Ernest George Henham was an early 20th century British author who wrote novels about Dartmoor and Devon County, England. He also published literary works under the pseudonym John Trevena.
General Background
Ernest G. Henham was born in 1870 and authored a series of novels based on Dartmoor, the moorland in Devon County, England, where he lived much of his life. He wrote thirty books, which were published between 1897 and 1927. Henham was considered a recluse, but often used people he encountered in real life for the characters in his work. In addition to the United Kingdom, his books were also published in the United States. The New York Times reviewed his books twice, on March 21, 1908 and August 23, 1914. He is perhaps best known for his trilogy: Furze the Cruel, Heather and Granite.
According to one American commentator, "...only Thomas Hardy and George Augustus Moore 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).
List of Published Works
He published the following works under his full name: God, Man and the Devil (1897), Menotah (1897), Pete Barker's Shanty (1898), Bonanza (1901), Scud (1902), The Plowshare and the Sword (1903), Krum (1904).
The following works were published under his pseudonym, John Trevena: A Pixy in Petticoats (1906), Arminel of the West (1907), Furse the Cruel (1907), The Feast of Bacchus (1907), Tenebrae (1908), 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), By Violence (1918), Raindrops (1920), The Vanished Moor (1923), The Custom of the Manor (1924), Off the Beaten Track (1925), Typet's Treasure (1927).