Male : Novelist, Poet, Essayist & Short Story Writer (esp of stories set in London's East End)

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1886 Date of Death : 1945 Age : 59

Pseudonyms : Oakmead Rhodes

1905-1915
Verses (c1905 PP) - 24pp
(Ed) The Small People : A Little Book of Verse about Children for Their Elders
(1910 Chapman & Hall)
Verses (1910 Billing & Sons, Guildford) - 24pp
(Ed) An Artist's Day Book (1911 Herbert & Daniel)
Pavements and Pastures (1912 PP) - Ltd Ed 100
Kiddie Land (1913 Dean) - with Margaret Hays
(Ed) The Charm of the West Country : An Anthology (1913 Arrowsmith)
(Ed) Children in Verse : 50 Songs of Playful Childhood (1913 Duckworth) - Honor C Appleton
(Ed) The Charm of England : An Anthology (1914 Truslove & Hanson)
(Ed) The British Army from Within : By a British Officer who has Served in It
(1914 Hodder & Stoughton)
(Ed) The Contented Mind : An Anthology of Optimism (1914 Truslove & Hanson)
Nights in Town : A London Autobiography (1915 Allen & Unwin)

1916-1920
Limehouse Nights : Tales of Chinatown (1917 Grant Richards) - ss
[Filmed in 1919 as "Broken Blossoms", and again in 1936]
Twinkletoes : A Tale of Chinatown (1917 Grant Richards) - ss
London Lamps : A Book of Songs (1917 Grant Richards)
Out and About : A Notebook of London in War-Time (1919 Allen & Unwin)
The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse (1920 Allen & Unwin) (1920 Henry Holt, NY)

1921-1930
The Outer Circle : Rambles in Remote London (1921 Allen & Unwin)
Whispering Windows : Tales of the Waterside (1921 Grant Richards) - ss
The London Spy : A Book of Town Travels (1922 Thornton Butterworth)
The Wind and the Rain : A Book of Confessions (1924 Thornton Butterworth) - Signed Ltd Ed 110
(1924 Doran)
The Sun of Splendour (1927 Constable)
(Ed) The Book of the Inn (1927 Constable) - Robert Gibbings
East of Mansion House : Tales (1928 Cassell)
(Chosen By) The Ecstasies of Thomas De Quincey (1928 Harrap)
Thomas Burke : Essays (1928 Harrap)
The Flower of Life : A Novel (1929 Constable)
The Bloomsbury Wonder (1929 Mandrake Press) - novella
The English Inn (1930 Longmans)

1931-1935
The English Inn (1931 Longmans) - illustrated ed
The Maid's Head, Norwich : Some British Inns No. 8 (1931 True Temperance Assoc)
The Pleasantries of Old Quong (1931 Constable) - ss
City of Encounters : A London Divertissement (1932 Constable)
An Old London Alehouse : The Anchor at Bankside - Some British Inns No. 13
(1931 True Temperance Assoc)
The Real East End : the Lithographs of Pearl Binder (1932 Constable) - Pearl Binder
The Beauty of England (1933 Harrap)
London in My Time (1934 Rich & Cowan)
Night Pieces : 18 Tales (1935 Constable) - ss
Billy and Beryl in Chinatown (1935 Harrap)

1936-1940
Billy and Beryl in Old London (1936 Harrap)
Billy and Beryl in Soho (1936 Harrap)
Murder at Elstree, or Mr Thurtell and His Gig (1936 Longmans)
Vagabond Minstrel : the Adventures of Thomas Dermody (1936 Longmans)
Will Someone Lead me to a Pub ? (1936 Routledge) - Frederick Carter
Dinner is Served, or Eating round the World in London (1937 Routledge) - Philip Gough
The Winsome Wench - The story of a London Inn 1825-1900 : A Novel (1938 Routledge)
Introducing Britain (1938 Allen & Unwin) - et al
Abduction : A Story of Limehouse (1939 Herbert Jenkins)
Living in Bloomsbury (1939 Allen & Unwin)
The Streets of London Through the Centuries (1940 Batsford)

AFTER 1941
English Night Life (1941 Batsford)
Victorian Grotesque (1941 Herbert Jenkins)
Travel in England (1942 Batsford)
English Inns (1943 Collins Britain in Pictures Series)
Dark Nights (nd.1944 Herbert Jenkins) - ss
The English and Their Country (1945 for British Council by Longmans Green) - 30pp
The English Townsman (1946 Batsford)
Son of London : Autobiographical Reminiscences (1946 Herbert Jenkins)
The Best Stories of Thomas Burke (1950 Phoenix) - Ed by John Gawsworth - ss

READING
John Gawsworth : Ten Contemporaries - Notes towards their Definitive Bibliography [2nd Series]
(1933 Joiner & Steele)