Dictionary of Literary Biography: British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I (Dictionary of Literary Biography, 178)

Edwin A. Abbott -- Grant Allen -- F. Anstey (thomas Anstey Guthrie) -- Edwin L. Arnold -- John Davis Beresford -- Algernon Blackwood -- Lewis Carroll (charles Lutwidge Dodgson) -- G.k. Chesterton -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- George Du Maurier -- E.m. Forster -- Kenneth Grahame -- George Griffith -- H. Rider Haggard -- William Hope Hodgson -- Charles Kingley -- Vernon Lee (violet Paget) -- Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu -- Matthew Gregory Lewis -- George Macdonald -- Arthur Machen -- Charles Robert Maturin -- William Morris -- E. Nesbit -- Ann Radcliffe -- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley -- Bram Stoker -- H.g. Wells. Edited By Darren Harris-fain. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Essays on British writers of fantasy and science fiction during a time when science, technology and industrialization made increasingly impressive inroads from the Enlightenment to World War I.A gradual emphasis on social improvement, including literature, involved efforts to increase literacy through expanding material to read. During this period, publication of newspapers, penny dreadfuls and dime novels lead to pulp magazines and other popular periodicals