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Robert Smythe Hichens (14 November 1864 – 20 July 1950) was an English journalist, novelist, music lyricist, short story writer, music critic and collaborated on successful plays. He is best remembered as a satirist of the " Naughty Nineties ".
English journalist, novelist and short story writer. Robert Smythe Hichens. Contents. 1 Works. 1.1 Collections. 1.2 Nonfiction. 1.3 Works from periodicals. 2 Works about Hichens. Works edit. The Coast Guard's Secret (1886) The Green Carnation (published anonymously, 1894) An Imaginative Man (1895) Flames (1897) The Londoners (1898) The Slave (1899)
The Garden of Allah is a 1904 romantic drama novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. The novel was published by Methuen and Company on 13 October 1904 in London, and on 28 January 1905 by Frederick A. Stokes in New York. It is largely set in French Algeria, with a brief opening in Marseille, and a conclusion in French Tunis.
Robert Smythe Hichens was a satirist and critic, having studied at Clifton College, the Royal College of Music, and the London School of Journalism. He was a friend of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. Also wrote as Robert S. Hichens and Robert Hichens.
Robert (Smythe) Hichens 1864-1950. English novelist, short story and nonfiction writer, dramatist, poet, screenwriter, and autobiographer. Primarily known for his novels, Hichens is frequently...
Hichens is of sf interest primarily for a late novel, Dr Artz (1929), whose eponymous Antihero accomplishes feats of Rejuvenation through a covert application of Serge Voronoff's theories about the use of monkey testicles to increase the virility and life-span of human beings (see Horror in SF).
An Imaginative Man is an 1895 novel by the British writer Robert Hichens. A tale about a young man on holiday in Cairo who after experiencing dissatisfaction with his new wife becomes increasingly obsessed with Great Sphinx, it was a commercial hit and Hichens wrote a number of further books in the orientalist style. References
