He published five novels in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in addition to many short stories and plays about the working people of Cornwall.
He was educated at Highgate School,[2] was awarded a BA from London University in 1889 and published his first novel, Widow Woman, in 1896.
[3] After relocating to the London suburbs, he worked as senior editor for J. M. Dent, where, owing to his talent for editing prose, he came to be known as "the man with the green pen.
"[3] As well as a number of short stories he wrote several plays, journals, and musical scores and a guide book of St Mawgan:- The Vale of Lanherne, ISBN 0-907566-45-6.
Wyndham Lewis he compiled The Stuffed Owl, an anthology of bad (mainly inappropriate and bathetic) verse, a volume reissued by New York Review Books Classics in 2003 with an introduction by Billy Collins.