Coningsby Dawson

Coningsby Dawson

Coningsby Dawson (1883- 1959) was an Anglo-American author, born at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England.

He graduated at Merton College, Oxford, in 1905 and in the sane year went to America, where he did special work for English newspapers on Canadian subjects, traveling widely during the period. He lived at Taunton, Massachusetts, from 1906 to 1910, when he became literary adviser to the George H. Doran Publishing Company.

He joined the Canadian army at the front in 1916, and continued in service until the end of the War. After having been wounded he came twice to the United States (1917, 1918) on lecture tours. In 1918, he investigated for the British Ministry of Information, American military preparedness in France.

In 1919, he went to England to study European reconstruction problems, and subsequently lectured on the subject of the United States. He also visited and reported on the devastated regions of Central and Eastern Europe at the request of Herbert Hoover.

He also edited, with his father W. J. Dawson, The Reader's Library, and Best Short Stories (1923).

Partial list of Works

• The Worker and Other Poems (1906)
• The House of Weeping Women (1908)
• Murder Point (1910)
• The Road to Avalon (1911)
• The Garden Without Walls (1913)
• Florence on a Certain Night and other Poems (1914)
• The Raft (1914)
• Slaves of Freedom (1916)
• The Seventh Christmas (1917, 1921)
• Carry On (1917)
• The Glory of the Trenches (1918)
• Out to Win (1918)
• Living Bayonets (1919)
• The Test of Scarlet (1919)
• The Little House (1920)
• It Might Have Happened to You (1921)
• The Kingdom Round the Corner (1921, 1923)
• Christmas Outside Eden (1922)