MARKWICK, Edward

MARKWICK, Edward
   Working name of UK lawyer and writer Edward Markwick Johnson (? -?), active in the last quarter of the 19th century, whose sf novel, The City of Gold: A Tale of Sport, Travel, and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent (1896), direly invades H. Rider HAGGARD territory, taking itsprotagonists into a scientifically advanced Semitic LOST WORLD run by a Great White Witch whose love for the hero causes her death.
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