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Joseph Hocking

Male : Novelist (over 80). Younger brother of Silas K. Married Annie Brown in 1887
Nationality : English Place of Birth : St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall

Date of Birth : 1860 Date of Death : 1937 Age : 77

Other Work : Surveyor. Methodist Minister

Education : Manchester University
All Ward Lock unless stated otherwise
1887-1895
Harry Penhale : The Trial of His Faith
(1887 Andrew Crombie)
Gideon Strong : Plebian
(1888 Andrew Crombie)
From London to Damascus
(1889)
Elrad the Hic : A Romance of the Sea of Galilee
(1890)
Jabez Easterbrook : A Religious Novel
(1890) - Stanley L Wood
The Weapons of Mystery
(1890)
Zillah : A Romance
(1892) - frontis by Powell Chase
Ishmael Pengelly : An Outcast
(1893) - Walter S Stacey
The Story of Andrew Fairfax
(1893) - Geo Hutchinson
The Monk of Marsaba
(1894) - W S Stacey
All Men are Liars
(1895) - Gordon Browne
The Mist on the Moors : A Romance of the Parish of Alternun
(1895)

1896-1900
Fields of Fair Renown
(1896) - J Barnard Davis or Gordon Browne ?
And Shall Trelawey Die ?
(1897) - Laneclot Speed
The Birthright : A Roamnce
(1897) - Harold Piffard
Mistress Nancy Molesworth
(1898)
The Scarlet Woman
(1899) - Sydney Cowell
The Romance of Michael Trevail
(1900 Cassell)
The Purple Robe
(1900) - J Barnard Davis
The Madness of David Baring
(1900 Hodder & Stoughton) - Sydney Cowell

1901-1905
O'er Moor and Fen : A Tale of Methodist Life in Lancashire
(1901 Hodder & Stoughton) - Harold Copping
Lest We Forget
(1901)
Greater Love : A Cornish Romance
(1902)
A Flame of Fire
(1903 Cassell)
Follow the Gleam : A Tale of the Time of Oliver Cromwell
(1903 Hodder & Stoughton)
Esay and St Issey
(1904)
The Coming of the King
(1904)
Roger Trewinion
(1905) - Gunning King
The Chariots of the Lord
(1905 RTS)

1906-1910
The Man who Rose Again
(1906 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Woman of Babylon
(1906 Cassell)
A Strong Man's Vow
(1907 Cassell)
The Trampled Cross
(1907 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Soul of Dominic Wildthorne
(1908 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Sword of the Lord : A Romance of the Time of Martin Luther 91909 Cassell)
The Prince of This World
(1910)

1911-1915
The Wilderness
(1911 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Bells of St Ia
(1911 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Jesuit
(1911 Cassell)
God and Mammon
(1912)
Rosaleen O'Hara
(1912 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Spirit of the West
(1913 Cassell)
Facing Fearful Odds
(1914 Hodder & Stoughton)
An Enemy Hath Done This
(1914)
Dearer than Life : A Roamnce of the Great War
(1915 Hodder & Stoughton)
All for a Scrap of Paper : A Romance of the Present War
(1915 Hodder & Stoughton)
The Dust of Life
(1915 Cassell)
The Day of Judgement
(1915 Cassell)

1916-1920
Tommy : A War Story
(1916 Mainly Hodder & Stoughton from here on)
The Passion for Life
(1916 RTS)
The Curtain of Fire
(1916)
The Path of Glory
(1917)
Tommy and the Maid of Athens
(1917)
The Pomp of Yesterday
(1918)
The price of a Throne
(1918)
The Kaiser's Investment
(1920 Ward Lock)
In the Sweat of Thy Brow
(1920)
The Everlasting Arms
(1920)
Out of this Wreck
(1920)

1921-1925
The Ring of Destiny
(1921)
The Man who Almost Lost
(1922)
The Girl who Defied the World
(1922)
Prodigal Daughters
(1922 Cassell)
The Game and the Candle
(1923)
The Case of Miss Dunstable
(1923)
Prodigal Parents
(1923)
What Shall it Profit a Man ?
(1924)
Rosemary Carew : Just a Love Story
(1925)
The All Conquering Power
(1925)
The Wagon and the Star
(1925)

1926-1930
Heartsease : The Story of a Feud
(1926 Ward Lock)
Andrew Boconnoc's Will : The Story of a Crisis
(1926 Cassell)
Bevil Granville's Handicap
(1926)
The Tenant of Cromlech Cottage
(1927 Ward Lock)
The Eternal Challenge
(1928)
Felicity Treverbyn : A Love Story
(1928)
Nancy Trevanion's Legacy
(1928 Ward Lock)
The Constant Enemy
(1929)
The Sign of the Triangle
(1929 Ward Lock)
The God that Answers by Fire
(1930)
Out of the Depths
(1930 Ward Lock)

After 1931
The Secret of Trescobell
(1931 Ward Lock)
The Man who was Sure
(1931)
The Eternal Choice
(1932)
Caleb's Conquest
(1932 Ward Lock)
The Man who Found Out
(1933 Ward Lock)
Not One in Ten
(1933)
And Grant a Leader Bold
(1934)
No Other Name
(1934 Ward Lock)
The Squire of Zabuloe
(1935)
Deep Calleth unto Deep
(1936)
Davey's Ambition
(1936 Ward Lock)

READING
Pulp Methodism : The Lives and Literature of Silas, Joseph & Salome Hocking
(2002 Cornish Hillside Publications £19.99 & £14.99)



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