Hall Caine

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Hall Caine


Born
in Runcorn, Cheshire, England
May 14, 1853

Died
August 31, 1931

Genre


Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH, KBE (1853-1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was an English author. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he was exceedingly popular and at the peak of his success his novels outsold those of his contemporaries. His novels were primarily romantic in nature, involving the love triangle, but they did also address some of the more serious political and social issues of the day. Caine acted as secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and at one time he aspired to become a man of letters. To this end he published a number of serious works but these had little success. A man of striking appearance, he travelled widely and used his travels to provide the ...more

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“He was not a man of icy nature, but he loved to gather icicles about him.”
Hall Caine, The Manxman

“He was all iron outside, but all father within.”
Hall Caine, The Manxman

“leave such mistakes for time to set right. And when the truth comes in such a case it comes to some purpose.”
Sir Hall Caine, The Shadow of a Crime A Cumbrian Romance

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