DANE, Clemence

DANE, Clemence
   Pseudonym of UK playwright and novelist Winifred Ashton (1888-1965), best remembered for Broome Stages (1931), a tale of the theatre. She became known to the sf world late in life when she edited the Novels of Tomorrow series in 1955-6 for Michael Joseph Ltd, publishing work by John CHRISTOPHER, Harold MEAD and Arthur SELLINGS. Some of her own fiction was of genre interest. Legend (1919) concerns a supernatural relationship between a dead writer and her biographer. The Babyons (1927) traces a curse through four generations. The Arrogant History of White Ben (1939), set in a beleaguered NEAR FUTURE, gives an animate scarecrow the task of leading the UK out of trouble. In The Saviours (coll of linked plays 1942) Merlin attempts to revitalize Britain by giving Arthur's heirs good advice. Some of the stories assembled in Fate Cries Out (coll 1935) are of genre interest.
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