By Stephen Knight 1. George William Macarthur Reynolds (1814-79) was the most widely-read novelist of the nineteenth century in Britain. He published over twenty million words in novels – five times as much as Dickens and twice as much as the famously popular Bulwer Lytton. This came from thirty-eight novels, many of them in the … More A General Introduction to “The Short Stories of W. G. M. Reynolds”