Hewlett was ever the facile stylist in search of a satisfying genre.
Maurice Henry Hewlett was born on 22 January 1861, at Oatlands Park, Weybridge, Surrey, to Henry Gay Hewlett and Emmeline Mary Knowles. His mother was the daughter of an architect. Hewlett's father, the author of half a dozen books on English history and poetry, was an expert in antiquarian law. He held a civil-service post in the Land Revenue Records Office; Maurice Hewlett was appointed to the same position following his father's death in 1897.
Describing himself in Lore of Proserpine (1913) as a "moody, irresolute, and hatefully reserved" child, Hewlett (eldest of eight children) wrote that "To my father I could not speak, to my mother I did not; the others, being my juniors all, hardly existed." Hewlett lived a "thronged and secret" fantasy life: "At nine years old, I knew Nelson's ardour and Wellesley's phlegm; I had Napoleon's egotism, Galahad's purity, Lancelot's passion, Tristram's melancholy.
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