Journalist, novelist, tale weaver 1848-1917
Writing was in the blood of J Henry Harris, son of Josiah Harris, journalist, of Mevagissey. Josiah Henry Harris was born in Plymouth in 1848, then lived in England as a child. He became a journalist, first working in Bristol and Wales, then settling in London where he worked as a Parliamentary reporter and as a reporter for the Central News Agency.
He retired to Mevagissey, to Colona, a house he had built on the cliffs, and continued writing, books and stories infused with Cornish folklore and a sense of place. ‘Cornish Saints and Sinners’ 1906, a walk around Cornwall with retellings of folktales woven in, is the source of some of the best loved Mazed tales. He died in Mevagissey.
The Luck of Wheal Veor 1901
Cornish Saints and Sinners 1906
Phyllis in Piskie Land 1906
