Vivian, Herbert
Entry updated 28 July 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1865-1940) UK editor, journalist, historian and author, who wrote one book as by Jim Crow. The Book of Revelations of Jim Crow (coll 1912) as by Jim Crow contains Satirical nonfiction articles, some fantasticated. The Lamentations of a New Jeremiah: Translated out of the Original Tongues [for full title see Checklist below] (?1926) is a Near Future Satire against socialism.
The fantasy The Master-Sinner: A Romance (1901) as by "A Well-Known Author" has been wrongly attributed to Vivian: see A Well-Known Author. [JC]
Herbert Vivian
born 3 April 1865
died 18 April 1940
works (selected)
- The Book of Revelations of Jim Crow (London: J and J Bennett, 1912) as by Jim Crow [coll: possible first appearance circa 1907 John Bull: hb/]
- The Lamentations of a New Jeremiah: Translated out of the Original Tongues: And with the Former Translations Diligently Compared and Revised: Appointed to Be Read Surreptitiously in Churches (London: Allen and Unwin, 1926) [a possibly earlier edition (New York: Brentanos) has been listed but not dated: hb/]
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