He was awarded second prize for The Mill of Silence, published by Rand, McNally that year. His first success came in 1897, when he entered a $30,000 competition for new authors sponsored by the Chicago Record. On several occasions he had two or three novels published in the same year – and even four in 1910. He finally committed to writing novels full-time, taking around four months for each novel. Capes' Bembo: A Tale of Italy is a novel takes place during the reign of Galeazzo Sforza, the fifteenth-century Duke of Milan. Love Like A Gipsy (1901) is set during the American Revolution. His 1899 story "The Black Reaper" features a supernatural personification of Death. Other magazines for which Capes wrote included Blackwood's, Butterfly, Cassell's, Cornhill Magazine, Hutton's Magazine, Illustrated London News, Lippincott's, Macmillan's Magazine, Literature, New Witness, Pall Mall Magazine, Pearson's Magazine, The Idler, The New Weekly, and The Queen.Ĭapes wrote numerous ghost stories, which were later rediscovered by anthologist Hugh Lamb in the 1970s.
His early writing career was as a journalist, later becoming editor of the monthly magazine The Theatre, the most highly regarded British dramatic periodical of its time. Ĭapes was a prolific Victorian author, publishing more than forty volumes – romances, mysteries, poetry, history – together with many articles for the magazines of the day.
His grandfather, John Capes, had converted to Roman Catholicism, so Capes was brought up a Catholic, and educated at the Catholic college Beaumont College. His uncle, John Moore Capes, was President of the Oxford Union while attending Balliol College, Oxford and published a semi-autobiographical novel. Bernard Edward Joseph Capes (30 August 1854 – 2 November 1918) was an English author.Ĭapes was born in London, one of eleven children: his elder sister, Harriet Capes, was a noted translator and author of more than a dozen children's books.
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