W. H. Hudson

Patrick Early (British Council)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 5.1.1: Hispanic Writing and Culture of South America.
Vol. editors: Kate Averis (University of Western Australia), Ben Bollig (University of Oxford), Ceire Broderick (University College Cork), Nuala Finnegan (University College Cork), Anna Forné (Gothenburg University), Cara Levey (University College Cork), Carolina Orloff (Independent Scholar - Europe), Lori Oxford (Western Carolina University), Ailsa Peate (University of Westminster)

Dates

Born 4 Aug 1841
Died 18 Aug 1922
Activity 1861-1922

Places

Born in England
Active in Argentina; England

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer
Travel writer

Other

Autobiographer

Resources

Hudson's Works

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William Henry Hudson, the son of Anglo-American immigrants, was born in an

estancia

house – Los 25 Ombues, near the Chichitas river in the district of Quilmes, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina – on the 4th of August 1841. This was the house associated with his earliest and happiest memories. Naturalist, novelist, short story writer, Hudson is one of those writers whose work awaits rediscovery by each new generation.

In 1885, W. H. Hudson published The Purple Land, a novel about the Banda Oriental, in present-day Uruguay. It is an account of a South American arcadia, a pleasant wilderness that might, if history had turned out differently, have become another British colony (the original title of the novel is The Purple Land That England Lost). There are passages in this work which

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Citation: Early, Patrick. "W. H. Hudson". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2243, accessed 03 December 2024.]