Bernard Capes

The prolific English author and priest Bernard Edward Joseph Capes (1854-1918) is well-known for his contributions to a variety of literary genres in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Capes, who was born in London on August 8, 1854, pursued a career that included teaching, writing, and serving in the church. In the early years of his writing career, Capes wrote essays and poetry for a variety of magazines. His early writings demonstrated his lyrical sensibility and his capacity to discuss...See more

The prolific English author and priest Bernard Edward Joseph Capes (1854-1918) is well-known for his contributions to a variety of literary genres in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Capes, who was born in London on August 8, 1854, pursued a career that included teaching, writing, and serving in the church. In the early years of his writing career, Capes wrote essays and poetry for a variety of magazines. His early writings demonstrated his lyrical sensibility and his capacity to discuss a broad variety of subjects. But he was most well-known for his fiction writing, where he showed a flair for enigmatic and otherworldly narrative. Capes pursued writing in addition to his career as a Church of England preacher. His works, which frequently address moral and ethical issues, show influences from his clerical experience. Because of his dedication to religion and literature, Capes was able to combine elements of spirituality and the paranormal with popular fiction conventions to create a distinctive voice in his writing. See less