Images of Africa (coll 1980) assembles short fantasies told in a folktale idiom. Behold Your King ( 1957) is a novel about Christ's crucifixion, told in a slangy, contemporary idiom to demystify it. To the Chapel Perilous ( 1955) is a witty account of the Grail legend which pits rival anthropological and historical theories together as if, in a sense, they were all true. The protagonist of the fantasy Travel Light ( 1952) questions the nature of Identity while shifting names (though not her intact personhood) in a Fantastic Voyage, during which she encounters Odin. Beyond this Limit ( 1935 chap), whose illustrations by Wyndham Lewis constitute a co-creation of the book, is (loosely) a Posthumous Fantasy with some satirical impact.Īfter a period of relative inactivity, her first work of interest is The Big House ( 1950), a fairy tale for children, set within a Celtic frame.
We Have Been Warned ( 1935) is a tangled Near-Future political novel involving the oppression of the Left in the UK. They include "The Goat: Cardiff AD 1935" about an impoverished Near Future world where a rich person is sacrificed annually, in Barbarian Stories (coll 1929), the short novel The Powers of Light ( 1932 chap), which verges on Prehistoric SF, and many of the tales and fables in The Fourth Pig (coll 1936), use sf or fantasy elements for allegorical purposes (see Mainstream Writers of SF). Some of her earlier stories use sf or fantasy elements for allegorical purposes.
She was known mainly for her work outside the sf field, which she entered late her bibliography includes over 100 books and over 1000 shorter pieces, beginning with the privately printed nonfantastic play Saunes Bairos: A Study in Recurrence: A Play in Three Acts, a Prologue and Epilogue ( 1913 chap) as by N M Haldane, the first performance of which featured an appearance by the young Aldous Huxley and includes such historical novels with fantasy elements as The Conquered ( 1923), which features a soothsayer who turns out to be Odin and The Corn King and the Spring Queen ( 1931 vt The Barbarian 1961), an Anthropological fantasy about Sparta. (1897-1999) Scottish polemicist and author who married G R "Dick" Mitchison just before his return to the front her own World War One service, as an auxiliary nurse, included caring for him in a French hospital sister of J B S Haldane.
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