Creswick, Paul
Entry updated 15 January 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1866-1947) UK author, who began publishing work of some genre interest with "The Only Prince" for The Quarto in 1897. Robin Hood and His Adventures (1902; vt Robin Hood 1917) is one of the finest adaptations of the cycle; The Beaten Path: A Fantasy (1924) is a capable ghost story. His only Scientific Romance, The Turning Wheel (1928), is of interest for its combination of mystical themes with contemporary Disaster motifs: as the sea inundates most of Britain, the protagonists escape London and eventually find themselves inhabiting a stranded ocean liner on a newly risen Atlantis. [JC]
James Paul Creswick
born Kingston-on-Thames, Buckinghamshire: 1866
died Hove, Sussex: 13 April 1947
works
- Robin Hood and His Adventures (London: Ernest Nister, 1902) [illus/hb/T H Robinson]
- Robin Hood (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: David McKay, Publishers, 1917) [vt of the above: illus/hb/N C Wyeth]
- The Beaten Path: A Fantasy (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1924) [hb/]
- The Turning Wheel (London: Heath Cranton, 1928) [hb/uncredited]
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