Name Maurice Hewlett Role Novelist | Died 1923 | |
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Spouse Hilda Hewlett (m. 1888–1914) Movies Open Country, The Spanish Jade Children Francis Hewlett, Pia Hewlett Books The Forest Lovers, Pan And The Young Shepherd, The Life and Death of Richard, Lore of Proserpine, Love and Lucy Similar People Hilda Hewlett, Laurence Binyon, Wilfred Lucas, Louis Joseph Vance | ||
Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861–1923), was an English historical novelist, poet and essayist.
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Biography
He was born at Weybridge, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and was called to the bar in 1891. He gave up the law after the success of Forest Lovers. From 1896 to 1901 he was Keeper of Lands, Revenues, Records and Enrolments, a government post as adviser on matters of medieval law.
Hewlett married Hilda Beatrice Herbert on 3 January 1888 in St Peter's Church, Vauxhall, where her father was the incumbent vicar. The couple had two children, a daughter, Pia, and a son, Francis, but separated in 1914, partly due to Hilda's increasing interest in aviation. In 1911, Hilda had become the first woman in the UK to gain a pilot's licence.
He settled at Broad Chalke, Wiltshire. His friends included Evelyn Underhill, and Ezra Pound, whom he met at the Poets' Club in London. He was also a friend of J. M. Barrie, who named one of the pirates in Peter Pan "Cecco" after Hewlett's son.
Hewlett was parodied by Max Beerbohm in A Christmas Garland in the part titled "Fond Hearts Askew".