The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07.
White, William Hale
pseud. Mark Rutherford, 1831–1913, English novelist. He studied to become a clergyman, but instead became (1854) a clerk in the admiralty, rising in 1879 to assistant director of naval contracts. The son of a dissenter, White gives in his novels a poignant account of his spiritual dissillusionment and growing loneliness. His best-known works are The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1881), Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance (1885), and The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane (1887).
