The Grey Cottage, Disley , where Monkhouse lived from 1893 to 1902 Allan Noble Monkhouse (7 May 1858 – 10 January 1936) was an English playwright, critic, essayist and novelist.
He was born in Barnard Castle , County Durham . He worked in the cotton trade, in Manchester , and settled in Disley , Cheshire . From 1902 to 1932 he worked on The Manchester Guardian New Statesman
As literary editor, in fact if not in formal title, at the Guardian , Monkhouse helped to launch the career of James Agate by publishing his open letters from France during the First World War. Agate appears in Monkhouse's play Nothing Like Leather barely disguised as the theatre critic "Topaz".
He began to write drama for the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester , shortly after it was opened by Annie Horniman , along with Stanley Houghton and Harold Brighouse , forming a school of realist dramatists independent of the London stage, who were known as the Manchester School .[ 1]
Works
Plays
Reaping the Whirlwind (1908) playThe Choice (1910) playMary Broome: A Comedy in Four Acts (1912)Nothing Like Leather (1913) playFour Tragedies (1913)The Education of Mr. Surrage: A Comedy in Four Acts (1913)Night Watches: A Comedy in One Act (1916)The Conquering Hero (1923) playFirst Blood: A Play in Four Acts (1924)Sons And Fathers: A Play in Four Acts (1925)Suburb (1925)The Rag (1928) playPaul Felice: A Play in Four Acts (1930)The Grand Cham's Diamond (1932) playCecilia: A Play in Four Acts (1932)
Novels
A Deliverance (1898) novelLove in a Life (1903) novelDying Fires (1912) novelMen & Ghosts (1918) novelTrue Love (1920) novelMy Daughter Helen (1922) novelMarmaduke (1924) novelAlfred the Great (1927) novelFarewell Manchester (1931) novel
Essays
Books & Plays (1894) essaysEssays of To-Day and Yesterday (1925)
References
^ Harding, John, Staging Life: The Story of the Manchester Playwrights (Greenwich Exchange 2018) https://greenex.co.uk/
External links
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