novel, he returns to the theme, with the study of a man fitting himself to become a great healer." Dorothy L. Sayers quotes from Beresford's essay "Writing Aloud" in her book on theology, Mind of the Maker. She also mentions him in passing in Whose Body?. George Orwell in 1945 described him as a "natural novelist", whose strength, particularly in A Candidate for Truth, was his ability to take seriously the problems of ordinary people. Elisabeth Beresford (1926–2010), children's writer and creator of The Wombles, was his daughter. Through his son, writer Marc Brandel (Marcus Beresford), he is the great-grandfather of American actor James Newman. He was married twice, first to Florence Linda Brown (1870 - 1916) and then to Eveline "Trissy" Beatrice Auford Roskams (1880 - 1975) Works The Early History of Jacob Stahl (1911), the first of a trilogy of novels with A Candidate for Truth and The Invisible Event The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911) Novel A Candidate for Truth (1912) Goslings: A World of Women (1913) Novel The House in Demetrius Road (1914) Novel The Invisible Event (1915) Novel H.G. Wells (1915) criticism These Lynneskers (1916) Novel William Elphinstone Ford (1917) biography, with Kenneth Richmond House Mates (1917) Novel Nineteen Impressions (1918) stories God's Counterpoint (1918) Novel The Jervaise Comedy (1919) Novel The Imperfect Mother (1920) Novel Signs and Wonders (1921, Golden Cockerel Press) stories Revolution (1921) Novel The Prisoners of Hartling (1922) Novel The Imperturbable Duchess and Other Stories (1923) Monkey Puzzle (1925) That Kind of Man, or Almost Pagan (1926) Novel The Decoy (1927) Novel The Instrument of Destiny (1928) mystery novel All or Nothing (1928) Novel Real People (1929) Novel The Meeting Place and Other Stories (1929) Love's Illusion (1930) The Next Generation (1932) Novel The Old People (1932) Novel The Camberwell Miracle (1933) novel Peckover (1934) Novel On a Huge Hill (1935) Novel Blackthorn Winter and other stories (1936) Cleo (1937) Novel What Dreams May Come (1941) Novel A Common Enemy (1941) Novel Men in the Same Boat (1943) (with Esmé Wynne-Tyson) The Riddle of the Tower (1944) (with Esmé Wynne-Tyson) The Gift (1947) (with Esmé Wynne-Tyson) The Prisoner Love's Pilgrim The Tapestry References Further reading Frank Swinnerton, "Oliver Onions and J.D. Beresford", in The Georgian literary scene, 1910–1935. London, : London, Heinemann (1935). George M. Johnson, “J.D. Beresford.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. British Short-Fiction Writers 1915–1945. Ed. John H. Rogers. Detroit: Gale Research