Henry Thew Stevenson was a teacher and writer.

Stevenson was born in Cincinnati to Reuben Henry and Louise (Wright) Stephenson. He attended Woodward High School before gaining degrees from Ohio State University

Ohio State University

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, Harvard University

Harvard University

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. and Indiana University

Indiana University

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. He studied for a year doing research at the British Museum

British Museum

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. He was an Associate Professor of English in Indiana University in 1919.

Stephenson published a number of fiction and non-fiction books whilst teaching English.

Works include

• The fickle wheel: a story of Elizabethan London, 1901
• Shakespeare's London, 1905
• The Elizabethan People, 1912
• Christie Bell of Goldenrod Valley, 1918