Holland, Clive
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author Charles James Hankinson (1866-1959) who began publishing stories in the Boys' Papers in the mid 1880s, and who is of genre interest for three novels: Raymi; Or, the Children of the Sun (1889), an eighteenth-century Lost World adventure involving pirates and the discovery of El Dorado in Peru; An Egyptian Coquette (1898; rev vt The Spell of Isis: A Romance of Egypt 1913), an occult fantasy involving a She figure; and The Hidden Submarine; Or, the Plot That Failed (1916), a Near Future tale in which the German Invasion of the Dorset coast of England is foiled. [JC]
Charles James Hankinson
born Bournemouth, Hampshire: 23 April 1866
died London: 14 February 1959
works
- Raymi; Or, the Children of the Sun (London: Henry and Company, 1889) [hb/]
- An Egyptian Coquette (London: C Arthur Pearson, 1898) [in the publisher's Latter Day Stories series: hb/]
- The Spell of Isis: A Romance of Egypt (London: Lynwood and Co, 1913) [rev vt of the above: hb/]
- The Hidden Submarine; Or, the Plot That Failed (London: Robert Scott, 1916) [hb/]
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