Laurence Hope: General Bibliography


I. Editions of Laurence Hope's Poems

  1. The Garden of Káma, and Other Love Lyrics from India, Arranged in Verse by Laurence Hope. London: William Heinemann, 1901.  Also published in the United States as India's Love Lyrics, Including The Garden of Kama. New York: John Lane, 1901.
  2. Stars of the Desert. London: William Heinemann; New York: John Lane, 1903.
  3. Indian Love. London: William Heinemann, 1905.  Also published in the United States as Last Poems: Translations from the Book of Indian Love. New York: John Lane; London: William Heinemann, 1905.
  4. Laurence Hope's Poems. New York: Paul R. Reynolds, 1907.

    Illustrated, Selected, and Collected Editions
  5. Songs from the Garden of Kama. Illustrated with photographs by Mrs. Eardly Wilmot. London: William Heinemann, 1909.
  6. The Garden of Kama, and Other Love Lyrics from India, Arranged in Verse by Laurence Hope, Illustrated by Byam Shaw. London: William Heinemann; New York: John Lane, 1914.
  7. Selected Poems from the Indian Love Lyrics of Laurence Hope. Ed. M. J. Nicolson. London: William Heinemann, 1922.
  8. Complete Love Lyrics: Including India's Love Lyrics, Stars of the Desert, Last Poems. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co., Inc., 1929.
  9. Selected Love Lyrics; Containing Poems from India's Love Lyrics, Stars of the Desert, Last Poems. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1968.


 II. Biographical Sources
  1. F. L.B. "Nicolson, Mrs. Adela Florence, 'Laurence Hope'." Dictionary of National Biography. 2nd Supp. 3 v. London: Smith Elder & Co., 1912: 2:14-15.
  2. Lesley Blanch. "Laurence Hope--A Shadow in the Sunlight." Under a Lilac-Bleeding Star: Travels and Travelers. London: John Murray, 1963: 184-208.
  3. Violet Jacob. Diaries and Letters from India 1895-1900. Ed. Carol Anderson.. Edinburgh: Canongate, 1990.
  4. John Jealous. "Laurence Hope." The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture. New York: Garland, 1993: 283-84.
  5. Edward Marx. "Violet Nicolson."  An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers.  Ed. Paul Schlueter and June Schlueter.  New York: Garland, 1999.
  6. Edward Marx. "Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson)."  Late Nineteenth- And Early Twentieth-Century British Women Poets (Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 240).  Ed. William Thesing.  Detroit: Gale Group, 2001.  88-93.


 III. Fictional Works About Laurence Hope
  1. Ted Malone. "The Secret Life of Laurence Hope." Ted Malone's Favorite Stories. New York: Doubleday, 1950.
  2. W. Somerset Maugham. "The Colonel's Lady." The Complete Short Stories. 2 v. Garden City (New York): Doubleday, 1952. 2:587-604.
  3. Mary Talbot Cross.  Fate Knows No Tears. 1996.

IV. Critical Studies

  1. [Francis Thompson], "Hindoo Love-Poems," Academy, (15 Mar. 1902): 263-64.
  2. Bliss Carman, "Poetry of the Month." Reader 1:1 (Nov. 1902): 87-88.
  3. H. Pearl Humphry. "The Work of Laurence Hope." Acorn. (London). (1905). 137-47.
  4. H. [Henry] Bruce. "A True Indian Poet." East & West (Bombay). 52-3 (Feb-March 1906). 158-166, 240-250.
  5. James Elroy Flecker. "Laurence Hope." Monthly Review ?? (June 1907). 164-68.
  6. Otto Rothfeld. "Laurence Hope." Indian Dust. Oxford: Alden & Co., 1909: 203-216.
  7. Austin Johnson. "The Poetry of Laurence Hope." Poetry Review 3 (July-Dec. 1913): 151-154.
  8. Edward Marx. "Reviving Laurence Hope."  Women's Poetry, Late Romantic to Late Victorian: Gender and Genre.  Ed. Isobel Armstrong and Virginia Blain.  London; New York: Macmillan Press, 1998.
  9. Edward Marx. "Decadent Exoticism and the Woman Poet."  Women and British Aestheticism.  Ed. Kathy Psomiades and Talia Schaffer.  Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia , 2000.

This page is part of the Laurence Hope web project.  Last updated on October 21, 2001 .