Brex, J Twells
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1873-1920) UK journalist and author, active from the 1890s, some of his work being contributed to Boys' Papers; The Civil War of 1915 (1912) describes a Near Future class war in Britain. "Scare-Mongerings" from the Daily Mail 1896-1914: The Paper That Foretold the War (anth 1914 chap) assembles claimed Predictions of World War One, some fictional; Adventures on the Home Front (coll 1918) is nonfantastic. "A Christmas House-Party (Being Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys the Second)" in Pears Christmas Annual (anth 1919) is set in 1969, long after a successful workers' revolution, and describes various developments in Technology, including Weather Control, and female emancipation. [JC]
John Twells Brex
born Islington, London: 5 June 1873
died Hendon, Middlesex: 7 January 1920
works
- The Civil War of 1915 (London: C Arthur Pearson, 1912) [pb/Charles Crombie]
- Adventures on the Home Front (London: Methuen and Company, 1918) [coll: pb/Geo M]
works as editor
- "Scare-Mongerings" from the Daily Mail 1896-1914: The Paper That Foretold the War (London: The Associated Press, 1914) [anth: chap: mostly nonfiction: pb/]
about the author
- Hamilton Fyfe. Twells Brex: A Conqueror of Death (London: Cassell and Company, 1920) [nonfiction: hb/]
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