Sala, George Augustus
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1828-1895) UK journalist and author, active from the early 1850s, best known as a highly flamboyant foreign correspondent. Of moderate sf interest are two tales: The Seven Sons of Mammon (1862 3vols), a crime novel featuring a totally undetectable poison; and Margaret Forster (1897), in which, disguised as a police detective, the devil persuades an old woman into doomed Rejuvenation as a rich young seductress. [JC]
George Augustus Henry Sala
born London: 24 November 1828
died Brighton, Sussex: 8 December 1895
works (highly selected)
- The Seven Sons of Mammon (London: Tinsley Brothers, 1862) [published in three volumes: hb/nonpictorial]
- Margaret Forster (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1897) [hb/uncredited]
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