Housman, Laurence
Related Category: English Literature, 20th cent. to the Present: Biographies
1865–1959, English author; brother of A. E. Housman. He achieved success as the anonymous author of
An Englishwoman's Love Letters (1900). Best known as a dramatist, he wrote
Little Plays of St. Francis (1922–35) and
Palace Plays (1930–33). His most famous play,
Victoria Regina (1934), adapted from his
Palace Plays, was banned from the English stage for representing living members of the royal family, but an American production with Helen Hayes in 1935 was highly successful.
