Kilgorman
                                            
                            Talbot Baines Reed
                            
                                29 Aug, 2019                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        Talbot Baines Reed was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The
                                ... Read more
                                                Talbot Baines Reed was an English writer of boys' fiction who established a genre of school stories that endured into the mid-20th century. Among his best-known work is The Fifth Form at St. Dominic's. He was a regular and prolific contributor to The Boy's Own Paper (B.O.P.), in which most of his fiction first appeared. Through his family's business, Reed became a prominent typefounder and wrote a standard work on the subject: History of the Old English Letter Foundries Less