Education
Studied at Schools in Isle of Manitoba and Liverpool. Brought up as an architect, never practised, but wrote in Builder, The Building News, et cetera
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Career
Became a journalist, and was for six years a leaderwriter on Liverpool Mercury. Went to London at invitation of Doctorate. G. Rossetti. Lived with poetpainter until his death.
Wrote for Athenaeum, Academy, et cetera
Published Sonnets of Three Centuries, 1882. Recollections of Rossetti,] 882.
Life of Coleridge, 1883. Cobwebs of Criticism, 1883.
Then began career of novelist with Shadow of a Crime, 1885.
Following with Son of Hagar, 1886. His success came with The Deemster, 18S7. Afterwards published The Bondman, 1890.
The Scapegoat, 1891.
The Manxman, 1894. The Christian, 1897. The Eternal City, 1901. The Prodigal Son, 1904.
My Story, 1908.
The White Prophet, 1909.
The Deemster was dramatised 1889, The Manxman 1895, The Christian 1898, The Eternal City 1902, The Prodigal Son 1905, The Bondman 1900, a new version of The Christian 1907, Pete 1908, The Bishop’s Son 1910, The Eternal Question 1910. Published in 1908 My Story, an autobiographical narrative of the earlier years of his literary life.
Lectured Royal Institution, 1892. Went to Poland and frontier towns of Russia at request of Russo-Jewish committee at period of Jewish persecutions.
Went to Canada as ambassador of Authors’ Society to negotiate terms with Dominion Government with regard to Canadian copyright.
Drafted a bill with Canadian Copyright Association, and submitted it to Canadian Cabinet. Received for services thanks of Dominion and Colonial Office. Had a good deal to do with breakdown of three-volume novel.
Is Justice of the Peace in the Isle of Manitoba, where, in 1901, he was returned by a large majority to the House of Keys for Ramsey.
Edited for Queen Alexandra Christmas Carol, on behalf of Queen's Fund. Novelist and dramatist.
Membership
Club: National.
