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Laurence Housman

Male : Playwright, poet and illustrator. Brother of A E Housman
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Bromsgrove, Worcestershire

Date of Birth : 1865 Date of Death : 1959 Age : 93

Other Work : Art Critic of the Manchester Guardian for 16 years

Education : Bromsgrove Sch & S Kensington (painting)
1894-1900
A Farm in Fairyland
(1894 Kegan Paul)
Green Arras : Poems
(1895 Bodley Head)
The House of Joy
(1895 Kegan Paul)
Arthur Boyd Houghton : A selection from His Work
(1896 Kegan Paul)
All-Fellows : Seven Legends of Lower Redemption
(1896 RKP) - Author
Gods and Their Makers
(1897 John Lane, London & NY)
The Field of Clover
(1898 Kegan Paul) - Clemence Housman
Rue
(1899 at Sign of the Unicorn, London)
The Story of the Seven Young Goslings
(1899 Blackie) - Mrs Percy Dearmer
An Englishwoman's Love Letters
(1900) - Anon
[He reputedly made £2000 from this work]

1901-1910
A Modern Antaeus
(1901 John Murray) - Anon
Bethlehem : A Nativity Play - The Pageant of Our Lady & Other Poems
(1902 Macmillan)
The Blue Lagoon
(1904 Murray)
Sabrina Warham : The Story of Her Youth
(1904)
The Cloak of Friendship
(1905 Murray)
Mendicant Rhymes
(1906 Essex House Press, Chipping Camden) - 300
Stories from the Arabian Nights
(1907 Hodder & Stoughton) - 350 signed by Edmund Dulac
Articles of Faith in the Freedom of Women
(1910)

1911-1920
(Retold by) Stories from the Arabian Nights (1911 H & S) (nd. H & S for Boots)
(nd. Doran) - Edmund Dulac
Pains and Penalties
(1911)
The New Child's Guide to Knowledge
(1911 Sidgwick & Jackson)
John of Jigaloo : The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties
(1912 Chapman & Hall)
(Trans) Princess Badoura : A Tale from the Arabian Nights (1913 H & S) - Edmund Dulac. 750 de luxe
Signed de Luxe Edition offered for £430 in 1991
A Royal Recovery
(1914)
The Sheepfold : The Story of a Shepherdess & Her Sheep
(1918 Duckworth)
Ploughshare and Pruning Hook : Ten Lectures on Social Subjects
(1919 Swarthmore Press)

1921-1930
Victoria Regina : A Dramtic Biography
(1921-3)
Dethronements
(1922 Cape) - 750
A Doorway in Fairyland
(1922 Cape)
False Premises : Five One-Act Plays
(1922 Basil Blackwell, Oxford)
Little Plays of St Francis
(1st Series - Followers of St Francis 1923)
Echo De Paris : A Study from Life
(1923 Cape) - 1000
All-Fellows and the Cloak of Friendship
(1923 Cape)
Trimblerigg
(1924) - Edmond Kapp
Of Aucassin and Nicolette : A Translation in Prose & Verse
(1925 Chatto & Windus) - 160 signed
Ironical Tales
(1926 Cape) (1927 Doran NY)
The Comments of Juniper
(1926)
Uncle Tom Pudd : A Biographical Romance
(1927 Cape)
The Life of HRH The Duke of Flamborough by Benjamin Bunny
(1928 Cape)
The Love Concealed
(1928 Sidgwick & Jackson)
The New Hangman
(1930 Putnam)

1931-1940
What O'Clock Tales
(1932 Blackwell) - J R Monsell
Victoria regina : A Dramatic Biography
(1934 Cape) - Ernest H Shepard
Little Plays of St Francis : Complete Edition
(1935 London) - 3 vols
A E H : Some Poems, Some Letters & A Personal Memoir by His Brother
(1937 Cape)
The Unexpected Years
(1937 Cape)
Moonshine and Clover
(1937)

After 1941
Gracious Majesty
(1941 Cape 8/6) - Ernest H Shepard
The Preparation of Peace
(1941 Cape)
Palestine Plays
(1942 Cape)
Cynthia
(1947 S & Jackson) - 500
Moonlight and Fairyland
(1978 Cape £3.95) - Pauline Martin

Angels and Ministers
Victoria Regina
[Filmed in 1937 as "Victoria the Great"]
The Chinese Lantern
Ye fearful Saints !
Cornered Poets
Palace Scenes
The Golden Sovereign
Pains and Penalties
Death of Orpheus
Death of Socrates
The New Child's Guide to Knowledge
(verse)

Turn Again Tales
Stories from the Arabian Nights
(nd Boots, London)
Selected Poems
(Sidgwick & Jackson)
St Francis Poverello
(messages of the Saints)
The Wheel
(dramatic trilogy)

Books Illustrated include
Thomas A KEMPIS : Imitation of Christ - In 4 Books
(1899 Page & Co, Boston)
R Nisbet BAIN : Weird Tales from Northern Seas from the Danish of Joseph Lie
(1893 Kegan Paul)
Jane BARLOW : The End of Elfintown
(1894 Macmillan)
Offered in 1997 for £285
John DAVIDSON : A Random Itinerary
Edmund HOLMES : The Triumph of Love
(1903 John Lane)
George MACDONALD : At the Back of the North Wind
(1900)
The Princess and the Goblin
(1900)
George MEREDITH : Jump to Glory Jane
(1892)
Edith NESBIT : A Pomander of Verses
C N ROBINSON : The Were Wolf
All Fellows
The Viol of Love
(1896)
Christina ROSSETTI : Goblin Market
(1893)
P B SHELLEY : The Sensitive Plant
Francis THOMPSON : Poems
Sister Songs
Katharine TYNAN : Cuckoo Songs
(1894)
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A Farm in Fairyland
(1894)
The House of Joy
(1895)
The Little Flowers of St Francis, or the Imitation of Christ
(1898)
The Little Land
(1899)
The Blue Moon
(1904)
Prunella or Love in a Dutch Garden
(1907)
A Doorway in Fairyland
(1923)

Related Writers

Edmund Dulac
George Macdonald
George Meredith
Edith Nesbit
Katharine Tynan


See also

Arabian Nights Entertainments
Historical Novels
Alfred Edward Housman
Harold R Millar
Christina Georgina Rossetti
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ernest Howard Shepard
Francis Joseph Thompson
Traveller's Library, The