Robert Smythe Hichens

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This article is about the British writer. For the Quartermaster of the Titanic, see Robert Hichens.

Robert Smythe Hichens (November 14, 1864 – July 20, 1950) was an English journalist and novelist.

Born in Speldhurst in Kent, he was educated at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music, and the London School of Journalism.

He wrote lyrics for music, stories, and collaborated in successful plays. He is best remembered now, perhaps, for his satire on Oscar Wilde, The Green Carnation (1894), his novels that were made into films -- The Garden of Allah (pub. 1905) and The Paradine Case (pub. 1933) -- and the story "How Love Came to Professor Guildea", which has been frequently anthologized.

Hichens' classic novel The Green Carnation has been republished as a hardcover volume in 2006.

1 Novels
2 Collections
3 Anthologies containing stories by Robert S. Hichens
4 Short Stories
5 References
6 Sources
7 External links

[edit] Novels

The Green Carnation (published anonymously, 1894; republished, 2006)
An Imaginative Man (1895)
Flames (1897)
The Slave (1899)
Tongues of Conscience (1900), short stories
The Prophet of Berkeley Square (1901)
Felix (1902)
Black Spaniel, and Other Stories (1905)
The Garden of Allah (1905), elaborately presented as a play in New York City
Call of the Blood (1905)
Bella Donna (1909), in which Alla Nazimova starred in 1913
The Dweller on the Threshold (1911)
The Way of Ambition (1913)
In the Wilderness (1917)
The Spell of the Holy Land (1914)
Snake-Bite (1919)
Mrs. Marden (1919)
Spirit of the Time (1921)
The Paradine Case (1933)
Harps in the Wind (1945)

[edit] Collections

The Folly of Eustace: And Other Stories (1896)
Bye-Ways (1897)
Tongues of Conscience (1900)
The Black Spaniel: And Other Stories (1905)
Snake-Bite: And Other Stories (1919)
The Return of the Soul and Other Stories (2001; ed. S. T. Joshi)

[edit] Anthologies containing stories by Robert S. Hichens

Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror 1st Series (1928)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1957)
The 2nd Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1966)
Medley Macabre (1966)
Black Water (1984)
I Shudder at Your Touch (1992)
4 Classic Ghostly Tales (1993)

[edit] Short Stories

How Love Came to Professor Guildea (1900)
Demetriadi's Dream

[edit] References

"Robert S. Hichens". Dictionary of Literary Biography. Volume 153: Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists. First Series. Detroit: Gale Research, 1995.