William Bury Westall (7 February 1834 – 1903) was an English novelist born in Old Accrington, Lancashire, England.
Originally a businessman, he later became a journalist who also wrote about 30 pot-boiler romantic novels with titles including The Old Factory, Strange Crimes and Her Ladyship's Secret. Among his better novels are Her Two Millions (1897) because of its autobiographical element and accurate descriptions of how a Swiss newspaper is run (Westall worked as an editor of Swiss Times); and Birch Dene (1889) which contains striking portraits of London and is evocative of the Industrial Revolution.
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“Slavery and servility have produced no sweet-scented flower annually, to charm the senses of men, for they have no real life: they are merely a decaying and a death, offensive to all healthy nostrils. We do not complain that they live, but that they do not get buried. Let the living bury them; even they are good for manure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)