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Pseudonym of Scottish author Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan (1850-1938), better known as Mrs Desmond Humphreys for most of her work; she was extremely prolific, and involved in Theosophy in her later years, which may have affected her work of sf interest, The Seventh Dream (coll 1905), one of whose three novellas concerns the experimental inducing of prophetic dreams, which have been transmitted from elsewhere and which describe in detail a Utopia, sometime in Earth's future. [JC]
Eliza Margaret Jane Gollan
born Gollanfield, Invernesshire: 14 June 1850
died Combe Down, Bath, Somerset: 1 January 1938
works
- The Seventh Dream (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905) [coll: hb/]
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