Laurence Housman

A modern Antaeus, by the writer of 'An Englishwoman's love-letters'.

Six Plays from the Life and Legend of St. Francis of Assisi

The Comments of Juniper

Five One Act Plays

False Premises

An Englishwoman's Love-letters

A Modern Antaeus

A Roadside Comedy in One Act

A Likely Story

A Book of Dramatic Dialogues

Cornered Poets

A Modern Antæus

The Blue Moon

Moonshine & Clover

A Clean Sweep. The Tale of a Cat and a Broomstick, Etc

A clean sweep

The missing answers to [L. Housman's] An Englishwoman's love-letters

The lover's replies to [L. Housman's] An Englishwoman's love letters

"King John of Jingalo" is a 1912 novel by Laurence Housman, an n English playwright, writer, and illustrator during the Victorian era. The novel was first published in Britain in 1912 under the title "John of Jingalo" and republished the same year in the United States as "King John of Jingalo." It is one of Housman's first Ruritanian novels. The author places his characters in the setting of an imagined kingdom where women also fight for equal rights and fills the story with light humor and satire, which makes the reading even more engaging.

The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties

King John of Jingalo

"The Field of Clover" by Laurence Housman. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

The Field of Clover

First published in 1911, this fantastic volume contains English-language retellings of stories from "One Thousand and One Nights", a collection of South Asian and Middle Eastern folk tales compiled during the Islamic Golden Age. With beautiful illustrations by Edmund Dulac, this timeless collection makes for perfect bedtime reading and is worthy of a place on any bookshelf. Edmund Dulac (1882 - 1953) was a French-born British illustrator and stamp designer. He was born in Toulouse and studied law there, but later, realising that his true passion was illustration, studied art the École des Beaux-Arts. Having moved to London in the early 20th century, Dulac received his first commission to illustrate the novels of the Brontë Sisters in 1905. During the First World War, he illustrated relief books; and after the war, when children's books were in low demand, he began illustrating magazines. Other notable works containing Dulac's illustrations include: "The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales" (1910), "Stories from Hans Christian Andersen" (1911), and "The Bells and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe" (1912). Pook Press celebrates the great 'Golden Age of Illustration' in children's literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration. We publish rare and vintage classic illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old.

Stories from the Arabian Nights - Illustrated by Edmund Dulac

The Six O'clock Call. With Illustrations by E.H. Shepard

Excerpt from Pains and Penalties: The Defence of Queen Caroline, a Play in Four Acts The Lord Chamberlain, it then appeared, had refused to license my play, not for the supposed reasons at all ou those I had been misinformed - but because it dealt with a sad historical episode of comparatively recent date in the life of an unhappy lady. The unhappy lady, as I at once pointed out, had been dead for ninety years, and during the whole of that period her memory had rested under a cloud which the main trend of my play was calculated to remove. Driven to give a public reason for his action, the Lord Cham berlain decided that such an attempt to rehabilitate her character was not to be allowed. And so the pro-censorists must adapt their attitude of adulation and agreement with the Lord Chamber lain's thoughts, words, and actions to the new substitute for a reason which he has given them. Now it is no longer respect for the monarchic principle, but high toned chivalry which bids them stick their stings into me for endeavouring to secure production for this play. A few days before my persistency won me the trick, the Referee declared that I was guilty of triﬂing when I asked the Lord Chamberlain to state publicly in what respect my play offended under the terms of the Act he was supposed to administer; it also accused me of not playing the game because I had refused to submit, without protest, to an unexplained veto. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Defence of Queen Caroline, a Play in Four Acts (Classic Reprint)

Pains and Penalties

It need hardly be said that the woman by whom these letter were written had no thought that they would be read by anyone but the person to whom they were addressed. But a request, conveyed under circumstances which the writer herself would have regarded as all-commanding, urges that they should now be given to the world; and, so far as is possible with a due regard to the claims of privacy, what is here printed presents the letters as they were first written in their complete form and sequence. Very little has been omitted which in any way bears upon the devotion of which they are a record. A few names of persons and localities have been changed; and several short notes (not above twenty in all), together with some passages bearing too intimately upon events which might be recognized, have been left out without indication of their omission. It was a necessary condition to the present publication that the authorship of these letters should remain unstated. Those who know will keep silence; those who do not, will not find here any data likely to guide them to the truth. The story which darkens these pages cannot be more fully indicated while the feelings of some who are still living have to be consulted; nor will the reader find the root of the tragedy explained in the letters themselves. But one thing at least may be said as regards the principal actorsÑthat to the memory of neither of them does any blame belong. They were equally the victims of circumstances, which came whole out of the hands of fate and remained, so far as one of the two was concerned, a mystery to the day of her death.

An Englishwoman's Love-Letters

Laurence Housman

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