The Plays Of Hubert Henry Davies Volume 1

Author : Hubert Henry Davies
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330358412
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (584 download)

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Download or read book The Plays of Hubert Henry Davies, Vol. 1 written by Hubert Henry Davies and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plays of Hubert Henry Davies, Vol. 1: With an Introduction by Hugh Walpole Hubert Henry Davies was born on the 30th March 1869 at Woodley in Cheshire. He was the fourth child of William Henry and Martha Davies. William Henry Davies came of a long line of Welsh Nonconformist divines and was born at Ludlow, on the Shropshire border of Wales, in the year 1837. It would probably have been difficult to find any more remarkable survival of primitive Puritanism down the generations than that instanced by Will Davies and his ancestors. Since the days before the Commonwealth they had held fast their faith, permitting no development in respect either of its precept or its practice; and in matters of doctrine and Sabbath observance Will Davies, at the end of the nineteenth century, saw eye to eye with the forefather who had been shot at in his Welsh pulpit for preaching Nonconformity at the beginning of the seventeenth. The problem for the student of heredity is - how did the writer of some of the gayest comedies in the English language come to grow on so stiff and uncompromising a stock? But though Hubert Henry's early environment was entailed upon him by the stern tradition of his father, he was by temperament much more akin to his mother. Martha Davies's father had begun life as a workman in an iron-foundry at Hyde in Cheshire, but having a strain of inventiveness in him he lifted himself out of this laborious level, dying in early middle age the master of his own ironworks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.