Joseph Henry Shorthouse

Novelist, born in Birmingham, West Midlands, C England, UK. He was a Quaker who converted to the Church of England, and his major work, a philosophical romance entitled John Inglesant (1881), revealed an insight into religious conflicts. His other works include The Little Schoolmaster Mark (1883–4), Sir Percival (1886), A Teacher of the Violin (1888), and Blanche, Lady Falaise (1891).

Joseph Henry Shorthouse (September 9, 1834 - March 4, 1903), novelist, born at Birmingham, where he was a chemical manufacturer. Though deficient in its structure as a story, and not appealing to the populace, it fascinates by the charm of its style and the "dim religious light" by which it is suffused, as well as by the striking scenes occasionally depicted. His other novels, The Little Schoolmaster Mark, Sir Percival, The Countess Eve, and A Teacher of the Violin, though with some of the same characteristics, had no success comparable to his first.

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910).

A Teacher of the Violin and Other Stories (1888)