Other names

Harold Edward Monro

Place of birth

Brussels, Belgium

Location(s)

Poetry Bookshop, Devonshire Street
W1W 5DT
United Kingdom
Poetry Bookshop, Great Russell Street
WC1B 3PE
United Kingdom

Place of death

Kent, England

About

Harold Monro was a poet, editor and bookseller. Based in London, he was connected with several South Asian writers, poets and artists in the early twentieth century.

Hibberd, Dominic, ‘Monro, Harold Edward (1879–1932)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004) [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35071]

Image credit

© Remaking Britain: South Asian Connections and Networks, 1930s – present

Citation: ‘Harold Monro’, South Asian Britain, https://southasianbritain-demo.rit.bris.ac.uk/people/harold-monro/. Accessed: 5 July 2025.

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