DELAIRE, Jean

   Pseudonym of Mrs Muirson Blake (? -?), whose date of birth has been listed as an improbably late 1888, editor of Christian Theosophist. JD's Around a Distant Star (1904) has two young fellows travelling on an electrically propelled FASTER-THAN-LIGHT spacecraft to a planet about 1900 light years away, so that, after avoiding carnivorous plants, they can witness through a supertelescope the death and resurrection of Christ.

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   Other works: A Pixie's Adventures in Humanland (1926).