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35 (Sept 1999) pp 73-77

Talk given at the HWS dinner, Spring Meeting 1999, by the nephew of Lilias Rider Haggard (with whom HW collaborated on A Norfolk Life) and grandson of Sir Henry Rider Haggard (author, She, King Solomon’s Mines etc).  Commander Cheyne and his wife Nada were also friends of Ida Loetitia Williamson and the family at Ditchingham Norfolk.  This lively and interesting piece provides an intimate background to the story of the Haggards & their life in Ditchingham, Norfolk.

31, (Sept 1995) pp47‑58

A detailed description of the state of Georgeham and its inhabitants

37, (Sep 2001) pp81-91

A description of the St Michael’s Leyline where it passes through Lydford

26, (Sept 1992) pp32‑49

An account of the origins of the Hawthornden Prize and the effects that its award had on HW

10, (Oct 1984) pp 11‑ 18

A biographical piece published in Little Reviews Anthology (1946)

33, (Sep 1997) pp48‑49

Archival support for the existence of HW s rejected gift.  Episode in Chronicle, WW1

28, (Sept 1993) pp24‑33

A chapter from The Pleasure of their Company describing a friendship begun after HW sold his farm

31, (Sept 1995) pp82‑84

A personal recollection by the artist which includes a reproduction of his portrait of HW

2, (Oct 1980) pp9‑20

Recollections of meetings with HW with an assessment of his work

13, (Mar 1986) pp5‑9

A revised version of a talk given to the Society in 1985 describing the inception and development of the St Albert's Press and The Aylesford Review with details of HW's support

29, (Mar 1994) pp5‑32

A detailed account of HW's involvement with the BBC

23, (Mar 1991) pp6‑9

A piece originally written as part of an information pack accompanying a battlefield tour (July, 1990)

10, (Oct 1984) pp28‑29

A re‑assessment of HW's links with the BUF prompted by the release of Home Office files

9, (Mar 1984) pp 16‑23

The text of a paper read at the AGM of the Society in 1983 examining the effect of war experience on a generation of writers

18, (Sep 1988) pp 12‑15

An examination of the events and characters of the 1918                 retreat and their relevance to A Test to Destruction

15, (Mar 1987) pp 18‑22

A brief correspondence between HW and Wilfrid Meynell, patron of Francis Thompson

4, (Nov 1981) pp37‑38

An account by a local journalist who accompanied the HW Society with Margaret, Richard and Loetitia Williamson around Old Hall Farm

8, (Oct 1983) pp22‑23

A summary of HW's work for the BBC

5, (May 1982) pp 14‑17

An assessment of HW's time as a farmer in Norfolk

9, (Mar 1984) pp27‑36

A transcript of a recording of Personal Choice (1968)

3, (May 1981) pp 11‑20

An examination of the first three novels of the Chronicle with emphasis on the relationship between the London suburb and the adjacent countryside

14, (Sept 1986) pp 18‑22

An analysis of HW's philosophy

6, (Oct 1982) pp26-31

An exploration of HW's connections with Bedfordshire including a family tree showing the Williamson/ Turney relation

37, (Sept 2001) p 95    

Includes a mini-biography by Anne Williamson, 15 extracts from HW’s ‘Devon’ writings, chosen and with accompanying explanatory text on the real life locations and personalities, by Tony Evans, with 16 photographs and 2 maps (inc. HW’s own illustrated map of Georgeham, the village where he lived for a great deal of his life) (HWS, 2001, 52pp, £3) This book has been produced to supply a lack of information about HW within the ‘tourist’ market, i.e. a cheap and cheerful book for the casual reader.  Williamson’s early work is not in print and so this is a very good and informative introduction to stories which are really among his best work.  It is available from our publications page,  outlets in north Devon,  or direct from:-The Publications Manager HWS, 14 Nether Grove, Longstanton, Cambs,, CB4 5EL, England.

36 (Sept  2000) pp 91-4

22, (Sep 1990) pp 18‑21

An account of HW's brief association with the BUF newspaper

20, (Sep 1989) pp5‑27

A discussion of HW's intentions in writing The Flax of Dream and an appreciation of his achievement

22, (Sep 1990) pp5-13

A survey of HW's lifelong association with owls

11, (Apr 1985) pp6‑8

A description of a visit made in 1958 in the Sunday Times

36 (Sept 2000) pp 85-7

Reproduction of postcards and their messages sent by HW’s father to his family while on his annual cycling holidays to the West Country (England) in the early years of the twentieth century.  These holidays feature in the Chronicle as taken by Richard Maddison .

27, (Mar 1993) pp5-17

The text of an address given to the Society, (199 1) – a  wide‑ranging appreciation of HW

9, (Mar 1984) pp24‑26

An obituary which includes a reference to her friendship               with HW

34, (Sep 1998) pp34-39

Selection of postcards from HW’s honeymoon tour of the Battlefields.

22, (Sep 1990) pp22‑37

An article which first appeared in The Durham                 University Journal (1987) discussing the artistic achievement of Tarka

37, (Sept 2001) pp 84-87    

Supplied by Tony Evans with kind permission of the Radford family, this item follows on from Tony Evans’ illuminating article in HWSJ 36, pp 7-25, on HW’s connections with the Radford family in the early 1920s at the time when he was writing The Star-born.  The Radfords lived at Lydford Gorge, the setting for this book.