Speight, E E

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1871-1949) UK teacher, publisher and author, most of whose adult life was spent fulfilling academic roles in Japan and India. Most of his work as an author is nonfiction, usually textbooks designed for use, mostly for Indian students. Of sf interest is The Galleon of Torbay [for subtitle see Checklist below] (1908), a Lost Race tale in which a group of settlers from Torbay, Devon are lost deep in America beyond Virginia, and establish a civilization in conjunction with survivors of the Toltec era, which had ended elsewhere centuries earlier. [JC]

Ernest Edwin Speight

born Bradford, Yorkshire: 6 December 1871

died Ootacamund [properly Udhagamandalam], Tamil Nadu, India: 17 September 1949

works (highly selected)

• The Galleon of Torbay: A Romance, Telling How Some Western Men and Women, Virginia Bound, were Lost for Three Hundred Years; How a Devon Boy Found their Old City Beyond the Lagoons, and Led the Folk from Havoc; How a Brown Maiden Fell in Love with Him in the Heart of Danger, and Followed him through the Unknown Mountains; And How a Yorkshire Cricketer Harboured them in Mexico; With Many Another Adventure, into which is Woven a Span of the Wild Girlhood of the Moon-Wind (London: Chatto and Windus, 1908) [hb/]

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