![]() ![]() Heldmann adopted his pseudonym on his release from jail, and fictions by "Richard Marsh" began appearing in literary periodicals during 1888, with two novels being published in 1893. It has been discovered recently that in fact Heldmann had been sentenced to eighteen months’ hard labour in April 1884 for issuing a series of forged cheques in Britain and France during 1883. After this, Bernard Heldmann published no further fiction under that name, and began to use the pseudonym "Richard Marsh" a few years' later.įor a long time the reasons for the end of Heldmann’s business relationship with Henty and his adoption of a pseudonym were a mystery, with some scholars suggesting that Heldmann was anxious to obscure his father’s German-Jewish origins. Henty promoted the young Heldmann to the position of co-editor in October 1882, but Heldmann’s association with the publication was ended abruptly in June 1883. The most important of these was Union Jack, a quality boys' weekly magazine associated with authors G. ![]() ![]() Heldmann began publishing fiction during 1880, in the form of boys' school and adventure stories for magazine publications. Richard Bernard Heldmann was born on 12 October 1857, in North London, to lace merchant Joseph Heldmann (1827–96) and Emma Marsh (1830–1911), a lace-manufacturer’s daughter. ![]()
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