Title page for An Englishwoman's Love-letters (1900) | |
Author | Laurence Housman |
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Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Published | 1900 (John Murray) |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Pages | 322 |
OCLC | 560081781 |
An Englishwoman's Love-letters is a 1900 novel by Laurence Housman, initially published anonymously. It was a scandal in its time due to its frankness, which excitement turned to disappointment as the public learned the author was no Englishwoman but Housman. One year later, in 1901, a parody of the book, entitled Another Englishwoman's Love-letters and written by Barry Pain, was published by T. Fisher Unwin.
Winston Churchill wrote a P.S. in a letter of 22 January 1901 to his mother, Lady Randolph Churchill: "I have been reading 'An English Woman's Love Letters' Are all Mothers the same?"
References
- Housman 1900.
- Pain & Housman 1901.
- Churchill, Randolph S. (1967). Winston S. Churchill. Vol. Companion Volume I, Part 2. London: Heinemann. p. 1232.
Sources
- Housman, Laurence (1900). An Englishwoman's Love-letters. London: John Murray. OCLC 560081781.
- Pain, Barry; Housman, Laurence (1901). Another Englishwoman's Love-letters. London: T. Fisher Unwin. OCLC 6385200.
External links
- An Englishwoman's Love-letters at Project Gutenberg
- An Englishwoman's Love-letters public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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