Llewelyn Powys was a British

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 writer and younger brother of John Cowper Powys

John Cowper Powys

-Biography:Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys , who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper. He came from a family of eleven children, many of whom were also...

 and T. F. Powys.

Life

Powys was born in Dorchester, the son of a clergyman, and was educated at Sherborne School

Sherborne School

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 and Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

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. While lecturing in the United States

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 he contracted tuberculosis

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. After his return in 1909, he travelled again, living for a while in Switzerland

Switzerland

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. His time spent in Africa

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, farming with his brother William near Gilgil

Gilgil

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 in British East Africa (now in Kenya

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) from 1914 to 1919, was to prove inspirational, as were many of his other life experiences. His other writings include a novel, Apples Be Ripe (1930), and a biography of Henry Hudson

Henry Hudson

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 (1927). He was very friendly with Hamilton Rivers Pollock, Barrister, owner from 1928, of Urchfont Manor.

Works

• Confessions of Two Brothers (1916) with John Cowper Powys
• Ebony and Ivory (1923) autobiography
• Thirteen Worthies (1923) essays
• Honey and Gall (1924) autobiography
• Black Laughter (1925)
• Cup-Bearers of Wine and Hellebore (1924)
• Skin for Skin (1925) autobiography
• The Verdict of Bridlegoose (1926)
• Henry Hudson (1927)
• Out of the Past (?)
• The Cradle of God (1929)
• The Pathetic Fallacy (1930)
• An Hour on Christianity (1930)
• Apples Be Ripe (1930)
• A Pagan's Pilgrimage (1931)
• Impassioned Clay (1931)
• The Life and Times of Anthony à Wood (1932)
• Now That The Gods Are Dead (1932)
• Glory of Life (1934)
• Earth Memories (1935)
• Damnable Opinions (1935)
• Dorset Essays (1935)
• The Twelve Months (1936)
• Somerset Essays (1937)
• Rats in the Sacristy (1937)
• The Book of Days (1937)
• Love and Death (1939)
• A Baker's Dozen (1940)
• Old English Yuletide (1940)
• The Letters of Llewelen Powys (1943) edited by Louis Wilkinson
• Swiss Essays (1947)
• Advice to a Young Man (1949)
• Llewelyn Powys: A Selection (1952) edited by Kenneth Hopkins

External links

• At Sundial Press