born - 24 January 1818, London
died - 6 August 1866, East Grinstead, Sussex
Publications
John Mason Neale D.D. a memoir, by Eleanor A. Towle, published 1906 (338 pp., London: Longmans, Green and Co.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries View Online
Letters of John Mason Neale, D.D., edited by his daughter, Mary Sackville Lawson, published 1910 (379 pp., London: Longmans, Green and Co.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries View Online
John Mason Neale, D.D., Hymnologist, by S.C.M. Contributor(s), published 1928 in Sussex County Magazine (vol. II no. 10, article, pp.459-461) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 9327] & The Keep [LIB/500138]
The influence of John Mason Neale, by A. G. Lough, published 1962 (182 pp., S.P.C.K.) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
John Mason Neale - Priest Extraordinary, by Rev. Dr. A. G. Lough, published 1975 (152 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0950467502 & ISBN-13: 9780950467504) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
John Mason Neale, 1818-1866, by S. S. M. Gabriel, published c.1981 (pamphlet) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 7795] & West Sussex Libraries
The Wisdom of John Mason Neale, From His Sermons , by Arthur Geoffrey Lough, published 1989 (52 pp., published by the author, ISBN-10: 0950467529 & ISBN-13: 9780950467528) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
The Life and Work of John Mason Neale: 1818-1866 , by Michael Chandler, published July 1995 (241 pp., Fowler Wright Books ltd., ISBN-10: 0852443056 & ISBN-13: 9780852443057) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
John Mason Neale and the Quest for Sobornost, by Leon Litvack, published 1 June 1997 (312 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198263511 & ISBN-13: 9780198263517) accessible at: West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:John Mason Neale (1818-1866), the famous Victorian divine, hymnologist, novelist, historian, and author of the carol `Good King Wenceslas', was also noted for his interest in ecunemism. This book traces Neale's interest in the Orthodox church, as expressed through his historical writings, translations of Greek hymns, and novels set in the Christian East. The work is based on a wide variety of manuscript and published sources for the subject, and demonstrates how this leading light in the Anglo-Catholic revival acted as an exemplary interpreter of Byzantium and Eastern Orthodoxy to the Victorian England of his day. In the context of the present time, when East-West relations are a topical suject, Neale's life and work provide a shining example of how two very different cultures and traditions might approach each other, with fruitful results for both.
The unregarded Sussex of J. M. Neale, by M. J. Leppard, published 2017 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 155, article, pp.165-179)