Brémont, Anna, Comtesse de
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
(circa 1849-1922) US-born (of Irish parents) singer and author, mainly in South Africa after around 1878. She is of sf interest for A Son of Africa: A Romance (1899), mostly set in a remote African region governed by baboons (see Apes as Human); the young protagonist, whose mother is Black and father is white (see Race in SF), ends up in the UK after a natural Disaster has killed his mother and hurtled his father into an Underground world, where the Queen of Sheba (see She) predicts the construction of a Jewish-English Utopia in South Africa. Meanwhile the young protagonist, after many adventures, returns home before becoming a Christian minister. [JC]
Anna Elizabeth Dunphy, Comtesse [also found spelled Comptesse] de Brémont
born Cincinnati, Ohio: circa 1849
died London: 18 October 1922
works (highly selected)
- Son of Africa: A Romance (London: Greening and Company, 1899) [hb/]
- The Black Opal: A Fantastic Romance (London: Jarrolds, 1918) [hb/]
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