Well-Known Author, A
Entry updated 31 July 2023. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of Wilfrid Keppel Honnywill (1871-1909) for his first novel The Master-Sinner: A Romance (1901), a fantasy of the Afterlife [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] featuring letters from a dead victim of a life of Decadence and depicting Hell as a pleasant place from which it is terrible to be excluded; this story can be read as a Satire of the exploitation of Religion by such popular novelists as Hall Caine and Marie Corelli. The Master-Sinner has been wrongly attributed to Herbert Vivian. Honnywill's second novel The Curse of Eden (1901), also published anonymously, is a nonfantastic romance. [DRL/JC/SH]
Wilfrid Keppel Honnywill
born Sompting, Sussex: 14 June 1871
died London: 21 September 1909 [suicide]
works
- The Master-Sinner: A Romance (London: John Long, 1901) as by "A Well-Known Author" [hb/]
- The Curse of Eden (London: John Long, 1901) as by "The Author of 'The Master Sinner'" [hb/]
links
- Bear Alley: W Keppel Honnywill
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Afterlife
- Picture Gallery
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