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Sabine Baring-gould

Male : Novelist, Essayist, Hymn Writer ("Onward Christian Soldiers") & Miscellanous Writer. Married Grace Taylor, a young mill-hand, in 1868. They had 15 children. Prolific writer - the British Museum catalogue lists more books by him in his era than any other author
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Exeter, Devon

Date of Birth : 1834 Date of Death : 1924 Age : 90

Other Work : Curate at Horbury in Yorkshire. 1866 Vicar at Dalton, Yorks. 1870-1881 Rector at East Mersea, Essex & Rector of Lew Trenchard in Devon 1881-1924

Education : Clare College, Cambridge
1854-1870
The Path of the Just
(1854 Masters)
Iceland : Its Scenes and Sagas
(1863 Smith Elder)
Offered in 1998 for £385
Post-Medieval Preachers
(1865 Rivington)
The Book of Were-Wolves
(1865 Smith Elder)
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages : Two Series
(1866-8 Rivington)
Through Flood & Fame
(1868 Bentley) - 3 vols
The Silver Store : Collected from Medieval Christian & Jewish Mines
(1868 Longmans Green)
Curiosities of Olden Times
(1869 Hayes)
The Origin and Development of Religious Belief
(1869-70 Rivington) - 2 vols
The Golden Gate
(1869-70 Simpkin Marshall)
In Exitu Israel : An Historical Novel
(1870 Macmillan) - 2 vols

1871-1875
Legends Lives of Old Testament Characters
(1871-82 Macmillan) - 2 vols
A Humdred Sermon Sketches for Extempore Preachers
(1872 Masters)
Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets
(1872 Holt & Williams, US)
Secular v. Religious Education
(1872)
The Lives of the Saints
(1872-7 John Hodges, London) - 15 vols
(1897-8 Nimmo) - 16 Vols
(1914 Grant) - 16 Vols
Village Conferences on the Creed
(1873 Masters)
The Lost and Hostile Gospels
(1874 Williams & Norgate)
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents & Strange Events
(1874 Hodges) - 2 vols
Some Modern Difficulties
(1875 Skeffington)
Village Preaching for a Year : 1st Series
(1875 Skeffington) - 3 vols
Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents & Strange Events
(1875 John Hodges, London 2nd Ed) - 2 vols

1876-1880
The Vicar of Morwenstow : A Life of Robert Stephen Hawker
(1876 King)
The Mystery of Suffering
(1877 Skeffington)
Sermons to Children : 1st Series
(1879 Skeffington) - 2 vols
Germany : Present and Past
(1879 Kegan Paul) - 2 vols
Ernestine
(1879 De La Rue) - 2 vols
The Preacher's Pocket
(1880 Skeffington)
Mehalah
(1880 Smith Elder) - 3 vols

1881-1885
The Village Pulpit
(1881 Skeffington) - 2 vols
Village Preaching for Saints' Days
(1881 Skeffington)
Germany
(1883 Sampson Low)
John Herring
(1883 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Village Preaching for a Year : 2nd Series
(1884 Skeffington) - 2 vols
The Seven Last Words
(1884 Skeffington)
The Passion of Jesus
(1885 Skeffington)
The Birth of Jesus
(1885 Skeffington)
tell Me a Tale
(1885 Skeffington)
Our Parish Church
(1885 Skeffington)

1886-1888
Nazareth and Capernaum
(1886 Skeffington)
The Trials of Jesus
(1886 Skeffington)
Germany
(1886 Unwin) - with A Gilman
Court Royal
(1886 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Red Spider
(1887 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
The Way of Sorrows
(1887 Skeffington)
Little Tu'Penny
(1887 Ward & Downey)
The Gaverocks
(1887 Smith Elder) - 3 vols
Richard Cable The Lightshipman
(1888 Smith Elder)
Eve
(1888 Chatto & Windus) - 2 vols
The Death & Resurrection of Jesus
(1888 Skeffington)
Our Inheritance
(1888 Skeffington) - 2 vols

1889-1890
Historic Oddities & Strange Events : Two Series
(1889-91 Methuen)
Songs and Ballads of the West
(1889-91 3 parts : Patey & Willis, London)
(1891-5 Methuen) - with H Fleetwood Sheppard & F W Bussell
Old Country Life
(1889 Methuen)
The Pennycomequicks
(1889 Spencer Blackett) - 3 vols
Arminell
(1889 Methuen) - 3 vols
My Prague Pig
(1890 Skeffington)
Old Country Life
(1890 Methuen) - F D Bedford
Jacquetta & Other Stories
(1890 Methuen)
Grettir the Outlaw : A Story of Iceland in the Days of the Vikings
(1890 Blackie) - M Zeno Diemer
Conscience and Sin
(1890 Skeffington)

1891-1895
In Troubadour Land : A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc
(1891 Allen)
History of the Church in Germany
(1891 Wells Gardner Darton)
Urith : A Tale of Dartmoor
(1891 Methuen) - 3 vols
Margery of Quether
(1891 Methuen)
Historic Oddities & Strange Events : 2nd Series
(1891 Methuen)
In the Roar of the Sea
(1892 Methuen) - 3 vols
Through All the Changing Scenes of Life
(1892 SPCK) - 3 vols
The Tragedy of the Caesars
(1892 Methuen) - 2 vols
Strange Survivals and Superstitions
(1892 Methuen)
Mrs Curgenven of Curvengen
(1893 Methuen) - 3 vols
Cheap Jack Zita
(1893 Methuen) - 3 vols
The Queen of Love : A Novel
(1894 Methuen) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £300
The Deserts of Southern France - an Introduction to the Limestone & Chalk Plateaux of
Ancient Aquitaine
(1894 Methuen) - 2 vols. - F D Bedford
(1894 NY) - 2 vols
The Icelander's Sword
(1894 Methuen)
A Book of Fairy Tales
(1894 Methuen) - 75. Arthur J Gaskin
Ltd Ed offered in 1997 for £275
(1895 Methuen. 2nd Ed)
A Garland of Country Song
(1895 Methuen) - with H F Sheppard
Old English Fairy Tales
(1895 Methuen) - F D Bedford
A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes
(1895 Methuen)
- A J Gaskin & Members of the Birmingham School of Art
English Minstrelsie
(1895-7 Jack) - 8 vols
Noemi
(1895 Methuen)
Kitty Alone
(1895 Methuen)

1896-1900
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
(1896)
The Broom-Squire
(1896 Methuen) - Frank Dadd
Dartmoor Idylls
(1896 Methuen)
Guavas the Tinner
(1897 Methuen) - Frank Dadd
Bladys of the Stewponey
(1897 Methuen)
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte
(1897 Methuen 36/-)
A Book of Nursery Rhymes
(1897 Methuen) - F D Bedford
Perpetua
(1897 Isbister)
A Study of St Paul
(1897 Isbister)
The Sunday Round
(1898-9 Skeffington) - 4 vols
An Armory of the Western Countries
(1898 Commins) - 250
An Old English Home
(1898 Methuen)
Domitia
(1898 Methuen)
Pabo the Priest
(1899 Methuen)
Furze-Bloom : Tales of the Western Moors
(1899 Methuen)
The Crock of Gold
(1899 Methuen)
The Book of the West
(1899 Methuen) - 2 vols
Virgin Saints and Martyrs
(1900 Hutchinson)
In a Quiet Village
(1900 Isbister) - ss
Winefred
(1900 Methuen)
Dartmoor : A Descriptive & Historical Sketch
(1900 Methuen)

1901-1905
The Frobishers : A Story of the Staffordshire Potteries
(1901 Methuen)
A Book of Britanny
(1901 Methuen)
Royal Georgie
(1901 Methuen) - D Murray Smith
Miss Quillet
(1902 Methuen 6/-) - G Grenville Manton
Nebo the Nailer
(1902 Cassell)
A Coronation Souvenir
(1902 Skeffington)
Britanny
(1902 Methuen Little Guide)
In the Roar of the Sea
(1902)
Chris of All Sorts
(1903 Methuen)
A Book of North Wales
(1903 Methuen)
A Book of North Wales
(1903)
Amazing Adventures
(1903 Warne)
In Dewisland
(1904 Methuen)
Siegfried : A Romance founded on Wagner's Operas
(1904 Dean) - Charles Robinson
A Book of Ghosts
(1904 Methuen) - D Murray Smith
A Book of South Wales
(1905 Methuen)
A Book of the Riviera
(1905 Methuen)
Monsieur Pichelmere & Other Stories
(1905 Digby Long)
A Memorial of Horatio Lord Nelson
(1905 Skeffington)
Songs of the West : Folk Songs of Devon & Cornwall
(1905 Methuen)
- with Sheppard & F W Bussell

1906-1910
A Book of the Rhine
(1906 Methuen)
English Folk-Songs for Schools
(1906 Curwen) - with Cecil Sharp
The Restitution of All Things
(1907 Skeffington)
Lives of the British Saints
(1907-13 Cymmrodorion Society) - 4 vols. with John Fisher
A Book of the Pyrenees
(1907 Methuen)
Sermons to Children : 2nd Series
(1907 Skeffington) - 2 vols
Devon
(1907 Methuen Little Guide)
A Life of Nero
(1907 Royal Library)
A Book of the Cevennes
(1907 Long)
Devonshire Characters and Strange Events
(1908 JL, Bodley Head)
The Baring-Gould selection Reader
(1908 Methuen)
The Baring-Gould Continuous Reader
(1908 Methuen)
Cornish Characters & Strange Events
(1909 JL, Bodley Head)
A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908
(1909 Sotheran) - with C A Bampfylde
Family Names and Their Story
(1910 Seeley)
Cornwall
(1910 CUP)

AFTER 1911
Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
(1911 Seeley)
A Coronation Souvenir
(1911 Skeffington)
Hymns for the Coronation of His Majesty King George V
(1911 Skeffington)
Church Songs
(1911-12 SPCK) - 2 vols
The Land of Teck & Its Neighbourhood
(1911 John Lane)
Village Sermons to Simple Souls
(1912 Skeffington)
A Book of Folk Lore
(1913 Methuen)
The Church Revival
(1914 Methuen)
The Evangelical Revival
(1920 Methuen)
Early Reminiscences 1834-64
(1923 John Lane)
My Few Last Words
(1924 Skeffington)
Further Reminiscences 1864-1894
(1925 JL, Bodley Head)
Margery of Quether & Other Weird Tales
(1999 Sarob Press £20)

READING
William Purcell : Onward Christian Soldier - A Life of Baring-Gould
(1957 Longmans 21/-)
Bickford H C Dickinson : Sabine Baring-Gould - Squarson, Writer & Folklorist
(1970 David & Charles)
Cicely Briggs : The Manor of Lew
(1993 Praxis, Pulborough)
Harry Kirk-Smith : Now the Day is Over - The Life & Times of Sabine Baring-Gould 1834-1924
(1997 Richard Kay £20)
Keith Lister : Half My Life - The Story of Sabine Baring-Gould and Grace
(2002 Charnwood £12.95)

Related Writers

British Museum
Charles Robinson


See also

Folk Song Studies, English
Folklore & Folksong
France, Books About