Hugh Lofting

Graeme Davis (University of Buckingham)

Ed. by Dimitra Fimi, University of Glasgow
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.09: English Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary Britain , 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Gina Lyle (University of York), Graham MacPhee (University of Manchester), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Jenni Ramone (The Nottingham Trent University)

Dates

Born 14 Jan 1886
Died 26 Sep 1947

Places

Active in United Kingdom

Activities

Primary

Children's/Young Adult writer

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Hugh John Lofting (1886-1947) is remembered for the creation of the children’s fiction character Doctor Dolittle, an eccentric English doctor and vet who can talk with animals.

Lofting was born in Maidenhead (Berkshire, UK), one of six children of an Anglo-Irish Roman Catholic family. From age eight until eighteen he attended the Jesuit boarding school Mount St Mary College (Chesterfield, Derbyshire, UK) where he received the classics-based education typical of the age.

On leaving Mount St Mary

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Citation: Davis, Graeme. "Hugh Lofting". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 September 2019 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=14480, accessed 21 November 2024.]