Mansford, Charles J
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1863-1943) UK teacher and author, some of whose stories assembled as Shafts from an Eastern Quiver (coll of linked stories July 1892-June 1893 Strand; 1894) are supernatural; Under the Naga Banner (1896), a romance told in the manner of H Rider Haggard, climaxes in the discovery in Nagaland of the Ark of the Covenant; The Great Green Serpent (1926) is a Lost Race tale set in the Caribbean, with voodoo surfacing malignly from a secret City. [JC]
Charles John Jodrell Mansford
born Finchley, Middlesex [now London]: 1863
died Bournemouth, Dorset: 18 January 1943
works
- Shafts from an Eastern Quiver (London: George Newnes, 1894) [coll of linked stories: first appeared July 1892-June 1893 Strand: hb/]
- Under the Naga Banner (London: John Hogg, 1896) [illus/hb/J Ayton Symington]
- The Great Green Serpent (London: Heath, Cranton, 1926) [hb/]
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