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Robert Smythe Hichens (14 November 1864 – 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the " Naughty Nineties ".
- 14 November 1864, Speldhurst, Kent, England
- 20 July 1950 (aged 85), Zurich, Switzerland
The Green Carnation is a novel by Robert Hichens that was first published anonymously in 1894. A satire on contemporary champions of the Aesthetic Movement , it was withdrawn briefly after the scandal of the Oscar Wilde trial in the following year.
- Robert Hichens
- Heinemann (UK), D. Appleton & Company (US)
- 1894
- Satirical roman à clef
(1864-1950) UK journalist and author, active from about 1886 for more than half a century but now almost forgotten except for The Green Carnation (1894) – which dangerously exploits Oscar Wilde and 1890s Decadence in general – and The Garden of Allah (1904); though neither tale is literally fantastic, they are both written in a style so ...
Robert Smythe Hichens has 172 books on Goodreads with 17040 ratings. Robert Smythe Hichens’s most popular book is The Green Carnation.
Robert Hichens. Writer: The Paradine Case. British novelist Robert Smythe Hichens was born at Speldhurst in Kent, England, in 1864. He was educated at a variety of schools, including the Royal College of Music in London (his father was H.C. Hichens, the Canon of Canterbury, and wanted his son to study at Oxford, but Robert preferred a musical ...
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An Imaginative Man is an 1895 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. A tale about a young man on holiday in Cairo who after experiencing dissatisfaction with his new wife becomes increasingly obsessed with Great Sphinx, it was a commercial hit and Hichens wrote a number of further books in the orientalist style. References
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