Laurence Housman, born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, was an English playwright, writer and illustrator. Together with his sister Clemence he studied art at the Lambeth School of Art and the Royal College of Art in London.
He first worked with London publishers by illustrating such works as George Meredith's Jump to Glory Jane, Jonas Lie's Weird Tales, Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market, Jane Barlow's The End of Elfintown and his sister's novella The Were-Wolf in an intricate Art Nouveau style. During this period, he also wrote and published several volumes of poetry and a number of hymns and carols.
Housman also wrote children's fairy tales such as A Farm in Fairyland (1894) and fantasy stories with Christian undertones for adults.
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