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The Oxford Companion to the Book
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ) English artist and writer . Housman began work as a book illustrator in London, living with his sister Clemence, also an illustrator. His finest work, in an elaborate Art Nouveau style, includes illustrations for editions of Goblin Market ( 1893 ), The End of Elfintown ( 1894 ), The Sensitive Plant ( 1898 ), and his own collection of stories, The Blue Moon ( 1904 ). His eyesight failing, Housman turned to writing—publishing poetry, novels, and children’s stories, as well as socialist and pacifist pamphlets and...
Housman, Laurence (18 July 1865) Reference library
Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators
..., Laurence British , 19th – 20th century, male. Born 18 July 1865 or or, in Bromsgrove; died 1959 , in Street (Somerset). Painter , draughtsman , illustrator . Laurence Housman studied in Lambeth and at the South Kensington School of Art. Because of his failing eyesight he abandoned book illustration and became an art critic for the Manchester Guardian . He was also an author and playwright. Among Housman’s best work as a writer and illustrator are All-Fellows ( 1896 ); The Field of Clover ( 1898 ); The Little Land ( 1899 ); and New Child’s...
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (2 ed.)
...of Pomegranates ( 1891 ). Housman’s exotic selection of Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ) was exquisitely illustrated by Edmund Dulac and became one of the most sought-after gift books of the period. Housman, Laurence Clemence Housman, Laurence’s sister, provided this Jugendstil illustration of a magic door for her brother’s book, The Blue Moon (1904). Jan Susina Egan, Rodney , Laurence Housman (1983). Kooistra, Lorraine Janzen , ‘The Representation of Violence/The Violence of Representation: Housman’s Illustrations to Rossetti’s ...
HOUSMAN, Laurence (1865–1959) Reference library
The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (2 ed.)
...HOUSMAN, Laurence ( 1865–1959 ) Younger brother of poet A. E. Housman; he illustrated an edition of Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti . The following year came the first of several volumes of short original fairy stories written by him, A Farm in Fairyland , though these were apparently intended chiefly for an adult readership. In 1907 his retelling of stories from the Arabian Nights was published with illustrations by Edmund Dulac , and in 1930 the firm of Blackwell published several short fairy stories by him. He was a friend of E. Nesbit...
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The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ), English dramatist , illustrator , and author of literary fairy tales for adults . Housman was the more sociable and outspoken younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman. He attended the Lambeth School of Art in London and was initially more interested in illustration than writing; at 30 he became the art critic for the Manchester Guardian . As an art critic, Housman championed book illustration and design as a serious art form and praised the work of earlier illustrators, such as Arthur Hughes and Arthur Boyd Houghton ....
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The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ), British writer , born near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, the brother of A. E. Housman ; he studied painting in London and became a highly regarded illustrator. His first successful publication was An Englishwoman's Love Letters ( 1900 ), an ingenious parody of romantic fiction. Trimblerigg: A Book of Revelation ( 1924 ), a comically effective political satire directed against Lloyd George , and The Duke of Flamborough ( 1924 ) are the best-known of his novels. The protagonists of his plays, collections of which include ...
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ) English playwright . An unlikely figure in the struggle against theatre *censorship , Housman frequently found his quaint, reverential plays banned for depicting sacred or royal figures on stage. Refused by the Lord Chamberlain, Nativity ( 1902 ) was staged by *Craig in a private performance. Housman collaborated with Granville *Barker on Prunella; or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1904 ), in which Barker played Pierrot. Banned from public performance, his best-known works, often chronicle plays, initially appeared as ...
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Melissa Dana Gibson
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ) English playwright. An unlikely figure in the struggle against theatre censorship , Housman frequently found his quaint, reverential plays banned for depicting sacred or royal figures on stage. Refused by the Lord Chamberlain , Nativity ( 1902 ) was staged by Edward Gordon Craig in a private performance. Housman collaborated with Harley Granville Barker on Prunella; or, Love in a Dutch Garden ( 1904 ), in which Barker played Pierrot. Banned from public performance, his best-known works, often chronicle plays, initially...
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The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ), English artist, writer, and poet born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire. Having studied at the Lambeth School of Art and the South Kensington schools, Housman first made a reputation as a book illustrator. His black-and-white drawings were notable for their sensuous and expressive figures and finely wrought textures. His best-known work includes illustrations for Jonas Lie 's Weird Tales from Northern Seas ( 1893 ), Christina Rossetti 's Goblin Market ( 1893 ), Jane Barlow 's The End of Elfin-Town ( 1894 ), and Percy Bysshe...
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The Oxford Companion to English Literature (7 ed.)
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ) Writer and dramatist , brother of A. E. Housman , educated at Bromsgrove School. He then went to art school in London, and would later write art criticism for the Manchester Guardian as well as illustrating a number of books. He published many stories, for both children and adults, and wrote much on feminism and on socialist and pacifist themes. Among his works were volumes of somewhat derivative poems, including Green Arras ( 1896 ) and Spikenard ( 1898 ); An Englishwoman's Love‐Letters ( 1900 ), which enjoyed some...
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The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ). Sixth of seven children of whom A. E. Housman ( 1859–1936 ) was the eldest, Housman was born in Bromsgrove, where his father was a solicitor, and went to Bromsgrove School and then to art schools in London. There he lived with his sister, Clemence Housman , and wrote and drew for the Universal Review . From 1895 he was art critic of the Manchester Guardian for sixteen years. He had a long and varied career as a writer of drama, fiction, and non-fiction. His first book was published in 1894 ; two years later the popularity...
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The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (4 ed.)
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ) Writer and dramatist , brother of A. E. Housman . He published many stories, for both children and adults, and wrote much on feminism and on socialist and pacifist themes. His work includes the somewhat derivative poems in Green Arras ( 1896 ) and Spikenard ( 1898 ); An Englishwoman's Love‐Letters ( 1900 ), which enjoyed some notoriety and was widely parodied; and several successful novels, among them a political satire, Trimblerigg ( 1924 ), directed against David Lloyd George . His first play, Bethlehem , was...
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A Dictionary of Writers and their Works (3 ed.)
..., Laurence ( 1865–1959 ) British poet , novelist , and dramatist Green Arras ( 1895 ) Poetry Gods and Their Makers ( 1897 ) Fiction Spikenard ( 1898 ) Poetry Rue ( 1899 ) Poetry An Englishwoman's Love Letters ( 1900 ) Fiction John of Jingalo ( 1912 ) Fiction Angels and Ministers ( 1921 ) Drama Little Plays of St Francis [2nd series, 1931 ] ( 1922 ) Drama Trimblerigg ( 1924 ) Fiction The Unexpected Years ( 1937 ) Non-Fiction Victoria Regina ( 1937 ) Drama Palestine Plays ( 1942 ) Drama Cynthia ( 1947 )...
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