Robert hichens biography
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Robert Hichens
Birth date
September 16th, 1882
Birth place
Newlyn, County, UK
Death date
September 23rd, 1940
Death place
English Trader, (off coast) of
Aberdeen, Scotland
Death cause
Heart Failure
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Early Life[]
Robert Hichens was rendering son assert a fisher, Philip Hichens and Rebekah Hichens (née Wood) who was elementary of Whitby, North Yorkshire.
Robert was the first of rendering family, his younger siblings were, Angelina, William (Willie), Richard (Dick), Julliette, Town (Feddoe), Poet (Sid), Criminal (Jim) boss Elizabeth (Lizzie).
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Robert Hitchens in 1912
Now all but forgotten, Robert Smythe Hichens (1864 – 1950) was a well known and successful novelist for over half a century, many of his novels being concerned with the supernatural and the occult.
Hichens was gay but extremely discreet, even coy about his personal life. His close friends included gay writers E.F. Benson and Reginald Turner, the latter was also a close friend of Oscar Wilde and was with him at his deathbed.
From around 1879 to 1886 Hichens lived at Avonbank (now The Blue House) on Clifton Down, near Bristol Zoo. He was a day boarder at Clifton College but left aged 15 having not progressed beyond the fourth form but within two years had published his first novel “The Coastguard’s Secret” (1886). He was the first Clifton College pupil to achieve widespread popularity as a novelist.
Hichens first attracted attention for his 1894 novel The Green Carnation, a satire about Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. Because the book made it clear Wilde and Douglas were homosexual it was withdrawn from print in 1895 but not before helping to set the stage for Wilde’s public disgrace and downfall. Although written as a spoof, The Green Carnation has a great deal of sympathy with the personalities of the aesthetic movement. After Wilde’s tri
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Entry updated 17 February 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1864-1950) UK journalist and author, active from about 1886 for more than half a century, gaining an earned reputation as a music critic, 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 heated, and so confused about the loathsome allure of Sex, that they seem infused with the supernatural. As befitting a man of fifty, Hichens served only indirectly in World War One, in the London Special Constabulary. A crime novel, The Paradine Case (1933), was filmed by Alfred Hitchcock. Most of his work of interest is supernatural, with explicit reference to occultism, and most of it concentrates on various forms of psychic bondage through haunting, or transfers of malign influence between Doppelgangers (see also Identity Exchange), or other spiritual or spiritualistic transactions [for Bondage, Haunting, Occultism, Spirit and Supernatural Fiction see TheEncyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. Relevant fiction appears in various collections, including The Folly of Eustace (coll 1896), Tongues of Conscience