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The Squire's Daughter

Silas Hocking

出版	CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013-02-04
主題	Fiction / Romance / General
ISBN	14823569889781482356984
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=HAIpmQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 - 15 September 1935) was a Cornish novelist and Methodist preacher. He was born at St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall, to James Hocking, part owner of a tin mine, and his wife Elizabeth. His two siblings were also novelists. As a youngster he read Sir Walter Scott. Although intended to follow his father into the tin business, he felt called to the Methodist ministry. He was ordained in 1870, and worked in different parts of England over the next few years, showing himself to be a brilliant preacher, and he married in 1876. He resigned in 1896 to devote his time to writing, Liberal politics and journalism. Hocking wrote many novels, and was also politically active, for the Liberal party. He died in Highgate, Middlesex, and is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, along with his son, who died of Spanish flu in 1919, and his wife.