Hugh Kingsmill - Works, Reference

British writer, critic, and anthologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Oxford and Dublin, and became a writer, publishing his first novel, The Will to Love, in 1919. He wrote several irreverent biographies, and the satirical fantasy The Return of William Shakespeare (1929). His anthologies include Invective and Abuse (1929), Johnson Without Boswell (1940), and The Worst of Love (1931), while with Hesketh Pearson he established a genre of conversational literary journeys through such works as Skye High (1937), This Blessed Plot (1942), and Talking of Dick Whittington (1947).

Hugh Kingsmill Lunn (1889–1949), who used the pseudonym Hugh Kingsmill, was a versatile British writer and journalist. Kingsmill later wrote a debunking biography of Harris, after the spell had worn off.

Hugh Kingsmill wrote criticism, essays and biographies, parodies and humour, as well as novels, and edited a number of anthologies.

Works

The Will To Love (1919) novel The Dawn's Delay (1924) stories Blondel (1927) Matthew Arnold (1928) biography After Puritanism, 1850-1900 (1929) An Anthology Of Invective And Abuse (1929) The Return of William Shakespeare (1929) novel Behind Both Lines (1930) autobiographical More Invective (1930) anthology The Worst of Love (1931) anthology After Puritanism (1931) Frank Harris (1932) biography. The Table Of Truth (1933) Samuel Johnson (1933) biography The Sentimental Journey (1934) biography of Charles Dickens The Casanova Fable: A Satirical Revaluation (1934) with William Gerhardi What They Said At The Time (1935) anthology Parents and Children (1936) anthology Brave Old World (1936) humour, with Malcolm Muggeridge A Pre-View Of Next Year's News (1937) humour, with Malcolm Muggeridge Skye High: The Record Of A Tour Through Scotland In The Wake Of The Samuel Johnson And James Boswell.(1937) travel, with Hesketh Pearson Made On Earth (1937) anthology on marriage The English Genius: a survey of the English achievement and character (1938) editor, essays by W. Lawrence (1938) biography Next Year's News (1938) humour, with Malcolm Muggeridge Courage (1939) anthology Johnson Without Boswell: A Contemporary Portrait of Samuel Johnson (1940 editor The Fall (1940) This Blessed Plot (1942) travel, with Hesketh Pearson The Poisoned Crown (1944) essays on genealogies Talking Of Dick Whittington (1947) travel, with Hesketh Pearson) The Progress Of A Biographer (1949) The High Hill of the Muses (1955) anthology The Best of Hugh Kingsmill: Selections from his Writings (1970) edited by Michael Holroyd Bernard Shaw, His Life and Personality

Reference

Hugh Kingsmill: A Critical Biography (1964) Michael Holroyd