Salome Fifield (
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Maiden name
Hocking
Short biography
A novelist, Hocking was born in St Stephen in Brannel, Cornwall.
Full biography
Her father was a china clay mine captain and a leader of the local Bryanite Bible Christians. Her brothers, Joseph and Silas Hocking, were also prolific Methodist novelists. After a farming injury, she lived with a double curvature of her spine.
She married Arthur C. Fifield, a publisher, and lived out most of her life in Surrey. Through her husband's literary circles, she met George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Butler, and Russian Tolstoyan exiles.
Her early fiction drew on her Cornish life and upbringing, whereas her later writing drew more on her acquaintances within her husbands circle of friends.
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Date of birth (approx)
c. 1859
Place of birth
St. Stephen-in-Brannell
Date of death (approx)
c. 1927
Place of death
Coulsdon, Surrey
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