Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Howard Pease (1863-1928) was a British writer and editor. His family had interests in the railway business, and he was a landowner and magistrate in Northumberland and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. In 1900-1901 he was the editor of the Northern Counties Magazine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.