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HALL, MRS SAMUEL CARTER
Novelist, Memorist, Children's writer, Playwright & Short Story
Writer. Lived in England from 1815. Active worker for temperance,
women's rights and hospitals. Married Samuel Carter Hall in 1824. Was
anti-suffrage. Wrote for Sharpe's Magazine from 1845 & St James's
Magazine 1861
HALL, JOSEPH
Poet and Religious Writer. Married Elizabeth Winiffe in 1603. As a
bishop he complained about such posts being excluded from Parliament,
and for his pains he was imprisoned in the Tower of London and stripped
of his bishopric when he was finally released in 1647
HALLIDAY, BRETT
Novelist. Creator of Mike Shayne. A childhood accident meant he had to
wear an eye patch for the the rest of his life. Enlisted in the US
Cavalry aged 14 ! In 1953 he founded the Torquil Publishing Co with his
first wife (they married 1946 & divorced 1961). Then married Helen
McCloy, Kathleen Rollins, and finally Mary Savage
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPS, JAMES ORCHARD
Scholar (esp of Shakespeare), Antiquary & Collector of Nursery Rhymes. Married the eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Phillipps
HANLEY, JAMES
Novelist, Playwright & Short Story Writer. Brother of Gerald Hanley
HARDY, THOMAS
Novelist & poet. Articled to an ecclesiastical architect 1856-61,
and worked for a architect 1862-7. Married Emma Gifford in 1874 (she
died 1912) and then Florence Dugdale in 1914. Buried in Westminster
Abbey
HARPER, CHARLES G
Writer, Artist and illustrator
HARRIS, JOEL CHANDLER
Novelist & story writer
HARTE, (FRANCIS) BRET
Story writer & journalist. Buried at St Peter's, Frimley, Surrey
HARTLEY, JOHN
Writer of humorous Yorkshire dialect works. From c1866 he produced The Original Clock Almanack in the Yorkshire Dialect
HARVEY, JOHN
Novelist. Creator of the Nottingham policeman Charlie Resnick
HAWTHORNE, NATHANIEL
Novelist & story writer. Married Sophie Peabody 1842. Lived in Rome & Florence 1857-9 and at Redcar in 1859.
HAYWOOD, ELIZA FOWLER
Novelist & Playwright. Married the Rev Valentine Haywood in 1711,
but by 1721 she had left him and was living in London, working as a
writer and actress. She ran her own publishing business for a while in
the 1740s
HAZLITT, WILLIAM
Essayist and critic. Family moved to America 1783-1787. Returned and
settled at Wem, in Shropshire. Married Sarah Stoddart in 1808. Married
Isabella Bridgewater in 1824. Died of dysentry or cancer
HEANEY, SEAMUS JUSTIN
Poet. Nobel Prize for Literature 1995. Married Marie Devlin in 1965. Lives in Dublin
HEARN, PATRICIO LAFCADIO
Novelist, Orientalist, Philosopher & Travel Writer. Father was a
Surgeon in the British Army and mother Greek. Emigrated to America in
1869, and then Martinique. In 1890 he moved to Japan, married into a
Samurai family and became a Japanese citizen with the name of Koizumi
Yakumo
HEMINGWAY, ERNEST MILLER
Novelist. He divorced Martha Gellhorn to marry journalist Mary Welsh in 1944. Nobel prize 1954. Committed suicide
HENTY, GEORGE ALFRED
Writer of boy's adventure stories. Blackie printed 3.5 million of his
titles. Married Elizabeth Finucane in 1857 (d.1965) & Elizabeth
Keylock (c1889). He edited the 'Union Jack' 1880-3 and 'Beeton's Boys'
Own Magazine' 1888-90. He died on board his yacht moored in Weymouth
harbour
HERBERT, SIR ALAN PATRICK
Humorous writer
HEYWOOD (ABEL) & SON LTD
Publishers of plays, dramas, guides, etc, founded in 1832. At 47-61 Lever Street, Manchester 1 in 1950
HIMALAYAS
Mountain range that stretches for 1600 miles
HISTORICAL NOVELS
HOBAN, RUSSELL CONWELL
Novelist, illustrator & children's writer. Married Lillian Aberman
in 1944. She illustrated many of his books. Lived in London from 1969.
Married Gundula Ahl in 1975.
HOCKING, SILAS KITTO
Evangelical Novelist. Married Esther Lloyd in 1876. Once said to be the most popular English novelist
HOCKING, JOSEPH
Novelist (over 80). Younger brother of Silas K. Married Annie Brown in 1887
HOGARTH, PAUL
Graphic Reporter, Writer, Printmaker & Illustrator. A Communist, he
fought for the republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Married four times
HOLLYWOOD MUSICALS
HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL
Man of letters, novelist, story writer, biographer & poet.
Anti-Calvinist. He also wrote a number of books on medicine and surgery.
Married Amelia Jackson in 1840
HOOD, THOMAS
Poet, humorist, editor and punster. Married Jane Reynolds 1824. Fled to
Germany in 1835 to escape his creditors. Returned 1840, receiving a
civil pension in 1844. For most of his life he struggled with TB
HORLER, SYDNEY
Humorist and Crime Novelist. He wrote in many genres - football, boxing, science fiction, fantasy, etc
HORSE RACING
HOSPITALS
HOUSMAN, ALFRED EDWARD
Poet, Author and classical scholar. Brother of Laurence Housman.
HOUSMAN, LAURENCE
Playwright, poet and illustrator. Brother of A E Housman
HOWITT, MARY
Writer of books on natural history, esp for children & Poet. Brought
up a Quaker. Married William Howitt in 1821. She translated many of
Hans Christian Andersen's tales in 1846 and also Frederika Bremer
HUDSON, WILLIAM HENRY
Novelist, Travel writer and on rural life. Came to Britain 1874. Married Emily Wingrave in 1876.
HUGHES, TED (EDWARD JAMES)
Poet. Poet Laureate from 1984. Married Sylvia Plath in 1956 (committed
suicide 1963). In 1970 he married Carol Orchard. Died of cancer
HUGHES, JAMES MERCER LANGSTON
Black Poet, Dramatist & Novelist
HUGHES, SHIRLEY
Children's Writer and freelance artist & illustrator. Married to architect John Vulliamy
HUGO, VICTOR MARIE
Poet, dramatist & Novelist. Headed the Romantic movement in France
in early 19thC. Exiled to Jersey 1855-70 after opposing Louis Napoleon
HUME, FERGUSSON (FERGUS) WRIGHT
Novelist (In all wrote over 140 novels), born to New Zealand parents. Lived in England from 1888
HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH
Poet and essayist. Fined and imprisoned (1813) for libelling the Prince
Regent in "The Examiner". Leigh Hunt's London Journal was published from
1834-35
HUNTER, EVAN (BORN SALVATORE A LOMBINO)
Novelist. For Ed McBain books see under McBAIN
HUXLEY, THOMAS HENRY
Scientist & Surgeon. Went on the Expedition in HMS Rattlesnake to
survey the waters of New Guinea and Australia in 1847-50. A champion of
Darwin and inventor of the term 'agnostic'
HUXLEY, ALDOUS LEONARD
Novelist and writer. Son of Leonard Huxley. Brother of Julian Huxley.
Married Maria (an active bisexual) in 1919. He was six feet four and a
half inches tall ! From 1937 he lived in the USA
HYNE, CHARLES JOHN CUTCLIFFE WRIGHT
Novelist (46 books between 1892 & 1942) & Writer of Boys
Stories. He also wrote 13 stories as Weatherby Chesney between 1898
& 1908. Married Elsie Haggas in 1897. Travelled in Mexico, Lapland,
Morocco. He lived at Kettlewell-in-Craven, Yorkshire