Walters, John Cuming

Entry updated 1 December 2024. Tagged: Author.

(1863-1933) UK editor, journalist and author, some of his copious nonfiction being devoted to the life and work of Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892). Some of the spoofs in Sneape's Spirit and Other Fantasies and Stories (coll 1901) are of mild sf interest; The Great Victorian Imposture (1905 chap) is a Satire on Ignatius Donnelly. [JC]

John Cuming Walters

born 1863

died 16 July 1933

works

• Sneape's Spirit and Other Fantasies and Stories (London: Francis Griffiths, 1901) [coll: hb/]
• The Great Victorian Imposture (London: Sherratt and Hughes, 1905) [chap: pb/]

nonfiction (highly selected)

• The Lost Land of King Arthur (London: Chapman and Hall, 1909) [nonfiction: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Project Gutenberg
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

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