Mark Rutherford

Mark Rutherford was the literary name used by English writer William Hale White for fiction concerned with dissent, conscience, doubt, and inward change. The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford and Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance present a fictional spiritual life through an editorial frame, while The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane turns toward religious and political conflict in a provincial community. The novel supplied as Catherine Furze appears in authoritative records as Catharine Furze and was issued under the Mark Rutherford pseudonym; it extends White's interest in moral pressure and nonconformist society. Project Gutenberg attributes these works to William Hale White, and a biographical register explicitly identifies Mark Rutherford as his pseudonym. White also worked in government service, journalism, and translation, experiences that broadened the social and intellectual setting of his novels. Readers tracing Catherine Furze, Mark Rutherford’s Deliverance, The Revolution in Tanner’s Lane, or The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford under Mark Rutherford should understand the name as White's created authorial persona, especially important to the autobiographical pair and their fictional editor Reuben Shapcott.