Journal Articles - Index       C

Journal, page; e.g. :-  25,10;

3, (May 1981) p27

Details of the presentation of HW manuscripts to Exeter University 

16, (Sep 1987) p23

An account of a long association with North Devon culminating in a meeting with HW and the carving of a teak otter

37, (Sep 2001) 5-37

Examination of the real background of the Cheriton Otter Hounds (i.e. Hunt) as found in Records of the Cheriton Otter Hounds by William Rogers, used by Henry Williamson as a source for facts and incidents for Tarka the Otter(1927); amply illustrated with photographs of locations described in Tarka which still exist today.

10, (Oct 1984) p42

Musings on the position of HW in the literary league

21, (Mar 1990) p35

The character 'AB Cabton' as HA Manhood

37, (Sep 2001) pp 73-77

A personal attempt at understanding the confusing conflicts of The Star-born.

34, (Sep 1988) pp40-41

Facsimile of signed menu of survivors of the London Rifle Brigade who went out to France on the ship Chyebassa

33, (Sep 1997) pp45‑47

33, (Sep 1997) pp56‑57

Details of a correspondence with Waveney Girvan.

36, (Sep 2000) pp50-53

Includes ‘In the Monkey House’, David Hoyle (HWSJ, 4, Nov ’81) where Hoyle denigrates The Star-born; ‘Between the Flax and the Chronicle’, Dennis McWilliams (HWSJ, 13, March 1986) which gives a fine objective analysis of the book likening it to the work of the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats – and mentions the similarity found in HW’s story ‘The Fox in the Moonlight’; and the sympathetic analysis of HW’s early writing by Helen Haines (HWSJ, 20, Sept 1989).

37, (Sep 2001) pp 62-66    

Reminiscence of a contact with HW including facsimiles of letters from him (mainly 1958).

8, (Oct 1983) pp5‑9

A piece which originally appeared in The Book of Fleet Street ed Pope (1930)  relating HW's progress from unemployed ex‑soldier to writer of Light Car Notes.

9, (Mar 1984) pp7A5

 The second part of a piece which originally appeared in The Book of Fleet Street recalling the latter part of HW's brief career as a reporter for the Weekly Dispatch

24, (Sep 1991) pp32‑34

23, (Mar 1991) pp 16‑21

An exploration of the character Hetty in the first three Chronicle novels

21, (Mar 1990) pp22‑29

22, (Sep 1990) p38

Background information and a reproduction of an entry made by HW in the Visitors' Book at Cranmere Pool on 30th March, 1926 while researching material for Tarka the Otter.

33, (Sep 1997) pp 5-17

An overview and analysis of that part of the Chronicle leading up to the Great War.

34, (Sep 1998) pp 97-102

37, (Sep 2001) pp 38-49

In this section Dr Blench covers the narrative of the Chronicle and Phillip Maddison’s life between 1920 and 1939 and includes volumes entitled: The Innocent Moon (Vol 9); It Was the Nightingale (Vol 10); The Power of the Dead (Vol 11); and The Phoenix Generation (Vol 12).  Within these volumes Phillip Maddison matures from age 25 to 44, and Dr Blench shows how Williamson handles Phillip’s emotional development around his two marriages (including the death in childbirth of his first wife ‘Barley’), mistresses, subsequent children, farming and writing ventures.  Dr Blench examines the character Sir Hereward Birkin (based on Sir Oswald Mosley) and his Imperial Socialist Party (the British Union), showing how Williamson weaves these real historical events into the narrative of his novel sequence, leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War.

38, (Sep 2002) pp 59-84

In this examination of the last three vols of ACof AS: A Solitary War, Lucifer Before sunrise, The Gale of the World, Dr Blench continues the précis of the actual story-line which he has furnished from the beginning, with illuminating critical analysis.  Opening with the announcement on the radio by Neville Chamberlain (then Prime minister of Great Britain) that the country is at war with Germany, the first two of these novels deal with life on the Norfolk Farm in wartime and all the attendant problems, including Phillip’s thoughts about Adolf Hitler, and ends with the sale of the farm in 1945, at the end of the war.  The final volume shows Phillip returning alone to live in a shepherd’s hut just below the Chains on Exmoor, above Lynton and Lynmouth, with the climactic scene of the catastrophic storm resulting in the devastation of Lynmouth.   Dr Blench concludes with a selection of comparisons with works of other authors in the same genre: Leo Tolstoy, Anthony Powell and John Galsworthy.

NL6, (Mar 2000) pp18-19

A short account of a gambling game played by soldiers in First World war (and earlier) and featured in HW’s books.