Maurice Henry Hewlett was an English

England

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 historical novelist, poet and essayist. He was born at Weybridge

Weybridge

Weybridge is a town in the Elmbridge district of Surrey in South East England. It is bounded to the north by the River Thames at the mouth of the River Wey, from which it gets its name...

, the eldest son of Henry Gay Hewlett, of Shaw Hall, Addington, Kent. He was educated at the London International College

London International College

The International College in London was an early attempt at international education, operating from 1867 to 1889. It enrolled secondary-school students from a number of countries in a program aimed at fostering internationalist sentiments in its pupils...

, Spring Grove, Isleworth

Isleworth

Isleworth is a small town of Saxon origin sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in west London, England. It lies immediately east of the town of Hounslow and west of the River Thames and its tributary the River Crane. Isleworth's original area of settlement, alongside the Thames, is known as...

, 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

Hilda Hewlett

Hilda Beatrice Hewlett was the first British aviatrix to earn a pilot's licence. She was also a successful early aviation entrepreneur. She created and ran the first flying school in the United Kingdom. She also created and managed a successful aircraft manufacturing business which produced more...

 on 3 January 1888 in St. Peter's Church, Vauxhall

Vauxhall

-Demography:Many Vauxhall residents live in social housing. There are several gentrified areas, and areas of terraced townhouses on streets such as Fentiman Road and Heyford Avenue have higher property values in the private market, however by far the most common type of housing stock within...

, 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 became the first woman in the UK to gain a pilot's licence.

He settled at Broad Chalke

Broad Chalke

Broad Chalke, sometimes spelled Broadchalke , Broad Chalk or Broadchalk, is a village and civil parish in Wiltshire, England, about 8 miles west of the city of Salisbury. The 2001 Census recorded a parish population of 652 but this has now risen to around 850...

, Wiltshire

Wiltshire

Wiltshire is a ceremonial county in South West England. It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset, Somerset, Hampshire, Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire. It contains the unitary authority of Swindon and covers...

. His friends included Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill

Evelyn Underhill was an English Anglo-Catholic writer and pacifist known for her numerous works on religion and spiritual practice, in particular Christian mysticism....

, and Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet and critic and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry...

, whom he met at the Poet's Club in London.

Trivia

Maurice Hewlett was a friend of J. M. Barrie

J. M. Barrie

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. The child of a family of small-town weavers, he was educated in Scotland. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist and playwright...

, who named one of the pirates in Peter Pan

Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...

"Cecco" after Hewlett's son.

Works

• Earthwork Out of Tuscany (1895) travel
• The Masque of Dead Florentines (1895) verse
• Songs and Meditations (1897)
• Forest Lovers (1898) historical novel
• Pan and the Young Shepherd (1898) play
• Youngest of the Angels (1898) play
• Little Novels of Italy (1899) short stories
• Little Novels of English History
• The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay (1900) historical novel
• The New Canterbury Tales (1901)
• The Queen's Quair or The Six Years' Tragedy (1904) historical novel
• The Road in Tuscany (1904)
• Fond Adventures: Tales of the Youth of the World (1905) short stories
• The Fool Errant (1905) historical novel
• The Stooping Lady (1907) novel
• Artemision (1909) poems
• Halfway House (1908) novel
• Open Country (1909) novel
• Rest Harrow (1910) novel
• Letters to Sanchia (1910)
• The Song of Renny (1911)
• Brazenhead the Great (1911)
• Bendish (1913) novel
• For Two Voices (1914) Poem
• The Little Iliad (1915)
• The Song of the Plow (1916)
• The Village Wife’s Lament (1918) poems
• Thorgils of Treadholt (1917)
• In Green Shade (1920)
• The Light Heart (1920)
• Wiltshire Essays (1921)
• Extemporary Essays (1922) .
• The Last Essays of Maurice Hewlett (1924)
• The Letters of Maurice Hewlett (1926) edited by Laurence Binyon
  Laurence Binyon
  Robert Laurence Binyon was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services....
  
  

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