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Alfred Leslie Rowse

Male : Historian, Poet, Biographer & Essayist
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Tregonissey, Nr St Austell, Cornwall

Date of Birth : 1904 Date of Death : 1997 Age : 93

Education : St Austell GS & All Souls College, Oxford University
1927-1940
On History
(1927 Kegan Paul)
Politics and the Younger Generation
(1931 Faber)
(Ed) Queen Elizabeth and Her Subjects (1935 Allen & Unwin) - with G B Harrison & others
Mr Keynes and the Labour Movement
(1936 Macmillan)
Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge
(1937 Cape)

1941-1950
Tudor Cornwall
(1941 Cape)
Poems of a Decade 1931-1941
(1941 Faber 6/-)
A Cornish Childhood
(1942 Cape)
The Spirit of English History
(1943 Cape)
The English Spirit
(1944 Macmillan)
Poems Chiefly Cornish
(1944 Faber)
West Country Stories
(1945 Macmillan)
The Use of History
(1946 Hodder & Stoughton)
Poems of Deliverance
(1946 Faber)
The End of an Epoch : Reflections on Contemporary History
(1947 Macmillan)
(Ed) The West in English History (1949 Hodder & Stoughton) - essays et al
The England of Elizabeth
(1950 Macmillan)

1951-1960
The English Past : Evocations of Persons and Places
(1951 Macmillan)
An Elizabethan Garland
(1953 Macmillan 15/-)
(Trans & Completed by) Lucien Romier - A History of France (1953 Macmillan)
The Expansion of Elizabethan England
(1955 Macmillan 30/-)
The Early Churchills
(1956 Macmillan)
The Later Churchills
(1958 Macmillan 35/-)
The Elizabethans and America
(1959 Macmillan) (1978 Greenwood Press)
Poems Partly American
(1959 Faber)
St Austell : Church, Town, Parish
(1960 H E Warne)

1961-1970
All Souls and Appeasement
(1961 Macmillan)
Raleigh and the Throckmortons
(1962 Macmillan)
William Shakespeare : A Biography
(1963 Macmillan)
Christopher Marlowe : A Biography
(1964 Macmillan)
Shakespeare' Sonnets : A Modern Edition
(1964 Macmillan)
Shakespeare's Southampton : Patron of Virginia
(1965 Macmillan)
A Cornishman at Oxford
(1965 Cape)
The Churchills
(1966 Macmillan)
Bosworth Field and the Wars of the Roses
(1966 Macmillan)
Cornish Stories
(1967 Macmillan)
Poems of Cornwall and America
(1967 Faber)
(Ed) A Cornish Anthology (1968 Macmillan)
The Cornish in America
(1969 Macmillan) (1991 Dyllansow Truran)

1971-1975
The Elizabethan Renaissance : the Life of the Society
(1971 Macmillan)
The Elizabethan Renaissance : The Cultural Achievement
(1972 Macmillan)
The Tower of London in the History of the Nation
(1972 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Strange Encounter : Poems
(1972 Cape)
Shakespeare the Man
(1973 Macmillan)
Discoveries and Reviews : From Renaissance to restoration
(1973 Macmillan)
Windsor Castle in the History of the Nation
(1974 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Victorian & Edwardian Cornwall from Old Photographs
(1974 Batsford) - with John Betjeman
Peter, the White Cat of Trenarren
(1974 Michael Joseph)
Simon Forman : Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age
(1974 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Jonathan Swift : Major Prophet
(1975 Thames & Hudson £5.95)
Oxford in the History of the Nation
(1975 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)

1976-1978
Matthew Arnold : Poet & prophet
(1976 Thames & Hudson)
Brown Buck : A Californian Fantasy
(1976 Michael Joseph) - John Ward
A Cornishman Abroad
(1976 Cape)
Shakespeare the Elizabethan
(1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £4.95)
Heritage of Britain
(1977 Artus)
Shakespeare the Elizabethan
(1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Homosexuals in History
(1977 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Tower of London
(1977 Michael Joseph)
Milton the Puritan : Portrait of a Mind
(1977 Macmillan)
The Byrons and Trevanions
(1978 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Three Cornish Cats
(1978 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Road to Oxford : Poems
(1978 Cape)
The Annotated Shakespeare
(1978 Orbis) - 3 vols
The Poems of Shakespeare's Dark Lady
(1978 Cape)

1979-1980
The Story of Britain
(1979 Artus)
Portraits and Views : Literary and Historical
(1979 Macmillan)
A man of the Thirties
(1979 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Memories of Men & Women
(1980 Methuen)
(Ed) A Man of Singular Virtue (1980 Folio Society)

1981-1985
Shakespeare Globe : His Intellectual & Moral Outlook
(1981 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
A Life : Collected Poems
(1981 William Blackwood)
Eminent Elizabethans
(1983 Macmillan)
Reflections on the Puritan Revolution
(1984 Methuen)
Preface to Shakespeare's Plays
(1984 Orbis)
Night at the Carn
(1984 William Kimber)
Shakespeare's Characters : A Complete Guide
(1984 Methuen)
Shakespeare's Self Portrait
(1985 Macmillan)
Glimpses of the Great
(1985 Methuen)

1986-1990
Stories from Trenarren
(1986 William Kimber)
(Ed) The First Colonists (1986 Folio Society)
A Quartet od Cornish Cats
(1986 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
The Litte Land of Cornwall
(1986 Alan Sutton)
In Shakespeare's Land
(1987 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Court and Country : Studies in Tudor Social History
(1987 Harvester Press)
Froude the Historian : Victorian Man of Letters
(1987 Alan Sutton)
The Poet Auden : A Personal memoir
(1987 Methuen)
Quiller-Couch : A Biography
(1988 Methuen)
(Ed) Froude's Spanish History of the Armada (1988 Alan Sutton)
A L Rowse's Cornwall
(1988 Weidenfeld & Nicolson) - Photos John Hedgcoe
Discovering Shakespeare : A Chapter in Literary History
(1989 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Friends and Contemporaries
(1989 Methuen £14.99)
Transatlantic : Later Poems
(1989 Tabb House pb)
The Controversial Colensos
(1989 Dyllansow Truran £4.99)
Prompting the Age : Poems Early and Late
(1989 Tabb House pb £5.95)

After 1991
Four Caroline Portraits
(1993 Duckworth £16.99)
All Souls in My Time
(1993 Duckworth £16.99)
The Sayings of Shakespeare
(1993 Duckworth £4.95)
The Regicides and the Puritan Revolution
(1994 Duckworth £16.99)
Historians I Have Known
(1995 Duckworth £18.95)
My View of Shakespeare
(1996 Duckworth £16.99)

READING
(Ed) Tony Capstick : A L Rowse - An Illustrated Bibliography
(1997 Cornish Connections / Hare's Ear £2.75)

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