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Silas Kitto Hocking

Male : Evangelical Novelist. Married Esther Lloyd in 1876. Once said to be the most popular English novelist
Nationality : English Place of Birth : St Stephen-in-Brannel, Cornwall

Date of Birth : 1850 Date of Death : 1935 Age : 85

Other Work : United Methodist Free Church Minister 1870-1896
All Warne unless stated otherwise
1878-1880
Alec Green : A Tale of Sea Life
(1878)
Her Benny : A Story of Street Life
(1879)
[Sold over 1 million copies but Hocking had sold the copyright for £20.
Later the publisher gave him another £10]

His Father, or A Mother's Legacy
(1880)
Reedyford, or Creed and Character
(1880) - Frederick Barnard

1881-1890
Chips : A Story of Manchester Life
(1881)
Ivy : A Tale of Cottage Life
(1881)
Poor Mike : The Story of a Waif
(1882)
Sea Waif : The Story of the Cornish Cliffs
(1882)
Dick's Fairy : A Tale of the Streets
(1883)
Caleb Carthew : A Life Story
(1884) - Lancelot Speed
Our Joe
(1885)
Cricket : A Tale of Humble Life
(1886)
Up the Rhine and Over the Alps
(1886 Andrew Crombie)
For Such is Life
(1887)
Real Grit
(1887) - F Barnard
Crookleigh : A Village Story
(1888) - W S Stacey
For Abigail : A West Country Story
(1888) - W S Stacey
Social Models : A Series of Addresses on Social Themes
(1889)
Rex Reynor, Artist : A Story of Sowing and Reaping
(1890) - Harold Copping
Tregeagle's Head : A Romance of the Cornish Coast
(1890) - T M Hemy

1891-1900
Chips, Joe and Mike
(1892)
For Light and Liberty
(1893) - Alfred Johnson
Where Duty Lies
(1892) - Harold Copping
One in Charity
(1893) - Gordon Browne
Sweethearts Yet : Chapters on Love and Home
(1894)
A Son of Reuben
(1894) - H R Steer
The Blindness of Madge Tyndall
(1894) - Lancelot Speed
Doctor Dick and Other Tales
(1895) - J Ayton Symington
The Heart of Man
(1895) - Ernest Prater
In Spite of Fate
(1897) - Florence Reason
For Such is Life
(1897) - Lancelot Speed
God's Outcast
(1898) - Lancelot Speed
Tales of a Tin Mine
(1898 Horace Marshall)
The Culture of Manhood
(1898 Horace Marshall)
The Day of Recompense
(1899) - A Twidle
The Strange Adventures of Israel Pendray
(1899) - H L Richardson
To Pay the Price
(1900)
When Life is Young
(1900) - Lancelot Speed

1901-1905
The Fate of Endilloe
(1901 Warne)
The Awakening of Anthony Weir
(1901 RTS)
Gripped
(1902)
The Wizard's Light
(1902)
A Bonnie Saxon
(1903)
The Tempter's Power
(1903)
Adventures of Latimer Field, Curate
(1903)
Smoking Flax
(1904 Partridge)
Meadowsweet and Rue
(1904 Unwin)
The Scarlet Clue
(1904)
Chapters in Democratic Christianity
(1904 Fifield)
Pioneers
(1905)
The Flaming Sword
(1905)
The Earnest Life
(1905 Partridge)
The Conquering Will
(1905)

1906-1910
A Gamble with Life
(1906 James Clarke)
A Human Face
(1906 Cassell)
The Squire's Daughter
(1906)
St Gwynifer
(1907 Hodder & Stoughton)
A Modern Pharisee
(1907)
The Silent Man
(1907)
The Shadow Between
(1908 Warne) - Arthur Twidle
Yours and Mine
(1908)
A Desperate Hope
(1909)
Who Shall Judge
(1910 Cassell) - Gilbert Wright

1911-1915
The Quenchless Fire
(1911)
The Third Man
(1911 Cassell)
The Wrath of Man
(1912)
Smuggler's Keep
(1913)
A Woman's Love
(1913 Cassell)
Sword and Cross
(1914 Stanley Paul)
[An anti-war novel that he found difficult to get published]
Uncle Peter's Will
(1914 Ward Lock)
In Self Defence
(1914 Ward Lock)
The Angel of the Desert
(1915 Ward Lock)
The Great Hazard
(1915 Fisher Unwin)

1916-1920
The Beautiful Alien
(1916 Sampson Low)
A Man's Work
(1916 Ward Lock)
When He Came to Himself
(1916 Ward Lock)
His Own Accuser
(1917 Sampson Low)
Camouflage
(1918 Sampson Low)
Nancy
(1919 Sampson Low)
Without the Gate
(1919 Ward Lock)
Watchers in the Dawn
(1920 Sampson Low)

1921-1925
An Interrupted Romance
(1921 All Sampson Low from here on)
The Greater Good
(1922)
Where Roads Cross
(1922)
The Lost Lode
(1923)
My Book of Memory
(1923 Cassell) - autobiographical
The Guarded Way
(1924)
Lonehead Farm
(1925)
The Crooked Trail
(1925)

After 1926
The Sinister Shadow
(1926)
Miss Ann's Lodger
(1927)
The Broken Fence
(1928)
The Winds of Chance
(1928)
The Exile's Return
(1929)
The Mystery Man
(1930)
The Perplexities of Peter
(1933 Ernest Benn)
Gerry Storm : A Novel
(1934)

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