GOULD, F(rancis) Carruthers

(1844-1925)

   UK illustrator and writer, creator of a large number of sharply satirical political cartoons in the decades before WWI. "Who Killed Cock Robin?", and Other Stories for Children Young and Old (coll1896) assembled various parodic animal fables, among which "The Great Beetle War" comes closest to sf. Explorations in the Sit-tee Desert, Being a Comic Account of the Supposed Discovery of the Ruins of the London Stock Exchange some 2000 Years Hence (1899 chap) is a surprisingly effective andpointed SATIRE written from a post- HOLOCAUST viewpoint.

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