William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson was an ornithologist, novelist, screenwriter, writer, naturalist and biologist (1841–1922). He was born at Quilmes Partido and died at London.

Also recorded as W. H. Hudson; W H Hudson; W.H. Hudson; WH Hudson.

William Henry Hudson in brief

Born
1841
Died
1922
Known for
ornithologist, novelist, screenwriter, writer, naturalist and biologist
Place of birth
Quilmes Partido
Contents

Catalogued works

73 works under this name are catalogued by Wikidata Query Service, Open Library, The Art Institute of Chicago and Wellcome Collection. Their recorded dates run from 1757 to 2015.

Rima. Green Mansions. A Crystal Age. The Purple Land. Far Away and Long Ago. A History of My Early Life. Birds in a village. Birds of La Plata (1920). The naturalist in La Plata. Adventures among birds. Birds and man. Birds in town & village, by W.H. Hudson .. Nature in downland. The book of a naturalist. Argentine ornithology. A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. Lost British birds. Birds in London. Birds in town & village. Birds in town & village, by W.H. Hudson.. Hampshire days. A hind in Richmond Park. Idle days in Patagonia. The Land's End : a naturalist's impressions in West Cornwall. The Land's End, a naturalist's impressions in west Cornwall. That Purple Land that England Lost. A Friendly Rat. Loves labour's lost. The winters tale. The tragedie of Julius Caesar. Diesterwegs neusprachliche Reformausgaben. The merchant of Venice. The life of King Henry V. The Elizabethan Shakespeare. Milton & his poetry. A quiet corner in a library. The United States, from the discovery of the American continent to the end of the world war. Whittier & his poetry. Lowell & his poetry. The sphinx and other poems. Wordsworth & his poetry. 小說的硏究. Dramatic essays. An outline history of English literature. Herbert Spencer. The story of the renaissance. Victor Hugo and his poetry. An introduction to the study of literature. 文學硏究法. An introduction to the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. Keats & his poetry. Gray & his poetry... Xiao shuo de yan jiu. Wen xue yan jiu fa. Rousseau and naturalism in life and thought. The study of English literature. Milton and his poetry. Afoot in England, dated 2006. Aṅgrejī sāhitya kā itihāsa, dated 1963. Alla Lejos y Hace Tiempo (Memoria Argentina), dated 1999. An introductions to the philosophy of Herbert Spencer, dated 1911. The church and the stage, dated 1886. Dryden's Essays, dated 1912. El Naturalista En El Plata, dated 1997. El Ombu, dated 1998. The Famous Missions of California, dated 2007. John Newton, dated c. 1757–60, oil on canvas, held by The Art Institute of Chicago, inventory 1985.263. William Henry Welch and the heroic age of American medicine / by Simon Flexner and James Thomas Flexner., dated 1941, held by Wellcome Collection. W. H. Hudson : a bibliography / John R. Payne ; foreword by Alfred A. Knopf., dated 1977, held by Wellcome Collection. The naturalist in La Plata / by W.H. Hudson ; illustrations by J. Smit., dated 1922, held by Wellcome Collection. British birds / by W.H. Hudson, C.M.Z.S ; with a chapter on structure and classification by Frank E. Beddard, F.R.S. With 8 coloured plates from original drawings by A. Thorburn and 8 plates and 100 figures in black and white from original drawings by G.E. Lodge and 3 illustrations from photographs from nature by R.B. Lodge. New impression., dated 1921, held by Wellcome Collection. A treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the chest. Part I, Diseases of the lung and windpipe / by William Stokes ; with memoir by Dr. Acland ; edited for the New Sydenham Society by Alfred Hudson., dated 1882, held by Wellcome Collection. Henry E. Sigerist : correspondences with Welch, Cushing, Garrison, and Ackerknecht / Marcel H. Bickel (ed.)., dated [2010], held by Wellcome Collection. The Victoria history of the county of Sussex / edited by William Page., dated 1905-<1987>, held by Wellcome Collection. Living in the sound of the wind : [a personal quest for W. H. Hudson naturalist and writer from the river Plate] / Jason Wilson., dated [2015], held by Wellcome Collection.

In public collections

Work associated with this heading is recorded in 2 named public collections.

The Art Institute of Chicago: 1 recorded object, read from the institution's own published catalogue. Wellcome Collection: 33 recorded objects, read from the institution's own published catalogue.

Literature

13 scholarly publications naming this subject were located in the registry of record.

Hudson, William Henry (1841–1922), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017. Hudson, William Henry (1841-1922), SpringerReference. INTRODUCCIÓN. Imperio y canon en William Henry Hudson, Entre Borges y Conrad, 2012. Hudson, William Henry, (4 Aug. 1841–18 Aug. 1922), Who Was Who, 2007. CODA Cámac y la memoria emocionada: entrecruces de William Henry Hudson y José María Arguedas, Entre Borges y Conrad, 2012. Dreamers in dialogue: evolution, sex and gender in the utopian visions of William Morris and William Henry Hudson, Acta Neophilologica, 2013. Literatura y cine: una propuesta de análisis de la trasposición fílmica de Allá lejos y hace tiempo, de W. H. Hudson, Mitologías Hoy, 2022. Conservar el mundo más maravilloso: William H. Hudson en Libro de horas de Laura Forchetti, Káñina, 2021. <title language="eng">La presencia de Darwin en William Henry Hudson, Cuyo. Anuario de Filosofía Argentina y Americana, 2009. El camino de Ida, o la extranjería a partir de la lengua y de la relación con Hudson, Cuadernos LIRICO, 2019. The Purple Land (1885) de W. H. Hudson, un texto cautivo entre Inglaterra y Argentina, Confluenze, 2021. Sobre algunos matices del “color local” en la Tierra Purpúrea de W.H. Hudson, Raído, 2009. Otium et écriture dans Un flâneur en Patagonie de William Henry Hudson (1893), Recherches & Travaux, 2016.

Digitised editions and texts

20 digitised items associated with this heading are catalogued by Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg.

France: the nation and its development from earliest times to the establishment of the third republic (1917) — Internet Archive. rousseau and naturalism in life and thought (1903) — Internet Archive. Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn (1920) — Internet Archive. A Traveller in Little Things (1921) — Internet Archive. An Outline History of English Literature (1945) — Internet Archive. An Introduction To The Study Of Literature (1946) — Internet Archive. An outline history og english literature (1956) — Internet Archive. Argentine Ornithology, Volume 2 (of 2) — Internet Archive. A Little Boy Lost (1918) — Internet Archive. An Introduction To The Philosophy Of Herbert Spencer (1894) — Internet Archive. A Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs (2015) — Internet Archive. The Sir Roger de Coverley Papers: From the spectator (Heath’s English Classics) (1909) — Internet Archive. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest — Project Gutenberg. The Naturalist in La Plata — Project Gutenberg. The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in The Banda Orientál, in South America, as Told By Himself — Project Gutenberg. Birds in Town & Village — Project Gutenberg. Argentine Ornithology, Volume 2 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. — Project Gutenberg. Afoot in England — Project Gutenberg. Argentine Ornithology, Volume 1 (of 2): A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. — Project Gutenberg. Fan : The Story of a Young Girl's Life — Project Gutenberg.

Scholarly footprint

Bibliographic registers publish measured figures for this heading: 19 language editions of the general reference literature carrying an article (Wikimedia (language editions)). A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.

Evidence base

This article draws on 6 independent source lineages. Copies and mirrors of the same underlying record were collapsed into a single witness, so 6 means 6 genuinely separate publishers of record. 11 further registers were consulted and returned nothing for this heading.

Chronology

  1. 1841William Henry Hudson born at Quilmes Partido.
  2. 1903rousseau and naturalism in life and thought digitised by Internet Archive.
  3. 1913Outline of English Literature digitised by Internet Archive.
  4. 1916Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest digitised by Internet Archive.
  5. 1917France: the nation and its development from earliest times to the establishment of the third republic digitised by Internet Archive.
  6. 1918Wordsworth and His Poetry digitised by Internet Archive.
  7. 1920Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn digitised by Internet Archive.
  8. 1921A Traveller in Little Things digitised by Internet Archive.
  9. 1922William Henry Hudson died at London.
  10. 1945An Outline History of English Literature digitised by Internet Archive.
  11. 1946An Introduction To The Study Of Literature digitised by Internet Archive.

Sources

Each source is named with the standing the house places on it, so the evidence can be weighed rather than taken on trust.

  1. 1.

    CODA Cámac y la memoria emocionada: entrecruces de William Henry Hudson y José María Arguedas, Entre Borges y Conrad, 2012

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  2. 2.

    Hudson, William Henry (1841-1922), SpringerReference

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    Hudson, William Henry (1841–1922), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2017

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    Hudson, William Henry, (4 Aug. 1841–18 Aug. 1922), Who Was Who, 2007

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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    INTRODUCCIÓN. Imperio y canon en William Henry Hudson, Entre Borges y Conrad, 2012

    scholarly publication · Scholarly

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  6. 6.

    Open Library author record for William Henry Hudson (Internet Archive), 75 catalogued works.

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  7. 7.

    Directory of Open Access Journals lists 16 articles naming William Henry Hudson.

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  8. 8.

    Internet Archive, 92 digitised items catalogued under William Henry Hudson as creator.

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  9. 9.

    Project Gutenberg holds 23 full texts attributed to William Henry Hudson.

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  10. 10.

    The Art Institute of Chicago, collection records associated with William Henry Hudson.

    museum collection · Unverified · The Art Institute of Chicago

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  11. 11.

    Wellcome Collection catalogue records 33 works naming William Henry Hudson.

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  12. 12.

    Wikidata, structured authority record Q1359140: William Henry Hudson

    reference work · Reputable secondary · Wikimedia Foundation

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  13. 13.

    “William Henry Hudson”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading

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