Knowles, W P
Entry updated 28 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1891-1978) UK advocate of the Knowles method of breath training and author, in active service during World War One. His Scientific Romance Jim McWhirter (1933), the last portion of which is set in 1953, advances, accompanied by considerable philosophical debate, towards a not unusual socialist Utopia where Sex is a form of hygiene, via a sequence of very violent Disasters, including an emission of Poison gases from within the crust of the Earth (see Hollow Earth). [JC]
William Plenderleith Knowles
born Chorlton, Lancashire: 23 November 1891
died Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire: 1978
works
- Jim McWhirter (London: C W Daniel, 1933) [hb/]
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