Hall Caine, the Man and the Novelist

The keynote of Hall Caine’s character, both as a man and as a novelist, is sincerity, and the deepest thing in him is love of humanity. He is dominated by the ambition to get ou...

Thomas Henry Hall Caine was born in Runcorn, Lancashire, on May 14, 1853. Runcorn is by no means a romantic town, and, fortunately for the future novelist, he only spent ten day...

In the year 1878 an event of the greatest importance to Hall Caine’s future life happened; he became acquainted with the poems of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Little did the eager yo...

After the death of Rossetti, Hall Caine spent eighteen months in daily journalism in London writing his Rossetti recollections, and reviewing books, etc., for the _Academy_ and...

It was _The Deemster_ that brought Hall Caine fame. It was written in a mood of dissatisfaction, of disappointment. He felt that he had it in him to write a novel that should be...

Hall Caine has written five plays, three of which have been produced. The drama founded on _The Eternal City_ has been played for copyright purposes only. The first of these pla...

_The Bondman_ is a lurid picture of conflicting passions. Love, of an intense sadness, is set against hate and mischance. The strength of the story and the powerfulness of its n...

Although in comparison with _The Bondman_, _The Deemster_ or _The Manxman_, _The Scapegoat_ is not a masterpiece, yet it is in no sense a failure, or derogatory to the gifted ha...

In _The Manxman_, Hall Caine sounds the depths of humanity, and brings up the cry of living men and women to our ears. The sacred powerfulness of Love is his theme, the depths o...

With the publication of _The Christian_ began a new episode in Hall Caine’s career. Hitherto he had been welcomed on all sides; praise was literally heaped upon him. The critics...

This last great novel of Hall Caine’s is not a picture of Life; it _is_ Life. His characters are more real than those with whom we meet and talk to every day of our lives; for n...