Whiting, Sydney
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1820/1821-1875) UK barrister, poet and author whose Memoirs of a Stomach: Written by Himself, That All Who Eat May Read (1853; rev 1853; further rev 1855) as by "The Minister of the Interior", though seemingly spoofish, articulates issues of the relationship between imperial mind and digestive body in mid-nineteenth-century terms. Of more sf interest is Heliondé; Or, Adventures in the Sun (1854; rev 1855), whose protagonist, conveniently vaporized by in the summer heat, ventures on a Fantastic Voyage to the surface and interior of the Sun, which is cool enough to live on, and is inhabited by a race so refined and sublimated that the Utopia its inhabitants have built seems paradisal; sadly, he is forced to return to Earth. [JC]
Sydney Whiting
born Taunton, Somerset: 1820/1821
died London: 1875
works
- Memoirs of a Stomach: Written by Himself, That All Who Eat May Read (London: W E Painter, 1853) as by "The Minister of the Interior" [hb/]
- Memoirs of a Stomach: Written by Himself, That All Who Eat May Read (London: W E Painter, 1853) [rev of the above: hb/]
- Memoirs of a Stomach: Written by Himself, That All Who Eat May Read (London: Chapman and Hall, 1855) [rev of the above: hb/]
- Memoirs of a Stomach: Written by Himself, That All Who Eat May Read (London: W E Painter, 1853) [rev of the above: hb/]
- Heliondé; Or, Adventures in the Sun (London: Chapman and Hall, 1855) [hb/]
- Heliondé; Or, Adventures in the Sun (London: Chapman and Hall, 1855) [rev of the above: hb/]
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