NICOLSON, Marjorie Hope

NICOLSON, Marjorie Hope
(1894-1981)
   US scholar and university professor, with a PhD from Yale. Her useful pioneering study in PROTO SCIENCE FICTION was Voyages to the Moon (1949) - subtitled "Discourse on Voyages to the Moon, the Sun, the Planets and Other Worlds generally, written by divers authors from the earliest times to the time of the First Balloon Ascensions made during the years 1783-84 with remarks on their sources and an epilogue about a few selected later works of this kind; to which is appended a Bibliography of 133 works up to the year 1784 with an added listing of 58 books andarticles dealing with the theme itself and with related sciences". The works dealt with are primarily English. MHN was the second winner of the PILGRIM AWARD, in 1971.
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia. . 2011.

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