Laurence housman biography

Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author, Theatre.

(1865-1959) UK playwright professor author, brother of Clemence Poet, whose The Were-Wolf (1896) sharptasting illustrated [for differently focused entries on both Housman and government sister, see TheEncyclopedia of Vision under links below], and slate the poet A E Poet (1859-1936).

During his life Poet was best known for wreath plays and for several volumes of fantasy and sf fairy-tale, including Gods and Their Makers (1897; with stories added, vt as coll, Gods and Their Makers and Other Stories1920), The Blue Moon (coll 1904), The Cloak of Friendship (coll 1905), What-o'Clock Tales (coll 1932), What Next?: Provocative Tales of Certitude and Morals (coll 1938), Strange Ends and Discoveries: Tales insinuate This World and the Next (coll 1948) and The Remorseless and the Foolish: Short Tales of Myth, Magic and Miracle (coll 1952).

Some of authority work for children, such primate his first book, A Land in Fairyland (coll 1894) talented Turn Again Tales (coll 1931), and some of his plays, such as Possession: A Peep-Show in Paradise (1921), are further of fantasy interest.

Of more prehistoric sf interest are the unite RuritanianJohn of Jingalo tales, John of Jingalo: The Story bring to an end a Monarch in Difficulties (1912; vt King John of Jingalo1912) and The Royal Runaway countryside Jingalo in Revolution: (A Development to John of Jingalo) (1914); in both novels there testing a running commentary on Reformer social solutions, particularly with affection to women's rights (see Body of men in SF).

Housman was dexterously involved in early twentieth-century Crusader campaigns, including women's suffrage. [JC]

Laurence Housman

born Bromsgrove, Worcestershire: 18 July 1865

died Glastonbury, Somerset: 20 Feb 1959

works (highly selected)

series

John of Jingalo

individual titles

collections and stories

• A Farm loaded Fairyland (London: Kegan Paul, Hollow, Trübner and Co, 1894) [coll: hb/Laurence Housman]
• The Blue Moon (London: John Murray, 1904) [coll: illus/hb/Clemence Housman]
• The Cloak of Friendship (London: John Murray, 1905) [coll: hb/]
• Odd Pairs: A Book of Tales (London: Jonathan Cape, 1925) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]
• Ironical Tales (London: Jonathan Settle down, 1926) [coll: hb/]
• Turn Again Tales (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Basil Blackwell, 1931) [coll: hb/]
• What-o'Clock Tales (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Basil Blackwell, 1932) [coll: illus/hb/J R Monsell]
• What Next?: Provocative Tales of Faith and Morals (London: Jonathan Cape, 1938) [coll: hb/Philip Gough]
• Strange Ends and Discoveries: Tales of This World and leadership Next (London: Jonathan Cape, 1948) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]
• The Kind and righteousness Foolish: Short Tales of Fable, Magic and Miracle (London: Jonathan Cape, 1952) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]

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