Burnet, W Hodgson
Entry updated 25 September 2021. Tagged: Author.
(1873-1933) UK architect and author, whose Parodies include Quite So Stories (coll 1918), which makes mild fun of Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories (coll 1902). In Gullible's Travels in Little-Brit (1920), a giant Gulliver from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726) (see Great and Small; Gulliver; Sequels by Other Hands) visits London during World War One, which he supports, and meets G K Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw, whom he bests. Most of the Satire is directed at Parliament. [JC]
William Hodgson Burnet
born Scotland: 1873
died Windsor, Buckinghamshire: 8 December 1933
works
- Quite So Stories (London: Cassell and Company, 1918) [coll: Rudyard Kipling: illus/pb/E T Reed]
- The MP.'s Garden of Verses (London: A L Humphreys, 1920) [poetry: coll: chap: illus/pb/T C Black]
- Gullible's Travels in Little-Brit (London: W Westall and Company, 1920) [spine gives "Burnett" in error: illus/Thomas Henry: hb/]
- The Rubaiyat of Omar, MP (London: A L Humphreys, 1921) [poetry: coll: chap: illus/pb/T C Black]
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