Dickberry, F
Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of French/Scottish author Anne Francoise Fernande Richards Eglatine Burnup (1854-1931), identified as Fernande Richards Eglatine Blaze de Bury in the 25 October 1905 San Francisco Call and perhaps elsewhere; she married James M Burnup in 1881. Her first novel, The Storm of London: A Social Rhapsody (1904), casually conflates sf and fantasy tropes in its depiction of a London where, after a giant storm, all fabrics have been permanently destroyed, including clothing and books. Paying no attention to the Sex-related implications of universal nakedness, the tale focuses instead on the gradual creation of a Utopia freed of the shackles of class. But the protagonist, a young peer disgruntled by twentieth-century hedonism, has been caught in a fever dream; and awakens to the old world, though his fiancée, having listened to him in his delirium, has become a wiser woman. [JC]
Anne Francoise Fernande Richards Eglatine Burnup [née Blaze de Bury]
born Paris: 17 May 1854
died Biarritz, France: 11 April 1931
works (highly selected)
- The Storm of London: A Social Rhapsody (London: John Long, 1904) [hb/uncredited]
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