Grant Richards collection of A.E. Housman material, 1898-1947

Biographical Note

Date	Event
1872, Oct.	Born, Oxford, England
1890	Became staff member of Review of Reviews
1897	Opened his own publishing firm
1897-1899	Published works of Maurice Maeterlinck, G. B. Shaw, Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Grant Allen, Alice Meynell; also published first works of John Masefield and G. K. Chesterton
1898	Published second edition of A. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad. London: G. Richards
1912	Published Caviare. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
1913	Published Valentine. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Co.
1915	Published Bittersweet. London: G. Richards
1920	Published Double Life. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co.
1922	Published A. E. Housman’s Last Poems. London: G. Richards
1924	Published Every Wife. New York: E. J. Clode
1927	Published Fair Exchange. New York: George H. Doran Co.
1928	Published The Coast of Pleasure. New York: Harper & Brothers Published The Hasty Marriage. London: J. Cape
1932	Published Memories of a Misspent Youth. London: W. Heinemann
1942	Published Housman. New York: Oxford University Press
1948	Died, Monte Carlo

Date	Event
1859, March 26	Born at Catskill, Worcestershire, England
1870-1877	Educated at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire, England
1877-1881	Educated at St. John’s College, Oxford, England
1882-1892	Worked in English patent office as a higher division clerk
1892	Professor of Latin, University College, London, Englnd
1896	Published A Shropshire Lad. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trűbner
1898	Published second edition of A Shropshire Lad. London: G. Richards
1911	Kennedy professor of Latin, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
1922	Published Last Poems. London: G. Richards
1936	Published More Poems. London: J. Cape
1936, April 30	Died, Cambridge, England