Hugh_Ross_Williamson

Hugh Ross Williamson

Hugh Ross Williamson

British popular historian and dramatist

Hugh Ross Williamson (1901–1978) was a prolific British popular historian, and a dramatist. Starting from a career in the literary world, and having a Nonconformist background, he became an Anglican priest in 1943.[1]

In 1955 he converted to Roman Catholicism and wrote many historical works in a Catholic apologist tone.[1] In 1956, he published his autobiography, The Walled Garden. Ross Williamson was critical of the reforms introduced by the Second Vatican Council.[1]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Joseph Pearce, Literary Converts: Spiritual Inspiration in an Age of Unbelief. Ignatius Press, 2006 ISBN 1586171593, (pp.285, 359).

Works

  • The poetry of T. S. Eliot (1932)
  • John Hampden: a life (1933)
  • Rose and glove: a play (1934)
  • After the event: a play in one act (1935)
  • King James I (1935)
  • Gods and mortals in love (1936)
  • The seven deadly virtues; In a glass darkly; Various heavens: a play sequence. (1936)
  • Cinderella's grandchild: a play in one act (1936)
  • Mr Gladstone: a play in three acts (1937)
  • Stories from history: ten plays for schools (1938)
  • Who is for liberty? (1939)
  • George Villiers, first Duke of Buckingham: study for a biography (1940)
  • A.D. 33: a tract for the times (1941)
  • Captain Thomas Schofield (1942)
  • Paul, a bond slave: a radio play (1945)
  • Charles and Cromwell (1946)
  • The arrow and the sword: an essay in detection (1947)
  • Queen Elizabeth: a play in three acts (1947)
  • The story without an end (1947)
  • Were you there ... ?: six meditations for Holy Week (1947)
  • A wicked pack of cards (1947)
  • The silver bowl (1948)
  • The seven Christian virtues (1949)
  • Four Stuart portraits (1949)
  • The evidence for the Gunpowder Plot (1950)
  • The Gunpowder Plot (1951)
  • Sir Walter Raleigh (1951)
  • Conversation with a ghost (1952)
  • Jeremy Taylor (1952)
  • The story without an end (1953)
  • The ancient capital: an historian in search Of Winchester (1953)
  • Canterbury Cathedral (1953)
  • The children's book of British saints (1953)
  • His eminence of England: a play in two acts (1953)
  • The children's book of French saints (1954)
  • The children's book of Italian saints (1955)
  • The great prayer: concerning the canon of the Mass (1955)
  • James: by the grace of God (1955)
  • Historical whodunits (1955)
  • The walled garden: an autobiography (1956)
  • The beginning of the English Reformation (1957)
  • Enigmas of history (1957)
  • The day they killed the king (1957)
  • The challenge of Bernadette (1958)
  • The children's book of German saints (1958)
  • The sisters (1958)
  • The children's book of patron saints (1959)
  • The conspirators and the crown (1959)
  • Young people's book of the saints (1960)
  • Teresa of Avila (1961)
  • The day Shakespeare died (1961)
  • The flowering hawthorn (1962)
  • Guy Fawkes (1964)
  • The modern Mass: a reversion to the reforms of Cranmer (1969)
  • The cardinal in England (1970)
  • The Florentine woman (1970)
  • The last of the Valois (1971)
  • Paris is worth a mass (1971)
  • Kind Kit: an informal biography of Christopher Marlowe (1972)
  • Catherine de' Medici (1973)
  • Lorenzo the Magnificent (1974)
  • Historical enigmas (1974)
  • The princess a nun!: a novel without fiction (1978; completed by Julian Rathbone)
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