Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure By Joseph Hocking
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From Wikipedia Joseph Hocking was a Cornish novelist and United Methodist Free Church minister He was born at St Stephen in Brannel Cornwall to James Hocking part owner of a tin mine and his wife Elizabeth. In 1884 he was ordained as a minister Working in different parts of England over the next few years he wrote his first novel Harry Penhale The Trial of his Faith while in London in 1887 He regarded fiction as a highly effective medium for conveying his Christian message to the public and combined his writing with his church duties until ill health forced him to resign from the ministry in 1909 His last pastoral charge was the large and important United Free Church at Woodford Essex which he was instrumental in having rebuilt by the advanced arts and crafts architect Charles Harrison Townsend. He died in St Ives Cornwall and was survived by his wife Annie who he had married in 1887 and four daughters three of whom become published novelists in their own right Anne Hocking Elizabeth Nisot and Joan Shill A son Cuthert was killed in World War I. Through his mother he was related to the biblical scholar John Kitto His brother was Silas Hocking 1850 1935 also a novelist and Methodist minister and his sister Salome 1859 1927 was also a novelist: On his recovery he found himself a much sought after preacher across Britain and he travelled extensively in the Middle East: He continued to write and over the course of his career he was the author of nearly 100 books Although largely forgotten now he was tremendously popular in his day, Hocking features as one of the main characters in the 2009 play Surfing Tommies by Cornish playwright Alan M Kent, Joseph Hocking s ashes were buried in the churchyard of St Stephen in Brannel..