Mills, Elliott E
Entry updated 18 September 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1881-1956) UK educationist and author Elliott Evans Mills, whose The Decline and Fall of the British Empire [for subtitle see Checklist] (1905 chap), published anonymously, is a Future History described as being designated for use in the National Schools of Japan in 2005 (see Ruins and Futurity), with Japan's Invasion of Britain on Battle of Dorking lines being told in retrospect. His Sleeper Awakes Satire, The Further Surprising Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon and Then Captain of Several Ships) in Topsy-Turvy Isle (1906 chap) as by Vivian Grey, is a Sequel by Another Hand in which the protagonist of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (1726; rev 1735) awakens, after 200 years, and comes to an Island whose philistine topsy-turveydom soon reveals it to be England. [JC]
see also: Gulliver.
Elliott Evans Mills
born Bristol, England: 1881
died Bristol, England: 23 May 1956
works
- The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; A Brief Account of those Causes Which Resulted in the Destruction of our Late Ally, Together with a Comparison Between the British and Roman Empires: Appointed for Use in the National Schools of Japan, Tokio, 2005 (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Alden and Co, 1905) anonymous [chap: pb/]
- The Further Surprising Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon and Then Captain of Several Ships) in Topsy-Turvy Isle (Oxford, Oxfordshire: Alden and Co, 1906) as by Vivian Grey [chap: pb/]
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