 Hewlett's 1900 novel "The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay", about Richard the Lionheart, was a favourite novel of T. E. Lawrence.Lawrence said he had read "The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay" several times.Another of Hewlett's historical novels was "The Queen's Quair" (1904), about Mary, Queen of Scots.