Mehalah

Mehalah: a Story of the Salt Marshes was first published in 1880 when it created a sensation, being compared by Swinburne to Wuthering Heights. It is one of the best of Baring-Gould''s novels. Mehalah remains an astonishing achievement: could this grim tale really have come from the pen of the man who wrote the hymn ''Onward Christian Soldiers'' or the 16-volume Lives of the Saints? As rector of E...