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HEWLETT, MAURICE HENRY (1861-- )

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 417 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HEWLETT, See also:MAURICE See also:HENRY (1861-- ) , See also:English novelist, was See also:born on the 22nd of See also:January 1861, the eldest son of Henry See also:Gay Hewlett, of See also:Shaw See also:Hall, Addington, See also:Kent. He was educated at the See also:London See also:International See also:College, See also:Spring See also:Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the See also:bar in 1891. From 1896 to 1900 he was keeper of the See also:land See also:revenue records and enrolments. He published in 1895 two books or. See also:Italy, Earthwork out of See also:Tuscany, and (in See also:verse) The Masque of Dead Florentines. Songs and Meditations followed in 1897, and in 1898 he won an immediate reputation by his See also:Forest Lovers, a See also:romance of See also:medieval See also:England, full of rapid See also:movement and See also:passion. In the same See also:year he printed the See also:pastoral and See also:pagan See also:drama of See also:Pan and the See also:Young Shepherd, shortened for purposes of See also:representation and produced at the See also:Court See also:Theatre in See also:March 1905, when it was followed. by the Youngest of the Angels, dramatized from a See also:chapter in his See also:Fool Errant. In Little Novels of Italy (1899), a collection of brilliant See also:short stories, he showed again his See also:power of See also:literary expression together with a See also:close knowledge of medieval Italy. The new and vivid portraits of See also:Richard Cceur de See also:Lion in his Richard Yea-and-See also:Nay (1900), and of See also:Mary, See also:queen of Scots, in The Queen's Quair (1904) showed the See also:combination of fiction with real See also:history at its best. The New See also:Canterbury Tales (1901) was another See also:volume of stories of English See also:life, but he returned to See also:Italian subjects with The Road in Tuscany (1904); in Fond Adventures, Tales of the Youth of the See also:World (1905), two are Italian tales, and The Fool Errant (1905) purports to be the See also:memoirs of See also:Francis Antony Stretley, See also:citizen of See also:Lucca. Later See also:works were the novel The Stooping See also:Lady (1907), and a volume of poems, Artemision (1909).

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