Allan Noble Monkhouse (7 May 1858 – 10 January 1936) 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. Works Plays Reaping the Whirlwind (1908) play The Choice (1910) play Mary Broome: A Comedy in Four Acts (1912) Nothing Like Leather (1913) play Four Tragedies (1913) The Education of Mr. Surrage: A Comedy in Four Acts (1913) Night Watches: A Comedy in One Act (1916) The Conquering Hero (1923) play First Blood: A Play in Four Acts (1924) Sons And Fathers: A Play in Four Acts (1925) Suburb (1925) The Rag (1928) play Paul Felice: A Play in Four Acts (1930) The Grand Cham's Diamond (1932) play Cecilia: A Play in Four Acts (1932) Novels A Deliverance (1898) novel Love in a Life (1903) novel Dying Fires (1912) novel Men & Ghosts (1918) novel True Love (1920) novel My Daughter Helen (1922) novel Marmaduke (1924) novel Alfred the Great (1927) novel Farewell Manchester (1931) novel Essays Books & Plays (1894) essays Essays of To-Day and Yesterday (1925) External links Allan Monkhouse papers at John Rylands Library, Manchester. Play by Allan Monkhouse on Great War Theatre 1858 births 1936 deaths 20th-century English novelists English dramatists and playwrights Writers from Manchester People from Barnard Castle People from Disley English male dramatists and playwrights English male novelists 20th-century English male writers