Author:Sabine Baring-Gould

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Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924)

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Sabine Baring-Gould

Works

Novels

• The Chorister, 1854, Anon.
• Through Flood and Flame, 1868 [1]
• The Golden Gate, 1870 [2]
• In Exitu Israel: An Historical Novel, 1870. As one-volume Gabrielle André in 1871. [3] [4]
• Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes, 1880 and 1920
  • Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes (1880) - no scanned djvu available and the copyedit is incomplete
  • Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes (1920)
• John Herring, 1883 and 1884 [5]
• Court Royal, 1886
• Red Spider, 1887 [6]
• The Gaverocks, 1887 [7]
• Little Tu'Penny, 1887
• Richard Cable, 1888 ch 1
• Eve, 1888 [8]
• Arminell, a social romance (1896)
• The Pennycomequicks, 1889 [9]
• In The Roar Of The Sea, 1892
• Urith: a tale of Dartmoor, 1891 [10]
• Mrs. Curgenven of Curgenven, 1893 [11]
• The Icelander's Sword, 1893, children's book [12]
• Cheap Jack Zita, 1893 [13]
• Kitty Alone, 1894 [14]
• The Queen of Love, 1894 [15]
• Noémi, 1895 [16]
• The Broom-Squire, 1896 [17]
• Guavas the Tinner, 1897 [18]
• Bladys of the Stewponey, 1897 - no scanned version of this page. Just a transcription from a website. Labelled "presumed original".
• Perpetua, 1897 [19]
• Domitia, 1898 [20]
• Pabo, the Priest, 1899 [21]
• Winefred, 1900 [22]
• Royal Georgie, 1901 [23]
• The Frobishers, 1901 - no scanned version for verification or to complete copy editing
• Miss Quillet, 1902 [24]
• Nebo the Nailer, 1902
• Chris of All-sorts, 1903 [25]
• In Dewisland, 1904
• Siegfried: A Romance founded on Wagner's Operas, 1904

Short stories

• Master Sacristan Eberhart. Not Quite a Ghost Story (1858, in The Hurst Johnian, the magazine of St. John's College, Hurstpierpoint)
• The Fireman (1859/60, in The Hurst Johnian) (1871, in Only Once a Year) published in the New York Times, January 8, 1871
• The Dead Trumpeter of Hurst Castle (1860, in The Hurst Johnian)
• Only a Ghost!, 1870 (by "Irenæus the Deacon", attributed to Sabine Baring-Gould) [26]
• Contributed to Please tell me a Tale, 1885 [27]
  • Gottlob's Picture
• Contributed to Just one more Tale, 1886: [28]
  • The Queen of Dentists
  • Wow-Wow
• Contributed to My Birthday Present, 1886:
  • My Prague Pig
• Contributed to Jack Frost's Little Prisoners, 1887: [29]
  • The Schnabelweid Plot
  • The Cat's Tree
• Contributed to Stories Jolly, Stories New, Stories Strange and Stories True, 1889:
  • The New Master
• Jacquetta and Other Stories, 1890
  • The Story of Jael (1887, in The English Illustrated Magazine) - needs copy editing and verification
  • Jacquetta (1886/7, in The English Illustrated Magazine) - needs copy editing and verification
  • Moth-Mullein (1889, in The Cornhill Magazine) - no source given for verification
• My Prague Pig and Other Stories for Children, 1890
• Margery of Quether and Other Stories, 1891 [30]
  • Margery of Quether (1884, in The Cornhill Magazine)
  • Tom a' Tuddlams (1888, in Cassell's Yuletide Annual)
  • At the Y. (1884, in Belgravia)
  • Major Cornelius (1884, in The Cornhill Magazine)
  • Wanted: A Reader (1886, in The Gentleman's Magazine)
• An Idyll of Dartmoor (1894/5, in The Woman at Home) (all subsequently incorporated in Dartmoor Idylls, 1896)
  • Daniel Jacobs
  • Snaily House
  • The End of Joe Leaman
  • Little Dixie
  • Jonas Coaker
  • Ephraim's Pinch
  • The Hammetts
  • Jolly Lane Cot
• Dartmoor Idylls, 1896 [31]
  • John and Joan (1893, in The Graphic)
  • Daniel Jacobs (1894, in The Woman at Home)
  • Snaily House (1894, in The Woman at Home - 2 parts)
  • Ephraim's Pinch (1894, in The Woman at Home)
  • Little Dixie (1894, in The Woman at Home)
  • Jonas Coaker (1894, in The Woman at Home)
  • Goosie-Vair (1895, in The Minster)
  • The Hammetts (1895, in The Woman at Home)
  • Jolly Lane Cot (1895, in The Woman at Home)
  • Green Rushes, O! (1895, in Chambers's Journal)
  • An Old Cross
• Contributed to Under One Cover: Eleven Stories, 1898:
  • Daddy Tregollos
• Some Village Characters (1898, in The Sunday Magazine) (all subsequently incorporated in In a Quiet Village, 1900)
  • Haroun the Carpenter
  • Timothy Slouch
  • Doble Drewe
  • Mary Trembath
• Odd People I Have Met (1899, in The Sunday Magazine) (subsequently incorporated in In a Quiet Village, 1900 - except "Lady" Darke)
  • Dan'l Coombe
  • Auntie, published in the New York Times, April 2, 1899
  • Brother Augustine
  • "Lady" Darke (subsequently incorporated in A Book of Dartmoor, 1900)
  • The Old Post-Boy
• Furze Bloom: Tales of the Western Moors, 1899
  • Genefer (1897, in The Graphic)
  • The Brothers' Grave (1897, in The Illustrated London News)
  • A Can of Whortles (1897, in Lady's Realm)
  • Japhunneh (1897, in The Illustrated London News)
  • Caroline (1898, in The Illustrated London News)
  • Anthony Blight (1898, in The Cornhill Magazine)
  • Young Flush (1898, in The Christmas Tree Annual)
  • In the Hole of the Bumble Bee (1898, as The Hidden Treasure, in Newcastle Courant)
  • Peter Lempole (1896, in British Workman)
  • Ruth Tregoddeck (1897, in The Illustrated London News)
  • Polly Postes (1898, in The Cornish Magazine)
  • Stephen Delves (1897, in Lady's Realm)
• In a Quiet Village, 1900 [32]
  • Dan'l Coombe (1899, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Timothy Slouch (1898, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Doble Drewe (1898, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Mary Trembath (1898, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • The Old Post-Boy (1899, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Auntie (1899, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Brother Augustine (1899, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Haroun the Carpenter (1898, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Shone Evans
  • Henry Frost
  • Milk-maids
  • The Bride's Well
  • Jack Hannaford (1897, in The Temple Magazine)
  • From Death to Life (1896, in The Temple Magazine)
  • Cicely Crowe (1895, in The Country House)
  • The Weathercock (1897, in The Illustrated London News)
  • A Plum-Pudding (1898, as A Christmas Plum Pudding, in Edinburgh Evening Post)
  • A Christmas Tree (1897, in The Temple Magazine)
  • Folk-prayers (1894, in The Sunday Magazine)
  • Crazy Jane (1891, in Manchester Times)
• Amazing Adventures, drawn by H. B. Neilson, 1903

• A Book of Ghosts, 1904
  • Jean Bouchon
  • Pomps and Vanities
  • McAlister
  • The Leaden Ring
  • The Mother of Pansies
  • The Red-haired Girl (1903, in The Windsor Magazine)
  • A Professional Secret
  • H.P.
  • Glámr (1863, in the book Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas)
  • Colonel Halifax's Ghost Story (1897, in The English Illustrated Magazine)
  • The Merewigs
  • The "Bold Venture" (1902, in The Graphic)
  • Mustapha (1894, in Western Weekly Mercury)
  • Little Joe Gander (1885, in Longman's Magazine)
  • A Dead Finger (1897, in Woman)
  • Black Ram
  • A Happy Release
  • The 9.30 Up-train (1863, in Once a Week)
  • On the Leads (1900, in Nottinghamshire Guardian)
  • Aunt Joanna
  • The White Flag

• Monsieur Pichelmere and Other Stories, 1905
  • Monsieur Pichelmere (1897, in London Weekly Mercury)
  • Hangman's Cross (1898, in Manchester Times)
  • Archelaus Goalan (1898, in Aberdeen Free Press)
  • A Dead Man's Teeth (1896, in The Scotsman)
  • Cherry (1894, in Liverpool Porcupine)
  • Stealing a Policeman (1893, in Newcastle Courant)
  • Vanished in the Moonlight (1893, in The Scotsman)
  • Crazy Jane (1891, in Manchester Times)

Chronological List of Other Stories in Magazines and Newspapers

• "Tommy" (1884, in Blackwood's Magazine)
• The Last Words of Joseph Barrable (1884, in Blackwood's Magazine)
• Alexander Nesbitt, Ex-Schoolmaster (1884, in Blackwood's Magazine)
• The Princess Torhanyi (1884, in The Cornhill Magazine)
• In the Lion's Den (1885, in The English Illustrated Magazine)
• The Deadleigh Sweep (1886, in The Cornhill Magazine)
• Little Tu'penny (1886, in The Graphic - 5 parts). Also published as book.
• The Murder in the Bruder Strasse (1886, in Belgravia)
• The Death of Francois de Senac (1887, in Belgravia)
• The Blue Vase (1887, in Belgravia)
• A Night in Hummelstein (1887, in Belgravia)
• A False Step (1887, in The Cornhill Magazine)
• President Keller (1888, in The Cornhill Magazine)
• Horvath (1888, in The Cornhill Magazine)
• A Pair of Silk Stockings (1889, in Atalanta)
• Scars (1889, in Cassell's Family Magazine)
• Clean Too Ridiculous (1889, in Manchester Times)
• In Red Moor Bog (1892, in Black & White)
• In the Sound of the Mill Wheel (1894, in Nottinghamshire Guardian) (subsequently incorporated in An Old English Home and its dependencies, 1898)
• Richard. A Common-Place Romance (1895, in Leeds Mercury) (subsequently incorporated in An Old English Home and its dependencies, 1898)
• The Fly (1895, in Newcastle Courant)
• A Brother's Wife
• The Brothers Wyvell (1896, in Leeds Mercury)
• The Village Doctor (1896, in Newcastle Courant) (subsequently incorporated in An Old English Home and its dependencies, 1898)
• The Moorman (1896, in Leeds Mercury) (subsequently incorporated in A Book of the West, Vol. 1, 1900)
• Sea-Poachers (1896, Nottinghamshire Guardian) (subsequently incorporated in A Book of the West, Vol. 2, 1900)
• Treasure Trove (1896, in The Graphic)
• A Broken Mirror (1897, in Leeds Daily News)
• The Fruited Myrtle (1898, in Lady's Realm)
• While the Cat's Away (1898, in The Illustrated London News)
• Under the White Cliff (1898, in Nottinghamshire Guardian)
• John James and John Thomas (1899, in The Illustrated London News)
• Sixpence Only (1899, in The Graphic)
• Janie (1899, in Lady's Realm)
• Mahouglath Mahouglish (1900, in The Sphere)
• Browne's House (1900, in Nottinghamshire Guardian)
• The Fatal Bottle (1900, in The Harmsworth Magazine)
• Little Matthew (1900, in The Graphic)
• An Error Righted (1900, in The Cornhill Magazine)
• That Dawg Sly (1900, in Newcastle Courant)
• The Beaumanoir Ghosts
• Sixty Thousand Pounds (1901, in Western Weekly News)
• No Servants (1901, in The Graphic)
• Lost, Stolen, or Strayed
• Genefer Trevose (1902, in The Young Man)
• Margery Coade (1902, in The Windsor Magazine)
• The Man at the Shaft Mouth
• The Changed Trunk (1904, in Chambers's Journal)
• Isa Manacles (1904, in Lady's Realm)
• The Old Woman of Wesel (1905, in The Cornhill Magazine)
• Zachary Mudge. A Village Tragedy
• Alone at Christmastime
• A Spoke in the Wheel
• Rebecca Mounce
• The Winstanley Hunt (1907, in Daily Chronicle)
• An Unsolved Mystery (1907, in Western Weekly News)
• Dolly Carthew (1907, in The London Magazine)
• The Alcoved Passage (1908, in Western Weekly News)
• The Oil of Ecstasy (1909, in The White Magazine)
• Tunkles
• Keziah. A Story of Mersea Island (1910, in The Pall Mall Magazine)
• Dr. Chubb's Thumbpads (1910, in The Scotsman)
• The Tuddlehams
• Dolly (1910, in Liverpool Weekly Mercury)
• The Haunted Hunting Lodge

Poetry

• The Silver Store, 1868, with additions in 1887 and 1898 [33]
• The Turk and the Tory, written in support of William Gladstone's attacks on Benjamin Disraeli

Folklore

• Iceland: Its Scenes and Sagas, 1863 [34]
• The Book of Were-Wolves, 1865
• Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (or "Myths of the Middle Ages"), 1866 and 1868 - scan index not provided
• Curiosities of Olden Times, 1869 [35]
• The Origin and Development of Religious Belief, 1869 and 1870 [36] [37]
• Legends of Old Testament Characters, 1871 [38]
• Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets, 1872 [39]
• The Lost and Hostile Gospels, 1874 [40]
• Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events, 1874 [41]
• Contributed Introduction to Fairy Tales from Grimm, 1895
• A Book of Fairy Tales, 1895 [42]
• The Rose of June, published in the New York Times, May 28, 1899
• The Crock of Gold, 1899 [43]
• Devonshire Characters and Strange Events, 1908
• Cornish Characters and Strange Events, 1909 [44]
• A Book of Folklore, 1913 - source for this document is unknown
• Old English fairy tales 1895 [45]

Folksongs

• Songs and Ballads of the West, 1890 (with H. Fleetwood Sheppard)
• A Garland of Country Song, 1895 (with H. Fleetwood Sheppard)
• English Minstrelsie, 1895 [46](with H. Fleetwood Sheppard)
• Songs of the West, 1905 (with H. Fleetwood Sheppard)
• English Folk Songs for Schools, 1906
• Folk Songs of the West Country, (posthumously, with additional material by Gordon Hitchcock) 1974

Hymns

• A First Series of Church Songs [47]
• Hymns for the Coronation of His Majesty King George V, 1911
• Church Songs, 1884 [48]
• Onward, Christian Soldiers
• Now the Day Is Over
• Daily, Daily, Sing the Praises
• Hail the Sign, the Sign of Jesus
• On the Resurrection Morning
• Gabriel's Message (as translator)
• Gentle Savior, Day and Night (as translator)
• Through the Night of Doubt and Sorrow (as translator)

Autobiographical

• Early Reminiscences, 1924
• Further Reminiscences, 1925

Biography

• Post-Mediæval Preachers, 1865
• Lives of the Saints (16 volumes; 1872-89) v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 v8 v9 v10 v11 v12 v13 v14 v15 v16
• The Vicar of Morwenstow, 1876 [49] text
• Virgin Saints and Martyrs, 1900 [50]
• A Memorial of Horatio Lord Nelson, 1905
• Lives of the British Saints (4 volumes; 1907-13) [51] [52] [53] [54]
• Lives of the English Saints (pre conquest selection)
• Lives of The Northumbrian Saints

Sermons

• A Hundred Sermon Sketches for Extempore Preachers, 1872 [55]
• Village Conferences on the Creed, 1873 [56]
• Some Modern Difficulties, 1875 [57]
• Village Preaching for a Year: 1st Series, 1875 [58]
• The Mystery of Suffering, 1877 [59]
• Sermons to Children: 1st Series, 1879 [60]
• The Preacher's Pocket, 1880 [61]
• The Village Pulpit, Volume I, 1881 [62]
• The Village Pulpit, Volume II, 1881
• Village Preaching for Saints' Days, 1881 [63]
• The Seven Last Words, 1884 [64]
• Village Preaching for a Year: 2nd Series, 1884 [65]
• The Birth of Jesus, 1885 [66]
• The Passion of Jesus, 1885 [67]
• Nazareth and Capernaum, 1886 [68]
• The Death and Resurrection of Jesus, 1888 [69]
• Literary Churchman Sermons, 1889
• The Sunday Round, 1898-99
• Harvest Sermons, 1906
• Sermons to Children: 2nd Series, 1907
• Village Sermons to Simple Souls, 1912

As editor

• The Sacristy: a Quarterly Review of Ecclesiastical Art and Literature, 1871–1873
• A Book of Fairy Tales, 1894 [70]
• Old English Fairy Tales, 1895 (with F. D. Bedford)
• A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes, 1895 - no source scan identified
• A Book of Nursery Rhymes, 1897

Translations

• Ernestine (from German, by Wilhelmine von Hillern), 1879 vol 2
• Grettir the Outlaw, 1890 (from Icelandic) [71]

Other non-fiction

• The Path of the Just, 1854
• The Origin and Development of Religious Belief, 1870 [72] [73]
• Secular v. Religious Education, 1872
• Difficulties of the Faith, 1874
• How to Save Fuel, 1874 pamphlet
• The Lost and Hostile Gospels, 1874 [74]
• Germany: Present and Past, 1879 [75] [76]
• Germany, 1883 [77]
• Our Parish Church, 1885
• Germany (with A. Gilman), 1886
• The Trials of Jesus, 1886
• The Way of Sorrows, 1886
• Our Inheritance: An Account of The Eucharist Service in the First Three Centuries, 1888 [78]
• Historic Oddities and Strange Events, 1889-91. Volume 2 was published as Freaks of Fanaticism and Other Strange Events. [79] v2 separate v2
• Old Country Life, 1890 [80]
• Conscience and Sin, 1890 [81]
• In Troubadour-Land (A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc), 1891 - no scan
• History of the Church in Germany, 1891 [82]
• The Tragedy of the Caesars, 1892 [83] [84]
• Strange Survivals, 1892 [85]
• The Deserts of Southern France, 1894 [86] [87]
• The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1897
• A Study of St Paul, 1897
• An Armory of the Western Countries, 1898 [88]
• An Old English Home and Its Dependencies, 1898 [89]
• Dartmoor: A Descriptive and Historical Sketch, 1900
• A Book of the West, 1899 [90] (Vol. 1 - Devon) and [91] 1900 (Vol. 2 - Cornwall)
• A book of the west; being an introduction to Devon and Cornwall (1899) [92]
• Contributed a historical sketch to Bath Waters by Preston King, 1901
• A Book of Brittany, 1901
• Brittany, 1902
• A Book of North Wales, 1903 [93]
• A Book of South Wales, 1905 [94]
• A Book of the Riviera, 1905 [95]
• A Book of the Rhine, 1906 [96]
• A Book of the Pyrenees, 1907 [97]
• A Book of the Cevennes, 1907 [98]
• Devon, 1907
• Nero, 1907
• A History of Sarawak under its Two White Rajahs 1839-1908, 1909
• Family Names and Their Story, 1910 [99]
• Cornwall, 1910 [100]
• Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe, 1911 - no scan available for verification
• The Land of Teck and Its Neighbourhood, 1911 [101]
• The Church Revival, 1914 [102]
• The Evangelical Revival, 1920 [103]
• A Book of Dartmoor [104]
• Surnames
• A Book Of Cornwall [105]
• A Book Of Devon
• A Coronation Souvenir

Letters

• 1873 Letter to William Gladstone
• 1876 Letter to William Gladstone
• 1877 Letter to William Gladstone

Uncategorized

• Golden Feather, 1886
• Fifteen Pounds, 1891
• Colour in composition in On the art of writing fiction, 1894
• Through all the Changing Scenes of Life, 1892
• Furze-Bloom: Tales of the Western Moors, 1899
• James Lawless, innkeeper, 1907 (private printing of 50 copies)
• The Restitution of All Things, 1907
• My Few Last Words, 1924

Works about Baring-Gould

• “Baring-Gould, Sabine” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Baring-Gould, Sabine” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives/S. Baring-Gould from The Strand Magazine, No. 28 (1893-1904), illustrated.
• Mainly Victorian, by Stewart M. Ellis, 1925 [106]
• Devonshire Gentlemen, by L. A. Powys, 1925
• Onward Christian Soldier: A Life Of Sabine Baring-Gould, by William Purcell, 1957
• The Everlasting Circle, by James Reeves, 1960
• The Stature of Baring-Gould as a Novelist, by William J. Hyde, published in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Jun., 1960), pp. 1-16. (JSTOR)
• Sabine Baring-Gould: Squarson, Writer, and Folklorist, 1834-1924, by Bickford Holland Cohan Dickinson, 1977
• Now the Day Is Over: Life and Times of Sabine Baring-Gould 1834-1924, by Harold Kirk-Smith, 1997

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1924, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.