"I'll be an artist and I'll do things" (Kipling's hero Dick Heldar in The Light That Failed, p. 15)
Frederic Villiers, the pictorial journalist,... usually refers to himself as one of the world's most vagrant artists, and upon his pictures his fame is founded.... [Bullard 155]
Whatever the temptation, whatever the influence or pressure, whatever the government itself, whatever the consequences or personal sacrifice, never suppress the news.... publicity is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life. [Frederic Villiers, qtd. in Bullard 29-30]
Biographical Material and Discussions
- Frederic Villiers: A Brief Biography
- "Frederic Villiers, the War Artist, at Home" (interview in 1893)
Works
Bibliography
Blathwayt, Raymond. Interviews. London: A.W. Hall, 1893. Internet Archive, from a copy once held by Highgate Library in N. London. Web. 10 April 2025.
Bullard, Lauriston F. Famous War Correspondents. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1914. Internet Archive, from a copy in Cornell University Library. Web. 10 April 2025.
Gibbs, Philip. "A Salute to Frederic Villiers." In Frederic Villiers' Days of Glory: The Sketchbook of a Veteran Correspondent at the Front (see below). v-x.
Hodgson, Pat. The War Illustrators. New York: Macmillan, 1977. See especially pp. 24-25.
Kipling, Rudyard. The Light That Failed. 1891. London: Macmillan, 1892. Internet Archive, from a copy in Uttarpara Jaykrishna Public Library, Hooghly, West Bengal. Web. 10 April 2025.
"Portraits of Celebrities: Frederic Villiers." Strand Magazine, Vol. 8 (July-December 1894): 395. Google Books. Free ebook. Web. 10 April 2025.
Roth, Mitchel P. The Encyclopedia of War Journalism 1807-2015. 3rd ed. Amenia, NY: Grey House Publishing, 2015. Entry: pp. 377-78.
Villiers, Frederic. Days of glory: the sketch book of a veteran correspondent at the front. New York: George H. Doran, 1920. Internet Archive, from a copy in the State Library of Pennsylvania. Web. 10 April 2025.
_____. Villiers: His Five Decades of Adventure. Vol. 1. New York and London: Harper, 1920. Internet Archive, from a copy in the University of California Libraries. Web. 10 April 2025.
_____. Villiers: His Five Decades of Adventure. Vol. 2. New York and London: Harper, 1920. Internet Archive, from a copy in the University of California Libraries. Web. 10 April 2025.
Created 10 April 2025