Ernest Albert Baker (1869–1941) was an author, and editor of English fiction, dictionaries, and librarianship, besides books and journalism on outdoor activities, particularly
caving
Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific ...
. He wrote a standard reference, ''
The History of the English Novel'', first published in ten volumes between 1924 and 1939. Baker also wrote ''A Guide to Historical Fiction'' (1914), an overview of
Historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the Setting (narrative), setting of particular real past events, historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literatur ...
in novels and short stories.
[Hackett, Helen. ''Shakespeare and Elizabeth : The Meeting of Two Myths.'' Princeton ; Oxford : ]Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large.
The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial ...
, 2009. (p. 179) His caving books were ''Moors, Crags and Caves of the High Peak and Neighbourhood'' (1900); (with
Herbert E. Balch), ''The Netherworld of Mendip; Explorations in the Great Caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire & Elsewhere'' (1907), and ''Caving; Episodes of Underground Exploration'' (1932).
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20th-century English non-fiction writers
English bibliographers
English editors
British cavers
1869 births
1941 deaths
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