Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Maurice Henry (1861-), an English author. He was born in London and received his education at the London International College. He studied law and was admitted to the bar. His first published volume was Earthwork out of Tuscany, which appeared in 1895. Several volumes relating to life in Italy during the middle ages followed. His first popular story was The Forest Lovers, of which James Lane Allen says that its "style alone is an extraordinary achievement." Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay is a glowing romance of the Crusaders and Richard Coeur de Lion. The Queen's Quair is a story of Mary, Queen of Scots. The archaic language used in some of Hewlett's stories makes them difficult reading.