Curwen, Henry
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1846-1892) 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 (see Apes as Human) are forced to leave their tribe in order to progress humanwards. [JC]
Henry Curwen
born Workington, Cumberland: April 1846 [christened 19 June 1846]
died at sea, Indian Ocean: 22 February 1892
works
- Zit and Xoe: Their Early Experience (Edinburgh, Scotland: Blackwood and Sons, 1887) [first appeared April-May 1885 Blackwood's Magazine: hb/]
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