MOTTRAM, R(alph) H(ale)

(1883-1971)

   UK writer and banker who began his long and prolific writing career as a chronicler of his WWI experiences in the famous Spanish Farm trilogy, beginning with The Spanish Farm (1924). In his sf novel, The Visit of the Princess: A Romance of the Nineteen-Sixties (1946), a joylessUK is galvanized by the visit of a European princess. Fantasy titles are The Old Man of the Stones: A Christmas Allegory (1930 chap), The Ghost and the Maiden (1940), The Gentleman of Leisure (1948), in which the Gentleman travels to Heaven, and To Hell, with Crabb Robinson (1962), which takes its protagonist elsewhere.

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