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This page lists biographies, critical works and bibliographies about W.H. Hudson.

The books are ordered by publication date with the most recent at the top.

Nature writing: original books

Nature writing: later collection

Letters / autobiography

Fiction

Biography / bibliography

Walking with W.H. Hudson through the English Landscape: The Home Country of the World's First Literary Environmentalist

Dennis Shrubshall

2008

"This book aims to present a comprehensively dated and authoritative account of all of William Henry Hudson's English travels, not only of his many "rambles' while gathering the subject material for his books, but also those of a more personal nature. This book has twenty-two black and white photographs."

The Private Reflections and Opinions of W.H. Hudson (1841-1922), the First Literary Environmentalist

Dennis Shrubshall

2008

"This work brings together a carefully categorized and thoroughly indexed consolidation of W.H. Hudson's statements."

The Writings of W.H. Hudson, the First Literary Environmentalist, 1841-1922: A Critical Survey

Dennis Shrubshall

2007

"This study provides a precis for each of William Henry Hudson's (1841-1922) books and gives an account of the development, writing, publication, reception and critique of each. Further, the work identifies those parts of each book which appeared first in journals and details the differences between those two versions and between first and rewritten editions of Hudson's books. Finally, the book dates the experiences Hudson wrote about and identifies the places and people he failed to name or to whom he gave pseudonyms."

W. H. Hudson in Hampshire

Brian Tippett

Hampshire County Council

2004

"This papers explores the Hampshire writings of Argentinian-born author and naturalist W. H. Hudson (1841-1922). Hudson, considered as a leading prose stylist of his day by contemporaries such as Joseph Conrad and Ford Madox Ford, is best remembered for classics such as Green Mansions, Far Away and Long Ago and A Shepherd's Life. He came to England in 1874 at the age of 33, apparently in the hope of a career as an ornithologist, and endured many years of poverty in London as he tried to make headway as a writer. Whenever possible he travelled to other parts of the country, including Hampshire, and began to develop an expert knowledge of British birds and the English countryside. He had a particular regard for the New Forest, Selborne (Gilbert White had inspired him as a boy) and indeed the whole of rural Hampshire, and over the course of two or three years, from 1900 to 1903, spent much of his time exploring the county. The outcome was Hampshire Days, one of his most notable books, and a group of related works. Even A Shepherd's Life, which is about Wiltshire, originated in Hampshire. The paper includes a brief but detailed overview of Hudson's life and literary career and introduces an examination of his Hampshire writings. Use has been made of Hudson's published and unpublished letters to show how his works arose from his explorations of the county. Throughout the paper his role as an environmental critic and campaigner is emphasised as one of his most important legacies to the modern world."

William Henry Hudson: Life, Literature and Science

Felipe Arocena

2003

"This English translation of De Quilmes a Hyde Park: Las Fronteras Culturales En La Vida Y La Obra De W. H. Hudson, which won the 2001 Annual Prize in Literature of Uruguay, analyzes how the richness of Hudson's work is linked to the overlapping of several cultures in his life. His work and life developed in the opposition of Romanticism to Enlightenment, wavering between literature and science. Combining biographical details with analysis of his philosophy and works, the study follows Hudson's life from his childhood on a cattle farm in Argentina to his emigration to England in 1874, including the years he fought on the frontier between whites and indigenous populations and the years he spent traveling abroad. The study concludes with a bibliography of Hudson's books, poems, posthumously published works, and translations into Spanish, as well as critical studies of Hudson."

W.H. Hudson and the Elusive Paradise

David Miller

1990

This book examines the writings of W.H.Hudson and discusses the symbolism found in his works of fiction and non-fiction.

W. H. Hudson: The Man, The Novelist, The Naturalist

Amy D. Ronner

A M S Press

1986

Developed from a doctoral thesis.

A Memory of W.H. Hudson

Helen Thomas

Introduction: Myfanwy Thomas

Fleece Press

1984

16 page book. Limited edition of 150 copies plus 40 special copies.

W. H. Hudson: A Biography

Ruth Tomalin

1982

Paperback: 1984

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W.H. Hudson: The Colonial's Revenge. A Reading Of His Fiction And His Relationship With Charles Darwin

Jason WIlson

1981

A 26 page booklet.

W.H.Hudson: Writer & Naturalist

Dennis Shrubsall

1978

W.H.Hudson: A Bibliography

John R. Payne

1977

246 page detailed bibliography. Reprinted by University of Virginia Press in 1981.

William Henry Hudson

John T. Frederick

Twayne

1972

246 page detailed bibliography. Reprinted by University of Virginia Press in 1981.

W.H. Hudson

Ruth Tomalin

Great Naturalists Series

1954

142 page biography with bibliography.

From Pampas to Hedgerows and Downs: A Study of W. H. Hudson

Richard E. Haymaker

1954

"Probably no one, in any country or at any time, has written of the outdoors in a more permanent literary way than W. H. Hudson. the author of this study has been careful to present in its context the pageantry of nature to be found in his essays. a book not only for the student but also for the general reader of Hudson."

W.H. Hudson: The Vision of Earth

Robert Hamilton

1951

146 overview of Hudson's life and works.

W.H. Hudson's Reading

Herbert Faulkner West

1947

Foreword:

"In reading all the published letters of W. H. Hudson I could locate I found my interest aroused by his constant references to his reading. What a man reads is revealing in trying to estimate his mind and character so I thought it might prove worth while to assemble his comments in a brief essay. The following is the result of my efforts and it comes to you with the best wishes of the writer and of my friend E. F. Schmidt of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, through whose generosity and by whose press it has been so admirably printed. I have chosen to place all the footnotes, and they are numerous and about as important as the text, at the back, together with an appendix. I hope they will prove helpful and interesting to the reader."

W.H. Hudson: Bird Man

Harold Goddard

1928

W.H. Hudson: A Portrait

Morley Roberts

1924

A Bibliography of the Writings of W. H. Hudson

G.F. Wilson

1922

Reprinted in 1968

An 80 page detailed bibliography of major works published up to 1922, with facsimile title pages of many of the books.

From the preface:

This little book, which was begun over a year before the death of the great naturalist, has been compiled in the belief that the nature of W. H. Hudson's genius entitles him in a special degree to be the subject of a bibliography. Classify him as we may, the rare quality of his appeal as an author abides in the personality that indues it. He belongs to that band of makers who whatever the theme worked upon, cannot but give of themselves in their labour. A part of them inheres in all they set their hands to; their individuality pervades it like a fragrance; their philosophy broods over it; their sensibilities give it life."