author
Edward Charles Booth
1872–1954
A novelist and former musician, he brought the landscapes and voices of Yorkshire’s East Riding vividly to life. His fiction offers a richly local portrait of late Victorian and Edwardian England, with a touch of the musical world that shaped his early career.
2 Audiobooks
The post-girl
by Edward Charles Booth
The treble clef
by Edward Charles Booth
About the author
Born in Doncaster in 1872, Edward Charles Booth grew up in a musical family. He played the piano and cello and composed songs, including England, Mother England, which was sung by Dame Clara Butt, before turning to novels and short stories published in Britain and the United States.
Booth later lived in the East Riding and spent more than three decades near Scarborough, including many years in Scalby with his brothers. His five novels were praised for their portrayal of the East Riding, and his regional writing has been compared with Thomas Hardy’s Wessex novels. He died in 1954.