Pickersgill, Joshua, Jr
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1780-1818) UK army officer and author of The Three Brothers: A Romance (1803 4vols), an exorbitantly lurid Gothic novel whose supernatural elements (the Devil is a character) are of no sf interest. It should be noted, however, that when the Devil gives the Antihero protagonist a new body while retaining the old, the Clichés of metamorphosis has been sidestepped, and the reader encounters a very early instance of Identity Transfer. [JC]
Joshua Pickersgill Jr
born 1780
died Sangar, India: 8 March 1818
works
- The Three Brothers: A Romance (London: John Stockdale, 1803) [published in four volumes: binding unknown/]
about the author
- Jess Nevins. The Encyclopedia of Fantastic Victoriana (Austin, Texas: MonkeyBrain Books, 2005) [encyclopedia: pp 39-40: hb/John Picacio]
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