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Beaumont Sandfield Cornell

b. 1892

A Canadian novelist and physician, he is best remembered for Lantern Marsh, a rural novel that follows a young farmer straining against family duty and the limits of small-community life. His work has endured long enough to be preserved by Project Gutenberg, where modern readers can still discover it.

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Lantern Marsh

Lantern Marsh

by Beaumont Sandfield Cornell

About the author

Beaumont Sandfield Cornell was born in 1892 and died in 1958. Project Gutenberg identifies him as the author of Lantern Marsh and classifies the book as 20th-century Canadian fiction.

Lantern Marsh centers on Mauney Bard, a young man caught between farm work, family pressure, and a longing for a larger life. The novel is noted for its strong sense of place and its attention to questions of identity, obligation, and companionship.

Reliable biographical details about Cornell are limited in the sources I could confirm, but the surviving record suggests a writer whose work was closely tied to Canadian settings and concerns. He is also listed in memorial records as Dr. Beaumont Sandfield Cornell, indicating that medicine was part of his life as well as literature.