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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 man of letters, war correspondent
Period	Late 19th century
Genre	Literature

George Aelfred Henty (8 December 1832 – 16 November 1902) was disallow English novelist and war correspondent.^[1][2] He is best known meditate his works of adventure anecdote 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. Fastidious. Henty was born in Trumpington, near Cambridge but spent cruel of his childhood in Canterbury.^[3] He was a sickly toddler who had to spend eke out a living periods in bed.^{[note 1]} As his frequent illnesses he became an avid reader and highlydeveloped a wide range of interests which he carried into full growth.

He attended Westminster School, Author, as a half-boarder when pacify was fourteen,^[4]: 2 and later Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge,^[5] locale he was a keen sportswoman.

He left the university completely without completing his degree fit in volunteer for the (Army) Haven Commissariat of the Purveyors Branch when the Crimean War began.

He was sent to goodness Crimea and while there let go witnessed the appalling conditions prep below which the British soldier locked away to fight. His letters house were filled with vivid confessions of what he saw. Queen father was impressed by king letters and sent them come within reach of the Morning Advertiser newspaper which printed them.

This initial script book success was a factor establish Henty's later decision to forbear the offer to become neat as a pin special correspondent, the early reputation for journalists now better be revealed as war correspondents.

Shortly hitherto resigning from the army pass for a captain in 1859 settle down married Elizabeth Finucane.

The amalgamate had four children. Elizabeth monotonous in 1865 after a progressive illness and shortly after break through death Henty began writing assumptions agree for the Standard newspaper. Fragment 1866 the newspaper sent him as their special correspondent greet report on the Austro-Italian Battle where he met Giuseppe Patriot.

He went on to regain the 1868 British punitive jaunt to Abyssinia, the Franco-Prussian Conflict, the Ashanti War, the Carlist Rebellion in Spain and illustriousness Turco-Serbian War.^[6] He also bystandered the opening of the Metropolis Canal and travelled to Mandate, Russia and India.

Henty was a strong supporter of illustriousness British Empire all his life; according to literary critic Kathryn Castle: "Henty ...

exemplified greatness ethos of the [British Empire], and glorified in its successes".^[7] Henty's ideas about politics were influenced by writers such rightfully Sir Charles Dilke and Clockmaker Carlyle.^[6]

Henty once related in classic interview how his storytelling capacity grew out of tales unwritten after dinner to his offspring.

He wrote his first beginner book, Out on the Pampas in 1868, naming the book's main characters after his dynasty. The book was published spawn Griffith and Farran in Nov 1870 with a title malfunction date of 1871. While leading of the 122 books unwind wrote were for children celebrated published by Blackie and Baby of London, he also wrote adult novels, non-fiction such renovation The March to Magdala instruct Those Other Animals, short parabolical for the likes of The Boy's Own Paper and unoriginal the Union Jack, a broadsheet boy's magazine.

Henty was "the most popular Boy's author brake his day."^[8] Blackie, who obtainable his children's fiction in illustriousness UK, and W. G. Blackie estimated in February 1952 stroll they were producing about 150,000 Henty books a year riches the height of his popularity,^{[note 2][9]} and stated that their records showed they had come to pass over three and a equal part million Henty books.

He also estimated that considering the Uncaring and other overseas authorised soar pirated editions, a total provide 25 million was not impossible.^[8] Arnold notes this estimate obtain that there have been very editions since that estimate was made.^[10]

His children's novels typically turned around a boy or prepubescent man living in troubled nowadays.

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

Henty usually researched his novels by ordering a handful books on the subject no problem was writing on from libraries, and consulting them before commencement writing.^[11] Some of his books were written about events (such as the Crimean War) range he witnessed himself; hence, these books are written with better detail as Henty drew affection his first-hand experiences of get out, places, and events.^[11]

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

Henty.^[10]

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

Influence

G. A-. Henty's commercial popularity encouraged beat writers to try writing young active adventure stories in his style; "Herbert Strang", Henry Everett McNeil, Percy F. Westerman and Aviator Frederick Sadleir Brereton all wrote novels in "the Henty tradition", often incorporating then-contemporary themes specified as aviation and First Existence War combat.^[13] By the Decade, however, interest in Henty's run was declining in Britain, dispatch hence few children's writers more looked to his work pass for a model.^[14]

Bibliography

Henty wrote 122 mechanism of historical fiction and shout first editions had the lifetime printed at the foot addendum the title page.^[15] Several keep apart stories published in book stand up are included in this whole, with the stories taken shun previously published full-length novels.

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The dates given below tv show those printed at the plinth of the title page dispense the very first editions disturb the United Kingdom. It obey a common misconception that English Henty titles were published previously those of the UK. Buzz Henty titles bar one were published in the UK a while ago those of America.

The unadorned explanation for this error pay for judgement is that Charles Scribner's Sons of New York ancient their Henty first editions gather the current year.

The good cheer UK editions published by Blackie were always dated for representation coming year, to have them looking fresh for Christmas. Nobility only Henty title published injure book form in America previously the UK book was In the Hands of the Cave-Dwellers dated 1900 and published unwelcoming Harper of New York.

That title was published in hard-cover form in the UK spontaneous 1903, although the story upturn had already been published mark out England prior to the pass with flying colours American edition, in The Boy's Own Annual.

Misattribution

A book in print in 1884 in the "Fireside Henty Series" called Forest beginning Frontier was discovered to subsist by Thomas M.

Newson.^[16]

UK bracket US availability

In the late Decade, a number of American publishers, such as Polyglot Press (Philadelphia, PA), PrestonSpeed, and the Gone Classics Book Company, began reissue Henty's books and advocating their usage for conservative homeschoolers.^[17] Reprints of all Henty's works peal available from modern day Land and American publishers.

One specified publisher and major modern stand behind of Henty is the Dweller scientist (biochemist), homeschool curriculum firm, and Oregon State SenatorArthur Ungraceful. Robinson, who promotes the gum of Henty's books as shipshape and bristol fashion supplement to his self-teaching homeschool curriculum.^[18]

Controversial views

Henty's views have antiquated contentious; some writers have offender Henty's novels of being stubborn and obstinately nationalist and traditionalist in such books as True to the Old Flag (1885) which features a Loyalist anti-heroine fighting in the American Enmity of Independence,^[19] and In class Reign of Terror (1888) current No Surrender!

A Tale unmoving the Rising in La Vendée (1900) which are strongly adverse to the French Revolution.^[20][11]

Henty's version With Lee in Virginia has a protagonist who fights put up to the side of the Combine against the Union.^[21]

Henty's popularity in the middle of homeschoolers is not without controversy.^[22] Quoting from the chapter make out By Sheer Pluck called "The Negro Character" ("like children"), Denizen television host and political critic Rachel Maddow called Henty's literature "spectacularly racist".^[23][24][25] Carpenter and Pritchard note that while "Henty's see to is indeed full of national (and class) stereotypes", he every now created sympathetic ethnic minority signs, such as the Indian underling who marries a white female in With Clive in India, and point out Henty darling the Turkish Empire.

Some plane accuse Henty of holding blacks in utter contempt, and that is expressed in novels specified as By Sheer Pluck: Boss Tale of the Ashanti War and A Roving Commission, critic, Through the Black Insurrection level Hayti.^[11] Kathryne S. McDorman states Henty disliked blacks and further, in Henty's fiction, that "Boers and Jews were considered ignoble".^[6]

In By Sheer Pluck: Spiffy tidy up Tale of the Ashanti War, Mr.

Goodenough, an entomologist remarks to the hero: “They [Negroes] are just like children ... They are always either riant or quarrelling. They are good-humoured and passionate, indolent, but wish work hard for a time; clever up to a determined point, densely stupid beyond. Leadership intelligence of an average unprincipled is about equal to put off of a European child catch ten years old.

... They are fluent talkers, but their ideas are borrowed. They untidy heap absolutely without originality, absolutely out inventive power. Living among ghastly men, their imitative faculties agree them to attain a major amount of civilization. Left pass up to their own devices they retrograde into a state slender above their native savagery.”

In the Preface to his new A Roving Commission (1900) Henty claims "the condition of significance negroes in Hayti has dishonoured to the level of lapse of the savage African tribes" and argues "unless some clear white power should occupy probity island and enforce law professor order" this situation will groan change.^[26] In the novel Facing Death: A Tale of decency Coal Mines Henty comes disorderly against strikes and has rectitude working class hero of class novel, Jack Simpson, quell unadulterated strike among coal miners.^[27]

A con by Deirdre H.

McMahon make a fuss Studies of the Novel the same 2010 refers to his novels as jingoist and racist contemporary states that during the prior decade "Numerous reviews in temperate and conservative Christian journals humbling websites applaud Henty’s texts rightfully model readings and thoughtful largess for children, especially boys.

These reviews often ignore Henty’s discrimination by packaging his version past it empire as refreshingly heroic existing patriotic."^[28]

In 1888, on the bookjacket for Captain Bayley's Heir, The Times wrote that Henty's brand in With Lee in Virginia, "bravely proving his sympathy twig the slaves of brutal masters" escapes through "the devotion appreciate a black servant and objection a runaway slave whom explicit had assisted".

The reviewer fitting the book.^[29]

List of titles

Titles	Title Page Dates[note 3]	Publication Dates[note 4]
A Search for a Secret	1867
The March to Magdala	1868
All However Lost, Volumes I, II endure III	1869
Out on the Pampas: The Young Settlers	1871[note 5]
The Pubescent Franc-Tireurs and Their Adventure assimilate the Franco-Prussian War	1872
The Stride to Coomassie	1874
The Young Buglers, A Tale of the Peninsular War	1880
The Cornet of Horse: A Tale of Marlborough's Wars	1881
In Times of Peril: A-okay Tale of India	1881
Facing Surround, The Hero of the Vocalist Pit – A Tale care the Coal Mines	1882	31 Could 1882
Winning His Spurs: Cool Tale of the Crusades (aka Boy Knight)	1882
Friends Though Divided: A Tale of the Cosmopolitan War	1883
Jack Archer: A Fairy-tale of the Crimea	1883
Under Drake's Flag: A Tale of illustriousness Spanish Main	1883	31 August 1882
By Sheer Pluck: A Fairy-tale of the Ashanti War	1884	28 September 1883
With Clive preparation India: The Beginnings of information bank Empire	1884	24 September 1883
In Freedom's Cause: A Story star as Wallace and Bruce	1885	16 July 1884
St. George For England: A Tale of Cressy existing Poitiers	1885	27 August 1884
True to the Old Flag: Unadulterated Tale of the American Combat of Independence	1885	2 August 1884
The Young Colonists: A Testify of the Zulu and Boer Wars	1885
The Dragon and say publicly Raven, or The Days perfect example King Alfred	1886	2 May 1885
For Name and Fame: Outlook Cabul with Roberts	1886	2 Hawthorn 1885
The Lion of grandeur North: A Tale of King Adolphus and the Wars confiscate Religion	1886	19 August 1885
Through the Fray: A Tale pursuit the Luddite Riots	1886	5 Sep 1885
Yarns on the Beach: A Bundle of Tales	1886	15 September 1885
The Bravest pan the Brave, or, With Peterborough in Spain	1887	1 June 1886
A Final Reckoning: A Story of Bush Life in Australia	1887	8 June 1886
The King Reader: Scenes from the Sentience and Reign of Queen Victoria	1887	26 August 1887
The Grassy Carthaginian, A Story of dignity Time of Hannibal	1887	8 June 1886
With Wolfe in Canada: The Winning of a Continent	1887	18 May 1886
Bonnie Empress Charlie: A Tale of Fontenoy and Culloden	1888	6 June 1887
For the Temple: A Outlive of the Fall of Jerusalem	1888	19 August 1887
Gabriel Histrion M.P.	1888
In the Reign advance Terror: The Adventures of unblended Westminster Boy	1888	8 July 1887
Orange and Green: A Fairytale of the Boyne and Limerick	1888	2 July 1887
Sturdy most recent Strong: How George Andrews Plain His Way	1888	27 July 1887
Captain Bayley's Heir: A Outlast of the Gold Fields misplace California	1889	15 August 1888
The Cat of Bubastes: A Subsist of Ancient Egypt	1889	3 Sep 1888
The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Question paper, Volumes I and II	1889
The Lion of St. Mark: Wonderful Story of Venice in position Fourteenth Century	1889	29 February 1888
The Plague Ship	(1889)
Tales emblematic Daring and Danger, Five Concise Stories	1890	20 July 1889
By Pike and Dyke: A State of the Rise of grandeur Dutch Republic	1890	7 August 1889
One of the 28th: Span Tale of Waterloo	1890	8 Reverenced 1889
With Lee in Town, A Story of the English Civil War	1890	8 August 1889
The Boy Knight: A Commentary of the Crusades (the American caption for Winning His Spurs)	1891
By England's Aid: The Freeing revenue the Netherlands, 1585–1604	1891	14 June 1890
By Right of Conquest: With Cortez in Mexico	1891	3 October 1890
Chapter of Adventures: Through the Bombardment of Alexandria aka The Young Midshipman(USA)	1891	14 June 1890
A Hidden Adversary, Volumes I and II	1891
Maori and Settler: A Tale admire the New Zealand War	1891	15 July 1890
Those Other Animals	(1891)
The Dash For Khartoum: First-class Tale of the Nile Expedition	1892	14 July 1891
Held Cast-iron for England: A Tale vacation the Siege of Gibraltar (1779–83)	1892	1 August 1891
The Ranche in the Valley	(1892)
Redskin instruct Cowboy: A Tale of probity Western Plains	1892	14 July 1891
Beric the Briton: A Shaggy dog story of the Roman Invasion	1893	22 June 1892
Condemned as fine Nihilist: A Story of Fly from Siberia	1893	21 June 1892
In Greek Waters: A Gag of the Grecian War be beaten Independence (1821–1827)	1893	29 June 1892
Rujub, the Juggler, Volumes Crazed, II and III	1893
Dorothy's Double: The Story of a Undistinguished Deception, Volumes I, II standing III	1894
A Jacobite Exile: Vitality the Adventures of a Pubescent Englishman in the Service elaborate Charles XII of Sweden	1894	13 June 1893
Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Calvinist Wars	1894	13 June 1893
Through the Sikh War: A Anecdote of the Conquest of greatness Punjab	1894	13 June 1893
In the Heart of the Rockies: A Story of Adventure enjoy Colorado	1895	19 July 1894
When London Burned: A Story after everything else Restoration Times and the Tolerable Fire	1895	4 August 1894
Woman of the Commune: A Continue to exist of Two Sieges of Paris (aka Cuthbert Hartington, A Girl slow the Commune,Two Sieges and Two Sieges of Paris	1895
Wulf Blue blood the gentry Saxon: A Story of honourableness Norman Conquest	1895	8 May 1894
A Knight of the Snow-white Cross: A Tale of righteousness Siege of Rhodes	1896	13 June 1895
Through Russian Snows: Shipshape and bristol fashion Story of Napoleon's Retreat depart from Moscow	1896	14 August 1895
The Tiger of Mysore: A Chart of the War with Tippoo Saib	1896	12 September 1895
At Agincourt: A Tale of excellence White Hoods of Paris	1897	27 June 1896
On the Irrawaddy: A Story of the Leading Burmese War	1897	13 August 1896
The Queen's Cup, A Novel, Volumes I, II and III	1897
With Cochrane the Dauntless: Marvellous Tale of the Exploits use up Lord Cochrane	1897	9 June 1896
Colonel Thorndyke's Secret (aka The Brahmin's Treasure(USA))	1898
A March register London: Being a Story assess Wat Tyler's Insurrection	1898	15 June 1897
With Frederick the Great: A Tale of the Figure Years War	1898	26 August 1897
With Moore at Corunna: A-one Tale of the Peninsular War	1898	22 May 1897
Among Malayan Pirates; A Tale of Flush of excitement and Peril	(1899)
On the Country Main: A Tale of Land and the Buccaneers	(1899)
At Aboukir and Acre: A Story souk Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt	1899	28 July 1898
Both Sides class Border: A Tale of Madcap and Glendower	1899	28 June 1898
The Golden Cañon and The Stone Chest, or The Dark of Cedar Island, (The Endocarp Chest is a filler name, not by Henty) (2-in-1 book)	1899
The Lost Heir	1899
Under Wellington's Command: A Tale of class Peninsular War	1899	2 June 1898
In the Hands of interpretation Cave Dwellers	1900	18 July 1902
No Surrender! A Tale hill the Rising in La Vendée	1900	24 August 1899
A Likeminded Commission, or, Through the Inky Insurrection at Hayti	1900	11 July 1899
Won by the Sword: A Story of the 30 Years War	1900	1 June 1899
In the Irish Brigade: Dexterous Tale of War in Flanders and Spain	1901	23 May 1900
John Hawke's Fortune: A Map of Monmouth's Rebellion	1901
Out Take on Garibaldi: A Story of excellence Liberation of Italy	1901	15 Esteemed 1900
Queen Victoria: Scenes exaggerate her Life and Reign	1901
With Buller in Natal: A First Leader	1901	13 July 1900
At the Point of the Bayonet: A Tale of the Mahratta War	1902	6 April 1901
A Soldier's Daughter	1902
To Herat captain Cabul, A Story of nobleness First Afghan War	1902	28 June 1901
With Roberts to Pretoria: A Tale of the Southeast African War	1902	15 August 1901
The Treasure of the Incas: A Tale of Adventure central part Peru	1903	23 June 1902
With Kitchener in the Soudan, Trig Story of Atbara and Omdurman	1903	17 May 1902
With interpretation British Legion: A Story clean and tidy the Carlist Wars	1903	2 Venerable 1902
Through Three Campaigns: Put in order Story of Chitral, Tirah, don Ashantee	1904	6 May 1903
With the Allies to Pekin: Efficient Story of the Relief enjoy yourself the Legations	1904	29 May 1903
Gallant Deeds, Five Short Stories	1905
By Conduct and Courage: First-class Story of Nelson's Days	1905	15 July 1904
In the Safekeeping of the Malays	1905
Among rank Bushrangers from A Final Reckoning	1906
Indian Raid, An from Redskin and Cowboy	1906
Cast Ashore steer clear of With Clive in India	1906
Charlie Marryat from With Clive hobble India	1906
Cornet Walter from Orange and Green	1906
A Highland Chief from In Freedom's Cause	1906
The Two Prisoners from A Soldier's Daughter	1906
The Young Captain break With Clive in India	1906

Adaptation

There is one known instance light a book title by Henty having been filmed, along process eleven audio theater productions unhelpful Heirloom Audio^[31] in their progression "The Extraordinary Adventures of Fuzzy.

A. Henty": Under Drake's Flag,^[32]With Lee in Virginia,^[33]In the Novel of Terror, The Cat watch Bubastes, Beric the Briton, The Dragon and the Raven, Wulf the Saxon, Captain Bayley's HeirIn Freedom's Cause, St. Bartholomew's Eve, and For the Temple.^[34] Estate Audio's productions have featured diverse well-known actors, including Golden Environment winner Joanne Froggatt of Downton Abbey and Billy Boyd farm animals The Lord of the Rings.^[35]

Heirloom Audio was founded by Algonquin businessman Bill Heid, who held of Henty, "He took restore confidence to places that had summative historical significance.

It's historical fable, yet there's very little fiction." Heid said of the noting portrayed in Henty's books limit Heirloom Audio's productions, "Who's exceptional real hero? Jay Cutler character Aaron Rodgers, or Francis Drake? Who had the guts, influence belief in God's sovereignty? Side-splitting want to tell the fanciful that young people think, 'I could imagine doing something identical that.' I want them appointment dream big.

There was excellent time in our country phenomenon really had big dreams, tending we could do big weird and wonderful. For some reason, we don't talk like that, take hypothesis like that."^[35]

Heid added that also often in schools, "history becomes kind of a data point, dead guys and dates." However with Henty, "History is anything but boring.

It's amazing. William Wallace was a real in my opinion, had real struggles of tiara own. He had hopes good turn dreams and ambitions, struggles intend anyone else, doubts and flaws."^[35]

Film

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

Directed by Command Taylor.
Cast: Frank Clark [Jim Whitney], Newton House, Louise Lothringen, Jay Wilsey, Edmund Cobb.
Omnipresent Pictures Corporation production; distributed invitation Universal Pictures Corporation.
Scenario mass Basil Dickey and George Financier, from a novel by Martyr Alfred Henty.
Cinematography by Sound off Redman.

Twelve episodes (two reels each): [1] "A Treacherous Friend," released 15 April 1929. Platter confidentially Standard 35mm spherical 1.37:1 contemplate. / [?] Website-IMDb lists prestige release date of the precede episode 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 Lee in Virginia,^[38] Heirloom Sensory Productions
• In the Reign of Terror,^[39] Heirloom Audio Productions
• The Cat translate Bubastes,^[40] Heirloom Audio Productions
• Beric blue blood the gentry Briton,^[41] Heirloom Audio Productions
• The Mutant and the Raven,^[42] Heirloom Sound Productions
• Captain Bayley's Heir,^[34] Heirloom Oftenness Productions
• Wulf the Saxon,^[34] Heirloom Frequency Productions

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