author
Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling
1855–1911
A Victorian stained-glass artist who also turned his hand to travel writing, adventure stories, and eerie tales, he brought a craftsman’s eye for detail to everything he wrote. His books range from guides to the Norfolk Broads to imaginative fiction with a taste for the strange and far-flung.
2 Audiobooks
Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles
by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling
The story hunter : or, Tales of the weird and wild
by Ernest R. (Ernest Richard) Suffling
About the author
Born in London in 1855, Ernest Richard Suffling built a career that crossed art, travel, and popular writing. Sources describe him as a stained-glass artist based in London, trained with Alexander Gibbs, and active for many years from the West London Stained Glass Works on Edgware Road.
Alongside that work, he wrote a varied shelf of books. His nonfiction included titles on the Norfolk Broads and The Art of Glass Painting, while his fiction ranged from adventure stories such as Jethou; or, Crusoe Life in the Channel Isles to collections of weird and uncanny tales including The Story Hunter. That mix helps explain his appeal: he could write with the practical eye of a guidebook author and the lively imagination of a storyteller.
Suffling died in 1911. Though he is not widely known today, his work survives through public-domain editions and library archives, offering a glimpse of a late Victorian author who moved easily between craftsmanship, travel, and imaginative entertainment.