Coulson Kernahan

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Coulson Kernahan (1858-1943) was an English novelist, born at Ilfracombe, Devonshire, and educated privately by his father and at St Albans School. He was associated with Locker-Lampson on a new edition of Lyra Elegantiarum, contributed to many periodicals, wrote humorous verse, and gained wide popularity for his fiction, some of which has been translated into French, German, Dutch, Hungarian, and Chinese. Among his books are:

  • A Dead Man's Diary (1890)
  • A Book of Strange Sins (1893)
  • The Child, the Wise Man, and the Devil (1896)
  • Scoundrels and Co. (1899)
  • A World without a Child (1905)
  • The Dumpling (1906)
  • Between 1906 and 1914 he published these works:
An Author in the Territorials (with foreword by Lord Roberts)
The Red Peril
Bedtime Stories
The Bow-Wow Book.


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