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T H White


(Terence Hanbury White)
UK flag (1906 - 1964)

aka James Aston

Terence Hanbury White is best known for his famous retelling of the Arthurian legends in The Once and Future King. He was educated at Cheltenham College and Cambridge. He later became a teacher and was appointed Head of Stowe school. The school grounds were to inspire the setting for Mistress Masham's Repose which he wrote in 1947.
 

Genres: Fantasy, Children's Fiction
 
Series
Once and Future King
   1. The Sword in the Stone (1938)
   2. The Witch in the Wood (1939)
     aka The Queen of Air and Darkness
   3. The Ill-made Knight (1940)
   5. The Book of Merlyn (1977)
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Novels
   Darkness at Pemberley (1932)
   First Lesson (1932) (as by James Aston)
   They Winter Abroad (1932) (as by James Aston)
   Farewell Victoria (1933)
   Earth Stopped (1934)
   Gone to Ground (1935)
   Mistress Masham's Repose (1946)
   The Elephant and the Kangaroo (1947)
   The Book of Beasts (1954)
   The Master (1957)
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Collections
   Loved Helen (poems) (1929)
   A Joy Proposed (poems) (1980)
   The Maharajah (1981)
   3-book Fantasy Collection (2017) (with Diana Wynne Jones and Norton Juster)
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Non fiction show
 
Omnibus editions show
 


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