Clemence Housman

Clemence Housman (23 November 1861– 6 December 1955) was an author, illustrator and activist in the womens’ suffrage movement. She was the sister of A. E. Housman and Laurence Housman. She was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.^[1] Her novels included The Were-Wolf, Unknown Sea and The Life Of Sir Aglovale De Galis.^[2] She was also a leading figure in the Suffragette movement.^[3]

HP Lovecraft said of the Were-Wolf that it: “attains a high degree of gruesome tension and achieves to some extent the atmosphere of authentic folklore”.^[4]

Works

• Clemence Housman (1896), The were-wolf, London: J. Lane at the Bodley Head, http://openlibrary.org/books/OL13492113M/The_were-wolf 
• Clemence Housman (1898), Unknown sea, London: Duckworth, http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7217479M/Unknown_sea 
• Clemence Housman (1905), The Life Of Sir Aglovale De Galis (The life of Sir Aglovale de Galis ed.), London: Methuen, http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7233562M/The_life_of_Sir_Aglovale_de_Galis 

Illustrator

• Laurence Housman (1922), Moonshine & clover, New York: Harcourt, Brace, OCLC 6553308, http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7073215M/Moonshine_clover 
• The Blue Moon

References

1. ^ Elizabeth Crawford, ‘Housman, Clemence Annie (1861–1955)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 7 Feb 2011
2. ^ Open Library page for Clemence Housman
3. ^ Sandra Stanley Holton (1996), Suffrage days, London: Routledge, ISBN 0415109418, 0415109418, http://openlibrary.org/books/OL805990M/Suffrage_days 
4. ^ Supernatural Horror in Literature; The Weird Tradition in the British Isles, HP Lovecraft

External links

• Works by Clemence Housman at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Clemence Housman in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Persondata
Name	Housman, Clemence
Alternative names
Short description	Author and illustrator
Date of birth	23 November 1861
Place of birth	Bromsgrove
Date of death	6 December 1955
Place of death	Mount Avalon, Glastonbury