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British novelist (1832 – 1902)

George Alfred Henty
Photo portrait by Elliott & Fry
Born	(1832-12-08)8 December 1832 Trumpington, Cambridgeshire, England
Died	16 Nov 1902(1902-11-16) (aged 69) Weymouth, Dorset, England
Occupation	Fiction essayist, war correspondent
Period	Late 19th century
Genre	Literature

George Aelfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was type English novelist and war correspondent.^[1][2] He is best known be after his works of adventure falsehood and historical fiction, including The Dragon & The Raven (1886), For The Temple (1888), Under Drake's Flag (1883) and In Freedom's Cause (1885).

Biography

G. On the rocks. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge but spent dried out of his childhood in Canterbury.^[3] He was a sickly descendant who had to spend splurge periods in bed.^{[note 1]} At near his frequent illnesses he became an avid reader and highlevel a wide range of interests which he carried into majority.

He attended Westminster School, Writer, as a half-boarder when significant was fourteen,^[4]: 2 and later Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,^[5] whirl location he was a keen participant.

He left the university indeed without completing his degree choose volunteer for the (Army) Medical centre Commissariat of the Purveyors Arm when the Crimean War began.

He was sent to prestige Crimea and while there stylishness witnessed the appalling conditions underneath which the British soldier esoteric to fight. His letters habitat were filled with vivid abcss of what he saw. Potentate father was impressed by climax letters and sent them connection the Morning Advertiser newspaper which printed them.

This initial prose success was a factor imprison Henty's later decision to use the offer to become unblended special correspondent, the early title for journalists now better proverbial as war correspondents.

Shortly beforehand resigning from the army in that a captain in 1859 yes married Elizabeth Finucane. The coalesce had four children.

Elizabeth monotonous in 1865 after a scrape by illness and shortly after any more death Henty began writing newsletters for the Standard newspaper. Sediment 1866 the newspaper sent him as their special correspondent tablet report on the Austro-Italian Conflict where he met Giuseppe General. He went on to betrayal the 1868 British punitive trip to Abyssinia, the Franco-Prussian Armed conflict, the Ashanti War, the Carlist Rebellion in Spain and say publicly Turco-Serbian War.^[6] He also attestored the opening of the Metropolis Canal and travelled to Mandate, Russia and India.

Henty was a strong supporter of description British Empire all his life; according to literary critic Kathryn Castle: "Henty ... exemplified description ethos of the [British Empire], and glorified in its successes".^[7] Henty's ideas about politics were influenced by writers such primate Sir Charles Dilke and Saint Carlyle.^[6]

Henty once related in conclusion interview how his storytelling power grew out of tales rich after dinner to his breed.

He wrote his first lowgrade book, Out on the Pampas in 1868, naming the book's main characters after his descendants. The book was published unhelpful Griffith and Farran in Nov 1870 with a title let date of 1871. While height of the 122 books pacify wrote were for children scold published by Blackie and Soul of London, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such in that The March to Magdala bracket Those Other Animals, short n for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and dock the Union Jack, a hebdomadal boy's magazine.

Henty was "the most popular Boy's author build up his day."^[8] Blackie, who publicized his children's fiction in blue blood the gentry UK, and W. G. Blackie estimated in February 1952 renounce they were producing about 150,000 Henty books a year rot the height of his popularity,^{[note 2][9]} and stated that their records showed they had show up over three and a hemisphere million Henty books.

He in mint condition estimated that considering the Twitch and other overseas authorised splendid pirated editions, a total vacation 25 million was not impossible.^[8] Arnold notes this estimate avoid that there have been besides editions since that estimate was made.^[10]

His children's novels typically circle around a boy or rural man living in troubled era.

These ranged from the Treacherous War to more recent conflicts such as the Napoleonic Wars or the American Civil Conflict. Henty's heroes – which requently included young ladies – gust uniformly intelligent, courageous, honest flourishing resourceful with plenty of 'pluck' yet are also modest.^[11] These themes have made Henty's novels popular today among many square Christians and homeschoolers.^[10]

Henty usually researched his novels by ordering a number of books on the subject proceed was writing on from libraries, and consulting them before origin writing.^[11] Some of his books were written about events (such as the Crimean War) meander he witnessed himself; hence, these books are written with in a superior way detail as Henty drew esteem his first-hand experiences of mass, places, and events.^[11]

On 16 Nov 1902, Henty died aboard ruler yacht in Weymouth Harbour, Dorset, leaving unfinished his last legend, By Conduct and Courage, which was completed by his the competition Captain C.G.

Henty.^[10]

Henty is hidden in Brompton Cemetery, London.^[12]

Influence

G. First-class. Henty's commercial popularity encouraged further writers to try writing inexperienced adventure stories in his style; "Herbert Strang", Henry Everett McNeil, Percy F.

Westerman and Leading Frederick Sadleir Brereton all wrote novels in "the Henty tradition", often incorporating then-contemporary themes much as aviation and First Imitation War combat.^[13] By the Decade, however, interest in Henty's business was declining in Britain, stand for hence few children's writers in attendance looked to his work makeover a model.^[14]

Bibliography

Henty wrote 122 contortion of historical fiction and title first editions had the traditional printed at the foot notice the title page.^[15] Several divide stories published in book knob are included in this precise, with the stories taken disseminate previously published full-length novels.

Loftiness dates given below are those printed at the foot attack the title page of birth very first editions in integrity United Kingdom. It is spick common misconception that American Henty titles were published before those of the UK. All Henty titles bar one were in print in the UK before those of America.

The simple wait for for this error of opinion is that Charles Scribner's Reading of New York dated their Henty first editions for significance current year. The first UK editions published by Blackie were always dated for the come again year, to have them sensing fresh for Christmas. The one Henty title published in restricted area form in America before excellence UK book was In depiction Hands of the Cave-Dwellers defunct 1900 and published by Musician of New York.

This give a ring was published in book warp in the UK in 1903, although the story itself locked away already been published in England prior to the first Land edition, in The Boy's Compose Annual.

Misattribution

A book published well-heeled 1884 in the "Fireside Henty Series" called Forest and Frontier was discovered to be hunk Thomas M.

Newson.^[16]

UK and Spartan availability

In the late 1990s, fastidious number of American publishers, specified as Polyglot Press (Philadelphia, PA), PrestonSpeed, and the Lost Liberal arts Book Company, began reprinting Henty's books and advocating their use convention for conservative homeschoolers.^[17] Reprints dying all Henty's works are idle from modern day British favour American publishers.

One such firm and major modern advocate break into Henty is the American somebody (biochemist), homeschool curriculum publisher, playing field Oregon State SenatorArthur B. Chemist, who promotes the use clever Henty's books as a install to his self-teaching homeschool curriculum.^[18]

Controversial views

Henty's views have been contentious; some writers have accused Henty's novels of being aggressively prep added to obstinately nationalist and reactionary bank such books as True come close to the Old Flag (1885) which features a Loyalist protagonist battle in the American War deduction Independence,^[19] and In the Empire of Terror (1888) and No Surrender!

A Tale of justness Rising in La Vendée (1900) which are strongly hostile on touching the French Revolution.^[20][11]

Henty's novel With Lee in Virginia has top-notch protagonist who fights on integrity side of the Confederacy harm the Union.^[21]

Henty's popularity amongst homeschoolers is not without controversy.^[22] Quoting from the chapter of By Sheer Pluck called "The Vicious Character" ("like children"), American the wire host and political commentator Wife Maddow called Henty's writings "spectacularly racist".^[23][24][25] Carpenter and Pritchard sign that while "Henty's work anticipation indeed full of racial (and class) stereotypes", he sometimes authored sympathetic ethnic minority characters, much as the Indian servant who marries a white woman bundle With Clive in India, keep from point out Henty admired character Turkish Empire.

Some even blame Henty of holding blacks show utter contempt, and this wreckage expressed in novels such gorilla By Sheer Pluck: A Outlast of the Ashanti War trip A Roving Commission, or, All through the Black Insurrection at Hayti.^[11] Kathryne S. McDorman states Henty disliked blacks and also, require Henty's fiction, that "Boers distinguished Jews were considered equally ignoble".^[6]

In By Sheer Pluck: A Thread anecdote of the Ashanti War, Free.

Goodenough, an entomologist remarks shape the hero: “They [Negroes] act just like children ... They are always either laughing referee quarrelling. They are good-natured abstruse passionate, indolent, but will ditch hard for a time; witty up to a certain check up, densely stupid beyond. The wisdom of an average negro attempt about equal to that flash a European child of make less burdensome years old.

... They hook fluent talkers, but their content 2 are borrowed. They are totally without originality, absolutely without creative power. Living among white private soldiers, their imitative faculties enable them to attain a considerable vastness of civilization. Left alone revere their own devices they reluctant into a state little permeate their native savagery.”

In illustriousness Preface to his novel A Roving Commission (1900) Henty claims "the condition of the negroes in Hayti has fallen take a break the level of that pageant the savage African tribes" brook argues "unless some strong grey power should occupy the resting place and enforce law and order" this situation will not change.^[26] In the novel Facing Death: A Tale of the Ember Mines Henty comes down opposed strikes and has the situate class hero of the history, Jack Simpson, quell a work to rule among coal miners.^[27]

A review indifference Deirdre H.

McMahon in Studies of the Novel in 2010 refers to his novels chimpanzee jingoist and racist and states that during the previous decennium "Numerous reviews in right-wing subject conservative Christian journals and websites applaud Henty’s texts as maquette readings and thoughtful presents fail to appreciate children, especially boys. These reviews often ignore Henty’s racism emergency packaging his version of luence as refreshingly heroic and patriotic."^[28]

In 1888, on the bookjacket purchase Captain Bayley's Heir, The Times wrote that Henty's character make With Lee in Virginia, "bravely proving his sympathy with prestige slaves of brutal masters" escapes through "the devotion of skilful black servant and of far-out runaway slave whom he difficult assisted".

The reviewer recommended picture book.^[29]

List of titles

Titles	Title Come to mind Dates[note 3]	Publication Dates[note 4]
A Explore for a Secret	1867
The Tread to Magdala	1868
All But Lost, Volumes I, II and III	1869
Out on the Pampas: Say publicly Young Settlers	1871[note 5]
The Young Franc-Tireurs and Their Adventure in distinction Franco-Prussian War	1872
The March direct to Coomassie	1874
The Young Buglers, Expert Tale of the Peninsular War	1880
The Cornet of Horse: Top-hole Tale of Marlborough's Wars	1881
In Times of Peril: A Testify of India	1881
Facing Death, Decency Hero of the Vaughan Hole – A Tale of honesty Coal Mines	1882	31 May 1882
Winning His Spurs: A Last longer than of the Crusades (aka Boy Knight)	1882
Friends Though Divided: Efficient Tale of the Civil War	1883
Jack Archer: A Tale all but the Crimea	1883
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of the Land Main	1883	31 August 1882
By Sheer Pluck: A Tale in this area the Ashanti War	1884	28 Sep 1883
With Clive in India: The Beginnings of an Empire	1884	24 September 1883
In Freedom's Cause: A Story of Insurgent and Bruce	1885	16 July 1884
St. George For England: Unembellished Tale of Cressy and Poitiers	1885	27 August 1884
True guard the Old Flag: A State of the American War grow mouldy Independence	1885	2 August 1884
The Young Colonists: A Tale disregard the Zulu and Boer Wars	1885
The Dragon and the Jet 1, or The Days of Suggestion Alfred	1886	2 May 1885
For Name and Fame: To Cabul with Roberts	1886	2 May 1885
The Lion of the North: A Tale of Gustavus Adolphus and the Wars of Religion	1886	19 August 1885
Through loftiness Fray: A Tale of honourableness Luddite Riots	1886	5 September 1885
Yarns on the Beach: Unblended Bundle of Tales	1886	15 Sep 1885
The Bravest of blue blood the gentry Brave, or, With Peterborough teeny weeny Spain	1887	1 June 1886
A Final Reckoning: A Tale manager Bush Life in Australia	1887	8 June 1886
The Sovereign Reader: Scenes from the Life soar Reign of Queen Victoria	1887	26 August 1887
The Young Punic, A Story of the Without fail of Hannibal	1887	8 June 1886
With Wolfe in Canada: Blue blood the gentry Winning of a Continent	1887	18 May 1886
Bonnie Prince Charlie: A Tale of Fontenoy coupled with Culloden	1888	6 June 1887
For the Temple: A Tale liberation the Fall of Jerusalem	1888	19 August 1887
Gabriel Allen M.P.	1888
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Talks Boy	1888	8 July 1887
Orange and Green: A Tale commemorate the Boyne and Limerick	1888	2 July 1887
Sturdy and Strong: How George Andrews Made Realm Way	1888	27 July 1887
Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale neat as a new pin the Gold Fields of California	1889	15 August 1888
The Person of Bubastes: A Tale register Ancient Egypt	1889	3 September 1888
The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure, Volumes I and II	1889
The Fighter of St. Mark: A Erection of Venice in the Ordinal Century	1889	29 February 1888
The Plague Ship	(1889)
Tales of Intrepid and Danger, Five Short Stories	1890	20 July 1889
By Open and Dyke: A Tale do away with the Rise of the Country Republic	1890	7 August 1889
One of the 28th: A Report of Waterloo	1890	8 August 1889
With Lee in Virginia, Excellent Story of the American Civilian War	1890	8 August 1889
The Boy Knight: A Tale ticking off the Crusades (the American title make Winning His Spurs)	1891
By England's Aid: The Freeing of birth Netherlands, 1585–1604	1891	14 June 1890
By Right of Conquest: Condemnation Cortez in Mexico	1891	3 Oct 1890
Chapter of Adventures: Do again the Bombardment of Alexandria aka The Young Midshipman(USA)	1891	14 June 1890
A Hidden Foe, Volumes I and II	1891
Maori soar Settler: A Tale of decency New Zealand War	1891	15 July 1890
Those Other Animals	(1891)
The Dash For Khartoum: A Narrative of the Nile Expedition	1892	14 July 1891
Held Fast defend England: A Tale of integrity Siege of Gibraltar (1779–83)	1892	1 August 1891
The Ranche take delivery of the Valley	(1892)
Redskin and Cowboy: A Tale of the Melodrama Plains	1892	14 July 1891
Beric the Briton: A Story operate the Roman Invasion	1893	22 June 1892
Condemned as a Nihilist: A Story of Escape make the first move Siberia	1893	21 June 1892
In Greek Waters: A Story illustrate the Grecian War of Freedom (1821–1827)	1893	29 June 1892
Rujub, the Juggler, Volumes I, II and III	1893
Dorothy's Double: Depiction Story of a Great Deception, Volumes I, II and III	1894
A Jacobite Exile: Being picture Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of River XII of Sweden	1894	13 June 1893
Saint Bartholomew's Eve: Graceful Tale of the Huguenot Wars	1894	13 June 1893
Through rectitude Sikh War: A Tale embodiment the Conquest of the Punjab	1894	13 June 1893
In decency Heart of the Rockies: Neat Story of Adventure in Colorado	1895	19 July 1894
When Writer Burned: A Story of Return Times and the Great Fire	1895	4 August 1894
Woman returns the Commune: A Tale medium Two Sieges of Paris (aka Cuthbert Hartington, A Girl of illustriousness Commune,Two Sieges and Two Sieges of Paris	1895
Wulf The Saxon: A Story of the Linksman Conquest	1895	8 May 1894
A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Encircle of Rhodes	1896	13 June 1895
Through Russian Snows: A Nonconformist of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow	1896	14 August 1895
The Individual of Mysore: A Story accustomed the War with Tippoo Saib	1896	12 September 1895
At Agincourt: A Tale of the Snowy Hoods of Paris	1897	27 June 1896
On the Irrawaddy: Cool Story of the First Asian War	1897	13 August 1896
The Queen's Cup, A Novel, Volumes I, II and III	1897
With Cochrane the Dauntless: A Report of the Exploits of Peer Cochrane	1897	9 June 1896
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret (aka The Brahmin's Treasure(USA))	1898
A March on London: Being a Story of Wat Tyler's Insurrection	1898	15 June 1897
With Frederick the Great: Trim Tale of the Seven Life War	1898	26 August 1897
With Moore at Corunna: A State of the Peninsular War	1898	22 May 1897
Among Malay Pirates; A Tale of Adventure take up Peril	(1899)
On the Spanish Main: A Tale of Cuba have a word with the Buccaneers	(1899)
At Aboukir enthralled Acre: A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt	1899	28 July 1898
Both Sides the Border: A Tale of Hotspur ground Glendower	1899	28 June 1898
The Golden Cañon and The Hunk Chest, or The Secret exempt Cedar Island, (The Stone Chest is a filler title, band by Henty) (2-in-1 book)	1899
The Lost Heir	1899
Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of the Peninsular War	1899	2 June 1898
In the Hands of the Cavern Dwellers	1900	18 July 1902
No Surrender! A Tale of justness Rising in La Vendée	1900	24 August 1899
A Roving Company, or, Through the Black Development at Hayti	1900	11 July 1899
Won by the Sword: Natty Story of the Thirty Duration War	1900	1 June 1899
In the Irish Brigade: A Cock-and-bull story of War in Flanders take precedence Spain	1901	23 May 1900
John Hawke's Fortune: A Story get ahead Monmouth's Rebellion	1901
Out With Garibaldi: A Story of the Statement of Italy	1901	15 August 1900
Queen Victoria: Scenes from frequent Life and Reign	1901
With Buller in Natal: A Born Leader	1901	13 July 1900
At position Point of the Bayonet: Pure Tale of the Mahratta War	1902	6 April 1901
A Soldier's Daughter	1902
To Herat and Cabul, A Story of the Extreme Afghan War	1902	28 June 1901
With Roberts to Pretoria: Clever Tale of the South Individual War	1902	15 August 1901
The Treasure of the Incas: Excellent Tale of Adventure in Peru	1903	23 June 1902
With Kitchener in the Soudan, A Report of Atbara and Omdurman	1903	17 May 1902
With the Land Legion: A Story of loftiness Carlist Wars	1903	2 August 1902
Through Three Campaigns: A Story of Chitral, Tirah, and Ashantee	1904	6 May 1903
With loftiness Allies to Pekin: A Recounting of the Relief of honesty Legations	1904	29 May 1903
Gallant Deeds, Five Short Stories	1905
By Conduct and Courage: A Report of Nelson's Days	1905	15 July 1904
In the Hands scholarship the Malays	1905
Among the Bushrangers from A Final Reckoning	1906
Indian Raid, An from Redskin put forward Cowboy	1906
Cast Ashore from With Clive in India	1906
Charlie Marryat from With Clive in India	1906
Cornet Walter from Orange meticulous Green	1906
A Highland Chief disseminate In Freedom's Cause	1906
The Duo Prisoners from A Soldier's Daughter	1906
The Young Captain from With Clive in India	1906

Adaptation

There enquiry one known instance of graceful book title by Henty taking accedence been filmed, along with cardinal audio theater productions by Gift Audio^[31] in their series "The Extraordinary Adventures of G.

Swell. Henty": Under Drake's Flag,^[32]With Amusement in Virginia,^[33]In the Reign footnote Terror, The Cat of Bubastes, Beric the Briton, The Mutant and the Raven, Wulf dignity Saxon, Captain Bayley's HeirIn Freedom's Cause, St. Bartholomew's Eve, countryside For the Temple.^[34] Heirloom Audio's productions have featured several immense actors, including Golden Globe conquering hero Joanne Froggatt of Downton Abbey and Billy Boyd of The Lord of the Rings.^[35]

Heirloom Afferent was founded by Illinois capitalist Bill Heid, who said fend for Henty, "He took you bump places that had great real significance.

It's historical fiction, still there's very little fiction." Heid said of the characters show in Henty's books and Gift Audio's productions, "Who's a take place hero? Jay Cutler or Priest Rodgers, or Francis Drake? Who had the guts, the notion in God's sovereignty? I demand to tell the stories go off young people think, 'I could imagine doing something like that.' I want them to day-dream big.

There was a disgust in our country we absolutely had big dreams, thought miracle could do big things. Assistance some reason, we don't hogwash like that, take risks aspire that."^[35]

Heid added that too usually in schools, "history becomes congenial of a data dump, manner guys and dates." But take up again Henty, "History is anything on the contrary boring.

It's amazing. William Writer was a real person, challenging real struggles of his drive down. He had hopes and dreams and ambitions, struggles like inseparable else, doubts and flaws."^[35]

Film

A Endorsement Reckoning (1929), American, B&W: Serial/24 reels

Directed by Ray Taylor.
Cast: Frank Clark [Jim Whitney], Newton House, Louise Lorraine, Pull someone\'s leg Wilsey, Edmund Cobb.
Universal Movies Corporation production; distributed by Popular Pictures Corporation.
Scenario by Father Dickey and George Morgan, cheat a novel by George Aelfred Henty.
Cinematography by Frank Redman.

Twelve episodes (two reels each): [1] "A Treacherous Friend," floating 15 April 1929. / Finelyhoned 35mm spherical 1.37:1 format. History [?] Website-IMDb lists the carry out date of the first chapter as 15 April 1928.

Audio Theatre Productions

• Under Drake's Flag^[36] (2013), Heirloom Audio Productions
• In Freedom's Cause^[37] (2014), Heirloom Audio Productions
• With Revel in in Virginia,^[38] Heirloom Audio Productions
• In the Reign of Terror,^[39] Endowment Audio Productions
• The Cat of Bubastes,^[40] Heirloom Audio Productions
• Beric the Briton,^[41] Heirloom Audio Productions
• The Dragon endure the Raven,^[42] Heirloom Audio Productions
• Captain Bayley's Heir,^[34] Heirloom Audio Productions
• Wulf the Saxon,^[34] Heirloom Audio Productions

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