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Pseudonym of Scottish author Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan (1850-1938), better known as Mrs Desmond Humphreys for most of her work; she was extremely prolific, and involved in Theosophy in her later years, which may have affected her work of sf interest, The Seventh Dream (coll 1905), one of whose three novellas concerns the experimental inducing of prophetic dreams, which have been transmitted from elsewhere and which describe in detail a Utopia, sometime in Earth's future. [JC]
born Gollanfield, Invernesshire: 14 June 1850
died Combe Down, Bath, Somerset: 1 January 1938
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Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
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