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29 Bridgewater St, Runcorn WA7 1LH
14 Rhyl St, Liverpool L8 6QB
59 S Chester St, Liverpool L8 5UX
16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, London SW3 5TS
18 Clement's Inn, Holborn, London WC2A 2AZ
Lincoln's Inn, London WC2A 2JD
Aberleigh Lodge, Red House Ln, Bexleyheath DA6 8JF, UK
Albert Hall Mansions, 31-48 Kensington Gore, Kensington, London SW7 2AW, UK
Greeba Castle, Isle of Man IM4, Isle of Man
Piazza della Trinità dei Monti, 18, 00187 Roma RM
Heath End House, Spaniards Rd, Hampstead, London NW3 7JE, UK
Kirk Maughold, The Vicarage Walpole Drive Ramsey ISLE OF MAN IM8 1NA
Sir
Thomas Henry Hall Caine
CH
KBE (14 May 1853 – 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine,
was a British novelist, dramatist, short story writer, poet and critic of the
late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Jack the Ripper suspect
Francis Tumblety had a homosexual affair with Caine whilst spending time
in Liverpool. Tumblety is said to have engaged in 'unusual sexual activities'
and became known for his 'mania for the company of young men and grown-up
youths', and for despising women.[16]
In 1888, he was arrested on charges of
gross indecency and indecent assault with force and arms against four men
in Liverpool, euphemisms for homosexual activities. It would have been later
in the same year he was arrested on suspicion of the infamous
Whitechapel murders.[17]
The Deemster (1887) is cited as example in Sexual
Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from 1850-1900, by Brian
Reade.
Caine's popularity during his lifetime was unprecedented. He wrote fifteen
novels on subjects of adultery,
divorce,
domestic violence,
illegitimacy,
infanticide,
religious bigotry and
women's rights, became an international literary celebrity, and sold a
total of ten million books. Caine was the most highly paid novelist of his
day. The Eternal City is the first novel to have sold over a million
copies worldwide.[1]
In addition to his books, Caine is the author of more than a dozen plays and
was one of the most commercially successful dramatists of his time; many were
West End and
Broadway productions. Caine adapted seven of his novels for the stage. He
collaborated with leading actors and managers, including
Wilson Barrett,
Viola
Allen,
Herbert Beerbohm Tree,
Louis Napoleon Parker,
Mrs Patrick Campbell,
George Alexander, and
Arthur Collins. Most of Caine's novels were adapted into
silent
black and white films.
A.
E. Coleby's 1923 18,454 feet, nineteen-reel film
The Prodigal Son became the longest commercially made
British film.[2]
Alfred Hitchcock's 1929 film
The
Manxman, is Hitchcock's last silent film.
Born in
Runcorn to a
Manx
father and
Cumbrian mother, Caine was raised in
Liverpool.
After spending four years in school, Caine was trained as an architectural
draughtsman. While growing up he spent childhood holidays with relatives in
the
Isle of Man. At seventeen he spent a year there as schoolmaster in
Maughold.
Afterwards he returned to Liverpool and began a career in journalism, becoming
a leader-writer on the Liverpool Mercury. As a lecturer and theatre
critic he developed a circle of eminent literary friends by whom he was
influenced. Caine moved to London at
Dante Gabriel Rossetti's suggestion and lived with the poet, acting as
secretary and companion during the last years of Rossetti's life. Following
the publication of his Recollections of Rossetti in 1882, Caine began
his career as a writer spanning four decades.
Caine established his
residency in the Isle of Man in 1895, where he sat from 1901 to 1908 in
the Manx
House of Keys, the lower house of its legislature. Caine was elected
President of the Manx National Reform League in 1903 and chair of the Keys'
Committee that prepared the 1907 petition for constitutional reform. In 1929
Caine was granted the Freedom of the Borough of
Douglas, Isle of Man. Caine visited Russia in 1892 on behalf of the
persecuted Jews.
In 1895 Caine travelled in the United States and Canada, where he represented
the
Society of Authors conducting successful negotiations and obtaining
important international copyright concessions from the Dominion Parliament.
During the
Great War (1914–1918) Caine wrote many patriotic articles and edited
King Albert's Book, the proceeds of which went to help Belgian refugees.
In 1917, Caine was created an
Officer of the Order of Leopold by
King Albert I of Belgium. Caine cancelled many literary contracts in
America to devote all his time and energy to the British war effort. On the
recommendation of the Prime Minister
Lloyd George for services as an Allied propagandist in the United States,
King George V made him a
Knight of the British Empire in 1918 and a
Companion of Honour in 1922. Aged 78 Caine died in his home at
Greeba Castle on the Isle of Man.
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- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hall_Caine
- Sexual Heretics: Male Homosexuality in English Literature from
1850-1900, by Brian Reade