150-457: The Deemster is a novel by Hall Caine published in 1887, considered to be the first 'Manx novel'. It was Caine's third novel, the second to be set in the Isle of Man and it was his first great success. The plot revolves around the reckless actions of Dan Mylrea and the exile and atonement that follow. Early in his career, Hall Caine was acting as literary secretary to Dante Gabriel Rossetti , and it
300-474: A Farmers' Market every Saturday. The harbour is used by fishing and small leisure boats, and small freight boats from the Mezeron shipping company. There is a swing bridge for pedestrians and vehicles, built in 1892, that crosses the harbour. Wildlife around Ramsey reflects the mix of landscape: with sandy coast and estuary at Ramsey, wooded glens and rocky coasts just to the south-east, and hills and moors to
450-750: A Quaker she lost her connection with the Society of Friends . Throughout her life she retained the Quaker simplicity of life and dress . John Caine, a blacksmith , came from the Isle of Man . In the absence of work he emigrated to Liverpool , where he trained as a shipsmith . At the time of Caine's birth, he was working temporarily in Runcorn docks . Within a few months the family were back in Liverpool , where Caine spent his childhood and youth. They rented rooms at 14 Rhyl Street, Toxteth , convenient for Liverpool Docks and within
600-470: A ballad literature, and no end of superstition – and all these are very much its own. Brown's response on 14 October was blunt on the question of the novel's setting: It could not possibly be placed in the Isle of Man, [...] the stage is inadequate for your romance; [...] [Your story] is strong and vital; but the Isle of Man sinks beneath it. [...] And as for an epic – just write the words, 'A Manx Epic' and behold
750-470: A bedroom with his younger brother John, a shipping clerk. John contracted tuberculosis which he passed to his brother. By 1875 Caine had permanent lodgings in New Brighton , spending weekends there "for the sake of his health". Caine became increasingly unwell from the beginning of January 1877. In April the same year John, died from tuberculosis , aged 21. Dangerously ill, Caine was terrified of suffering
900-508: A child. At the end of October 1883, with enough money to last about four months Caine, accompanied by Mary, went to the Isle of Wight where he rented Vectis Cottage, close to the cliffs and sea near Sandown . There he set to work writing his first novel The Shadow of a Crime . Inspired by his Cumbrian heritage the plot was based on one of the oldest legends of the Lake District, told to him by his grandfather, Ralph Hall. In it he uses
1050-483: A copy of the magazine to the poet Rossetti, who by that time had become a virtual recluse and was "ravaged by years of addiction to chloral and too much whisky". Rossetti wrote his first letter to Caine on 29 July 1879. This letter was the first of nearly two hundred in quick succession. Around this time Caine's father was badly injured in an accident at work and Caine took responsibility for supporting his parents and siblings. Early in 1880 he wrote Stones Crying Out ,
1200-469: A distant relative of William Ewart Gladstone . On 10 December 1868, the day of the general election when Gladstone was to be elected as Prime Minister, Caine was running to offices in Union Court, belonging to Gladstone's brother, with telegrams announcing the results of the contests all over the country. Caine was breaking the news of great majorities before Gladstone had time to open his telegrams. Caine
1350-489: A draughtsman and partly from a desire to be moving on" Caine left his employment with Murray and joined the office of Richard Owen and later Wainwright and Son. For a few years he was general assistant to a builder, James Bromley who became his friend. Together with William Tirebuck and George Rose, his friends from school days, Caine applied himself to establishing Liverpool branches of the Shakespeare Society, and
1500-406: A failure of communication, she "admits" that she has feelings for Dan. Understanding that Mona has been "compromised", Ewan seeks out Dan to revenge her lost honour. Ewan confronts Dan and they ascend Orris Head, a cliff top over the sea. On the summit, they ensure that neither can get away by tying their two belts buckled together around their waists. They fight with knives until Dan eventually cuts
1650-529: A feeding area for birds, including oystercatcher , redshank and ringed plover on the shore, and geese, swans and ducks in the harbour. The inner harbour footpath (toward Mooragh Park) is a scrap of rich original saltmarsh habitat plus many land plants (also a sun trap). There is a big patch of salt marsh in Poyll Dooey park up the harbour. Just south-east of Ramsey, in Maughold , are rugged wooded glens open to
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#17330940230761800-509: A fisherman, his father funding the purchase of the boat. However, after only one season Dan is in debt due to the amount of time and money he has spent in the pub with his fishermen friends. Dan forges Ewan's name as surety on a loan. When he inevitably defaults on the payments, the Bishop comes to learn of the loan and, although Ewan tries to claim the signature is his, the Bishop casts his son Dan out. Ewan determines that he can no longer accept Dan as
1950-506: A frequent visitor to Ruskin's Coniston home, Brantwood . Following the death of James Teare in December 1871, Caine carved a headstone for the grave. After officially taking his place as schoolmaster, he also performed the extra unpaid services his uncle had provided, "such as the making of wills for farmers round about, the drafting of agreement and leases, the writing of messages to banks protesting against crushing interest, and occasionally
2100-518: A friend, and he asks him to not see his sister, Mona, any more. To cover his shame and to try and hide from his failings, Dan again descends to his boisterous ways. Dejected and depressed, Dan confounds the ban and goes to see Mona. The Deemster's maid, Kerry, has a vision of Dan in Mona's room, which the Deemster passes on to his son, saying that Dan is having an affair with Mona. Ewan confronts Mona but, through
2250-433: A great success. The adaptation made substantial changes to the novel, particularly at the ending, which many concessions for the sake of melodrama: The play ends with Mona protesting her innocence on a charge of immoral conduct when Dan appears unbidden. He corroborates the maiden's oath but by speaking, he sacrifices his own life, having been sentenced to life-long silence on pain of death if he breaks it. Mona dies of shock,
2400-401: A juvenile attempt to establish a monthly manuscript magazine, assisted by Tirebuck's sister. Tirebuck was editor, printer, publisher and postman; Caine was principal author. One of the magazine's contributors inherited a small fortune which he invested. About ten thousand copies were printed, followed by a delayed issue no.2. After this venture Tirebuck returned to his position as junior clerk in
2550-462: A later edition of the novel. Caine's fellow contemporary novelist, George Gissing read the novel in February 1888 and called it "better than I anticipated...some really strong romantic writing in it...feeble characterization". In August 1902 King Edward VII made an unannounced visit to the Isle of Man to have Hall Caine show him the locations of the novel, such as Bishopscourt. Critical concerns about
2700-739: A long letter of praise. He was also praised by Keats 's biographer, Lord Houghton . The lecture appeared in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine in August 1879, Irving presided at a meeting of the Liverpool Notes and Queries Society in September 1878. At Irving's invitation, he travelled to London to attend Irving's first night at the Lyceum Theatre under his own management, presenting his new production of Hamlet with Ellen Terry as Ophelia on 30 December. It
2850-513: A magazine serial in 1895 called Unto the Third and Fourth Generation . Stoker and Caine were lifetime literary friends. They shared an interest in mesmerism . Prior to being published in book form the story was renamed Drink: A Love Story on a Great Question . Drink contains a number of similarities to Stoker's novel. In 1906 Drink was published by George Newnes , and illustrated by expatriate Italian American illustrator and painter Cyrus Cuneo . It
3000-452: A masterpiece". Your story fits the Isle of Man like a lid to a box. [...] I have but to lift the alabaster box of precious ointment, and up leaps the genuine Manx perfume, so that the house is filled with the savour thereof. [...] Whether it's the blood in you, or the poet and diviner, you know all about it, you need not that any should tell you concerning Man. for you know what is Man, and that in two senses. [...] 'The Deemster' will live in
3150-484: A member for the rest of his life. One of the society's founders was William Morris . As a young man of 21 Caine encountered the self-proclaimed 'Great American Doctor', Francis Tumblety , aged 43, after he set up at 177 Duke Street, Liverpool, offering herbal cure-all elixirs and Patent medicines to the public, which he claimed were secrets of the American Indians . Tumblety posed at various times in his life as
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#17330940230763300-407: A merchant's office. Suffering from what he described as "the first hint of one of the nervous attacks which even then beset me", and later as "the first serious manifestation of the nervous attacks which have pursued me through my life", Caine quit his job with Murray and, arriving unannounced, went to live with his uncle and aunt, James and Catherine Teare in Maughold on the Isle of Man. Teare
3450-407: A mineshaft, from which he is unable to escape until the next morning. Ewan's body comes ashore and is buried within hours at the Deemster's superstitious bidding. The Bishop is brought various pieces of evidence that show for certain that his son is the perpetrator. The fishermen have meanwhile returned home but, under the suspicion of the coroner, they flee into the mountains. Having climbed out of
3600-559: A modern junior school, a secondary comprehensive school, and the Ramsey Cottage Hospital . The town has a number of churches, including: Our Lady, Star of the Sea & St Maughold Church and St Paul's . Ramsey has a small shipyard and some small industrial workshops. The main street has a range of independent shops, including a butcher, ironmonger, and shops selling clothes, gifts and homewares. There are pubs, cafes, restaurants and
3750-580: A month with Caine at St John's in the Vale, accompanied by Fanny Cornforth . Whilst there, Caine recited a local myth to Rossetti. The myth was to become the inspiration for his first novel The Shadow of a Crime . He was also delivering weekly lectures in Liverpool. Caine negotiated the acquisition of Rossetti's largest painting Dante's Dream of the Death of Beatrice by Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery , representing
3900-578: A nearby coffee shop in Clare Market , which were brought by two young women; one was the 19-year-old Mary Chandler who was to eventually marry Caine. Mary was the fourth of seven children. She was born 23 April 1863, the daughter of Mary and William Chandler, a General Dealer, and grew up in Bethnal Green . William died in 1873 and her mother married John Ward, a Poulterer, in Shoreditch . The family moved to
4050-518: A new monthly magazine he was launching. In his capacity as critic of the Liverpool Town Crier , Caine attended the first night of Hamlet at the Lyceum Theatre, London , on 31 October 1874, with Irving in the title role. Caine was enthralled by Irving's performance and after his enthusiastic review was published in the newspaper, he was asked to reprint it as a broad-sheet pamphlet, as it
4200-541: A piece appeared in the French Journal des débats soon followed by a longer piece in The Pall Mall Gazette connecting Bornier's Mahomet with Irving's English production. William Henry (Abdullah) Quilliam orchestrated protests. In common with Caine he was of Manx descent, raised in Liverpool and had visited Morocco. Converting to Islam, Quilliam set up Britain's first mosque and was made Sheikh al-Islam for
4350-579: A pleading letter from San Francisco, after which there is no record of any further contact. Caine delivered a series of three lectures on Dante Gabriel Rossetti 's work and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement at Liverpool Library between November 1878 and March 1879. The January lecture entitled The Poetry of Dante Rossetti was printed in Colburn's New Monthly Magazine in July 1879. Caine sent
4500-461: A plot of revenge and romance set in the late 18th century Isle of Man and Iceland . It commences with the story of a seaman who marries the daughter of Iceland's Governor-General, abandoning her before the birth of their child. Between June and November 1889 it was serialised in the Isle of Man Times , General Advertiser and several provincial newspapers. Accompanied by Mary, Caine made a research visit to Iceland in August 1889, during which he made
4650-524: A result of his feelings regarding the acute poverty and misery in Great Britain at the time. Rumours of undergraduates, following Ruskin's ideas, digging the ground outside Oxford , reached Caine. He was inspired by Ruskin to begin writing denunciations of the social system and of the accepted interpretation of the Christian faith . Caine was to become 'an eager pupil and admirer' of Ruskin. He later became
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4800-670: A route for several invasions by the Vikings and Scots . Ramsey is also known as "Royal Ramsey" due to royal visits by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert in 1847 and by King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in 1902. The name of the town derives from the Old Norse hrams-á , meaning "wild garlic river", More specifically, it refers to the plant known as ramsons, buckrams or wild garlic, in Latin Allium ursinum . The Isle of Man has been an important strategic location in conflicts between
4950-456: A second epidemic occurred. When Caine was thirteen the third outbreak of cholera occurred in July 1866. Memories of that time were to stay with him, the deaths, the large volume of funerals and prayer meetings in open spaces that were happening all around him. At fifteen, after leaving school, he was apprenticed to John Murray, an architect and surveyor in Lord Street, Liverpool. Murray was
5100-470: A seventy-mile round day trip from Reykjavík to Krýsuvík . William Heinemann was so pleased with initial sales, eventually selling almost half a million copies, that he named his company's telegraphic address after the novel's main character, "Sunlocks". Caine leased Castlerigg Cottage in Keswick in 1888. The following year Caine bought Hawthorns out of part of his earnings from Ben-my-Chree . Hawthorns
5250-493: A shipwreck, and a survivor seeks refuge in Dan's hut. As he comes in and out of consciousness, the man tells Dan that he is a priest from Ireland come to help stop the sweating sickness which grips the island. Before the priest dies, Dan promises that he will take the priest's place and go to the Bishop to instruct the people how to halt the sickness. Dan, taken for the Irish priest, directs
5400-485: A short book on the restoration of old buildings. Two of the chapters were papers he had read at the Social Science Congress and Liverpool Library. Rossetti introduced Caine to Ford Madox Brown , who was at the time working on The Manchester Murals . Following his visit to write an article on Brown's frescoes in July 1880 they became friends. On a later visit Caine accepted Brown's invitation to sit for one of
5550-466: A small Manx expat community. By 1858 they had moved to number 21. Early in 1862 they moved to 5 Brougham Street where Caine attended Windsor Street Wesleyan School, and in January 1865 the family moved round the corner to 2 Coburg Street. During his childhood Caine was occasionally sent to stay with his grandmother, Isabella, and uncle, William, a butcher-farmer, in their thatched cottage at Ballaugh on
5700-502: A supposed friend, and praising Caine for his genuine friendship. After Caine forwarded his letters, he wrote on 1 February discussing the upcoming biography and enclosed a letter supposedly originating from the Isle of Wight , by Napoleon III . The following day the first advert for the upcoming pamphlet appeared in the Liverpool Mercury . Tumblety changed lodgings, initially missing an urgent telegram from Caine indicating there
5850-479: A surgeon, an officer in the federal army, and a gentleman. He always followed his name with "M.D." and used the title 'Doctor', without the supporting qualifications, for which he was fined in Saint John, New Brunswick in 1860. From September 1874, Tumblety was announcing his arrival in Liverpool by advertising in local newspapers, later including testimonials. Following the death of Edward Hanratty in January 1875,
6000-487: A theatre critic to a number of Liverpool newspapers, which were accepted. He used the pseudonym 'Julian'. Before Henry Irving played Hamlet, his intention to play the part differently to any other actor was known to Caine and he contributed many articles on the subject to various papers. The study of Shakespeare and the Bible from his earliest years were his 'chief mental food'. As he had become more absorbed by literary studies he
6150-446: A writer sometimes misleads you, as I think, into forgetting the value of contrast. The grand picture which your story presents of terror and grief wants relief. Individually and collectively, there is variety in the human lot. We are no more continuously wretched than we are continuously happy. Next time, I want more humour, [...] More breaks of sunshine in your splendid cloudy sky will be a truer picture of nature-and will certainly enlarge
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6300-405: 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
6450-505: Is a coastal town in the north of the Isle of Man . It is the second largest town on the Island after Douglas . Its population is 8,288 according to the 2021 Census . It has one of the biggest harbours on the Island, and has a prominent derelict pier , called the Queen's Pier (currently under restoration). It was formerly one of the main points of communication with Scotland . Ramsey has also been
6600-474: Is the Queen's Pier, an iron pier which was built in 1886. It is about 650 metres or 700 yards long. As well as recreational purposes, the pier had a landing stage for visiting ships. It has been closed for many years due to health and safety concerns, although subject to many re-opening appeals. It had its own tramway . The Queen's Pier has had significant renovation work, and is open for visitors on Sunday afternoons in
6750-404: Is then tried by his own father. The sentence is for Dan to be "cut off from the land of the living", i.e. condemned to exile within the island: “Henceforth let him have no name among us, nor family, nor kin. […] When his death shall come, let no man bury him. Alone let him live, alone let him die, and among the beasts of the field let him hide his unburied bones.” Dan travels to the very south of
6900-647: The City of London where John became a Hawker. Months after Mary had first met Caine, John Ward and the other girl's father confronted Caine and Robertson demanding marriage, claiming the young women had been 'ruined'. According to Caine's biographer, nothing more than 'a bit of flirting' had taken place. Refusing to marry, Caine went to Liverpool to deliver lectures, returning to London in early December 1882. Upon Caine's return Mary's stepfather abandoned her at Clement's Inn. Mary went to Sevenoaks for six months to be educated, financed by Caine; she had received little education as
7050-564: The Cumbrian dialect that he had listened to and spoke during his childhood. When he had finished he moved back to London. Living in rooms on the fourth floor of New Court, in Lincoln's Inn , he re-wrote it. After running as a serial in the Liverpool Weekly Mercury , Caine's novel was published in February 1885, by Chatto & Windus , and serialised in several newspapers. His reputation
7200-409: The Isle of Man . His grandmother nicknamed him 'Hommy-Beg', Manx for 'Little Tommy'. The island has a long history of folklore and superstition, passed from generation to generation. Continuing this tradition Grandmother Caine passed on her knowledge of local myths and legends to her grandson, telling him countless stories of fairies, witches, witch-doctors and the evil eye while they were sat by
7350-1020: The Manx Wildlife Trust Ayres Nature Discovery Centre and Nature Trail. Ramsey has been a centre for the revival of Manx traditional music and culture. 'Shennaghys Jiu' ("Tradition Today") Celtic music festival runs in springtime, usually late March. There are two separate live folk music nights at the Mitre Hotel, on Thursdays (singaround) and Fridays (Irish session). The busiest times of year are Shennagys Jiu in March, Cyclefest in May, TT fortnight in late May / early June, (especially Ramsey Sprint Day, when thousands of biking fans visit to watch motorbike drag sprints on Mooragh Promenade), Manx Grand Prix/ Manx Classic motorbike race fortnight in late August, Ramsey National Week in early July, with many music and culture events, and 'Ramsey Rocks' held on
7500-610: The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings . They called their own organisation Notes and Queries Society and held their meetings at the prominent Royal Institution , Colquitt Street. Caine was president of the society and their meetings were reported in the Liverpool newspapers. The 'Notes' were often provided by John Ruskin , William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti . On 16 October 1874 Henry Irving wrote to Caine agreeing to his request to use his portrait in Stray Leaves
7650-405: The 'scribbling itch' for writing. He produced essays, poems, novels and overview histories with little thought of them being published. In common with all 19th century towns Liverpool was unsanitary. In 1832 there had been a cholera epidemic. As panic and fear of this new and misunderstood disease spread, eight major riots had broken out on the streets along with several smaller uprisings. In 1849
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#17330940230767800-686: The British Isles by Abdul Hamid II. Rumour that the play would be produced in London caused unrest in Britain's Muslim communities, threatened British rule in parts of India and strained the nation's relations with the Ottoman Empire. It was banned by the Lord Chamberlain , Edward Bootle-Wilbraham, 1st Earl of Lathom in his capacity as licencer of stage plays. Lathom's intervention was unusual, illustrating
7950-607: The Bruce landed at Ramsey "with a multitude of ships" from the fleet of his friend, Angus Og Macdonald, Lord of the Isles, on his way to capturing Castle Rushen . Captain François Thurot , a then-famous French privateer, and notorious scourge of the British fleet, was defeated off the north-west of the Island in February 1760. His badly damaged, captured ship was brought into Ramsey Bay after
8100-587: The Collected Editions of his novels. Licensed to Thomas Nelson in 1907 by Chatto, the novel was printed in the Nelson Library . In 1886 Mary and Caine travelled to Scotland to watch Irving when he was on tour in Edinburgh where they covertly married on 3 September under Scottish law by declaration before witnesses. Mary became a devoted wife, reading all his work, advising and criticising when appropriate and
8250-405: The Deemster's maid, Kerry, has another vision, of Dan in danger on the mountain. The vision is transferred to Mona and she then sets off with the Deemster's men to the site of the vision. They arrive just in time to save Dan from being shot by the fishermen. At the trial which follows, the fishermen are set free, as there is not enough evidence against them. As a resident of the Bishop's Barony, Dan
8400-626: 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
8550-503: The Governor is handed over to the police for laying false evidence and Dan throws himself across his sweetheart's body while waiting for the hangman. After falling out with Barrett, eventually leading to legal action, Caine came to rewrite another version of the novel for the stage, now entitled, The Bishop's Son . It was taken on tour in 1910, including a performance in Douglas , the capital of
8700-569: The Island. Rain clouds coming from the prevailing wind direction, the south-west, tend to lose most of their moisture over the hills before they reach Ramsey. Ramsey is built mostly on sandy ground and has miles of sandy beaches. To the north of Ramsey the beaches run continuously to the north tip of the Island. On the southern edge of Ramsey, at the edge of the hills, are a network of woods and glens: Ballure Walk, Lhergy Frissel and Elfin Glen. The Millennium Way and other paths and roads lead up to and across
8850-539: The Isle of Man, on 15 August, at which Caine delivered a rapturously-received pre-performance speech. The play eventually opened in London at the Garrick Theatre on 28 September 1910, with Bransby Williams in the lead role. The novel was made into a silent film by the Arrow Film Corporation in America in 1917. Hall Caine's son, Derwent Hall Caine , and Marian Swayne were cast in the lead roles. The film
9000-527: The Isle of Man. He then uses his influence to have his brother, Gilcrist, appointed Bishop , but Gilcrist disappoints him in being good, pious and beyond bribery. In contrast to their father, the Deemster's children, Ewan and Mona, grow up to become a conscientious and diligent priest and a good, caring woman. In contrast, without a strong hand to admonish him, the Bishop's son, Dan, grows up to become "thoughtless, brave, stubborn", likeable but unreliable. The cousins, Mona and Dan, come to fall in love. Dan becomes
9150-629: 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
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#17330940230769300-505: The London theatres. One review angered actor-playwright Wilson Barrett and he demanded a meeting with Caine. Barrett concluding his complaint added "I think you could write a play, and if someday you should hit on a subject suitable to me, I shall be glad if you will let me hear of it". Caine's Cobwebs of Criticism: A Review of the First Reviewers of the Lake, Satanic and Cockney Schools
9450-511: The Lyceum, presided over by Ellen Terry , where he became acquainted with the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) . At one supper, where the only other guest was composer Alexander Mackenzie , Caine breaking the rules, brought his son Ralph with him. In order to make essential money and acquire exposure in America, disregarding the advice of his friends, Caine's short novel She's All The World To Me ,
9600-665: The Lyceum. The French government stopped Bornier's play on 22 March 1890, partly due to the intervention of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II . Caine called the play's plot "false to history, untrue to character, Western in thought and Parisian in sentiment". He continued with his own version that concentrated on Muhammad's flight from Mecca and his triumphant return from Medina years later. Scenes were handwritten by Caine and subsequently reviewed by Irving after Stoker had them typed. Reviewed pages were returned with Irving's edits and often Stoker's suggestions. On 20 June
9750-459: The Mooragh Promenade. The Albert Tower was built to commemorate the royal visit of Prince Albert on 20 September 1847. Queen Victoria's Royal Yacht anchored in the bay, when heavy seas made it impossible to enter Douglas Harbour . Recovering from seasickness, Victoria remained on the yacht, leaving Prince Albert to venture ashore. He climbed to the top of the hill, from where he viewed
9900-610: The Norse rulers of Man and the Isles, and the Scots and English. Smugglers and pirates were also common at many times in Manx history. Ramsey was the landing place of the Viking warrior Godred Crovan around 1079: he was determined to subjugate the Island and make it his kingdom. On Sky Hill, two miles (3 kilometres) inland, an important battle was fought; this resulted in a period of Viking rule, influencing
10050-413: The Prime Minister Lloyd George for services as an Allied propagandist in the United States, King George V made him a Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1918 and a Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1922. Aged 78 Caine died in his home at Greeba Castle on the Isle of Man. Thomas Henry Hall Caine was born on 14 May 1853 at 29 Bridgewater Street, Runcorn , Cheshire , England,
10200-440: The Princess Theatre on 17 May 1888 and ran for a profitable nine weeks. It was a popular staple on Barratt's provincial and international tours for several years afterwards and was successfully produced by others to whom he licensed the rights. An appreciative Caine acknowledged Barratt's substantial contribution by naming him co-writer. The first title published by Heinemann was Caine's 1890 three-volume novel The Bondman ,
10350-758: The ability to engage an audience from his first word. Through studying the works of the Lake School of Poets , and the best writers of the eighteenth century, Caine combined this knowledge with his own ideas of perfection, and went on to develop his level of eloquence to oratory . From the age of ten Caine was educated at Hope Street Unitarian Higher Grade School in Caledonia Street, Liverpool, becoming head boy in his last year there. Prior to this he attended St. James's School and for several years afterwards continued his education attending evening classes at Queen's College, Liverpool Institute . He spent many hours on his own avidly reading books, notably at Liverpool's Free Library . Caine also experienced what he described as
10500-472: The age of eighteen, Caine was back home in Liverpool where he set about applying his knowledge, gained working in the drawing office, into articles on architectural subjects, and subsequently published in The Builder and The Building News . These were Caine's first works published for a national audience. The articles caught Ruskin's attention and he wrote words of encouragement to Caine. Seeking to be published, he offered his services, without payment, as
10650-404: The battle. Thurot's actions had been part of a planned French invasion of Britain. In previous years Thurot had traded between Ireland and the Isle of Man and had been well liked by many Manx people, and regarded as an intelligent gentleman. Several cottages and bridges were built using timbers from the wrecked ship: hence Thurot Cottage and Thurot Bridge. Pirate radio station Radio Caroline North
10800-412: The belt and Ewan falls backwards over the cliff. Ewan dies on the rocks below. After collecting Ewan's body and taking it to his fisherman's hut, Dan goes to confess to Mona. She cannot hold the murder of her brother against him, because she loves him. She tells Dan that he must hand himself in to atone for his crime. However, upon returning to the hut, he finds that the crew of his fishing boat have found
10950-412: The body there. In shock he allows himself to be taken with them as they take the body out to sea to dispose of it. However, when they throw the body into the sea, it miraculously escapes its weighted sheet and floats back to shore. This Dan takes as a sign of God's will, and so he steers the ship back to shore. But, once on land and taking a shortcut to the Deemster's house to hand himself in, Dan falls down
11100-419: The central scene of Ewan's body floating back to shore. Caine visited the Isle of Man for a week in August to check the locations of some scenes in the novel and by September the novel was ready to go to the publisher. In financial need, Caine sold the copyright to Chatto & Windus for £150, signing the contract on 27 September 1887. Unfortunately for Caine, the terms of the contract meant that he did not gain
11250-409: The charismatic Hugh Stowell Brown , a Manxman and brother of poet Thomas Edward Brown . Brown's public lectures and work among the poor made him a household name in Liverpool. Caine participated in the literary and debating society Brown had established. While Caine was very young he became well known and highly regarded by the people of south Liverpool. There he was in great demand as a speaker, having
11400-595: The development of an aerodrome on the site, as they saw it as another memorial to their late father. They also wished to involve the Ramsey town commissioners in the project, as they felt the aerodrome would bring immense benefit to the town. Hall Caine Airport officially came into being on 30 April 1935. Scheduled services proved successful in 1935 and 1936, with Hillman's Airways and later British Airways Ltd and Northern and Scottish Airways providing scheduled services to Belfast , Glasgow , Blackpool and Liverpool where
11550-584: The development of the Manx nation and many of the traditions that continue today. Godred's son, King Olaf , was murdered by his nephew Reginald near Ramsey harbour in 1154, and two years later the Chronicle of Man states that the ships of Somerled came to Ramsey during a conflict which would lead to the division of the kingdom of Man and to Somerled taking the Kingship of the Isles (the Hebrides). On 17 May 1313 Robert
11700-623: The eldest of six children of John Caine (1825–1904) and his wife Sarah Caine (née Hall, (1828–1912)). Sarah was born in Whitehaven , Cumberland, and descended from an old Quaker family of Ralph Halls, china manufacturer. After living for many years in Cumberland the Hall family moved to Liverpool where Sarah, a seamstress, met and married John. As her husband was a member of the Anglican Church and not
11850-569: The ferry from reaching land. Caine was rescued by a large rowing boat. He later drew on this experience when writing the scene in The Bondman in which Stephen Orry is cast ashore there. Another sister, Lily Hall Caine, made it to adulthood and became a prominent stage actress. Lily died June 1, 1914. The Caine family belonged to the Baptist Church in Myrtle Street, Liverpool, presided over by
12000-515: The figures while he was working on The Expulsion of the Danes from Manchester , the third fresco. On another visit he modelled for Crabtree watching the Transit of Venus A.D. 1639 , the fifth fresco to be painted. Caine and Rossetti eventually met in September 1880 when Caine visited Rossetti in his home at 16 Cheyne Walk , Chelsea, London , where he lived "in shabby splendour". The strain of overworking
12150-565: The final commercial flight from Hall Caine Airport departed at 4:15 pm on Saturday, 2 October 1937. Ramsey (Plaza) tram station is the northern terminus of the Manx Electric Railway , and Ramsey is the start of the mountain section of the Snaefell Mountain Course used for the annual Isle of Man TT and Manx Grand Prix motorcycle races. A popular vantage point is Ramsey Hairpin , where enthusiasts gather to watch
12300-499: The fire. When Caine was nine he lost two of his young sisters within a year. Five year old Sarah developed hydrocephaly after a fever. Fourteen month old Emma died in convulsions brought on by whooping cough she caught from him and his brother John. Caine was to be sent to the Isle of Man to recover from his illness and grief. He was put on a boat to Ramsey by his father, with a label pinned on his coat and assurances that his uncle would meet him. A fierce storm occurred preventing
12450-671: The first novel to have sold over a million copies worldwide. 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
12600-429: The high level of concern by the British government. Caine's completed play was accepted by Edward Smith Willard for production in America. Influenced by Renan's Life of Christ he spent the remainder of 1890 hastily writing his own version. Dissatisfied with the result he refused to publish the book, despite being offered three thousand pounds for it in 1894. Ramsey, Isle of Man Ramsey ( Manx : Rhumsaa )
12750-400: The inditing of love letters for young farm hands to their girls in service on farms that were far away". Later he drew on this material to use in his writing. In March 1872, he had a letter from Murray his master, the architect, which said "Why are you wasting your life over there? Come back to your proper work at once." Caine was on his way back to Liverpool within a week. In April 1872, at
12900-506: The island, where he takes up a solitary life of hunting, fishing and farming. He progresses through stages of bitterness and loneliness, trying and failing to flee from the sentence through activity and even an attempt to emigrate to Ireland. He makes his home in a hut near Cregneash , and comes to be thought dead by the rest of the island, as two men mistake a homeless person's dead body for his own. Dan becomes increasingly close to nature; and to retain his humanity he takes up speaking again, in
13050-529: 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
13200-401: The late 19th and early 20th century. Caine's popularity during his lifetime was unprecedented. He wrote 15 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
13350-457: The life of Muhammad , the prophet of Islam , written in 1890 for the actor-manager Henry Irving . In Autumn 1889 Irving presented a copy of Henri de Bornier 's new play Mahomet to Caine, translated into English by Bram Stoker 's wife, Florence. Irving had been granted the English rights by Jules Claretie , director of France's Théâtre Français and he asked Caine to revise it for staging at
13500-399: The line ran as far as Ballure , on the outskirts of Ramsey. The final extension to the centre of Ramsey was opened on 24 July 1899. For a period between 1935 and 1937 Hall Caine Airport just outside the town operated scheduled air services to English, Scottish and Irish airports. Both Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine's sons, Gordon Hall Caine and Derwent Hall Caine , were particularly keen on
13650-449: The literature of the English nation, their own descendants abashed and wondering, and asking what their fathers meant by an indifference so stupid and so unaccountable. Of course I can see that the year 1887 must always be an epoch in Manx history, the year 'The Deemster’ was published. The novel also brought adoration and endorsement from the leading writers and public figures of the day. Bram Stoker , for instance, wrote an introduction to
13800-410: The local community. Thirlmere , close to the centre of the Lake District, in an area, not only celebrated in the poetry of early conservationist William Wordsworth and fellow Lake poets, but also used as a summer residence by writers, amongst others. In opposition to damming the lake at Thirlmere to form a reservoir, the first environmental group, Thirlmere Defence Association was formed in 1877. It
13950-414: The longest commercially made British film. 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
14100-556: The mineshaft, Dan hands himself in to the Deemster in the Ramsey courthouse, from where he is taken to Peel Castle to await trial. Imprisoned in the castle, Dan refuses his father's offer of escape. However, while sleeping, Dan is abducted by the fishermen, who fear that he will give evidence against their part in the disposal of Ewan's body. They take Dan to a deserted mine in the mountains, where they try Dan and find him guilty of endangering their lives. They sentence Dan to death. Meanwhile,
14250-596: The month. The Ramsey Ratepayers Association petitioned the Lieutenant Governor of the Isle of Man , Sir Montague Butler , with a view to his intervening to preserve commercial air operations from Hall Caine. The cancellation by Northern and Scottish Airways also led to a special meeting of the Ramsey Commissioners. It was hoped that Railway Air Services would have commenced operations from Hall Caine, but any hope proved unfounded. Piloted by Capt. McGeow,
14400-436: The name Phoenix Cottage and the date 8 January 1871. Encouraged by Teare, after he had written to reassure Caine's parents that he might one day be able to make a living as a writer, Caine wrote anonymous articles for a local newspaper on a wide range of religious and economic questions. John Ruskin had started his Guild of St George and began expressing his ideas in his new monthly series, Fors Clavigera , written as
14550-405: The new-found adulation of the Manx people. However, by this time he has fallen ill and is close to death when Mona arrives, having followed him south with the official invitation to become Deemster. At last they are reunited, and she spends his last few minutes with him as he says his prayer once more, with her help, ending by asking God to "deliver us from evil, Amen." Between May and November 1887
14700-406: The next day. It ran to more than fifty English editions and was translated into every major European language. Caine sent a copy of the novel to Wilson Barrett as he suited the main character, then set to work adapting his novel into a stage version called Ben-my-Chree, Manx for 'Girl of my Heart'. Irving, after reading the book, saw potential in it, himself playing the Bishop. The play opened at
14850-762: The novel was serialised weekly in the Dundee Evening Telegraph as The Doomster or Cut off from the people and in the Sheffield Weekly Telegraph as The Deemster: A Romance of the Purple Island . The novel became an enormous success upon its release in November 1887, so much so that Punch Magazine was soon to dub it "The Boomster". There were to be more than 50 editions of the book in English, as well as translations into French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Finnish and Czech. The book
15000-411: The novel, the Manx audience became aware of it and was in "uproar". The tone of this is perhaps shown by the former Bishop of the island noting that, with regard to this and Caine's next novel, The Manxman , "my soul revolts from such a travesty of Island life.” In contrast, T. E. Brown, having previously advised Caine against setting the novel on the island, came to refer to the book as "little short of
15150-495: The novel, when expressed, tended to concentrate on the perceived negativity or dark side of the novel. This is shown in a letter written to Caine by Wilkie Collins on 15 March 1888: For a long time past, I have read nothing in contemporary fiction that approaches what you have done here. [...] When you next take up your pen, will you consider a little whether your tendency to dwell on what is grotesque and violent in human character does not require some discipline? [...] your power as
15300-534: The number of your admiring readers. Hall Caine adapted the novel for the stage with Wilson Barrett , who was to play the lead role of Dan. The play was entitled Ben-my-Chree (“Girl of my heart" in Manx ), the name of Dan's boat in the novel, and it was Caine's first foray into writing for the stage. It opened at the Princess's Theatre on Oxford Street, London, on 17 May 1888, and despite initially dubious reviews it proved to be
15450-410: The offer. Caine's maternal grandparents had lived with the rest of his family while they were growing up in Liverpool. His grandfather, Ralph Hall, died in January 1870, when Caine was seventeen. In the same year of his life Caine was reunited with William Tirebuck, a friend from his school days, when the business of their masters brought them together. United in their interest in literature, they made
15600-400: The only way that would not endanger his sanity: by repeating the one prayer he remembers, at sunrise and sunset each day on the hill overlooking the village of Cregneash. Shortly after a period of heavy rain followed by strong sun, there are signs of distress on the island: fishing boats do not put out to sea, carts do not go to market, people are ascending to the mountains. Then a storm causes
15750-400: The painter at its installation in November 1881. In January 1882 Caine's anthology Sonnets of Three Centuries was published. After Rossetti "had an attack of paralysis on one side", his medical adviser, Mr John Marshall, recommended a change of air. Architect John Seddon offered Rossetti the use of Westcliffe Bungalow at Birchington , Kent. Caine eventually persuaded Rossetti to make
15900-542: The pamphlet, along with money for printing and advertising. Tumblety later wrote of disputes with the printer. Claiming to be too ill to send money, he sent Caine a printer's bill for payment. Tumblety had hired an assistant who read the proofs to him. The pamphlet entitled Passages from the Life of Dr Francis Tumblety , and the fourth of Tumblety's biographies, was published in March 1875. Tumblety wrote to Caine in April 1875 that he
16050-454: The passenger could connect with services to London . There was also an air link between Hall Caine and Ronaldsway Airport for air mail. The primary reason for the cessation of services from Hall Caine was a rationalization of services operated by Northern and Scottish. Northern and Scottish and Manx Airways Ltd entered into an undertaking at Ronaldsway. This resulted in Manx Airways covering
16200-456: The people of the west and north of the island how to drive out the dampness that causes the sickness. Dan is called to his dying uncle's bedside, where the former Deemster admits his sin of having driven Ewan to the confrontation with Dan; only after this he realises Dan's true identity. He goes to meet his father and they are reconciled. With the sickness defeated, Dan returns to his hut near Cregneash without having seen Mona, preferring solitude to
16350-399: The poet to the series. In three weeks Caine wrote Life of Coleridge , published in 1887. November the same year The Deemster was published in three volumes by Chatto & Windus. It was set in 18th century Isle of Man, where the title of Deemster is given to the Island's judges. The plot includes the story of a fatal fight, with the body being taken out to sea only to float back to land
16500-585: The prosperity of the Foxdale Mines for which it was used to haul ore trains from Foxdale to the Ramsey quayside for shipment. Return trains would haul coal back to Foxdale to power the pumping houses of the mines. Ramsey is also the northern terminus of the Manx Electric Railway . Initially linking Douglas to Laxey, the line from Laxey to Ramsey was opened on 2 August 1898 by the Lieutenant Governor, John Henniker-Major, 5th Baron Henniker . At that date
16650-671: The public, and rocky coasts, headlands and beaches, with much of the area accessible by road, footpath, and electric tram. Inland wildlife areas include Sulby Glen (a rugged grassy glen full of bluebells in spring) and Ballaugh Curragh : a wildlife-rich patchwork of semi-wilderness, swamp, woodland and agriculture, continuous since the last Ice Age. Maughold Head Seals, cormorants, chough, wildfowl and seabirds, coastal wildflowers. The Ayres/ Point of Ayre Lichen heath, sand-dunes, little terns , Arctic terns , winter migratory geese, divers, gannets , other wildfowl, basking sharks , seals , lizards, various butterflies and moths. Includes
16800-555: The racers. Another popular spot is Parliament Square in the middle of town. There are also opportunities for walking, cycling, kayaking, and other outdoor activities. The Millennium Way footpath ends 1 mi (1.6 km) from the centre of the town on the A3 road at the foot of Sky Hill. Mooragh Park, on the north side of the Sulby river, is a 19th-century park with a large boating lake where boats (canoes, pedaloes etc) are available for hire. It
16950-399: The readers of novels would find the island at all interesting, and he was sure that the local atmosphere was not such as would attract them. I thought over this a good deal, and decided, I must say, against your brother's judgment. [...] In the first place, the island has excellent atmosphere. It has the sea, a fine coast on the west, fine moorland above; it has traditions, folk-talk, folk-lore,
17100-407: The same fate. He recovered, but the disease left him with permanent lung damage, and throughout his life he had attacks of bronchitis . In his 1913 novel The Woman Thou Gavest Me , he describes Mary O’Neil dying of tuberculosis. Manchester Corporation had covertly been buying land for building the proposed Thirlmere Aqueduct , intended to supply water to the city. When discovered, it outraged
17250-469: The same night he took a spoon of medicine supplied by Tumblety, and action taken by William Carroll to sue Tumblety for £200 after allegedly publishing a false testimonial, Tumblety fled to London. Many newspapers reported the stories and in the wake of this adverse publicity, Tumblety recruited Caine to edit his biography. Late January Tumblety wrote requesting Caine to obtain a quote for printing ten thousand copies in Liverpool , telling of being betrayed by
17400-529: The schedules to Liverpool, Blackpool, Carlisle and Belfast which were formerly operated by Northern and Scottish, leaving only the Glasgow service being operated from Hall Caine. This was a severe blow to Ramsey, coming as it did at the beginning of the tourist season. Services from Hall Caine to Glasgow resumed in early June, aimed primarily at the increased traffic as a result of the TT Races which continued throughout
17550-422: The south-west, plus Ballaugh Curragh (wooded swamp) and productive farmland inland, and isolated sandy shores and dunes to the north. Ramsey Bay was the I Island's first Marine Nature Reserve, set up to protect fisheries and marine wildlife. The protected area acts as a 'nursery area' for fish and other creatures and plants, which can then move out to restock surrounding areas. Ramsey shore and estuary provide
17700-619: The summer months steamers would call at the Queen's Pier whilst en-route to Douglas from Belfast and Ardrossan . The port is the headquarters of the local shipping line Mezeron, as it was formerly for the Ramsey Steamship Company, until it ceased trading in 2014. Ramsey serves as the main terminus for the northern network of Bus Vannin , providing local services to Andreas , Jurby and Bride . In addition it provides an on-demand service to Ronaldsway Airport and main services to Peel and to Douglas via Laxey . At one time
17850-577: The summer. The lease has been taken on by the Queens Pier Restoration Trust, who aim to restore it gradually. The Grove Museum of Victorian Life (Manx National Heritage) is located in the northern suburbs on the A9 (Andreas Road). Among the various leisure venues in Ramsey are a swimming pool, bowling alley, a rural museum (the Grove Museum of Rural Life), and Milntown House at the western edge of
18000-544: The totally impossible at once! Caine ignored their advice but did adapt the plot and characters to some of T.E. Brown's suggestions. He also sought the advice of two other Manxmen, A.W. Moore and Sir James Gell, particularly on the legal background of the novel. Having assembled his materials, Caine wrote the novel at his house in Bexley in the space of only seven months, a feat made possible by his recycling material from his 1885 novella, She's All The World To Me , in particular
18150-404: The town of Ramsey and the northern plain. The hill was renamed Albert Mount and a year later the tower's foundation was laid. The tower is made of granite and rises 45 feet (14 m) high. It is a landmark not only for the town of Ramsey, but also for the north of the Isle of Man. There is a public path leading up the hill for people to visit the tower. Another distinctive landmark of the town
18300-572: The town was served by both the Manx Electric Railway and the Isle of Man Railway . The first rail link was established by the Isle of Man Railway in 1879, transferring to the Manx Northern Railway in 1880. The line ran via Sulby , Ballaugh and Kirk Michael to St John's , where it connected to the main Douglas – Peel line and with the Foxdale Railway . The railway was largely financed by
18450-529: The town. There are several sports clubs, including a rugby club , a football club and Ramsey Youth Centre and Old Boys F.C. , a hockey team, a Gaelic football team, Ramsey Ravens swimming team and a golf club. There is an active sailing club, the Manx Sailing and Cruising Club, which promotes an annual Round the Island sailing race as well as regularly scheduled dinghy and cruiser races. Ramsey Angling Club holds regular sea angling competitions. Ramsey has
18600-513: The treatment of ancient buildings which was described as "'well worth reading". At the 1879 Social Science Congress held in Manchester Town Hall , Caine read his paper A New Phase of the Question of Architectural Restoration . He spoke of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , its purpose, actions and achievements. Caine had joined the society the previous year and remained
18750-424: The trip to Birchington, and they both arrived on 4 February 1882, accompanied by Caine's sister and Rossetti's nurse. Caine stayed with Rossetti until Rossetti's death on Easter Sunday, 1882. From 1882 Caine was employed as a leader-writer on the Liverpool Mercury and was given free rein as to the subject and number of articles he wrote. This gave him the opportunity to attend and review numerous first nights at
18900-482: The upland heath ('the tops' and 'the hills'). The new 'Ramsey Forest' project aims to increase the tree cover in this area and connect areas of woodland. Ramsey is home to the second busiest port on the Island, handling a wide range of general cargo. The port was formerly used as an operating base by the Isle of Man Steam Packet Company for both cargo and passenger services. The company operated scheduled services to Liverpool and Whitehaven in addition to which during
19050-401: The wealth of royalties when the book became a best-seller upon its release in November. Indeed, in 1921 when Caine wanted to release his Collected Works through a different publisher, he would have to pay £350 to Chatto & Windus for the rights to The Deemster . The novel is set in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Thorkell Mylrea buys himself into becoming a Deemster (or judge) on
19200-448: Was a problem with the publication. His response was to tell Caine to stop until he saw the proofs. Tumblety offered to pay for Caine to visit him in London to discuss the pamphlet, his letter dated 16 February indicating Caine had taken up the offer. He told a friend that his visit to Tumblety was "arduous". A spate of correspondence relating to the publication ensued, Tumblety supplying Caine with names of notable people to be included in
19350-668: Was a small square-built stone house on the Penrith Road, a mile outside Keswick, overlooking Bassenthwaite Lake and Derwentwater. Caine also rented a pied-à-terre at Albert Mansions, Victoria Street, London. Hawthorns was close to Chesnut Cottage that Shelley had rented in 1811 and Greta Hall home of the poets Coleridge and Southey . The house had ten acres of land where Caine kept two ponies he had transported from Iceland. Mary learned to make butter and cheese. The Caines lived at Hawthorns for four years. In 1890 Bram Stoker began his notes for his Dracula novel. Caine published
19500-525: Was affecting Caine's health and in 1881, deciding to focus on his literary career, he left his job at Bromley & Son and went to St John's in the Vale , Cumbria. Before long Rossetti wrote that he too was ill and asked Caine to go to London planning to return to Cumbria with him. By the time Caine arrived in London Rossetti had changed his mind and instead Caine became Rossetti's housemate. Early in September, persuaded by friends and family Rossetti spent
19650-497: Was at this time that Caine was introduced to Irving's business manager, Bram Stoker , who was to become one of his closest friends. Stoker was subsequently to dedicate his famous novel Dracula to Caine, under the nickname 'Hommy-Beg'. In 1879 Caine edited a booklet of the papers presented to the Notes and Queries Society by William Morris , Samuel Huggins and John J. Stevenson on the progress of public and professional thought on
19800-577: Was based in Ramsey Bay from 1964–68 and supplied with provisions from Ramsey. During World War II, thirty boarding houses on the North Shore were requisitioned for the Mooragh Internment Camp . Ramsey is in the sunniest area of the Isle of Man, with relatively low rainfall. This is because Ramsey is in a 'rain shadow' just to the north-east of the Manx hills, on the edge of the northern plain of
19950-497: Was born in their rented house Yarra, Worseley Road, Hampstead on 15 August 1884. The following month they moved to live in Aberleigh Lodge, Red House Lane, Bexleyheath , next door to William Morris' Red House , where they remained until 1889. Caine had many friends in London's elite artistic and intellectual circles. As a friend of Stoker and Irving for many years he became a regular at Irving's Beefsteak Room gatherings at
20100-959: Was contemplating manufacturing his pills in London, and required a partner to share the profits, telling Caine to approach Liverpool chemists as proposed outlets. Caine had declined a further invitation to London, but Tumblety persisted with his invites to join him in London, later made by telegram, additionally inviting him on a planned trip to America . Around the time Alfred Thomas Heap was hanged in Kirkdale Gaol, Liverpool , for an abortion-related death, Tumblety, who had been arrested in 1857 for selling abortion drugs, disappeared. Caine made enquiries as to his whereabouts. Briefly Tumblety set up offices in Union Passage, Birmingham . His correspondence turned menacing, demanding money from Caine. Tumblety left London for New York City in August 1876. Failing to entice Caine to join him, he followed months later with
20250-567: Was described in the Manchester Guardian as 'a rather gruesome love story'. The story is of a girl who inherits a taste for alcohol from her father and is put on the road to recovery by hypnotic influence. Two hundred thousand copies of the book had been sold in England by the time the American edition was published by Appleton in 1907. Caine's Mahomet is a four-act historical drama based on
20400-581: Was discontinued early on after discovering they did not work well together. Dealing with the theme of illegitimacy , Caine has written a story close to his own life. The opening scene is set in Victorian London police court where a girl is charged with attempted suicide after she and her illegitimate baby had been dragged from the Thames, a scene he could well have witnessed while working as reporter. Later Caine attempted to suppress A Son of Hagar from both of
20550-459: Was he who suggested that he write a novel set on the Isle of Man. However, it was not for another five years that Caine began to work on The Deemster . Having conceived of the plot outline, Caine wrote to Hugh Stowell Brown and then his brother, T. E. Brown , to get their opinions. On 3 October 1886 Caine wrote to the Manx poet: I remember that your brother Hugh did something to dissuade me from tackling Manxland in any sort of work. He did not think
20700-509: Was his first secretary. Two of Caine's sonnets, Where Lies the Land! and After Sunset , were included in William Sharp 's 1886 anthology Sonnets of this Century . Publisher Walter Scott engaged Eric Robertson, Caine's former roommate, to edit a series entitled Great Writers . Aware of the study Caine had already made of Coleridge, Robertson asked Caine to contribute a brief biography of
20850-520: Was immediately established, along with a foremost place among the novelists of the day. He was later invited to write the story of writing The Shadow of a Crime , which after its appearance in the Idler was published in 1894 in My First Book . After the publication of Caine's first novel, Mary created a series of scrapbooks containing items relating to his public life. Mary and Caine's son, Ralph Hall ,
21000-470: Was not content with reading Shakespeare's plays, so he was reading all of the most notable playwrights of the Elizabethan age and "he began to make acquaintance with the dramatists". In the summer of 1872 Caine wrote his first play. The Charter was an adaptation of Charles Kingsley 's novel Alton Locke , but as an unknown writer he could not get it staged. "Partly from the failure of faith in myself as
21150-557: Was of such a high quality. Caine's first short story Max Wieland was published in the Liverpool Critic around 1874. A year later Caine became dramatic critic of the Spectator . Caine's long narrative poem, Geraldine , appeared in print in March 1876. It was a completion of Coleridge's unfinished poem Christabel . The Caine family had moved into a larger house in 1873, at 59 South Chester Street, Toxteth , where Caine shared
21300-486: Was originally part of a salt marsh but was purchased and developed by the town to encourage visitors. Mooragh Park has a small water park, two cafés, a BMX club, skate park, tennis courts, basketball area, outdoor exercise equipment, and a children's playground. The park is mostly on the level and has disabled toilets. Ramsey's original swimming pool in the town centre was converted into a ten-pin bowling alley in 2010. The new Northern Swimming Pool opened in January 2009 on
21450-480: Was published in 1883. It began as a series of Liverpool lectures exposing unjustified reviews of poets Byron , Coleridge , Hunt , Keats , Shelley , Southey and Wordsworth that were written during their lifetimes Returning to London after Rossetti's death, Caine moved into 18 Clement's Inn in July 1882, sharing rooms with his academic friend Eric Robertson , where they often hosted intellectual gatherings. They frequently had their evening meals delivered from
21600-526: Was published in New York, in 1885 by Harper & Brothers . She's All The World To Me was the first of his novels to be set on the Isle of Man. Under American copyright laws the book's copyright was forfeited to Harper and Brothers, a situation unforeseen by Caine, he was incensed. Caine recycled much of the material from the book in his later works, particularly in The Deemster . She's All The World To Me
21750-507: Was released in England in March 1918, when Hall Caine organised "a stellar first night audience" for the screening in aid of war charities. Caine had invited the Prime Minister, Lloyd George , but he politely declined the invitation. Hall Caine 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
21900-407: Was serialised in the Liverpool Weekly Mercury between 21 March and 4 April 1885 immediately following The Shadow of a Crime . Set in the contrasting locations of the Vale of Newlands in the Lake District and Victorian London , A Son of Hagar , Caine's third novel was written in 1885–86 and published in 1886 by Chatto and Windus. Begun in collaboration with Robert Buchanan , their partnership
22050-491: Was supported by the national press, Wordsworth's son and John Ruskin. Caine, incensed at what he perceived as a threat to his beloved Cumbria, joined the movement, initiating a Parliamentary petition. Thirlmere was to be the setting for his novel The Shadow of a Crime . In response to his lecture The Supernatural in Shakespeare , given in July 1878, in a meeting chaired by Professor Edward Dowden , Matthew Arnold wrote him
22200-415: Was the local schoolmaster , and as Caine was to learn, ill with tuberculosis. Caine became his assistant teaching in the schoolhouse. Finding their accommodation in part of the schoolhouse was crowded Caine camped in a nearby tholtan , a half-ruined cottage. Using his stonemason skills, taught to him by his grandfather Hall, he restored and lived in the cottage. On the stone lintel above the door he carved
22350-477: Was to meet Gladstone on another occasion when he was on Gladstone's estate at Seaforth House . The surveyor-in-chief had not appeared one morning and a fifteen year old Caine took his place. Caine had left a lasting impression on Gladstone, as two years later Caine had a letter from Gladstone's brother saying the Prime Minister wished to appoint him steward of the Lancashire Gladstone estates. Caine declined
22500-407: Was well received in the press, being praised for attributes such as its "childlike purity, in its passionate simplicity". Upon Caine's first visit to America in 1895, the American press commented on the novel that "By its setting in the Isle of Man it opened up a new domain in literature as surely as Scott , Dickens and Thackeray had in their day." After an initial period of apparent ignorance of
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