Speight, T W
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1830-1915) UK railway company executive and author; of his many novels and tales, The Strange Experiences of Mr Verschoyle: Told by Himself and Edited by T W Speight (1901) is of sf interest as a tale of Identity Transfer, a technique utilized by a venomous young man to revenge himself on the family that had thwarted his marital ambitions. The Grey Monk (1895) is a ghost story. [JC]
Thomas Wilkinson Speight
born Liverpool, England: 1830
died 1915
works (highly selected)
- The Grey Monk (London: Chatto and Windus, 1895) [published in three volumes: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Strange Experiences of Mr Verschoyle: Told by Himself and Edited by T W Speight (London: Chatto and Windus, 1901) [hb/uncredited]
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