MARRIOTT-WATSON, H(enry) B(rereton)

(1863-1921)

   Australian-born writer, in UK all his working life; son of Henry Crocker MARRIOTT-WATSON. His first novel, Marahuna (1888), is sf: the eponymous female, extracted from a fiery ring in Antarctica, may well come from the interior of the Earth. Some of the tales assembled in Diogenes of London and Other Fantasies (coll 1893) are indeed fantastic,as are some of the contents of The Heart of Miranda and Other Stories, Being Mostly Winter Tales (coll 1899) and Aftermath: A Garner of Tales(coll 1919).

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   Other works: The Princess Xenia (1899) and Alise of Astra (1910), both RURITANIAN tales.