Hocking, Joseph, 1860-1937

Joseph Hocking (1860-1937) was an English writer active in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Public information about his life and nationality is limited, and the library currently holds twelve of his works. The surviving titles suggest a prolific author with wide-ranging subjects. Representative works include The Day of Judgment, The Everlasting Arms, The Weapons of Mystery and The Man Who Rose Again, alongside Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure, Tommy, The Birthright and The Pomp of Yesterday. The titles point to a blend of adventure stories, suspenseful plots and moral or religious themes, with brisk narration and characters often placed amid tests and choices. His fiction combines the readability of popular novels with serious concerns, and may interest readers of late Victorian and Edwardian popular English literature.