Scenes from An Englishman's Home, by Guy du Maurier, and produced at the Wyndham's Theatre, first played at the Wyndham's Theatre, London, on 27 January 1909, and went on to be a long-running success.
An Englishman's Home is a threat-of-invasion play first produced in 1909. The title is a reference to the expression "an Englishman's home is his castle".
An Englishman's Home caused a sensation in London when it appeared anonymously, under the name "A Patriot", in 1909. The writer Guy du Maurier was a regular officer in the British Army, who had seen active service during the South African War and who was to be killed in France in 1915
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, February 6th 1909, "An Englishman's Home," By a Patriot, at Wyndham's Theatre.
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