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Allan Monkhouse
Allan Noble Monkhouse was an English playwright, critic, essayist and novelist.
He was born in Barnard Castle, County Durham. He worked in the cotton trade, in Manchester, and settled in Disley, Cheshire. From 1902 to 1932 he worked on The Manchester Guardian, writing also for the New Statesman.
As literary editor, in fact if not in formal title, at the Guardian, Monkhouse helped to launch the career of James Agate by publishing his open letters from France during the First World War. Agate appears in Monkhouse's play Nothing Like Leather barely disguised as the theatre critic "Topaz".
He began to write drama for the Gaiety Theatre, Manchester, shortly after it was opened by Annie Horniman, along with Stanley Houghton and Harold Brighouse, forming a school of realist dramatists independent of the London stage, who were known as the Manchester School.
Books by Allan Monkhouse
Mary Broome: A Comedy in Four Acts
In Allan Monkhouse's 1911 satire, when the son of a middle-class household gets their housemaid pregnant, the two families must try to combine their very different values.
Mary Broome
Mary Broome is a novel set in Victorian England that satirizes the social and moral conventions of the time. It follows the story of Mary, a housemaid who becomes pregnant by the son of a middle-class family. The story explores the clash of values be...