The View From the Cart

A full biography of a man who did everything in excess. He lived to be ninety; he fathered fifteen children; he wrote 130 books; he collected folksongs and wrote hymns. He never ran short of energy. His novels were bestsellers in the final decades of the Victorian era. He was almost never dull, even when writing collections of sermons or Lives of the Saints. The biography took an alarming 15 years to write, and is the result of exhaustive researches into Baring-Gould's archives, as well as reading nearly all his books. It is 540 pages, in a handsome hardback format, with illustrations.