Hugh Stowell Scott

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In Kedar's Tents (1897)

Hugh Stowell Scott (9 May 1862 – 19 November 1903)[1][2] was an English novelist who wrote under the pseudonym of Henry Seton Merriman. His best known novel, The Sowers went through thirty UK editions.[3][4]

Life

Born in

underwriter at Lloyd's of London, but then took to travel and writing novels, many of which had great popularity. Scott visited India as a tourist in 1877–1878 and set his novel Flotsam (1896) there.[6] He was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being made with his friend and fellow author Stanley J. Weyman.[7]

Scott married Ethel Frances Hall (1865–1943) on 19 June 1889.[8] They had no children. Scott was unusually modest and retiring in character. He died of appendicitis in 1903, aged 41, at Melton, Suffolk.[9][7] Scott left £5000 in his will to Evelyn Beatrice Hall, his sister-in-law and a fellow writer, best known for a biographical work, The Friends of Voltaire. Scott explained the legacy as a "token of my gratitude for her continued assistance and literary advice, without which I should never have been able to have made a living by my pen."[10]

He worked with great care, and his best books held a high place in Victorian fiction. His book The Sowers was made into a silent film in 1916.

Novels

His first novel, Young Mistley was published anonymously in 1888.

Kedar's Tents (1897),[11]
Roden's Corner (1898), Dross (1899), Grey Lady; Isle of Unrest (1900), The Velvet Glove; The Vultures (1902), Queen; Barlasch of the Guard (1903) and The Last Hope (1904).

Bibliography

Uncollected magazine stories:

  • For Juanita's Sake
  • The End of the "Mooroo"
  • Golossa-a-l
  • The Mule
  • In Love and War
  • Stranded
  • In a Crooked Way
  • The Tale of a Scorpion

References

  1. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  2. ^ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
  3. ^ Cox, Homer T. (1967). Henry Seton Merriman (Twayne's English Authors Series). New York: Twayne Publishers.
  4. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35988. Retrieved 2 May 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) (registration required
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  5. ^ a b Seccombe, Thomas (1912). "Scott, Hugh Stowell" . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). Vol. 3. pp. 278–279.
  6. ^ "The Indian Mutiny and the British Imagination by Gautam Chakravarty" (PDF). assets.cambridge.org. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  7. ^ a b Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Merriman, Henry Seton" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 173.
  8. ^ "Ethel Frances Hall". Cobbold Family History Trust. Archived from the original on 24 May 2015. Retrieved 24 May 2015.
  9. ^ "Obytuary". nla.gov.au. Retrieved 11 May 2010.
  10. ^ The Advertiser, (Adelaide, SA) March 09, 1904
  11. ^ Buckingham, James Silk; Sterling, John; Maurice, Frederick Denison; Stebbing, Henry; Dilke, Charles Wentworth; Hervey, Thomas Kibble; Dixon, William Hepworth; MacColl, Norman; Rendall, Vernon Horace; Murry, John Middleton (6 November 1897). "Review: In Kedar's Tents by Henry Seton Merriman". The Athenæum (3654): 629–630.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.

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