Sabine Baring-Gould (; 28 January 1834 – 2 January 1924) of

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in Devon, England, was an

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priest,

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, novelist, folk song collector and eclectic scholar. His bibliography consists of more than 1,240 publications, though this list continues to grow. He is remembered particularly as a writer of

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s, the best-known being "

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", and "Now the Day Is Over". He also translated the carols "

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", and "Sing Lullaby" from

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to English. His family home, the Jacobean manor house of Lew Trenchard, near

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, Devon, has been preserved with the alterations he made and is a hotel.

Origins

Sabine Baring-Gould was born in the parish of St Sidwell, Exeter, on 28 January 1834. He was the eldest son and heir of Edward Baring-Gould (1804–1872),

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, a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Devon, formerly a lieutenant in the Madras Light Cavalry (resigned 1830), by his first wife, Sophia Charlotte Bond, daughter of Admiral

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. Sabine's paternal grandfather was William Baring (died 1846), JP, DL, who in 1795 had assumed by royal licence the additional surname and arms of Gould, in accordance with the terms of his inheritance of the manor of Lew Trenchard from his mother Margaret Gould, daughter and eventual heiress in her issue of William Drake Gould (1719–1767) of Lew Trenchard. The Gould family was descended from a certain John Gold, a crusader present at the siege of

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in 1217 who for his valour, was granted in 1220 by Ralph de Vallibus, an estate at Seaborough in Somerset. Margaret Gould was the wife of Charles Baring (1742–1829) of Courtland in the parish of

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, Devon, whose monument survives in Lympstone Church. He was the 4th son of

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(1697–1748), of Larkbeare House, Exeter, a German immigrant apprenticed to an Exeter wool merchant, and younger brother of Francis Baring (1740–1810), and John Baring (1730–1816) of

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. The two brothers established the London merchant house of

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, which eventually became

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. Sabine was named after the family of his grandmother, Diana Amelia Sabine (died 1858), wife of William Baring-Gould (died 1846), daughter of Joseph Sabine of Tewin, Hertfordshire and sister of the Arctic explorer General Sir

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Career

Because the family spent much of his childhood travelling round Europe, most of his education was by private tutors. He only spent about two years in formal schooling, first at

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in London (then located in

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) and then, for a few months, at

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(now Warwick School). Here his time was ended by a bronchial disease of the kind that was to plague him throughout his long life. His father considered his ill-health as a good reason for another European tour. In 1852, he was admitted to

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, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1857, then

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(an upgrade, not a new qualification) in 1860 from

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. In September 1853 he informed

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of his desire to be ordained. He taught for only ten days at one of Woodard's boys' boarding schools in Sussex,

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, but then moved to another,

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, where he stayed from 1857 to 1864. While there, he was responsible for several subjects, especially languages and science, and he also designed the ironwork of the bookcases in the boys' library, as well as painting the window jambs with scenes from the ''

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'' and ''

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''. He took

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in 1864, and at age 30, became the

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Bridge,

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. It was while acting as a curate that he met Grace Taylor, the daughter of a mill hand, then aged fourteen. In the next few years they fell in love. His vicar, John Sharp, arranged for Grace to live for two years with relatives in

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to learn middle-class manners. Gould later became a friend of

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, and this story is thought to be part inspiration for Shaw's play, Pygmalion. Baring-Gould, meanwhile, relocated to become

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at Dalton, near

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. He and Grace were married in 1868 at

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. Their marriage lasted until her death 48 years later, and the couple had 15 children, all but one of whom lived to adulthood. When he buried his wife in 1916, he had carved on her tombstone the

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motto ('Half My Soul'). Baring-Gould became the rector of

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in Essex in 1871 and spent ten years there. In 1872, his father died and he inherited the family estates of

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in Devon, which included the gift of the living of Lew Trenchard parish. When the living became vacant in 1881, he was able to appoint himself to it, becoming

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as well as

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. He did a great deal of work restoring St Peter's Church, Lewtrenchard, and (from 1883 to 1914) thoroughly remodelled his home, Lew Trenchard Manor.

Folk songs

Baring-Gould regarded his principal achievement to be the collection of folk songs that he made with the help of the ordinary people of

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and

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. His first book of songs, ''Songs and Ballads of the West'' (1889–91), was published in four parts between 1889 and 1891. The musical editor for this collection was

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, though some of the songs included were noted by Baring-Gould's other collaborator

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. Baring-Gould and Sheppard produced a second collection named ''A Garland of Country Songs'' during 1895. A new edition of ''Songs of the West'' was proposed for publication in 1905. Sheppard had died in 1901, and so the folk song collector

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was invited to undertake the musical editorship for the new edition. Sharp and Baring-Gould also collaborated on ''English Folk Songs for Schools'' during 1907. This collection of 53 songs was widely used in British schools for the next 60 years. Although he had to modify the words of some songs which were too rude for the time, he left his original manuscripts for future students of folk song, thereby preserving many beautiful pieces of music and their lyrics which might otherwise have been lost. Baring-Gould gave the fair copies of the folk songs he collected, together with the notebooks he used for gathering information in the field, to Plymouth Public Library in 1914. They were deposited with the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office in 2006. These, together with the folk-song manuscripts from Baring-Gould's library discovered at

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in 1998, were published as a microfiche edition in 1998. In 2011 the complete collection of his folk-song manuscripts, including two notebooks not in the microfiche edition, were digitised and published online by the Devon Tradition Project managed by Wren Music in association with the

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as part of the "Take Six" project undertaken by the

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. It now forms part of the VWML's "Full English" website. Thirty boxes of additional manuscript material on other topics (the Killerton manuscripts) are kept in the Devon History Centre in Exeter.

dedicated his book ''English Folk Song: Some Conclusions'' (1907) to Baring-Gould.

Literature

Baring-Gould wrote many novels, including ''The Broom-Squire'' set in the

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(1896), ''Mehalah: a story of the salt marshes'' (1880), ''Guavas the Tinner'' (1897), the 16-volume '' The Lives of the Saints'', and the biography of the eccentric poet-vicar of

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. He also published nearly 200 short stories in assorted magazines and periodicals. Many of these short stories were collected together and republished as anthologies, such as his '' Book of Ghosts'' (1904), ''Dartmoor Idyllys'' (1896), and ''In a Quiet Village'' (1900). His folkloric studies resulted in ''The Book of Were-Wolves'' (1865), one of the most frequently cited studies of

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. He habitually wrote while standing, and his

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can be seen in the manor. One of his most enduringly popular works was ''Curious Myths of the Middle Ages,'' first published in two parts during 1866 and 1868, and republished in many other editions since then. "Each of the book's twenty-four chapters deals with a particular medieval superstition and its variants and antecedents," writes critic Steven J. Mariconda.

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termed it "that curious body of medieval lore which the late Mr. Baring-Gould so effectively assembled in book form." He wrote much about the

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: his works of this topic include: * ''A Book of the West''. 2 vols. I: Devon; II: Cornwall. London : Methuen, 1899 * ''Cornish Characters and Strange Events''. London: John Lane, 1909 (reissued in 1925 in 2 vols., First series and Second series) * ''Devonshire Characters and Strange Events''. Baring-Gould served as president of the

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for ten years from 1897.

Dartmoor

Baring-Gould, along with his friend Robert Burnard, organised the first scientific archaeological excavations of hut-circles on

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during 1893. They then asked R. N. Worth, R. Hansford Worth, W. A. G. Gray and a Dr Prowse to assist them with further investigations. This resulted in the formation of the Committee of the Devonshire Association for the exploration of

. Baring-Gould was the secretary and author of the first ten annual reports until 1905. The Dartmoor Exploration Committee performed many archaeological digs of prehistoric settlements on Dartmoor and systematically recorded and in some cases restored prehistoric sites. The current state of many prehistoric stone rows and stone circles on Dartmoor owes much to the work of Sabine Baring-Gould and Robert Burnard and the Dartmoor Exploration Committee. Baring-Gould was president of the

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for the year 1896. He wrote much about Dartmoor: his works of this topic include: * ''Dartmoor idylls'' (1896) * ''A Book of Dartmoor'' (1900), London : Methuen, 1900. Republished Halsgrove, 2002

Family

He married Grace Taylor on 25 May 1868 at Horbury. They had 15 children: Mary (born 1869), Margaret Daisy (born 1870, an artist who painted part of the screen in Lew Trenchard Church), Edward Sabine (born 1871), Beatrice Gracieuse (1874–1876), Veronica (born 1875), Julian (born 1877), William Drake (born 1878), Barbara (born 1880), Diana Amelia (born 1881), Felicitas (baptised 1883), Henry (born 1885), Joan (born 1887), Cecily Sophia (born 1889), John Hillary (born 1890), and Grace (born 1891). His wife Grace died in April 1916, and he did not remarry; he died on 2 January 1924 at his home at Lew Trenchard and was buried next to his wife. He wrote two volumes of memoirs: ''Early Reminiscences, 1834–1864'' (1923) and ''Further Reminiscences, 1864–1894'' (1925). One grandson, William Stuart Baring-Gould, was a noted

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scholar who wrote a fictional biography of the great detective—in which, to make up for the lack of information about Holmes's early life, he based his account on the childhood of Sabine Baring-Gould. Sabine himself is a major character of Laurie R. King's Sherlock Holmes novel '' The Moor'', a Sherlockian pastiche. In this novel it is revealed that Sabine Baring-Gould is the godfather of Sherlock Holmes. Radio actor Robert Burnard was his grandson. Comedian

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is a distant descendant.

List of works (listed alphabetically)

* '' A Book of the Pyrenees'' (1907) * ''A Book of Dartmoor'' (1900
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''A Book of Fairy Tales Retold by S. Baring-Gould'' (1894) * ''A Book of Folk-Lore'' (1913) * ''A Book of Ghosts'' (1904
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''A Book of North Wales'' (1903
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''A Book of South Wales'' (1905) * ''A Book of the Rhine from Cleve to Mainz'' (1906) * ''A Book of the Riviera'' (1928) * ''A Book of the West: Being an Introduction to Devon and Cornwall'' (1899) * ''A Coronation Souvenir'' (1902) * ''A Coronation Souvenir'' (1911) * ''A First Series of Village Preaching for a Year'' * ''A History of Sarawak under Its Two White Rajahs'' (1909) * ''A Memorial of Horatio Lord Nelson'' (1905) * ''A Second Series of Village Preaching for a Year'' * ''A Study of St. Paul, His Character and Opinions'' (1897) * ''Amazing Adventures'' (1903) illustrated by

Harry B. Neilson Henry Bingham Neilson (1861 – 13 October 1941), who signed his work and was usually credited as Harry B. Neilson, less often as H. B. Neilson, was a British illustrator, mostly of children’s books. His first career was as an engineer and el ...

* ''An Account of an English Camp Near Bayonne'' (1851) * ''An Armory of the Western Counties, Devon and Cornwall'' (1898) * ''An Old English Home and its Dependencies'' (1898
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Arminell: A Social Romance'' (1890
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* ''Bladys of the Stewponey'' (1898) * ''Brittany'' (1902) * ''Cheap Jack Zita'' (1894
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Chris of All Sorts'' (1903) * ''Church Songs, First Series'' (1884) * ''Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe'' (1911
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Conscience and Sin: Daily Meditations for Lent'' (1890) * ''Cornish Characters and Strange Events'' (1909
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Cornwall'' (1910) * '' Court Royal'' (1891) * ''Court Royal: A Story of Cross Currents'' (1886) * ''Curiosities of Olden Times'' (1896
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Curious Myths of the Middle Ages'' (1866
- available on archive.org
* ''Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, Second Series'' (1868) * ''Dartmoor Idylls'' (1896) * ''Devon'' (1907) * ''Devon Characters and Strange Events'' (1908
- available on archive.org
* ''

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'' (1898) * ''Early Reminiscences, 1834-1864'' (1923) * ''English Minstrelsie: A National Monument of English Song'' (1896) * ''Eve: A Novel'' (1888
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Evening Communions: A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Exeter'' (1895) * ''Family Names and Their Story'' (1910) * ''Further Reminiscences, 1864-1894'' (1925) * ''Furze Bloom: Tales of the Western Moors'' (1899) * ''Germany'' (1883) * ''Germany, Present and Past'' (1882) * ''Golden Feather'' (1886) * ''Grettir the Outlaw: A Story of Iceland'' (1890
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Guavas the Tinner'' (1897) * ''Historic Oddities and Strange Events, First Series'' (1891) * ''How to Save Fuel'' (1874) * ''Iceland, Its Scenes and Its Sagas'' (1863) * ''In a Quiet Village'' (1900) * ''In Dewisland'' (1904) * ''In Exitu Israel: An Historical Novel of the French Revolution'' (1870) * ''In the Roar of the Sea: A Tale of the Cornish Coast'' (1891
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''In Troubadour Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc'' (1891
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Jacquetta and Other Stories'' (1890) * ''John Herring: A West of England Romance'' (1889
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* ''Kitty Alone: A Story of Three Fires'' (1894) * ''Legends of Old Testament Characters, from the Talmud and Other Sources'' (1872) * ''Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets''
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Little Tu'penny'' (1887) * ''Lives of the Saints'' (1897) * ''Margery of Quether, and Other Stories'' (1892) * ''Mehalah, A Story of the Salt Marshes'' (1880
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Miss Quillet'' (1902) * ''Monsieur Pichelmere, and Other Stories'' (1905) * ''Mrs. Curgenven of Curgenven'' (1893) * ''My Few Last Words'' (1924) * ''My Prague Pig and Other Stories for Children'' (1890) * ''Nazareth and Capernaum: Ten Lectures on the Beginning of Our Lord's Ministry'' (1886) * ''Nebo the Nailer'' (1902) * ''Noémi: A Story of Rock-Dwellers'' (1895
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Old Country Life'' (1889
- available on archive.org
* ''One Hundred Sermon Sketches for Extempore Preachers'' (1871) * ''Organization: A Sermon Preached at St. Michael's Church, Wakefield'' (1870) * ''Our Inheritance: An Account of the Eucharistic Service in the First Three Centuries'' (1888) * ''Our Parish Church: Twenty Addresses to Children on Great Truths of the Christian Faith'' (1885) * ''Pabo, The Priest'' (1899
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Perpetua: A Story of Nimes in A.D. 213'' (1897) * ''Post-Mediæval Preachers'' (1865
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Post-Mediaeval Preachers: Some Account of the Most Celebrated Preachers of the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries'' (1865) * ''Protestant or Catholic? A Lecture'' (1872) * ''Red Spider'' (1888
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* '' Richard Cable the Lightshipman'' (1888) * ''Romances of the West Country'' (1898) * ''Royal Georgie'' (1901) * ''Secular v. Religious Education: A Sermon'' (1872) * ''Sermons on the Seven Last words'' * ''Sermons to Children'' (1879) * ''Sheepstor'' (1912) * ''Siegfried: A Romance Founded on Wagner's Operas, ''Rheingold,'' ''Siegfried,'' and ''Gotterdammerung'' (1905) * ''Some Modern Difficulties: Nine Lectures'' (1875) * ''Some Remarks upon ''Two Recent Memoirs of R. S. Hawker, Late Vicar of Morwenstow'' (1876) * ''Songs of the West: Folksongs of Devon & Cornwall'' (1905) * ''Strange Survivals: Some Chapters in the History of Man'' (1892) * ''The Birth of Jesus: Eight Discourses for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany'' (1885) * '' The Book of Were-Wolves, being an account of a terrible superstition'' (1865) * ''The Broom-Squire'' (1896
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''The Chorister, a Tale of King's College Chapel in the Civil Wars'' (1856) * ''The Church in Germany'' (1891) * ''The Church Revival: Thoughts Thereon and Reminiscences'' (1914) * ''The Crock of Gold'' (1899) * ''The Death and Resurrection of Jesus: Ten Lectures for Holy Week and Easter'' (1888) * ''The Deserts of Southern France: An Introduction to the Limestone and Chalk Plateaux of Ancient Aquitaine'' (1894) * ''The Evangelical Review'' (1920) * ''The Frobishers: A Story of the Staffordshire Potteries'' (1901) * ''The Golden Gate: A Complete Manual of Instructions, Devotions, and Preparations'' (1896) * '' The Gaverocks: A Tale of the Cornish Coast'' (1888) * ''The Icelander's Sword, or the Story of Oraefa-Dal'' (1893) * ''The Land of Teck and Its Neighborhood'' (1911) * ''The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte'' (1908) * ''The Lives of the British Saints: The Saints of Wales and Cornwall and Such Irish Saints as Have Dedications in Britain'' (1913) * ''The Lives of the Saints'' (1914) * ''The lost and hostile gospels an essay on the Toledoth Jeschu, and the Petrine and Pauline gospels of the first three centuries of which fragments remain'' (1874) * ''The Mystery of Suffering: Six Lectures'' (1877) * ''The Nativity'' (1885) * ''The Origin and Development of Religious Belief'' (1871) * ''The Passion of Jesus: Seven Discourses for Lent, First Series'' (1887) * ''The Path of the Just: Tales of Holy Men and Children'' (1857) * ''The Pennycomequicks'' (1889
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* ''The Preacher's Pocket: A Packet of Sermons'' (1880) * ''The Present Crisis: A Letter to the Bishop of Exeter'' (1899) * ''The Queen of Love'' (1894) * ''The Restitution of All Things'' (1907) * ''The Seven Last Words: A Course of Sermons'' (1884) * ''The Silver Store: Collected from Mediaeval Christian and Jewish Mines'' (1887) * ''The Sunday Round: Plain Village Sermons for the Sundays of the Christian Year'' (1899) * ''The Tragedy of the Caesars: A Study of the Characters of the Caesars of the Julian and Claudian Houses'' (1907) * ''The Trials of Jesus: Seven Discourses for Lent'' (1886) * ''The Vicar of Morwenstow: A Life of Robert S. Hawker'' (1899
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''The Village Pulpit: A Complete Course of Sixty-Six Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year'' (1887
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''The Way of Sorrows: Seven Discourses for Lent'' (1887) * ''Through All the Changing Scenes of Life'' (1892) * ''Through Flood and Flame'' (1868) * ''Troubadour-Land: A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc'' (1891
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Two Sermons for the Coronation of King George'' (1911) * ''Urith, A Tale of Dartmoor'' (1891
- available on gutenberg.org
* ''Village Conferences on the Creed'' (1873) * ''Village Preaching for a Year'' (1884) * ''Village Preaching for Saints' Days'' (1881) * ''Virgin Saints and Martyrs'' (1901) * ''Wagner's Parsifal at Baireuth'' (1892) * ''Winefred: A Story of the Chalk Cliffs'' (1900) * ''Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents and Strange Events'' (1874
- available on gutenberg.org
See also William F. Naufftus (1995)

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Biography and hymns of Sabine Baring-Gould at Hymnary.orgBiography from ''Devon Discovering Devon'' by the BBCSabine Baring-Gould Appreciation SocietyDevon Tradition ProjectEarly Family Correspondence of Sabine Baring-Gould
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