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11 unusual facts about Hilaire Belloc


Cautionary Tales for Children

Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc.

Halnaker Windmill

Halnaker Mill (or Ha'nacker Mill, reflecting the true pronunciation) is the subject of a poem by the English writer Hilaire Belloc in which the collapse of the Mill is used as a metaphor for the tragic decay of the prevailing moral and social system.

Kenya Mountain

The original book was published in 1929 by Jonathan Cape in London, and contains a preface by Dutton and an introduction by Hilaire Belloc.

Marian Cruger Coffin

She preferred the company of young architects, artists, musicians and writers, though she could be curt towards those she took a dislike to; on one occasion, she snubbed Hilaire Belloc when he asked her which of his books she had read.

Seward Collins

This book, which is based on Collins' actual papers and letters (as well as his FBI file), argues that Collins was in fact a Distributist, i.e., a follower of G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc, who inexplicably called Agrarianism "fascism."

In addition to featuring essays by many critics of modernity, The American Review also became the a vehicle for spreading the ideas associated with English Distributism, the supporters of which included G. K. Chesterton and Hilaire Belloc.

Shiremark Mill, Capel

Hilaire Belloc mentions Shiremark Mill in the preface to The Four Men.

The Bad Child's Book of Beasts

The Bad Child's Book of Beasts is an 1896 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc.

Third Ways

Moreover, the writings of distributist authors Hilaire Belloc and G. K. Chesterton were influential on public policy throughout the world in the later twentieth century and were in some respects prophetic.

Three Cups Hotel

The hotel has played host to many famous and influential people including Alfred Lord Tennyson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hilaire Belloc, G.K. Chesterton and J. R. R. Tolkien who spent several holidays there.

Women's National Anti-Suffrage League

Other members were Mrs Frederic Harrison, Miss Lonsdale, Violet Markham, Miss Beatrice Chamberlain and Hilaire Belloc MP.


G. K.'s Weekly

That paper had been founded (as Eye-Witness) by Hilaire Belloc, and published by Charles Granville's Stephen Swift Ltd intil 1912 when Granville was made bankrupt.

National Insurance Act 1911

Franco-British Catholic writer Hilaire Belloc considered the Insurance Act to be a manifestation of The Servile State, which he detailed in his book of the same name.