(1845-1892) UK critic, journalist and author, in India from 1876, where he became editor of the Times of India. He was an early sympathetic critic of Edgar Allan Poe. Zit and Xoe: Their Early Experience (April-May 1885 Blackwood's Magazine; 1887) is a tale of Prehistoric SF told in terms of the theory of Evolution, in which two advanced apes (> Apes as Human) are forced to leave their tribe in order to progress humanwards. [JC]
Henry Curwen
born Workington Hall, Cumberland: 1845
died at sea, Indian Ocean: 22 February 1892
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