Male : Novelist, Playwright & Non-Fiction writer. Phenomenally successful, made a fortune from his novels. Left school at 14 to join an architect's office but left in 1870 to live in the Isle of Man and help his schoolteacher uncle.
He moved back to Liverpool and began to write. He made pregnant in 1884 Mary Chandler (aged 14) and later married her

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Runcorn, Cheshire

Date of Birth : 1853 Date of Death : 1931 Age : 78

Other Work : Member of the House of Keys 1901-1908

Education : Isle of Man & Liverpool

1877-1885
Richard III and Macbeth : A Dramtic Study (1877 Simpkin Marshall / Edward Howell)
Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1882 Elliot Stock) + 25 De Luxe Ed
(Ed) Sonnets of Three Centuries : A Selection (1882 Elliot Stock) - 950 + De Luxe Ed 50
Cobwebs of Criticism (1883 Elliot Stock) (1907 Routledge)
The Shadow of a Crime (1885 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
She's All the World to Me : A Manx Novel (1885 Harper, US pb)

1886-1890
A Son of Hagar : A Romance of Our Time (1886 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
The Deemster : A Romance (1887 Chatto & Windus) - 3 vols
Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1887 Walter Scott)
The Bondman : A New Saga (1889 Lovell, US) (1890 Heinemann - 3 vols)
[This was his first really successful novel selling over 500,000 copies and
translated into over 10 languages]

1891-1895
The Scapegoat (1891 Heinemann) - 2 vols
Mary of Magdalene : The New Apocrypha (1891 PP)
The Little Manx Nation (1891 Heinemann)
Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon, The Last Confession, The Blind Mother (1893 Heinemann)
The Manxman (1894 Heinemann)
[In the new 6/- single volume this sold 400,000 copies]
[Filmed in 1929]
The Little Man Island : Scenes & Specimen Days in the Isle of Man (1894 IOM Steam Packet Co, pb)
The Mahdi, or Love & Race : A Drama in Story (1894 James Clarke) - 100

1896-1905
Van the Icelander, or Home Sweet Home (1896 PP) - 100
The Christian (1897 Heinemann) - [50,000 of 1st Ed]
The Eternal City (1901 Heinemann) - [100,000 copies printed of 1st Ed
By 1921 over 1 miilion copies had been sold !]
The Eternal City : A Play (1902 PP)
The Isle of Boy : A Comedy in Four Acts (1903 Appleton US)
The Prodigal Son (1904 Heinemann)
The Prodigal Son : A Play (1905 PP)
(Ed) The Queen's Christmas Carol (1905 Daily Mail) - Edited Anonymously

1906-1910
The Bondman : A Drama (1906 PP Daily Mail, London) - slipcase
Drink : A Love Story on a Great Question (1906 Newnes pb) (1907 Collier Hb)
My Story (1908 Heinemann) - autobiography
(Ed) Queen Alexandra's Christmas Gift Book (1908 Daily Telegraph) - Edited Anonymously
The White Prophet (1909 Heinemann) - 2 vols. R Caton Woodville
Why I Wrote the White Prophet (1909 PP)
The Eternal Question : A Play (1910 PP)
King Edward : A Prince and a Great Man (1910 Collier)
The Bishop's Son : A Play (1910 PP)
Why I Wrote "The White Prophet" (nd. 1910 PP for author)
[An address given to the Jewish Literary Soc, in Liverpool]

After 1911
The Woman Thou Gavest Me : Being the Story of Mary O'Neill (1913 Heinemann)
[This controversial novel about a love affair between a nun and a monk achieved
sales of over 475,000 copies in 6 months]
(Ed) King Albert's Book (1914 Daily Telegraph / H & S) - Edited Anonymously
The Drama of Three Hundred and Sixty Five Days : Scenes in the Great War (1915 Heinemann)
Our Girls : Their Work for the War (1916 Hutchinson)
Address on Policemanship (1916 C Knight)
The Prime Minister : A Play (1918 PP)
The Master of Man : The Story of a Sin (1921 Heinemann)
[The first print run of 100,000 sold out in in days]
The Woman of Knockaloe : A Parable (1923 Cassell)
[Filmed in 1927 as "Barbed Wire"]
Recollections of Rossetti (1928 Cassell)
[A re-working of the earlier work issued to celebrate Rossetti's centenary]
Life of Christ (1938 Collins) - unfinished & edited by Sir Derwent Hall Caine

READING
C Fred Kenyon : Hall Caine - The Man & the Novelist (1901 Greening)
Samuel Norris : Two men of Manxland - Hall Caine & T E Brown (1947 Norris) + 2nd De Luxe Ed
Vivien Allen : Hall Caine - Portrait of a Victorian Romancer
(1997 Sheffield Academic Press £37.50 & £16.95)