Person

Joseph Henry Pearce

born 1856, died 1909 (age 53)

gender: male
vocations: author, publisher

author of the following texts (6):
Eli’s Daughter   (Published in: 1896)
Esther Pentreath, the Miller's Daughter: A Study of Life on the Cornish Coast.   (Published in: 1891)
Ezekiel's Sin. A Cornish Romance   (Published in: 1898)
Fantasies: A Year and A Day   (Published in: 1896)
Fantasies: An Odd Coincidence   (Published in: 1896)
Inconsequent Lives. A Village Chronicle Shewing How Certain Folk Set Out for El Dorado: What They Attempted: and What They Attained.   (Published in: 1891)

publications (5):
Esther Pentreath, the Miller's Daughter: A Study of Life on the Cornish Coast   (Published in: 1891 )
Inconsequent Lives   (Published in: 1891 )
Eli’s Daughter   (Published in: 1896 )
The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal   (Published in: 1896 )
Ezekiel's Sin. A Cornish Romance   (Published in: 1898 )

manager at the following publishers:
William Heinemann   (founded in: 1890 )
T. Fisher Unwin   (founded in: 1882 closure in: 1926)
The Lawnmarket of Edinburgh by Patrick Geddes and Colleagues   (founded in: 1895 closure in: 1897)
J.B. Lippincott Company  

text settings:
Coastal village of Trevaylor overlooking Mount’s Bay and Penzance. Penwith Peninsula, Corwall. Other places mentioned include fictional villages of Wheal Tregerras Porth Trenowls. The names follow local place naming (Wheal) but couldn’t be associated with a real location.
Land’s End, Mount’s Bay, Isles of Scilly, Penzance, Treen in the Penwith Peninsula, Cornwall. Mentions a shipwreck of a ship coming from Australia.
Set in Cornwall.
Set in Treryn Dinas, Treen, Penwith Peninsula, Gwennap Head, Corwall
Set in the Land’s End region of the Penwith Peninsula near Penzance, Cornwall. Mentions a number of fictional locations within the peninsula such as Wheal Trebarvah and Aichel Tregenza. The names follow local place naming but couldn’t be associated with a real location.
Set in the village of Newlyn a fishing village near Penzance in Mount’s Bay near Saint Michael’s Mount in the Penwith Peninsula, Cornwall.

publication locations:
Edinburgh
London
Philadelphia

Relations to other persons:
movement:
Patrick Geddes   (1854 - 1932)
co-contributor:
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (Q)   (1843 - 1944)

Periodicals:
contributor:
The Cornish Magazine   (founded in: 1898 closure in: 1901)
The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal   (founded in: 1895 closure in: 1897)

Involved with the following movements:
contributor:
Scottish Renaissance   (founded in: 1895 )