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Henry Williamson (December 1, 1895 - August 13, 1977), prolific English author known for his natural and social history novels. is the 335th day of the year (336th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... Table of natural history, 1728 Cyclopaedia Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now often viewed as several distinct scientific disciplines of integrative organismal biology. ... Å…Social history is an area of historical study considered by some to be a social science that attempts to view historical evidence from the point of view of developing social trends. ...

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Biography

Henry Williamson was born in Brockley, southeast London and attended Colfe's School. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the Kent countryside, and he developed a deep love of nature throughout his childhood. For other uses, see Brockley (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Logo of Colfes School Colfe’s is a co-educational independent day school in Lee, London. ... The Kent coat of arms For other uses, see Kent (disambiguation). ... “Natural” redirects here. ...


In January 1914, he enlisted in the British Army, and after war was declared, he was mobilised on August 5. The Christmas truce of 1914 affected him greatly. He became disgusted with the pointlessness of the war and was angry at the greed and bigotry he saw as causing it. He became determined that Germany and Britain should never go to war again. The British Army is the land armed forces branch of the British Armed Forces. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... is the 217th day of the year (218th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A cross, left near Ypres in Belgium in 1999, to commemorate the site of the Christmas Truce in 1914. ...


He told of his war experiences in The Wet Flanders Plain (1929), The Patriot's Progress (1930) and in many of his books in the semi-autobiographical 15-book series A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight (1951-1969).


After the war, he read Richard Jefferies' book The Story of My Heart. This inspired him to begin writing seriously. In 1921, he moved to Georgeham, Devon, living in a small cottage. He married Ida Loetitia Hibbert in 1925. Together they had six children. John Richard Jefferies John Richard Jefferies (November 6, 1848 - August 14, 1887 ) was an English nature writer, essayist and journalist. ... The Story of My Heart is an autobiography, first published in 1883, by English nature writer, essayist and journalist Richard Jefferies. ... Georgeham is a village near Croyde, North Devon. ... Part of the seafront of Torquay, south Devon, at high tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordered by Cornwall to the west, and Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...


In 1927, Williamson published his most acclaimed book, Tarka the Otter. The book won the Hawthornden Prize. It also sparked a long running friendship with T. E. Lawrence. Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by Henry Williamson. ... The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award. ... // T. E. Lawrence in the white silk robes of the Sherifs of Mecca. ...


In 1935, Henry Williamson visited the National Socialist Congress at Nuremberg and was greatly impressed, particularly with the Hitler Youth movement. He subsequently joined Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists in 1937. The National Socialist German Workers Party (German: , or NSDAP, commonly, the Nazi Party), was a political party in Germany between 1920 and 1945. ... Nuremberg (German: ) is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. ... For the SS division with the nickname Hitlerjugend see; 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend The Hitler Youth (German:   , abbreviated HJ) was a paramilitary organization of the Nazi Party. ... Sir Oswald Ernald Mosley, 6th Baronet (November 16, 1896 – December 3, 1980), was a British politician known principally as the founder of the British Union of Fascists. ... The flag of the British Union of Fascists showing the Flash and Circle symbolic of action within unity The British Union of Fascists (BUF) was a political party of the 1930s in the United Kingdom. ...


In 1936, he bought a farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk and became a farmer. The Story of a Norfolk Farm is based on his experiences. Stiffkey is a village on the north Norfolk coast. ...


At the start of World War II, Williamson was briefly held under Defence Regulation 18B for his well known political views but was released after only a weekend in police custody. After the war, the family left the farm. In 1946, Williamson went to live in Devon alone and in 1947 Henry and Loetitia divorced. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Part of the seafront of Torquay, south Devon, at high tide Devon is a large county in South West England, bordered by Cornwall to the west, and Dorset and Somerset to the east. ...


Williamson fell in love with a young teacher, Christine Duffield and they were married in 1949. He began to write his great series of fifteen novels collectively known as A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. In 1950, he edited a collection of poems and short stories by James Farrar, a promising young poet who had tragically died, at the tender age of 20, in the denouement of the Second World War. From 1951-1969 Williamson produced almost one novel a year. This put great strain on his marriage and, in 1968, they were divorced after years of separation. James Farrar (1923-1944) - British poet. ...


In 1974, he began working on a script for a film treatment of Tarka the Otter but it was not regarded as suitable to film. Filming for the movie went on unknown to him. The movie, narrated by Peter Ustinov was released in 1979. On his eightieth birthday, he hoped for some honour from the British government. Bitterly disappointed, his health began failing rapidly. Suffering from senile dementia, he died on August 13, 1977 (by a coincidence the very day that the death of Tarka was being filmed), and was buried in the churchyard of Georgeham. In 1980, the Henry Williamson Society was founded. Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE, KBE (IPA: ; April 16, 1921 – March 28, 2004), born Peter Alexander Baron von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning British actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur of French, Italian, Swiss, Russian, German and Ethiopian ancestry. ... Dementia (from Latin demens) is progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. ... is the 225th day of the year (226th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...


Bibliography

  • The Flax of Dreams - a tetralogy following the life of Willie Maddison
    • The Beautiful Years (1921)
    • Dandelion Days (1922)
    • The Dream of Fair Women (1924)
    • The Pathway (1928)
  • A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight - a semi-autobiographical series of 15 books following the life of Phillip Maddison from birth till the early 1950s.
    • The Dark Lantern (1951)
    • Donkey Boy (1952)
    • Young Phillip Maddison (1953)
    • How Dear Is Life (1954)
    • A Fox Under My Cloak (1955)
    • The Golden Virgin (1957)
    • Love and the Loveless (1958)
    • A Test to Destruction (1960)
    • The Innocent Moon (1961)
    • It Was the Nightingale (1962)
    • The Power of the Dead (1963)
    • The Phoenix Generation (1965)
    • A Solitary War (1967)
    • Lucifer Before Sunrise (1967)
    • The Gale of the World (1969)
  • Other Works
    • The Lone Swallows (1922)
    • The Peregrine’s Saga, and Other Stories of the Country Green (1923)
    • The Old Stag (1926)
    • Tarka the Otter (1927)
    • The Linhay on the Downs (1929)
    • The Ackymals (1929)
    • The Wet Flanders Plain (1929)
    • The Patriot’s Progress (1930)
    • The Village Book (1930)
    • The Labouring Life (1932)
    • The Wild Red Deer of Exmoor (1931)
    • The Star-born (1933)
    • The Gold Falcon or the Haggard of Love (1933)
    • On Foot in Devon (1933)
    • The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and New Worlds (1934)
    • Devon Holiday (1935)
    • Salar the Salmon (1935)
    • Goodbye West Country (1937)
    • The Children of Shallowford (1939)
    • The Story of a Norfolk Farm (1941)
    • Genius of Friendship: T.E. Lawrence (1941)
    • As the Sun Shines (1941)
    • The Incoming of Summer (undated)
    • Life in A Devon Village (1945)
    • Tales of a Devon Village (1945)
    • The Sun in the Sands (1945)
    • The Phasian Bird (1948)
    • The Scribbling Lark (1949)
    • Tales of Moorland and Estuary (1953)
    • A Clearwater Stream (1958)
    • In The Woods, a biographical fragment (1960)
    • The Scandaroon (1972)
  • Posthumous writings published by the Henry Williamson Society
    • Days of Wonder (1987)
    • From a Country Hilltop (1988)
    • A Breath of Country Air (2 vols, 1990-91)
    • Spring Days in Devon, and other Broadcasts (1992)
    • Pen and Plough: Further Broadcasts (1993)
    • Threnos for T.E. Lawrence and Other Writings (1994)
    • Green Fields and Pavements (1995)
    • The Notebook of a Nature-lover (1996)
    • Words on the West Wind: Selected Essays from The Adelphi (2000)
    • Indian Summer Notebook: A Writer's Miscellany (2001)
    • Heart of England: Contributions to the Evening Standard, 1939-41 (2003)
    • Chronicles of a Norfolk Farmer: Contributions to the Daily Express, 1937-39 (2004)
    • Stumberleap, and other Devon Writings: Contributions to the Daily Express and Sunday Express, 1915-1935 (2005)

Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers is a novel by Henry Williamson. ...

References

  1. ^ reference to Richard Jefferies from quotation from character Willie Maddison in quasi-autobiographical "Dandelion Days" by author

Note: Anne Williamson is Henry's daughter-in-law. [1] Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... For the band, see 1997 (band). ... Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ... In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity, as distinguished from consanguinity, is kinship by marriage. ...


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Henry Williamson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (589 words)
Henry Williamson was born in Brockley, southeast London.
In 1935 Henry Williamson visited the National Socialist Congress at Nuremberg and was greatly impressed, particularly with the Hitler Youth movement.
Williamson fell in love with a young teacher, Christine Duffield and they were married in 1949.
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Williamson joined the British Army at the outbreak of war in 1914 and fought at the Battle of the Somme and at Passchendaele, where he was seriously wounded.
Williamson actually rewrote Tarka 17 times, "always and only for the sake of a greater truth."2 Mere polishing for grace and expression or literary style did not interest him, and he strove always to illuminate a scene or incident with what he considered was authentic sunlight.
Williamson viewed the declaration of war on Germany by Britain and France as a spiteful act of an alien system that was determined to destroy the prospect of a reborn and regenerated European youth.
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