William Henry Hudson
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William Henry Hudson | |
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William Henry Hudson | |
Born | (1841-08-04)4 August 1841 Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina |
Died | 18 August 1922(1922-08-18) (aged 81) London |
Residence | London and Penzance |
Nationality | English Argentine |
Known for | Green Mansions (novel) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Natural history Ornithology |
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.
Contents
1 Life and work
2 Works
2.1 Bibliographies
2.2 Biographies
3 Notes
4 References
5 External links
Life and work
Hudson was born in Quilmes, near Buenos Aires, Argentina.[a] He was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine née Kemble, United States settlers of English and Irish origin. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He had a special love of Patagonia.
Hudson settled in England during 1874, taking up residence at St Luke's Road in Bayswater.[1] He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888–1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s. It was set in Wiltshire and inspired James Rebanks' 2015 book The Shepherd's Life about a Lake District farmer.[citation needed]
Hudson was an advocate of Lamarckian evolution. He was a critic of Darwinism and defended vitalism. He was influenced by the non-Darwinian evolutionary writings of Samuel Butler.[2][3] He was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Hudson's best-known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best-known non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1918), which was made into a film. Ernest Hemingway referred to Hudson's The Purple Land (1885) in his novel The Sun Also Rises, and to Far Away and Long Ago in his posthumous novel The Garden of Eden (1986).
In Argentina, Hudson is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. A town in Berazategui Partido and several other public places and institutions are named after him.
In 1876 he married Emily Wingrave in London. Towards the end of his life, Hudson moved to Worthing in Sussex, England. His grave is in Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery in Worthing.
Works
The Purple Land that England Lost: Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America (1885)
A Crystal Age (1887)
Argentine Ornithology (1888)
Fan–The Story of a Young Girl's Life (1892), as Henry Harford
The Naturalist in la Plata (1892)
Idle Days in Patagonia (1893)
Birds in a Village (1893)[4]
Lost British Birds (1894), pamphlet
British Birds (1895), with a chapter by Frank Evers Beddard
Osprey; or, Egrets and Aigrettes (1896)
Birds in London (1898)
Nature in Downland (1900)
Birds and Man (1901)
El Ombú (1902),[5] stories; later South American Sketches
Hampshire Days (1903)
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904)
A Little Boy Lost (1905)
Land's End. A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall (1908)
Afoot in England (1909)
A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (1910)
Adventures Among Birds (1913)[6]
Tales of the Pampas (1916)
Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (1918; new edition by Eland, 2005)
The Book of a Naturalist (1919)
Birds in Town and Village (1919)
Birds of La Plata (1920) two volumes
Dead Man's Plack and An Old Thorn (1920) - see Dead Man's Plack
A Traveller in Little Things (1921)
Tired Traveller (1921), essay
Seagulls In London. Why They Took To Coming To Town (1922), essay
Hind in Richmond Park (1922)
The Collected Works (1922–23), 24 volumes
153 Letters from W.H. Hudson (1923), edited by Edward Garnett
Rare Vanishing & Lost British Birds (1923)
Ralph Herne (1923)
Men, Books and Birds (1925)
The Disappointed Squirrel (1925) from The Book of a Naturalist
Mary's Little Lamb (1929)
South American Romances (1930) The Purple Land; Green Mansions; El Ombú
W.H. Hudson's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham (Golden Cockerel Press 1941; about R. B. Cunninghame Graham)
Tales of the Gauchos (1946)
Letters on the Ornithology of Buenos Ayres (1951), edited by David W. Dewar
Diary Concerning his Voyage from Buenos Aires to Southampton on the Ebro (1958)
Gauchos of the Pampas and Their Horses (1963), stories, with R.B. Cunninghame Graham
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ISBN 0-575-07207-5
Birds of A Feather: Unpublished Letters of W.H. Hudson (1981), edited by D. Shrubsall
Bibliographies
- G. F. Wilson (1922, 1968) Bibliography of the Writings of W.H. Hudson
- John R. Payne (1977) W.H. Hudson. a Bibliography
Biographies
Morley Roberts (1924) W.H. Hudson
Ford Madox Ford (1937) Portraits from Life- Robert Hamilton (1946) W.H. Hudson:The Vision of Earth
- Richard E. Haymaker (1954). From Pampas to Hedgerows and Downs: A Study of W. H. Hudson
- John T. Frederick (1972) William Henry Hudson
- D. Shrubsall (1978) W.H. Hudson, Writer and Naturalist
Ruth Tomalin (1982) W.H. Hudson – a biography- Amy D. Ronner (1986) W.H. Hudson: The Man, The Novelist, The Naturalist
- David Miller (1990) W.H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise
- Felipe Arocena (2003) William Henry Hudson: Life, Literature and Science
- Jason Wilson: Living in the sound of the wind, [A Personal Quest For W. H. Hudson, Naturalist And Writer From The River Plate], London : Constable, 2016
ISBN 978-1-4721-2205-6
Notes
^ His birthplace was in a rural area now known as Ingeniero Juan Allan in the borough of Quilmes, now part of the borough of Florencio Varela in greater Buenos Aires.
References
^ The Post Victorians:W H Hudson by H J Massingham, p261
^ Haymaker, Richard E. (1954). From Pampas to Hedgerows and Downs: A Study of W. H. Hudson. Bookman Associates. p. 197
^ Miller, David. (1990). W. H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 78-82.
ISBN 978-0-312-03698-0
^ Watkins, M. G. (26 August 1893). "Review of Birds in a Village by W. H. Hudson". The Academy. 44 (1112): 174–175.
^ "Review of El Ombú by W. H. Hudson". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 93 (2432): 376. 7 June 1902.
^ "Review of Adventures among Birds by W. H. Hudson". The Athenaeum (No. 4467): 626. 7 June 1913.
External links
Wikisource has original works written by or about: William Henry Hudson |
Works by William Henry Hudson at Project Gutenberg
Works by or about William Henry Hudson at Internet Archive
Works by William Henry Hudson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
Tales of the Pampas (El Ombú and Other Stories), illustrated 1939.
William Henry Hudson at Find a Grave- Reserva Hudson
- Archival Material at Leeds University Library
W. H. Hudson at Library of Congress Authorities, with 202 catalogue records