxom, possessed any amount of commonsense, was impulsively generous, she loved the Valley and shared Paul’s hatred of cities, and she

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    The March of the Twenty-Six, by R. F. Delderfield (1962)

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    Ronald Delderfield was an English novelist and dramatist (A Horseman Riding By, To Serve Them All My Days, God is an Englishman) who nonetheless wrote a sublime piece of military history telling the story of the Emperor Napoleon’s relations with his twenty-six marshals of the Empire and their relations with each other and the effect both had on the course of the Napoleonic Wars. 

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    Ronald Delderfield was an English novelist and dramatist (A Horseman Riding By, To Serve Them All My Days, God is an Englishman) who nonetheless wrote a sublime piece of military history telling the story of the Emperor Napoleon’s relations with his twenty-six marshals of the Empire and their relations with each other and the effect both had on the course of the Napoleonic Wars. Starting with the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, it took the story up to the death of the last marshal, Marmont, in 1852. It is a treasure trove of anecdotes about the scenes of derring-do of the marshalate, told with a novelist’s eye for drama though admittedly not always with an historian’s concern for verifiable accuracy. It is n