the previous pseudonym or her married name). The book is a portrait of various characters and local stories from her parish of St Stephen-in-Brannel. It was through her husband's literary social circle that she met such people as George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950) and Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902). It was also through her husband that she came to know a group of Russian and Continental Tolstoyan exiles. Her later novels Beginnings and Belinda the Backward (1905), were inspired by the Tolstoyan association. Belinda the Backward is set in a fictional version of the Whiteway Colony with which Salome and Arthur were involved. It is not known whether the couple lived at the colony full-time as some of the records have not survived but Arthur Fifield was one of the original organisers who helped raise money to set up the colony. In 1909 the couple moved to a small house on the Smitham Downs at Coulsdon in Surrey which Hocking chose to name Trenowth Cottage after the woods near to her family home in Cornwall. During the First World War she was a member of the Coulsdon Women War-Work Party, spending much of her time knitting items such as mufflers and bedsocks for the men at the front. When Hocking was well enough to entertain, the house was open to large numbers friends and acquaintances, including those connected with various Tolstoyan groups. Final years Declining health connected to her back injury made it increasingly harder for her to write. She often lacked energy and suffered from almost constant headaches. According to her husband she had completed a first typed draft of a Cornish novel called Pensweeta but was not well enough to ready it for publication. In the final seven or eight years of her life her disabilities were the reason for an almost complete withdrawal from social life. She died at home at Trenowth Cottage on 10 April 1927 aged 68. Complete works Granny's Hero: A Tale of Country Life (1885) The Fortunes of Riverside or Waiting and Winning (1885) Norah Lang: The Mine Girl (1886) Jacky: A Story of Everyday Life (1887) Chronicles of a Quiet Family: A Temperance Story (1888) A Conquered Self (1894) - published under the pseudonym S. Moore Carew Some Old Cornish Folk (1903) Belinda the Backward: A Romance of Modern Idealism (1905) Beginnings (no date) Further reading Fifeld, Arthur C. Salome Hocking