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Eden Phillpotts

Male : Novelist (much of his work was based around Dartmoor), Playwright & Poet. Published over 250 books. Married Emily Topham in 1892 & Lucy Webb in 1929
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Mount Aboo, India

Date of Birth : 1862 Date of Death : 1961 Age : 98

Pseudonyms : Harrington Hext

Other Work : Clerk in insurance office 1880-90. Actor.

Education : Mannamead School, Plymouth
1888-1900
My Adventure in the Flying Scotsman : A Romance of London and North Western Railway Shares
(1888)
The End of Life
(1891 Arrowsmith)
Folly and Fresh Air
(1891 Trischler, London) - 1000 printed. His 3rd Book
The Transit of the Red Dragon
(1893 Arrowsmith)
A Deal with the Devil
(1895 Bliss, Sands & Foster, London)
My Laughing Philosopher
(1896 Innes) - George Hutchinson
Children of the Mist : A Novel
(1898 A D Innes, London)
[This novel of Dartmoor started his abiding love of this area which was to
feature in many of his novels and stories]

The Human Boy
(1899 Methuen) - frontis by Enoch Ward
Sons of the Morning
(1900 Methuen) - 5000 copies printed

1901-1910
The Good Red Earth
(1901 Arrowsmith) - 3000
The Striking Hours
(1901 Methuen)
The River
(1902 Methuen 6/-)
The Transit of the Red Dragon & Other Tales
(1902 Arrowsmith) - 2000 copies
The Sinews of War : A Romance of London & The Sea
(1906 T Werner Laurie)
- with Arnold Bennett
The Folk Afield
(1907 Methuen)
The Mother
(1908 Ward Lock) - Gunning King
The Haven
(1909 John Murray) - 7600 printed
Tales of the Tenements
(1910 John Murray) - 5000 printed
The Flint Heart : A Fairy Story
(1910 Smith Elder) - Charles Folkard

1911-1920
The Beacon
(1911 T Fisher Unwin) - 7500 printed
The Old Time Before Them
(1913 John Murray) - 5000
The Joy of Youth
(1913 Chapman & Hall)
My Garden
(c1914 Country Life 6/-)
Delight & Other Poems
(1916) - Alma Elliott
The Girl and the Faun
(1916 Cecil Palmer & Hayward, London)
- 350 signed by author & Frank Brangwyn
Evander
(1919 Grant Richards)
As the Wind Blows
(1920 Elkin Mathews 5/-) - 1000
A West Country Pilgrimage
(1920 Parsons)

1921-1925
Eudocia : A Comedy Royal
(1921 Heinemann)
The Grey Room
(1921 Hurst & Blackett)
A Dish of Apples
(1921 Hodder & Stoughton) - 575 signed by Author & Arthur Rackham
Offered in 1991 for £340 & £455 in 1999
The Red Redmaynes
(1922 Hutchinson)
Number 87
(1922 Thornton Butterworth) - As Harrington Hext
The Thing at Their Heels
(1923 Butterworth) - as Harrington Hext
Who Killed Diana ?
(1924 Thornton Butterworth) (in US as "Who Killed Cock Robin ?")
- as Harrington Hext
A Human Boy's Diary
(1924 Heinemann) - 3000
Cheat the Boys
(1924 Heinemann)
A Voice from the Dark
(1925 Hutchinson)
Up Hill, Down Dale : A Volume of Short Stories
(1925 Hutchinson)

1926-1930
Peacock House and Other Mysteries
(1926 Hutchinson)
The Miniature
(1926 Watts 5/-)
It Happened Like That : A New Volume of Short Stories
(1927 Hutchinson)
The Three Brothers
(1927 Macmillan)
Dartmoor Novels
(1927-8 Macmillan : Widecombe Edition) - 20 vols. 1500 signed
The Apes
(1929 Faber)
(In) The Best Poems of 1930 (selected by Thomas Moult) (1930 Cape)

After 1931
The Broom Squires
(1932 Ernest Benn)
Bred in the Bone
(1932 Hutchinson)
Told to the Parson & Other Stories
(1932 Hutchinson)
A Clue from the Stars
(1932 Macmillan NY)
Becoming
(1932 Benn)
The Captain's Curio
(1933 Macmillan NY)
Nancy Owlett
(1933 Raphael Tuck) - C E Brock
Lycanthrope : The Mystery of Sir William Wolf
(1937 Thornton Butterworth) (1938 Macmillan NY)
Saurus
(1938 Murray)
Ghostwater
(1941 Methuen)
Flower of the Gods
(1943 Macmillan NY)
From the Angle of 88
(1951 Hutchinson) - Autobiography
One Thing and Another
(1954 Hutchinson)

READING
Percival Hinton : Eden Philpotts - A Bibliography of First Editions
(1931 Greville Worthington, Birmingham) - 350
(Ed) Waveney Girvan : Eden Phillpotts - An Assessment and Tribute (1953 Hutchinson)
(Ed) James Y Dayananda : Eden Phillpotts - Selected Letters (c1984 University Press of America)

Related Writers

Arthur Rackham


See also

Charles Edmund Brock