Educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, Weyman graduated with a degree in history in 1877. In 1881, he was called to the bar and practiced law until 1889. By 1883, he had already begun to write fiction and published The Story of a Courtship that year. In 1890, he published his first novel, The House of the Wolf, which was extremely successful. Over the next five years, Weyman produced some of the finest works in historical fiction including From the Memoirs of a Minister of France (1893), A Gentleman of France (1893), Under the Red Robe (1894) and The Red Cockade. In 1897 he published Shrewsbury, which became a best-seller. In the late 1890's, Weyman moved to Ruthin in North Wales, where he spent the remainder of his life. Among Weyman's other well-known works are The Castle Inn (1898), The Long Night (1903), The Wild Geese (1908), The Great House (1919) and Ovington's Bank (1922). |
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