Dross

by Henry Seton Merriman

Henry Seton Merriman was the pen name of Hugh Stowell Scott, who wrote historical fiction at the turn of the century. His most famous works include The Slave of the Lamp and The Phantom Future.

146 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1899

About the author

Hugh Stowell Scott was an English novelist (under the pseudonym of Henry Seton Merriman).

Born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1862, he became an underwriter at Lloyd's of London, but then devoted himself to travel and to writing novels, many of which had great popularity. Scott visited India as a tourist in 1877-8 and set his novel Flotsam (1896) there. He was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being undertaken with his friend and fellow author Stanley J. Weyman. He was unusually modest and retiring in character. He died of appendicitis at the age of about forty at Melton, Suffolk.