Marlow, Louis
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK lecturer in English studies and author Louis Umfreville Wilkinson (1881-1966), active from 1903 or earlier, who also wrote novels under his real name. Of sf interest is The Devil in Crystal (1944) which, in Marlow's typically pert, dandiacal, somewhat overeager manner, describes the effects of a sort of self-possession. The protagonist finds himself Timeslipped twenty years into his own past, where he relives his life (see Identity Transfer) while being all the while conscious of his observer status and of his almost total inability to alter reality. [JC]
Louis Umfreville Wilkinson
born Biddeston, Suffolk: 17 December 1881
died Westcote Barton, Oxfordshire: 12 September 1966
works
- The Devil in Crystal (London: Faber and Faber, 1944) [hb/nonpictorial]
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