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Algernon Henry Blackwood was born in Shooter s Hill, South East England, in 1869. In his youth he trained as a doctor at Wellington College in Berkshire, and went on to pursue a number of careers, in areas as varied as milk farming, modelling, journalism and violin teaching. In his thirties, he returned to England from New York, where he had spent a number of years and began to write stories.
"A Haunted Island" was Algernon's first significant story about the Canadian backwoods, It is set deep in the Ontario wilderness.
Algernon Henry Blackwood was born in Shooter s Hill, South East England, in 1869. In his youth he trained as a doctor at Wellington College in Berkshire, and went on to pursue a number of careers, in areas as varied as milk farming, modelling, journalism and violin teaching. In his thirties, he returned to England from New York, where he had spent a number of years and began to write stories.
"A Haunted Island" was Algernon's first significant story about the Canadian backwoods, It is set deep in the Ontario wilderness.
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