Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861 – 15 June 1923) was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist.[1]
English historical novelist, poet and essayist
Biography
He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891. He gave up the law after the success of The Forest Lovers. From 1896 to 1901 he was Keeper of Lands, Revenues, Records and Enrolments, a government post as adviser on matters of medieval law.
Hewlett married Hilda Beatrice Herbert on 3 January 1888 in St Peter's Church, Vauxhall, where her father was the incumbent vicar. The couple had two children, a daughter, Pia, and a son, Francis, but separated in 1914, partly due to Hilda's increasing interest in aviation. In 1911, Hilda had become the first woman in the UK to gain a pilot's licence.[2]
Hewlett's 1900 novel The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay, about Richard the Lionheart, was a favourite novel of T. E. Lawrence. Lawrence said he had read The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay several times.[3] Another of Hewlett's historical novels was The Queen's Quair (1904), about Mary, Queen of Scots. The Queen's Quair was cited as an influence by Ford Madox Ford, who said that The Queen's Quair "taught me a good deal".[4] Hewlett also wrote six novels based on the Icelandic Family sagas, these include The Light Heart and Thorgils of Treadholt. Hewlett also wrote The Outlaw (based on Gisli's Saga), A Lover's Tale (based on Kormak's Saga), Frey and His Wife (based on Ogmund Dytt's tale), and Gudred the Fair (based on the Greenland sagas).[5]
Hewlett was parodied by Max Beerbohm in A Christmas Garland in the part titled "Fond Hearts Askew".
Maurice Hewlett died in London on 15 June 1923 at age 62.[6]
Works
Earthwork Out of Tuscany (1895) travel
The Masque of Dead Florentines (1895) verse
Songs and Meditations (1897)
The Forest Lovers (1898) historical novel
Pan and the Young Shepherd (1898) play
Youngest of the Angels (1898) play
Little Novels of Italy (1899) short stories
The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay (1900) (AKA Richard Yea-and-Nay) historical novel
The New Canterbury Tales (1901)
The Queen's Quair or The Six Years' Tragedy (1904) historical novel about Mary, Queen of Scots
The Road in Tuscany. A Commentary (1904) travel; illustrations by Joseph Pennell
Fond Adventures: Tales of the Youth of the World (1905) short stories
Buondelomente's Saga (1905) historical novel
The Fool Errant (1905) historical novel
The Heart's Key (1905) historical novel
The Love Chase (1905) historical novel
The Stooping Lady (1907) historical novel
The Spanish Jade (1908) historical novel set in Spain in 1860.[7]
Artemision (1909) poems
Halfway House (1908) novel
Open Country (1909) novel
Rest Harrow (1910) novel
Letters to Sanchia (1910)
The Agonists, a Trilogy of God and Man (1911)
The Song of Renny (1911)
Brazenhead the Great (1911)
The Countess of Picpus (1911) historical novel
Mrs. Lancelot: A Comedy of Assumptions (1912) historical novel
The Lore of Proserpine (1913) autobiographical account
Bendish (1913) historical novel
For Two Voices (1914) Poem
The Little Iliad (1915)
A Lover's Tale (1915) historical novel
The Song of the Plow (1916)
Frey and his Wife (1916)
Gudrid the Fair (1918) historical novel
Thorgils of Treadholt (1917) historical novel
The Village Wife’s Lament (1918) poems
In Green Shade (1920)
Mainwaring (1920) historical novel
The Light Heart (1920) historical novel
Outlaw (1920) historical novel
Wiltshire Essays (1921)
Extemporary Essays (1922)
The Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett (1924)
The Letters of Maurice Hewlett (1926) edited by Laurence Binyon
"He (Lawrence) studied medieval writings such as the chansons de geste, and also enjoyed historical romances about the Middle Ages, reading Maurice Hewlett's Richard Yea and Nay over and over again..." Wilson, Jeremy, Lawrence of Arabia: The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence Atheneum, 1990. ISBN9780689119347 (p.52).
Wiesenfarth, Joseph, History and Representation in Ford Madox Ford's Writings. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2004 ISBN9789042016132 (p.112).
Sutherland, Brice, Maurice Hewlett: A Bibliography. Boston: F.W. Faxon Company, 1935. (p. 5)
Sutherland, Brice, Maurice Hewlett: A Bibliography. Boston: F.W. Faxon Company, 1935. (p. 7)
References
Maurice Hewlett: A Sketch of His Career and Some Reviews of His Books, by James Lane Allen
A bibliography of the first editions of books by Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861–1923) (1973) Percival Horace Muir
This articleincorporates text from a publication now in the public domain:Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Hewlett, Maurice Henry". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol.13 (11thed.). Cambridge University Press. p.417.
This list omits some significant works. He wrote six novels based on the Icelandic Family sagas, of which only The Light Heart and Thorgils of Treadholt are mentioned above. There is also The Outlaw (based on Gisli's Saga), A Lover's Tale (based on Kormak's Saga), Frey and His Wife (based on Ogmund Dytt's tale), and Gudred the Fair (based on the Greenland sagas).
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