Educated at London International College where he studied law, Hewlett was called to the bar in 1891. After extensive travels in Italy, he published Earthwork Out of Tuscany in 1895 and Italy would remain one of his loves. From 1896 to 1900 he was keeper of land revenue records and enrollments, but in 1898 the success of his first novel, Forest Lovers, convinced him to concentrate on writing. Over the next twenty years, he produced many novels, short stories, essays and poetry and his historical novels were especially popular. His works include Little Novels of Italy (1899), The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay (1900), The New Canterbury Tales (1901), The Fool Errant (1905), Halfway House (1908), Open Country (1909), Bendish (1913), The Song of the Plow (1916), In a Green Shade (1920) and Wiltshire Essays (1921). |
