Corkran, Alice
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1856-1916) UK journalist and author, for many years (dates not known) the partner of Richard Whiteing. She is of mild interest for the title story assembled in Mrs Wishing-to-be and Other Stories (coll 1883), in which an implausibly described broomstick-like Spaceship takes the protagonist to the Moon; and for Down the Snow Stairs; Or, From Good-Night to Good-Morning (1887) in which a staircase leads into a Hollow Earth or (just as plausibly) a Wonderland like found in Lewis Carroll's Alice books, of which this tale is a pious Parody. [JC]
Alice Corkran
born 1856
died 1916
works (selected)
- Mrs Wishing-to-be and Other Stories (London: Blackie and Son, 1883) [coll: hb/]
- Down the Snow Stairs; Or, From Good-Night to Good-Morning (London: Blackie and Son, 1887) [illus/hb/Gordon Browne]
- Joan's Adventures at the North Pole and Elsewhere (London: Blackie and Son, 1889) [hb/]
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