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Laurence Housman was born in Bromsgrove, Paris in 1865. The brother of Alfred Edward Housman, he studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal College of Art.

He worked as a book illustrator and his best known work includes Goblin Market (1893), The Sensitive Plant (1898) and The Blue Moon (1904).

After his eyesight began to fail he turned to writing books and plays, including Angels and Ministers (1921), Little Plays of St. Francis (1922) and Victoria Regina (1937).

A committed socialist and pacifist, in 1907, he joined with Henry Nevinson and Henry Brailsford to form the Men's League for Women's Suffrage. His autobiography, The Unexpected Years, appeared in 1937. Laurence Housman died in 1959.

 

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