Her Benny - A Tale of Victorian Liverpool

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(Free-Press-Release.com) January 5, 2012 -- If someone asked you the question : “Who was the first author to sell a million copies of a book in his or her own lifetime?” would you know the answer? To be fair, some do, but the vast majority of people do not. Well, here it is, or to be more accurate, here is the book which brought him this accolade – ‘Her Benny – A Tale of Victorian Liverpool’, by the no-longer (sadly) celebrated million-plus selling author, the Reverend Silas K Hocking. The book which has sold very well for many publishers over many years, is now on Kindle, and is still selling extremely well.

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Her Benny - A Tale of Victorian Liverpool

Her Benny, to use its most common title, (the sub-title is used on some editions, omitted on others), is a Christian flavoured tale of two Liverpool waifs, young brother and sister, Benny and Nelly Bates. They are starved and abused and sent out to scrape as best a living as they can: Nelly selling matches, Benny portering at the ferry terminal. But things get so bad, that Benny, after his young fragile sister gets a terrible beating, decides enough is enough, takes whatever provisions he can find, grabs his sister by the hand, and leaves home.

The author : the Reverend Silas Kitto Hocking was born in Cornwall in 1850. By the time he was an adult he had not taken up the opportunity to work in the family-owned tin-mine but instead became an ordained Methodist minister. It is this ministry which saw the good reverend bang his drum up in the northwest of England, but primarily Liverpool, Southport and Oldham. He was also a published author, some titles doing well, others poorly, and some not in book form ever but were serialisations in various magazines and periodicals. But one book, inspired by the poverty stricken families and waifs of inner city Liverpool of the time (the 1870s), was to make him – and the book (for so many years anyway) famous nationally, and later on, internationally, with the book selling phenomenally well while he was still alive, and with Silas K Hocking becoming the first ever author to reach and surpass the million copies sold in an author’s own lifetime. The good reverend died at the age of 85 in 1935. Interestingly though, he only ever made a total of thirty pounds in author’s fees from Her Benny.

This edition of the book is the 1890 Illustrated Edition.

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