Penrice, Arthur
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author George Theodosius Boughton Kyngdon (1821-1916). The narrator of Skyward and Earthward (1875), whose name is Arthur Penrice, travels to the Moon in an advanced Balloon, where he discovers a race of Telepaths living in caves; Penrice then travels to Mars, also inhabited. The second half of the tale is set tamely back on Earth. [JC]
George Theodosius Boughton Kyngdon
born Bodmin, Cornwall: 6 May 1821
died Treninnick, near Newquay, Cornwall: 4 January 1916
works
- Skyward and Earthward (London: Samuel Tinsley, 1875) [hb/]
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