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Arthur Henry Mee (21 July 187527 May 1943) was a British writer, journalist and educator. He is best known for ''The Harmsworth Self-Educator'', ''The Children's Encyclopædia'', ''The Children's Newspaper'', and ''The King's England''. He produced other works, usually with a patriotic tone, especially on the subjects of history or the countryside. ==Biography== He was born on 21 July 1875 at Stapleford near Nottingham, England, the second of the ten children of Henry Mee (b. 1852), railway fireman, and his wife, Mary (née Fletcher). As a boy he earned money from reading the reports of Parliament to a local blind man. He left school at 14 to join a local newspaper, where he became an editor by age 20. He contributed many non-fiction articles to magazines and joined the staff of ''The Daily Mail'' in 1898. He was made literary editor five years later. In 1903 he began working for publisher Alfred Harmsworth's Amalgamated Press. He was appointed general editor of ''The Harmsworth Self-Educator'' (1905–1907),〔("Alfred Deakin Prime Ministerial Library webpage on Arthur Mee" )〕 in collaboration with John Hammerton. In 1908 he began work on ''The Children's Encyclopædia'', which came out as a fortnightly magazine. The series was published and bound in eight volumes soon afterwards, and later expanded to ten volumes. After the success of ''The Children's Encyclopædia'', he started the first newspaper published for children, the weekly ''Children's Newspaper'', which was published until 1965. Mee also wrote ''London – Heart of the Empire and Wonder of the Word'', which became a very popular book. Although he made money from these works, he did not receive a fair share.〔John Hammerton (1946) ''Child of Wonder: An Intimate Biography of Arthur Mee''〕 He had a large house built overlooking the hills near Eynsford in Kent. Its development from design to the final building was depicted in later editions of ''The Children's Encyclopædia''. Mee had one child, but, despite his work, declared that he had no particular affinity with children. His works for them suggest that his interest was in trying to encourage the raising of a generation of patriotic and moral citizens. He came from a Baptist upbringing, and supported the temperance movement. He died in London aged 67. His books continued to be published after his death, most noticeably ''The King's England'', a guide to the counties of England, which is being progressively republished. Mee's works were successful abroad. ''The Children's Encyclopædia'' was translated into Chinese and sold well in the United States under the title ''The Book of Knowledge''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Mee」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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