ABSTRACT
George William Macarthur Reynolds was born on July 23, 1814, in Sandwich, Kent: his mother's father and his own were captains in the Royal Navy. As well as the two Mysteries series and the journalism, Reynolds was active in other fiction. In addition to the fictional familiarization offered, there is much more to be done in future on Reynolds. This includes looking at his impact in America, where the anti-royal The Mysteries of the Court of London was a great success, and there was many copyright-free and inauthentic productions from that and Reynolds' other works. Both political and commercial at once, Reynolds' approach is one where, as Anne Humpherys put it, "escapism and activism touch". Reynolds' radicalism and his populism in both political position and actual delivery method evidently caused the remarkable lack of reference to his work in the English literary tradition, with very rare exceptions.
