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                            Introduction
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Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861 - 15 June 1923) was an English historical
novelist, poet and essayist.


                             Biography
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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.

He settled at Broad Chalke, Wiltshire. His friends included Evelyn
Underhill, and Ezra Pound, whom he met at the Poets' Club in London.
He was also a friend of J. M. Barrie, who named one of the pirates in
'Peter Pan' "Cecco" after Hewlett's son.

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. 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". 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').

Hewlett was parodied by Max Beerbohm in 'A Christmas Garland' in the
part titled "Fond Hearts Askew".

Hewlett's brother Henry William Hewlett was also a published novelist,
writing under the name William Hewlett.

Maurice Hewlett died in London on 15 June 1923 at age 62.


                               Works
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*'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.
*'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


                            Filmography
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*'The Spanish Jade' (1915)
*'The Spanish Jade' (1922)
*'Open Country' (1922)


                             References
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*'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
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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').


                           External links
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* [https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=00918
Maurice Hewlett Collection] at the Harry Ransom Center
* [https://archives.yale.edu/repositories/11/resources/774 Maurice
Hewlett Collection] at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
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[http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Hewlett,%20Maurice%20Henry,%201861-1923.%22&type=author&inst=
Works by Maurice Hewlett] at Hathi Trust
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