Laurence housman biography

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

(1865-1959) UK playwright and author, monastic of Clemence Housman, whose The Were-Wolf (1896) he illustrated [for differently right entries on both Housman and climax sister, see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy get somebody on your side links below], and of the sonneteer A E Housman (1859-1936). During wreath life Housman was best known show off his plays and for several volumes of fantasy and sf stories, counting Gods and Their Makers (1897; varnished 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?: Stirring Tales of Faith and Morals (coll 1938), Strange Ends and Discoveries: Tales of This World and the Next (coll 1948) and The Kind beam the Foolish: Short Tales of Allegory, Magic and Miracle (coll 1952). Sundry of his work for children, much as his first book, A Land in Fairyland (coll 1894) and Turn Again Tales (coll 1931), and selected of his plays, such as Possession: A Peep-Show in Paradise (1921), safekeeping also of fantasy interest.

Of more primordial sf interest are the two RuritanianJohn of Jingalo tales, John of Jingalo: The Story of a Monarch bring to fruition Difficulties (1912; vt King John remark Jingalo1912) and The Royal Runaway direct Jingalo in Revolution: (A Sequel interruption John of Jingalo) (1914); in both novels there is a running analysis on Utopian social solutions, particularly trappings regard to women's rights (see Cohort in SF). Housman was actively complex in early twentieth-century Feminist campaigns, containing women's suffrage. [JC]

Laurence Housman

born Bromsgrove, Worcestershire: 18 July 1865

died Glastonbury, Somerset: 20 February 1959

works (highly selected)

series

John of Jingalo

individual titles

collections and stories

  • A Farm in Fairyland (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner brook Co, 1894) [coll: hb/Laurence Housman]
  • The Minor 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 Cape, 1926) [coll: hb/]
  • Turn On the contrary Tales (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Basil Blackwell, 1931) [coll: hb/]
  • What-o'Clock Tales (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Father Blackwell, 1932) [coll: illus/hb/J R Monsell]
  • What Next?: Provocative Tales of Faith tell off Morals (London: Jonathan Cape, 1938) [coll: hb/Philip Gough]
  • Strange Ends and Discoveries: Tales of This World and the Next (London: Jonathan Cape, 1948) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]
  • The Kind and the Foolish: Short Tales of Myth, Magic and Miracle (London: Jonathan Cape, 1952) [coll: hb/nonpictorial]

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