Laurence Housman
British playwright, writer and illustrator (1865-1959) · United Kingdom · On the map · Writers · Died at 93
Laurence Housman was an English playwright, writer and illustrator whose career stretched from the 1890s to the 1950s. He studied art in London and worked largely as an illustrator during the first years of his career, before shifting focus to writing.
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Magnus Hirschfeld Co-founded British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology
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Roy Boulting Directed Consider Your Verdict (1938)
John Boulting Produced Consider Your Verdict (1938)
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He was a younger brother of the poet A. E. Housman and his sister and fellow activist in the women's suffrage movement was writer/illustrator Clemence Housman.
