Silberrad, Una L
Entry updated 13 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1872-1955) UK author, active for about half a century from the mid 1890s, most of her novels comfortably but lucidly supportive of decent middle-class values established during her early prime, but with a bracing Feminist element detectable in many tales. Of sf interest is The Affairs of John Bolsover (coll of linked stories 1911), narrated by an journalist in Near Future London, around 1960; his investigations into the life of Prime Minister Bolsover – whose involvement in gaining women's suffrage is noted, and who also prevents World War One – climax in the revelation that Bolsover is a woman in disguise (see Women in SF), forced into this semblance because her sex prevented her from openly pursuing a life in Politics. [JC]
Una Lucy Silberrad
born Buckhurst Hill, Essex: 8 May 1872
died Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex: 1 September 1955
works (highly selected)
- The Affairs of John Bolsover (London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1911) [coll of linked stories: hb/]
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