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Laurence Housman

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Laurence Housman 1865-1959, English author; brother of A. E. Housman. He achieved success as the anonymous author of An Englishwoman's Love Letters (1900). Best known as a dramatist, he wrote Little Plays of St. Francis (1922-35) and Palace Plays (1930-33). His most famous play, Victoria Regina (1934), adapted from his Palace Plays, was banned from the English stage for representing living members of the royal family, but an American production with Helen Hayes in 1935 was highly successful. Author not available, HOUSMAN, LAURENCE. , The Columbia Encyclopedia,... Read more

Housman, Laurence
Housman, Laurence (1865–1959), brother of A. E. Housman , illustrator, art critic, writer, and dramatist. Among...autobiography, The Unexpected Years (1937), and A. E. Housman (1937), which contained poems, letters, and a valuable... Read more

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...lecture The Name and Nature of Poetry (1933) and the posthumous collection More Poems (1936). His brother is the novelist and playwright Laurence Housman (1865–1959). A(lfred) E(dward) Housman A(lfred) E(dward) Housman A(lfred) E(dward) Housman Read more

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	A.E. Housman: Poet, Scholar, Atheist ; ...lad never emerged. By both students and colleagues, Housman was generally perceived as aloof, daunting, and enigmatic...as I have ever known" (Richard Perceval Graves, A. E. Housman: The Scholar-Poet, p. 243). Housman's displays of arrogance and sarcasm cloaked native shyness...conformed to the idols of ... Read more
	Housman papers offer rare insights. ; ...clearly got more than he bargained for.' Alfred Edward Housman was born in 1859, the eldest of seven children. Equipped...London, where Moses Jackson was also working. In 1892, Housman was appointed Professor of Latin at University College...since. The nostalgic verses, born out of the troubles Housman ... Read more
	Housman's 'Terence, This is Stupid Stuff....' (poem by classicist and poet A.E. Housman in his book 'A Shropshire Lad') ; ...Grant Richards, A. E. Housman's publisher, and Laurence Housman, his brother, A. E...Boston: Twayne, 1967. Housman, A. E. Terence, This...Harrap, 1986. 91-94. Housman, Laurence. My Brother, A. E. Housman: Personal Recollections... Read more
	"Thick on Severn snow the leaves": Housman's Letters ; ...does more to suggest that Housman was a convivial person...especially his brother Laurence, sister Kate, and sister-in...During his student days, Housman wrote lively letters to...the amorous details of Housman's life are generally known...and must have rebuffed Housman quite conclusively ... Read more
	Voyage round my childhood; Watching Alec Guinness, Laurence Olivier and now, in the Donmar's revival, Derek Jacobi play him on stage brings back vivid memories of his larger-than-life blind barrister father, says John Mortimer. ; ...spent his time in the garden, listening to the wireless and having me read his favourite poets, Shakespeare, Browning and A E Housman-aloud to him. Reading to him I got to know a lot of poetry I might not otherwise have met, and I had also begun to write, so... Read more
	Confessions of a Worcestershire lad ; ...Latin at University College London called Alfred Edward Housman, had been obliged to pay pounds 30 towards the cost of...up of "Books of the Week" on 27 March, noted that: "Mr Housman has a true sense of the sweetness of country life and...sell out until two years later, and only then because Housman's ... Read more
	`AN IDEAL HUSBAND' DUSTS OFF OSCAR WILDE.(Spotlight) ; Byline: Robert Denerstein Laurence Housman, a British writer and artist who dissected the Victorian era, once called Oscar Wilde the most accomplished talker he'd ever met...play An Ideal Husband, which opened Friday in Denver. Parker, a 38-year-old who directed a big-screen edition of Othello starring ... Read more
	Days Like These ; 5 October 1896 AE HOUSMAN, poet, writes to his brother, Laurence: "I ascertained by looking down from Wenlock Edge that Hughley Church could not have had much of a steeple. But as I had already... Read more
	Correction. ; Dear Editor: I liked the review of Stoppard's wonderful Housman play [Sept.-Oct. issue]. One correction, though: I shook...in A Shropshire Lad, but was published posthumously in Laurence Housman's A.E.H., A Memoir. Robert Carr, Oakland Read more
	Anniversaries ; TODAY: Births: Robert Hooke, physicist, 1635; William Makepeace Thackeray, novelist and poet, 1811; Laurence Housman, playwright, novelist and illustrator, 1865. Deaths: Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch), poet and scholar, 1374; Michelangelo Merisi... Read more

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