Hesketh Pearson - Works

Works

  • Modern Men and Mummers (1921) which describes encounters with Francis Galton (whose great-great-great nephew he was)
  • A Persian Critic (1923)
  • The Whispering Gallery: Leaves from a Diplomat's Diary (1926) fictional diary, published as an anonymous hoax
  • Iron Rations (1928) stories
  • Doctor Darwin (1930) on Erasmus Darwin
  • Ventilations: Being Biographical Asides (1930)
  • The Fool of Love. A Life of William Hazlitt(1934)
  • The Smith of Smiths, Being The Life, Wit and Humour of Sydney Smith (1934)
  • Common Misquotations (1934) editor
  • Gilbert and Sullivan: A Biography (1935)
  • The Swan of Lichfield: being a selection from the correspondence of Anna Seward (1936) editor
  • Labby: The Life and Character of Henry Labouchere (1936)
  • Tom Paine. Friend of Mankind: a Biography (1937)
  • Thinking It Over (1938)
  • Skye High: The Record of a Tour through Scotland in the Wake of Samuel Johnson and James Boswell (1938) with Hugh Kingsmill
  • This Blessed Plot (1942)
  • A Life of Shakespeare: With An Anthology of Shakespeare's Poetry (1942)
  • Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality (1942) also G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait (US)
  • Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (1943)
  • Oscar Wilde, His Life and Wit (1946)
  • Talking of Dick Whittington (1947) with Hugh Kingsmill
  • The Hero of Delhi (1948) on John Nicholson
  • Dickens, his character, comedy, and career (1949)
  • G.B.S. A Postscript (1950)
  • The Last Actor-Managers (1950)
  • Essays of Oscar Wilde (1950) editor
  • Dizzy; the life and personality of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1951)
  • The Man Whistler (1952)- (James McNeill Whistler)
  • Walter Scott: His Life and Personality (1954)
  • Beerbohm Tree: His Life & Laughter (1956)
  • Gilbert: His Life and Strife (1957)- (W S Gilbert)
  • Johnson and Boswell: the Story of Their Lives (1958)
  • Merry Monarch, the Life and Likeness of Charles II (1960)
  • The Pilgrim Daughters (1961) Marrying Americans (US)
  • Lives of the Wits (1962)
  • Henry of Navarre (1963)
  • Hesketh Pearson, By Himself (1965) autobiography
  • Extraordinary People (1965) biographical essays
  • Charles II: His Life and Likeness
  • About Kingsmill (Co-author with Malcolm Muggeridge - regarding Hugh Kingsmill)

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