Mears, A Garland

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

(circa 1842-1920) UK author active in the 1890s whose Utopia, Mercia, the Astronomer Royal: A Romance (1895), set a century hence in 2002, frames within a burdensome romantic plot its description of a Europe dominated by Germanic "races", with equality for women (see Feminism), advances in Technology, and something like Psi Powers. [JC]

Amelia Garland Mears

born Freshford, Kilkenny, Ireland: circa 1842

died Leeds, England: 3 January 1920

works

• Mercia, the Astronomer Royal: A Romance (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, 1895) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg

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