The ''Early Life', Autobiography' and 'Deliverance' of 'Mark Rutherford' are a fictionalized autobiography (in three parts) by the Victorian civil servant and writer W. H. White. White wrote to help people with personalities like his own -- self-educated intellectuals, lonely, oversensitive, depressive, and with poor self-esteem. Fortunately, he never descends into self-pity or sermonizing. His writing has long been admired for its extraordinary precision, poignancy and economy. This makes him one of the best of the late Victorian novelists, and a writer who rewards repeated re-reading. George Orwell described 'Mark Rutherford's Deliverance' as 'one of the best novels written in English'.