Author: Charles Edmund Hall
Author: Charles Edmund Hall (1857–1932)
Biography: Charles Edmund Hall was born on 2 March 1857 in Sheffield, the third son of colonial merchant and poet John Hall (1824–1907) and his wife Ann (née Walker). From an early age, he attempted a life of letters, his first collection of stories Cupid's Curse and Other Tales (1879) being most written before he was nineteen. He followed it with two more novels. He trained as a solicitor, but family wealth relieved him of the need to work. In 1902, he married Beatrice Mappin and the couple lived in Dorking. He died there on 14 June 1932 after a long illness.
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References: British Census (1861, 1871, 1881, 1891, 1901); Probate; Surrey Mirror (17 June 1932)
Fiction Titles:
- Cupid's Curse and Other Tales. 1 vol. London: Remington, 1879.
- An Ancient Ancestor: A Tale of Three Weeks. 3 vol. London: Skeffington, 1893.
- Hathersage: A Tale of North Derbyshire. 1 vol. London: Horace Cox, 1896.