Books About Henry Williamson

BOOKS ABOUT HENRY WILLIAMSON’S LIFE
AND HIS WRITING

Prior to 1995
The Aylesford Review	Henry Williamson: A Symposium and Tribute’ Vol. II, No. 2, Special Issue (Winter 1957/8), ed. F. Brocard Sewell.
Bergonzi, Bernard	Heroe’s Twilight, Constable, 1965, Macmillan, 1980, rev. edn Carcanet, 1996. See Index entries.
Farson, Daniel	Henry: A Portrait, Michael Joseph, 1982
Girvan, I. Waveney,	A Bibliography, ‘Introduction’ reprinted in HWSJ, No. 31, Centenary Issue (Sept. 1995) pp. 74-6.
Lamplugh, Lois	A Shadowed Man, Wellspring, 1990; rev. edn Exmoor Press, 1991.
Murry, J Middleton	‘The Novels of Henry Williamson’ in Katherine Mansfield and Other Literary Studies, Foreword by T.S. Eliot, compiled by Mary Middleton Murry, Constable, 1959.
Onions, John	English Fiction and Drama of the Great War, 1918-39, Chapter 4, ‘Aldington and Williamson: The Ironic Mode’, pp. 68-83, Macmillan, 1990.
Price, Bernard	Creative Landscapes of the British Isles, Ebury Press, 1983; Henry Williamson entries pp. 109, 132-5.
Seago, Edward	Peace in War, ‘Henry Williamson’, Portrait and Essay, pp. 49-52, Collins, 1943. Reprinted in HWSJ, No. 31, Centenary Issue (Sept. 1995), pp. 83-5.
Sewell, Father Brocard (ed.)	Henry Williamson: The Man, The Writings – A Symposium, Tabb House, 1980. Essays written by people who knew Williamson at the time of his death in 1977.
West, Herbert Faulkner	The Dreamer of Devon, Ulysses Press, 1932. Reprinted in HWSJ, No. 31, Centenary Issue (Sept. 1995), pp. 62-70.

1995 - 1999

Williamson, Anne, Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic, Sutton Publishing, 1995; p/b edn 1997, ISBN 0 7509 1492 0, £10.99. A comprehensive biography which draws on the primary source material from Williamson's own archive: his diaries, journals and papers, and family memories, providing a uniquely detailed and intimate portrait of this gifted and complex man. Of particular interest is the large number of photographs and facsimile extracts from letters and manuscripts.

Williamson, Anne, A Patriot’s Progress: Henry Williamson and the First World War, Sutton Publishing, 1998, ISBN 0 7509 1339 8, £18.99. A full account of Henry Williamson’s war service, including reproduction of all his letters home from the Front Line, his diaries, and his Army Notebooks, photographs and illustrations, giving a vividly immediate and detailed picture of life in the Front Line and in England at that time.

We very much regret that this book is currently out of print.

T.E. Lawrence’s Correspondence with Henry Williamson. The full correspondence between Henry Williamson and T.E. Lawrence. Edited by Jeremy Wilson, with an introduction by Anne Williamson, Castle Hill Press 1999. Jeremy Wilson is the author of the definite biography of T.E. Lawrence, and is editing the whole series of volumes of letters between TEL and various eminent people. A volume of the Shaw letters is at press at the moment. Castle Hill Press is Jeremy Wilson’s own publishing house. Jeremy Wilson is also Chairman of the T.E. Lawrence Society. Contact Castle Hill Press, The White Cottage, Woodgreen Common, Fordingbridge, Hants. SP6 2BD, Tel: 01725 512 564, Fax: 01725 512 837, e-mail: castlehillpress@btinternet.com, Website: www.castle-hill-press.com.

Society Journals

The Henry Williamson Society Journal, Ed. Anne Williamson, contains reviews, correspondence, reminiscences, original and fugitive texts by, criticism of, and articles based on research into, Henry Williamson’s life and writings. Its wide and varied content has greatly added to the knowledge and understanding of this foremost writer. A Centenary Issue was published in September 1995 to commemorate his birth in 1895, and Issue No. 34, September 1998, is devoted solely to the First World War, including some detailed material it was not possible to publish in A Patriot’s Progress (see above).

Back copies and a detailed Index are available.

In Preparation

Anne Williamson, A Life’s Work. A fully descriptive and illustrated bibliography of Henry Williamson’s writings, including a full list of the many and varied articles published in England and America, and elsewhere. Publication not yet agreed.