Eden Phillpotts

AKA: Harrington Hext

from: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/456608/Eden-Phillpotts

Phillpotts was educated at Plymouth and for 10 years was a clerk in an insurance office. He then studied for the stage and later decided to become a writer. He produced more than 100 novels, many of them about rural Devon life. Among his more important works are the novels Children of the Mist (1898), Sons of the Morning (1900), and Widecombe Fair (1913); the autobiographical studies of boyhood and adolescence, The Human Boy (1899) and The Waters of the Walla (1950); the plays The Farmer’s Wife (1917) and Yellow Sands (with his daughter Adelaide, 1926); and the poetry collections The Iscariot (1912), Brother Beast (1928), and The Enchanted Wood (1948). He also wrote One Thing and Another (1954), a collection of poems and essays.

from: http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/poets/Philpotts_E.html

West Country Poets

EDEN PHILLPOTTS (1862-)

This popular writer was born in India, in November, 1862, his father, the late Captain Henry PHILLPOTTS, of the Indian army, being then stationed there. He was educated at Mannamead School, Plymouth, under the late Dr. HOLMES and Mr. A. POLLARD, M.A., the latter-named gentleman being an especial friend. After his school life at Plymouth which he describes as particularly happy, he came to London - the goal of so many youthful aspirants for fame, literary and otherwise. At the age of seventeen, he entered the office of the Sun Insurance Company as a clerk, working there for ten years by day, and following his natural bent - literary work - at night. At the expiration of that time, encouraged by the success which kindly Fate had accorded him, he adopted his present profession, and may be said to have taken a prominent place in the world of letters. Mr. PHILLPOTTS, if not a Devonian has the strongest claim to be included among the poets of the West Country, for , besides, having been educated at Plymouth, his family have been connected with the county for very many years, the famous HENRY, BISHOP OF EXETER, being his great-uncle. And it will be remembered that the Torquay Division of Devonshire is at the present time represented in Parliament by Commander PHILLPOTTS, and several of his relatives have been connected with the Church in Cornwall. But beyond and above this, his best work has been inspired by, and is redolent of, sunny Devon. 'Down Dartmoor Way' is the latest and best example of this; and 'Folly and Fresh Air' is another. 'The End of a Life,' 'A Tiger's Cub,' 'Some Everyday Folks,' are the titles of other works. In addition to these novels and the charming little poems which have found a place in them, interwoven in the story, Mr. PHILLPOTTS has of late given his attention to dramatic work, his play 'The Prude's Progress' having met with a considerable meed of success. He has been working in collaboration with J. K. JEROME, and also with Mr. Charles GROVES, the comedian. His latest work, entitled 'My Laughing Philosopher' (1896), originally appeared in Black and White, a journal with which he is now intimately associated.

The poem 'Vale', here appended, is taken from 'Folly and Fresh Air,' and is a good example of the author's work.

[ . . . sorry forgot to type up this one before the book went back . . .]

Transcribed from: Wright, W. H. K.,(1896) West-Country Poets: Their Lives and Works. London: Elliot Stock, pp.48-51

Transcriber: Sandra WINDEATT. I have taken the liberty of typing the surnames in capital letters. Many thanks to Linda Cross for typing the original index. I would never have found the book if it weren't for her kindness in sharing this information.

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last updated: 12:09 12/06/00

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from: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/l/i/v/Max-H-Liversidge/W...

Babbacombe house (in Devon) was previously owned by Eden Phillpotts, novelist, playwright. Lived 1862 to 1960.

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Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer. He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.

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Phillpotts was an English author, poet and dramatist. He was born in India, educated in Plymouth, Devon, and worked as an insurance officer for 10 years before studying for the stage and eventually becoming a writer. He was the author of many novels, plays and poems about Dartmoor. His Dartmoor cycle of 18 novels and two volumes of short stories still have many avid readers despite the fact that many titles are out of print.