Hatton, Joseph
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1837-1907) UK journalist and author, active from 1861 in a variety of modes; of genre interest is The Park Lane Mystery: A Story of Love and Magic (1887), which contains supernatural elements, and The White King of Manoa (1890; vt The White King of Manoa: An Anglo-Spanish Romance 1899), a Lost Race romance in which a member of Sir Walter Raleigh's expedition to the Orinoco discovers an Incan land, in whose capital, the Golden City of Manoa or El Dorado, he finds and weds the king's daughter. Doom (see Clichés) soon descends. [JC]
Joseph Paul Christopher Hatton
born Andover, Hampshire: 3 February 1837
died London: 31 July 1907
works
- The Park Lane Mystery: A Story of Love and Magic (Bristol, England: J W Arrowsmith, 1887) [hb/]
- The White King of Manoa (New York: R F Fenno and Co, 1890) [hb/]
- The White King of Manoa: An Anglo-Spanish Romance (London: Hutchinson and Co, 1899) [vt of the above: hb/]
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