author
Harold Spender
1864–1926
A lively Liberal journalist and public thinker, he wrote about politics, travel, and national life at a moment when Britain was rapidly changing. His books blend a reporter’s eye for current events with the wider perspective of a lecturer and essayist.
2 Audiobooks
Home Rule Second Edition
by Harold Spender
The Prime Minister
by Harold Spender
About the author
Born in 1864, Harold Spender was a British Liberal politician, author, journalist, and lecturer. He moved easily between public life and literary work, building a career that connected politics, commentary, and books for general readers.
Spender wrote on a wide range of subjects, including political leaders, public affairs, and travel. Among his known works are The Prime Minister, The Story of the Home Rule Session, Through the High Pyrenees, and the novel At the Sign of the Guillotine, showing how comfortably he worked across both nonfiction and fiction.
He died in 1926. He is also remembered as part of a notably literary family: he was the son of novelist Lillian Spender and the father of poet Stephen Spender.