Godfrey, Hal
Entry updated 3 November 2025. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of Irish journalist and author Charlotte O'Conor Eccles (1863-1911), who began to publish nonfiction work on Feminist issues in Irish periodicals, and whose later career was centred on London; she normally used her actual name. Her sf novel, The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore: A Farcical Novel (1897), seemingly her only work as by Godfrey, very alertly describes the Time in Reverse life experienced by the protagonist after she drinks from the Fountain of Youth. In a note to the text the author acknowledges the influence of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Dr Heidegger's Experiment (1883 chap). [JC]
Charlotte O'Conor Eccles
born Coscommon, Ireland: 1 November 1863
died London: 14 June 1911
works
- The Rejuvenation of Miss Semaphore: A Farcical Novel (London: Jarrold and Sons, 1897) [hb/Ethelred B Barry]
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