Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH KBE (1853-1931) was a British author whose novels achieved great success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He also acted as secretary to the Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the artist's later years. Caine was a lover of the Isle of Man and Manx culture and many of his novels are set on the island. Begun in 1914, The Master of Man: The Story of a Sin, had been set aside for the duration of the Great War and resumed on the day after armistice in 1918, with publication in July 1921. It tells the story of Bessie Collister who has an illegitimate child, and is later tried for the murder of their child by the baby's father, Victor Stowell, as judge. Torn apart by guilt, Stowell publicly confesses his sin and is punished, but is later redeemed by the love of a woman. The penultimate of Caine's novels, it is romantic and moralistic, returning to his regular themes of sin, justice and atonement, whilst also addressing "the woman question." It was adapted for a film entitled Name the Man in 1924 by Victor Sjöström.