Beaumont Sandfield Cornell

Born in 1892, Beaumont Sandfield Cornell was a Canadian novelist whose surviving published work includes Renaissance (1922) and Lantern Marsh. Those books remain traceable today through major library and archive records, which suggest a modest but lasting literary footprint rather than a large commercial career.

Cornell is also documented in archival and catalog sources under his full name, Beaumont S. Cornell, with life dates extending to 1958. While detailed biographical information appears to be scarce, the record of his novels shows a writer active in the early decades of the 20th century, working in fiction at a time when Canadian publishing was still carving out its own identity.

For modern readers, Cornell's appeal is partly in that sense of recovery. He belongs to the kind of author rediscovered through digitized collections: not widely famous now, but still available to be read, appreciated, and placed back into the long story of Canadian literature.