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C Henry Warren

Clarence Henry Warren (1895 – 1966) was an English countryside essayist, poet, novelist, short story writer and broadcaster who also wrote extensively on other cultural subjects such as literature and music.

Contents [hide] 1 Life 2 Family 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Life Henry Warren (as he preferred to be known) was brought up in the village of Mereworth (near Maidstone) in Kent. His parents owned the Village Stores and Post Office and he attended the village school until going to Maidstone Grammar School. From there he went to Goldsmiths (Teacher Training) College in London where his studies were prematurely ended by being called up to fight in the First World War (with the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in the Middle East). Returning home in 1919 he took up teaching posts at a Primary School in Bromley, Kent before moving to the position of English Master at Newport Grammar School (Essex).

In the 1920s he had various jobs including Assistant Editor of the New Leader where he worked under H N Brailsford and as Temporary Lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery. He also spent some time in Canada before taking up employment with the BBC for whom he was an announcer (in Manchester) and subsequently Assistant Editor of the Radio Times. By this time he was starting to publish regularly in many different journals as well having several books to his name. After leaving the BBC he had his own series on the radio called "Out and About" talking about the Cotswold countryside where he was now living. Moving to Finchingfield in Essex marked his most productive period as a published author with the his sequence of seven Larkfield books his most substantial achievement. His books were adorned by many of the best book illustrators of his day such as Thomas Hennell, C F Tunnicliffe, Alexander Walker and Denys Watkins Pritchford. As well as being one of the 12 members of Kinship in Husbandry, Henry Warren was part of a wider circle of writers and poets who focused on the life of the Englsih countryside. These included H J Massingham, Frank Kendon, Richard Church, Adrian Bell, Edmund Blunden, John Moore and Rolf Gardiner. He also worked with Joan Gili setting up what became Dolphin Books.

In total he wrote or edited 33 books, contributed to a number of anthologies and penned many hundreds of peridical articles and broadcast scripts. [edit] Family His parents William and Alice Warren were both from Hertfordshire families with their roots in the English countryside. He had two brothers, Frank and Herbert but never married or had any children of his own. He died of cancer in 1966.

[edit] Published works

Pipes of Pan - Poems from Egypt (1918) A Book of Verse for Boys - Edited with Occassional Notes (1924) The Stricken Peasant and Other Poems (1924) Cobbler, Cobbler and Other Stories (1925) Wild Goose Chase - being a Journal of an Intimate Adventure into the New World (1927) The Secret Meadow and Other Poems (1928) The Men behind the Music - edited (1931) Orchards of the Sun - a Novel (1934) Beside Still Waters - Nelson Novels (1935) The Writer's Art (1935) The Beacon and Seven Other Poems (1936) A Cotswold Year (1936)- new edition (1985) Sir Philip Sidney - a Study in Conflict (1936) Wise Reading (1936) A Boy in Kent (1937) - new edition (1937) - new edition with introduction by Geoffrey R Warren (1984) West Country - the Face of Britain (1938) The Happy Countryman - Larkfield Book 1 (1939)- new edition (1946) Corn Country (1940) England is a Village - Larkfield Book 2 (1940)- new editoon (1983) The Land is Yours - Larkfield Book 3 (1943) Miles from Anywhere - Larkfield Book 4 (1944) The Good Life, an Anthology of the Life and Work of the Countryside in Prose and Poetry - edited (1946) Adam was a Ploughman - Larkfield Book 5 (1947) English Cottages and Farmhouses - Britain in Pictures (1948) Footpath through the Farm, being a Simple Narrative of the Practices and Purposes of Agriculture throughout the Year (1949) Essex - the County Books Series (1950) The Scythe in the Apple Tree -Larkfield Book 6 (1953) Tyrolean Journal (1954) Great men of Essex - Men of the Counties (1956) The Thorn Tree - Poems (1963) Content with What I Have - Larkfield Book 7 (1967) - new edition (1968) The Contented Coutryman - the Best of C Henry Warren edited by Geoffrey R Warren (1991)

[edit] References

Ann Lynda Gander. Adrian Bell, Voice of the Countryside. (Holm Oak Publishing, 2001, ISBN 0-9533406-1-9) - references to his relationship with Adrian Bell

Richard Church's introduction to "Content with what I have" - ["the Richard Jefferies of the 20th century"] - also uniform (centenary) edition of Jefferies' works

Inclusion in H J Massingham's anthologies related to Kinship in Husbandry

Interest from the John Moore Society - article

Obituaries in "The Times"

Humphrey Phelps article in "The Countryman"

The Joan Gili connection

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