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Henry Nevinson

January 05, 2023

Henry Woodd Nevinson (11 October 1856 – 9 November 1941) was an English war correspondent during the Second Boer War and World War I, a campaigning journalist exposing slavery in western Africa, political commentator and suffragist.[1]

Henry Woodd Nevinson (1856–1941), circa 1915

Nevinson studied at Shrewsbury School and later at Christ Church, Oxford.[1] At Oxford, he came under the influence of John Ruskin's ideas.[1] He worked as a missionary at Toynbee Hall in London's East End.[2] After this he spent some time in Jena studying German culture. The result of this was in 1884 Nevinson published his first book, Herder and his Times, one of the first studies of Johann Gottfried Herder in English.[1][3] In the 1880s Nevinson became a socialist; he befriended Peter Kropotkin and Edward Carpenter, and in 1889 joined the Social Democratic Federation.[1]

Reporting

In 1897 Nevinson became the Daily Chronicle's correspondent in the Greco-Turkish War. He was known for his reporting on the Second Boer War, and slavery in Angola in 1904–1905,[4] and on India for the Manchester Guardian.[2] In 1914 he co-founded the Friends' Ambulance Unit and later in World War I was a war correspondent, being wounded at Gallipoli.[5]

Advocacy

He was hired by Harper's Monthly Magazine to investigate rumours of a trade in slaves from Angola to the cocoa plantations of São Tomé. After a 450-mile journey inland, he uncovered a trail of people being handed over to settle debts or seized by Portuguese agents and taken in shackles to the coastal towns. Once there he was enraged to find that Portuguese officials "freed" them and changed their status to that of voluntary workers who agreed to go to São Tomé for five years. Despite ill health so severe that he feared he had been poisoned Nevinson followed the slaves' journey to São Tomé. He found conditions on the plantations so harsh that one in five workers died each year. His account was serialised in the magazine from August 1905 and published as "A Modern Slavery" by Harper and Bros in 1906.

He was also a suffragist, is one of the founders in 1907 of the Men's League for Women's Suffrage.

Reviewing Nevinson's book, More Changes, More Chances (1925), E. M. Forster described the book as "exciting", and noting that Nevinson had joined the British Labour Party, stated: "He has brought to the soil of his adoption something that transcends party- generosity, recklessness, a belief in conscience joined to a mistrust of principles".[6]

In Nancy Cunard's pamphlet Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War, Nevinson gave his support to the Spanish Republicans and stated "I detest the cruel systems of persecution and suppression now existing under Hitler in Germany, Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia".[7]

Family

He married Margaret Wynne Jones; the artist Christopher Nevinson was their son. During their marriage he had a long term affair with Nora Dryhurst which ended in 1912.[8] Shortly after the death of his wife, Margaret, in 1933, Henry married his long-time friend and lover, fellow suffragist, Evelyn Sharp. He died in 1941, aged 85.

Bibliography

  • A Sketch of Herder and his times (1884) (See Johann Gottfried Herder.)
  • Life of Friedrich Schiller (1889) (See Friedrich Schiller.)
  • Neighbours of Ours: A Novel (1895)
  • In the Valley of Tophet: Tales (1896)
  • Pictures of Classic Greek Landscape and Architecture by J. Fulleylove, R.I. With a text in the explanation by H. W. Nevinson. (1897)
  • Scenes in the Thirty Days War between Greece and Turkey, 1897. (1898)
  • Ladysmith. The Diary of a siege. (1900)
  • The Plea of Pan: Essays (1901)
  • Between the Acts: Autobiographical and other sketches. (1904)
  • Sketches on the Old Road through France to Florence. By A. H. Hallam Murray, accompanied by H. W. Nevinson and Montgomery Carmichael. (Pt. 1 [France] by H. W. Nevinson. Pt. 2 [Italy] by M. Carmichael.) (1904)
  • Books And Personalities (1905)
  • Through the African Wilderness (1905)
  • A Modern Slavery (In Angola, San Thomé, and Principe) (1906)
  • The Dawn in Russia or Scenes in the Russian Revolution (1906)
  • The New Spirit In India (1908)
  • Essays In Freedom (1909)
  • The Fire of Prometheus (with Thomas Bird Mosher) (1909)
  • Women's Vote And Men (with Louise Norlund) (1910?)
  • Peace and war in the balance, delivered at South Place Institute on Dr Conway's birthday, 17 March 1911 (1911)
  • The Growth Of Freedom (1912)
  • Essays In Rebellion (1913)
  • Sir Roger Casement and Sinn Fein: some personal notes (1916)
  • The Dardanelles campaign (1918)
  • War And The Creative Impulse (with Max Plowman) (1919)
  • Lines Of Life (1920)
  • Original Sinners (1920)
  • Farewell To America (Chapbook, 1922)
  • Changes and Chances. (With plates). (1923)
  • James Connolly: his life, work and writings (with Desmond Ryan) (1924)
  • Our sportive butchers: an animals welfare week address (Chapbook, 1925)
  • More Changes, More Chances (1925)
  • Henry W. Nevinson (Poetry chapbook, 1925)
  • Last Changes, last chances (1928)
  • England's voice of freedom: an anthology of liberty (vt. The voice of freedom; an anthology of liberty) (as Editor) (1929)
  • The English (1929)
  • Rough Islanders; or The Natives of England (vt. The Natives of England) (with C. R. W. Nevinson) (1930)
  • John Masefield (1931)
  • Goethe: Man And Poet (1932)
  • Ourselves; an essay introductory to twelve talks (Chapbook, 1933)
  • Where East is West (with Henrietta Leslie) 1933
  • In the Dark Backward (1934)
  • Fire of Life (1935)
  • Between the Wars (1935)
  • Running Accompaniments: Autobiographical reminiscences (1936)
  • Hitler The Man (Chapbook, 1936)
  • Films of Time (1939)
  • Selected Poems (1940?)
  • Thomas Hardy (1941)
  • A group of unpublished letters by Henry S. Salt to Joseph Ishill (Editor, 1942)
  • Words and Deeds: Essays (1942)
  • Visions and Memories Edited by Evelyn Sharp. With an introduction by Gilbert Murray (1944)
  • Essays, Poems and Tales (edited by H. N. Brailsford) (1948)

See also

References

  • Angela V. John (2006), War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson
  • Angela John's illustrated essay on Neighbours of Ours, Nevinson's book of East End short stories

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e "Nevinson, Henry Woodd" by H. N. Brailsford, revised by Sinead Agnew. Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography : From the Earliest Times to the year 2000. Editors, H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford University Press, 2004. ISBN 019861411X (Volume 40, pp. 551-2).
  2. ^ a b Atkinson, Diane (2018). Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes. London: Bloomsbury. p. 171. ISBN 9781408844045. OCLC 1016848621.
  3. ^ F M Barnard, J.G. Herder on social and political culture London, Cambridge U.P., 1969. (p. xii)
  4. ^ "NEVINSON, H. W." Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 1295.
  5. ^ See Nevinson's Fire of Life pp.304–318 for his time at the Dardanelles; he doesn't mention his own wound.
  6. ^ E. M. Forster, "Literature or Life?" The New Leader, 2 October 1925. Reprinted in P. N. Furbank (ed.), The Prince's Tale and Other Uncollected Writings. London: Andre Deutsch, 1998. ISBN 0233991689 (pp. 89-93)
  7. ^ Nancy Cunard, Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War. Left Review, 1937. (p.21)
  8. ^ John, A.V. (2006). War, Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century: The Life and Times of Henry W. Nevinson. I.B.Tauris. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-85771-783-2. Retrieved 3 September 2019.

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Henry Woodd Nevinson 11 October 1856 9 November 1941 was an English war correspondent during the Second Boer War and World War I a campaigning journalist exposing slavery in western Africa political commentator and suffragist 1 Henry Woodd Nevinson 1856 1941 circa 1915 Nevinson studied at Shrewsbury School and later at Christ Church Oxford 1 At Oxford he came under the influence of John Ruskin s ideas 1 He worked as a missionary at Toynbee Hall in London s East End 2 After this he spent some time in Jena studying German culture The result of this was in 1884 Nevinson published his first book Herder and his Times one of the first studies of Johann Gottfried Herder in English 1 3 In the 1880s Nevinson became a socialist he befriended Peter Kropotkin and Edward Carpenter and in 1889 joined the Social Democratic Federation 1 Contents 1 Reporting 2 Advocacy 3 Family 4 Bibliography 5 See also 6 References 7 Notes 8 External linksReporting EditIn 1897 Nevinson became the Daily Chronicle s correspondent in the Greco Turkish War He was known for his reporting on the Second Boer War and slavery in Angola in 1904 1905 4 and on India for the Manchester Guardian 2 In 1914 he co founded the Friends Ambulance Unit and later in World War I was a war correspondent being wounded at Gallipoli 5 Advocacy EditHe was hired by Harper s Monthly Magazine to investigate rumours of a trade in slaves from Angola to the cocoa plantations of Sao Tome After a 450 mile journey inland he uncovered a trail of people being handed over to settle debts or seized by Portuguese agents and taken in shackles to the coastal towns Once there he was enraged to find that Portuguese officials freed them and changed their status to that of voluntary workers who agreed to go to Sao Tome for five years Despite ill health so severe that he feared he had been poisoned Nevinson followed the slaves journey to Sao Tome He found conditions on the plantations so harsh that one in five workers died each year His account was serialised in the magazine from August 1905 and published as A Modern Slavery by Harper and Bros in 1906 He was also a suffragist is one of the founders in 1907 of the Men s League for Women s Suffrage Reviewing Nevinson s book More Changes More Chances 1925 E M Forster described the book as exciting and noting that Nevinson had joined the British Labour Party stated He has brought to the soil of his adoption something that transcends party generosity recklessness a belief in conscience joined to a mistrust of principles 6 In Nancy Cunard s pamphlet Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War Nevinson gave his support to the Spanish Republicans and stated I detest the cruel systems of persecution and suppression now existing under Hitler in Germany Mussolini in Italy and Stalin in Russia 7 Family EditHe married Margaret Wynne Jones the artist Christopher Nevinson was their son During their marriage he had a long term affair with Nora Dryhurst which ended in 1912 8 Shortly after the death of his wife Margaret in 1933 Henry married his long time friend and lover fellow suffragist Evelyn Sharp He died in 1941 aged 85 Bibliography EditA Sketch of Herder and his times 1884 See Johann Gottfried Herder Life of Friedrich Schiller 1889 See Friedrich Schiller Neighbours of Ours A Novel 1895 In the Valley of Tophet Tales 1896 Pictures of Classic Greek Landscape and Architecture by J Fulleylove R I With a text in the explanation by H W Nevinson 1897 Scenes in the Thirty Days War between Greece and Turkey 1897 1898 Ladysmith The Diary of a siege 1900 The Plea of Pan Essays 1901 Between the Acts Autobiographical and other sketches 1904 Sketches on the Old Road through France to Florence By A H Hallam Murray accompanied by H W Nevinson and Montgomery Carmichael Pt 1 France by H W Nevinson Pt 2 Italy by M Carmichael 1904 Books And Personalities 1905 Through the African Wilderness 1905 A Modern Slavery In Angola San Thome and Principe 1906 The Dawn in Russia or Scenes in the Russian Revolution 1906 The New Spirit In India 1908 Essays In Freedom 1909 The Fire of Prometheus with Thomas Bird Mosher 1909 Women s Vote And Men with Louise Norlund 1910 Peace and war in the balance delivered at South Place Institute on Dr Conway s birthday 17 March 1911 1911 The Growth Of Freedom 1912 Essays In Rebellion 1913 Sir Roger Casement and Sinn Fein some personal notes 1916 The Dardanelles campaign 1918 War And The Creative Impulse with Max Plowman 1919 Lines Of Life 1920 Original Sinners 1920 Farewell To America Chapbook 1922 Changes and Chances With plates 1923 James Connolly his life work and writings with Desmond Ryan 1924 Our sportive butchers an animals welfare week address Chapbook 1925 More Changes More Chances 1925 Henry W Nevinson Poetry chapbook 1925 Last Changes last chances 1928 England s voice of freedom an anthology of liberty vt The voice of freedom an anthology of liberty as Editor 1929 The English 1929 Rough Islanders or The Natives of England vt The Natives of England with C R W Nevinson 1930 John Masefield 1931 Goethe Man And Poet 1932 Ourselves an essay introductory to twelve talks Chapbook 1933 Where East is West with Henrietta Leslie 1933 In the Dark Backward 1934 Fire of Life 1935 Between the Wars 1935 Running Accompaniments Autobiographical reminiscences 1936 Hitler The Man Chapbook 1936 Films of Time 1939 Selected Poems 1940 Thomas Hardy 1941 A group of unpublished letters by Henry S Salt to Joseph Ishill Editor 1942 Words and Deeds Essays 1942 Visions and Memories Edited by Evelyn Sharp With an introduction by Gilbert Murray 1944 Essays Poems and Tales edited by H N Brailsford 1948 See also EditSlavery in Angola Gallipoli miniseries in which he appears as a minor characterReferences EditAngela V John 2006 War Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century The Life and Times of Henry W Nevinson Angela John s illustrated essay on Neighbours of Ours Nevinson s book of East End short storiesNotes Edit a b c d e Nevinson Henry Woodd by H N Brailsford revised by Sinead Agnew Oxford Dictionary Of National Biography From the Earliest Times to the year 2000 Editors H C G Matthew and Brian Harrison Oxford University Press 2004 ISBN 019861411X Volume 40 pp 551 2 a b Atkinson Diane 2018 Rise up women the remarkable lives of the suffragettes London Bloomsbury p 171 ISBN 9781408844045 OCLC 1016848621 F M Barnard J G Herder on social and political culture London Cambridge U P 1969 p xii NEVINSON H W Who s Who Vol 59 1907 p 1295 See Nevinson s Fire of Life pp 304 318 for his time at the Dardanelles he doesn t mention his own wound E M Forster Literature or Life The New Leader 2 October 1925 Reprinted in P N Furbank ed The Prince s Tale and Other Uncollected Writings London Andre Deutsch 1998 ISBN 0233991689 pp 89 93 Nancy Cunard Authors Take Sides on the Spanish War Left Review 1937 p 21 John A V 2006 War Journalism and the Shaping of the Twentieth Century The Life and Times of Henry W Nevinson I B Tauris p 85 ISBN 978 0 85771 783 2 Retrieved 3 September 2019 External links EditPage at Spartacus Works by Henry Nevinson at Project Gutenberg Works by or about Henry Nevinson at Internet Archive Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Henry Nevinson amp oldid 1129545525, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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