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The Deemster

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realises Dan's true identity. He goes to meet his father and they are reconciled. With the sickness defeated, Dan returns to his hut near Cregneash without having seen Mona, preferring solitude to the new-found adulation of the Manx people. However, by this time he has fallen ill and is close to death when Mona arrives, having followed him south with the official invitation to become Deemster. At last they are reunited, and she spends his last few minutes with him as he says his prayer once more, with her help, ending by asking God to "deliver us from evil, Amen."
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of his fishing boat have found the body there. In shock he allows himself to be taken with them as they take the body out to sea to dispose of it. However, when they throw the body into the sea, it miraculously escapes its weighted sheet and floats back to shore. This Dan takes as a sign of God's will, and so he steers the ship back to shore. But, once on land and taking a shortcut to the Deemster's house to hand himself in, Dan falls down a mineshaft, from which he is unable to escape until the next morning.
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writer sometimes misleads you, as I think, into forgetting the value of contrast. The grand picture which your story presents of terror and grief wants relief. Individually and collectively, there is variety in the human lot. We are no more continuously wretched than we are continuously happy. Next time, I want more humour, More breaks of sunshine in your splendid cloudy sky will be a truer picture of nature-and will certainly enlarge the number of your admiring readers.
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Bishop comes to learn of the loan and, although Ewan tries to claim the signature is his, the Bishop casts his son Dan out. Ewan determines that he can no longer accept Dan as a friend, and he asks him to not see his sister, Mona, any more. To cover his shame and to try and hide from his failings, Dan again descends to his boisterous ways.
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and decided, I must say, against your brother's judgment. In the first place, the island has excellent atmosphere. It has the sea, a fine coast on the west, fine moorland above; it has traditions, folk-talk, folk-lore, a ballad literature, and no end of superstition – and all these are very much its own.
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Shortly after the novel's publication, Caine received a letter from a man on the Isle of Man who told him that he had known the fictional main character, Dan Mylrea, from childhood and had always warned him of his ways. The correspondent even said that he still had the knife with which Dan had fought
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The book was well received in the press, being praised for attributes such as its "childlike purity, in its passionate simplicity". Upon Caine's first visit to America in 1895, the American press commented on the novel that "By its setting in the Isle of Man it opened up a new domain in literature as
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For a long time past, I have read nothing in contemporary fiction that approaches what you have done here. When you next take up your pen, will you consider a little whether your tendency to dwell on what is grotesque and violent in human character does not require some discipline? your power as a
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Dan, taken for the Irish priest, directs the people of the west and north of the island how to drive out the dampness that causes the sickness. Dan is called to his dying uncle's bedside, where the former Deemster admits his sin of having driven Ewan to the confrontation with Dan; only after this he
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Shortly after a period of heavy rain followed by strong sun, there are signs of distress on the island: fishing boats do not put out to sea, carts do not go to market, people are ascending to the mountains. Then a storm causes a shipwreck, and a survivor seeks refuge in Dan's hut. As he comes in and
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Ewan confronts Dan and they ascend Orris Head, a cliff top over the sea. On the summit, they ensure that neither can get away by tying their two belts buckled together around their waists. They fight with knives until Dan eventually cuts the belt and Ewan falls backwards over the cliff. Ewan dies on
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Dan travels to the very south of the island, where he takes up a solitary life of hunting, fishing and farming. He progresses through stages of bitterness and loneliness, trying and failing to flee from the sentence through activity and even an attempt to emigrate to Ireland. He makes his home in a
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to await trial. Imprisoned in the castle, Dan refuses his father's offer of escape. However, while sleeping, Dan is abducted by the fishermen, who fear that he will give evidence against their part in the disposal of Ewan's body. They take Dan to a deserted mine in the mountains, where they try Dan
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Ewan's body comes ashore and is buried within hours at the Deemster's superstitious bidding. The Bishop is brought various pieces of evidence that show for certain that his son is the perpetrator. The fishermen have meanwhile returned home but, under the suspicion of the coroner, they flee into the
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After collecting Ewan's body and taking it to his fisherman's hut, Dan goes to confess to Mona. She cannot hold the murder of her brother against him, because she loves him. She tells Dan that he must hand himself in to atone for his crime. However, upon returning to the hut, he finds that the crew
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The play ends with Mona protesting her innocence on a charge of immoral conduct when Dan appears unbidden. He corroborates the maiden's oath but by speaking, he sacrifices his own life, having been sentenced to life-long silence on pain of death if he breaks it. Mona dies of shock, the Governor is
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Dejected and depressed, Dan confounds the ban and goes to see Mona. The Deemster's maid, Kerry, has a vision of Dan in Mona's room, which the Deemster passes on to his son, saying that Dan is having an affair with Mona. Ewan confronts Mona but, through a failure of communication, she "admits" that
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I remember that your brother Hugh did something to dissuade me from tackling Manxland in any sort of work. He did not think the readers of novels would find the island at all interesting, and he was sure that the local atmosphere was not such as would attract them. I thought over this a good deal,
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Your story fits the Isle of Man like a lid to a box. I have but to lift the alabaster box of precious ointment, and up leaps the genuine Manx perfume, so that the house is filled with the savour thereof. Whether it's the blood in you, or the poet and diviner, you know all about it, you need not
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Dan becomes a fisherman, his father funding the purchase of the boat. However, after only one season Dan is in debt due to the amount of time and money he has spent in the pub with his fishermen friends. Dan forges Ewan's name as surety on a loan. When he inevitably defaults on the payments, the
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I thought that I was leaving for ever the fair island of my home, with all that had made it dear in dearer days. Though it had turned its back on me since, and knew me no more, but had blotted out my name from its remembrance, yet it was mine, and the only spot of earth on all this planet – go
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for £150, signing the contract on 27 September 1887. Unfortunately for Caine, the terms of the contract meant that he did not gain the wealth of royalties when the book became a best-seller upon its release in November. Indeed, in 1921 when Caine wanted to release his Collected Works through a
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At the trial which follows, the fishermen are set free, as there is not enough evidence against them. As a resident of the Bishop's Barony, Dan is then tried by his own father. The sentence is for Dan to be "cut off from the land of the living", i.e. condemned to exile within the island:
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Meanwhile, the Deemster's maid, Kerry, has another vision, of Dan in danger on the mountain. The vision is transferred to Mona and she then sets off with the Deemster's men to the site of the vision. They arrive just in time to save Dan from being shot by the fishermen.
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It could not possibly be placed in the Isle of Man, the stage is inadequate for your romance; is strong and vital; but the Isle of Man sinks beneath it. And as for an epic – just write the words, 'A Manx Epic' and behold the totally impossible at once!
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After an initial period of apparent ignorance of the novel, the Manx audience became aware of it and was in "uproar". The tone of this is perhaps shown by the former Bishop of the island noting that, with regard to this and Caine's next novel,
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The Three Legs of Man pub: Where Dan is found "roistering" with his fishermen friends. This is almost certainly the Mitre pub in Kirk Michael, as is made clear when he passes the pub immediately upon leaving Ewan's funeral in the churchyard
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Disused mining hut: The site of the final showdown between Dan and the fishermen, where his life is saved at the last by Mona and the authorities. This disused mine exists and is clearly described in the novel to be where, today, the
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The blind leading the blind that is seen here of passion by accident is seen everywhere that great tragedies are done. It is not the evil in man's heart more than the deep perfidy of circumstance that brings him to crime.
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was soon to dub it "The Boomster". There were to be more than 50 editions of the book in English, as well as translations into French, German, Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Finnish and Czech.
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is clearly the model for Bishop Mylrea, with Caine using many of the stories attached to Wilson in the novel. Bishop Wilson was suggested to Caine as an "epoch-making personage" by T. E. Brown in their
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and near the sea. It is a short distance from Ballamona Beg, coinciding with Caine's narrative. Ballamona was the name of a treen (historical subdivision of a parish) in that area, and is derived from
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Ballamona Farm: The sites of the two Mylrea family homes. This may be based upon the farm Ballamona Mooar, located 6 km NE of Kirk Michael, a short distance from The Cronk on the edge of the
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And together these shipwrecked voyagers on the waters of life sat and wept, and wondered what evil could be in hell itself if man in his blindness could find the world so full of it.
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Critical concerns about the novel, when expressed, tended to concentrate on the perceived negativity or dark side of the novel. This is shown in a letter written to Caine by
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which grips the island. Before the priest dies, Dan promises that he will take the priest's place and go to the Bishop to instruct the people how to halt the sickness.
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were cast in the lead roles. The film was released in England in March 1918, when Hall Caine organised "a stellar first night audience" for the screening in aid of
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Coustillas, Pierre ed. London and the Life of Literature in Late Victorian England: the Diary of George Gissing, Novelist. Brighton: Harvester Press, 1978, p.22.
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read the novel in February 1888 and called it "better than I anticipated...some really strong romantic writing in it...feeble characterization". In August 1902
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Caine ignored their advice but did adapt the plot and characters to some of T.E. Brown's suggestions. He also sought the advice of two other Manxmen,
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After falling out with Barrett, eventually leading to legal action, Caine came to rewrite another version of the novel for the stage, now entitled,
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and Sir James Gell, particularly on the legal background of the novel. Having assembled his materials, Caine wrote the novel at his house in
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and it was his first great success. The plot revolves around the reckless actions of Dan Mylrea and the exile and atonement that follow.
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handed over to the police for laying false evidence and Dan throws himself across his sweetheart's body while waiting for the hangman.
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made an unannounced visit to the Isle of Man to have Hall Caine show him the locations of the novel, such as Bishopscourt.
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she has feelings for Dan. Understanding that Mona has been "compromised", Ewan seeks out Dan to revenge her lost honour.
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published in 1887, considered to be the first 'Manx novel'. It was Caine's third novel, the second to be set in the
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For what was it to me though the world was wide if the little place I lived in was but my own narrow soul?
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The novel also brought adoration and endorsement from the leading writers and public figures of the day.
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in the space of only seven months, a feat made possible by his recycling material from his 1885 novella,
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The beach near Orrisdale Head, the apparent summit where Ewan Mylrea falls to his death on the rocks.
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out of consciousness, the man tells Dan that he is a priest from Ireland come to help stop the
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that any should tell you concerning Man. for you know what is Man, and that in two senses.
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The wedding of Thorkell Mylrea is heavily based on Chapter 17, "Manners and Customs", of
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The name of Dan's boat, and later the title of the first stage production of the novel,
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different publisher, he would have to pay £350 to Chatto & Windus for the rights to
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Having climbed out of the mineshaft, Dan hands himself in to the Deemster in the
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Brown's response on 14 October was blunt on the question of the novel's setting:
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and find him guilty of endangering their lives. They sentence Dan to death.
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to Liverpool is anachronistic, as most sailings from the island went to
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Between May and November 1887 the novel was serialised weekly in the
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Early in his career, Hall Caine was acting as literary secretary to
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Letter from T. E. Brown to A. M. Worthington, 1 January 1888, in
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The view from the Chasms, the site of Dan's home during his exile
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was set, and some of the characters used as bases for the novel.
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The novel is set in the late 17th and early 18th centuries.
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by A. W. Moore, 1889, available on www.isle-of-man.com
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is similar to what T. E. Brown had experienced as a
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Index


Hall Caine
Chatto & Windus
Hall Caine
Isle of Man
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
T. E. Brown
A.W. Moore
Bexley
She's All The World To Me
Chatto & Windus

Bishop's Court
Deemster
Bishop

Ramsey
Peel Castle

Cregneash
sweating sickness
Punch Magazine
Scott
Dickens
Thackeray
The Manxman
Bram Stoker
George Gissing
King Edward VII
Wilkie Collins

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