General background
Thomas Ernest George Henham, otherwise Ernest George was born on 14 December 1870 The National Archives; Kew, London, England; 1939 Register; Reference: Rg 101/6969g and his writings include a series of novels based onAlmost everywhere in Dartmoor are furze, heather and granite. The furze seems to suggest cruelty, the heather endurance, and the granite strength. The furze is destroyed by fire, but grows again; the granite is worn away imperceptively by the rain....In his introduction to ''Heather'', Trevena writes: "Heather, which flourishes only in pure air and sunshine, and blossoms again though it is torn by winds, seems to represent the spirit of Endurance." According to one American commentator,
...onlyThe natural world of the moor is important to many of his works and Trevena's themes are often about opposing ideas, such as educated vs. uneducated people; clean rural vs. dirty city living; and secular vs. religious philosophies. Trevena's personal perspective on the value of reading and writing is perhaps best captured in ''Sleeping Waters'' where he states:Thomas Hardy Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, including the poetry of William Word ...andGeorge Augustus Moore George Augustus Moore (24 February 1852 – 21 January 1933) was an Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoirist and dramatist. Moore came from a Roman Catholic landed family who lived at Moore Hall in Carra, County Mayo. He ...among contemporary novelists rival his art at its best. ... Trevena's novels are the expression of a passionate feeling for Nature, regarded as the sum of human personality and experience, in all its moods,--benign and malign, as man is benign and malign, and faithful to life in the stone as well as the flower...(John Trevena. ''By Violence'' with an Introduction by Edward J. O'Brien (Boston 1918)).
"You can learn without reading, and you can live without writing... The state of ignorance may be a happy one; but when you die you leave a world which you have never really discovered, you depart from a life which you have never shared in, and you abandon for ever a wealth of beauty which has never been revealed to you. The reward of ignorance is a dull kind of self-conceit. If you were to read a dozen of the best books, you would talk less, my friend, and think more... ."Henham also wrote some novels with fantastic content. ''Tenebrae'' (1898) features an enormous, menacing spider. ''The Feast of Bacchus: A Study in Dramatic Atmosphere'' (1907) is a supernatural horror novel. ''The Reign of the Saints'' (1911), (as John Trevena) is a science fiction novel set in a future Britain.
List of published works
He published the following works under his real name: * ''God, Man and the Devil'' (1897) * ''Menotah: A Tale of the Riel Rebellion'' (1897) * ''Tenebrae'' (1898) * ''Pete Barker's Shanty'' (1898) * ''Bonanza: A Tale of the Outside'' (1901) * ''Scud'' (1902) * ''The Plowshare and the Sword: A Tale of Old Quebec'' (1903) * ''Krum: A Study in Consciousness'' (1904) * ''A Pixy in Petticoats'' (1906) * ''The Feast of Bacchus'' (1907) * ''Bracken'' (1910) * ''The Reign of the Saints'' (1913) The following works were published under his pseudonym, John Trevena: * ''Arminel of the West'' (1907) * ''Furze the Cruel'' (1907) * ''Heather'' (1908) * ''Granite'' (1909) * ''The Dartmoor House That Jack Built'' (1909) * ''Written in the Rain'' (1910) * ''Bracken'' (1910) * ''The Reign of the Saints'' (1911) * ''Wintering Hay'' (1912) * ''No Place Like Home'' (1913) * ''Sleeping Waters'' (1913) * ''Adventures Among Wild Flowers'' (1914) * ''Moyle Church-Town'' (1915) * ''The Captain's Furniture'' (1916) * ''Raindrops'' (1920) * ''The Vanished Moor'' (1923) * ''The Custom of the Manor'' (1924) * ''Off the Beaten Track'' (1925) * ''Typet's Treasure'' (1927). Henham also published dozens of short stories in various magazines both under his own name and his pseudonym.References
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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Henham, Ernest George 1870 births 1948 deaths 20th-century English novelists Canadian emigrants to England Writers from Devon People educated at St Edward's School, Oxford English male novelists 20th-century English male writers English horror writers English science fiction writers English male non-fiction writers