A. B. McKillop
Auteur van The Spinster and the Prophet: H.G. Wells, Florence Deeks, and the Case of the Plagiarized Text
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A. B. McKillop is a professor at Carleton University.
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- McKillop, A. Brian
- Geboortedatum
- 1946
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Woonplaatsen
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (birth)
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada - Opleiding
- University of Manitoba (BA | 1968)
University of Manitoba (MA | 1970)
Queen's University (PhD | 1977) - Beroepen
- historian
professor (Carleton University)
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- #187,251
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- 3.6
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- 5
- ISBNs
- 21
Florence, her three sisters and their widowed mother live in a comfortable house in Toronto. Her brother, George Deeks, a wealthy industrialist was able to provide finances for Florence to pursue her case against Wells. She paid for professional and expert opinions on history and literature in order to determine if Wells had access to and used her manuscript as the foundation for his book.
This story is really interesting because of the research into the lives of Deeks but more particularly, HG Wells who was very popular at the time for his science fiction and fiction works. The Author provides a biography of Wells and his wife Catherine, who stands by her man regardless of his womanizing. He is portrayed as a self indulgent, opinionated, sexist, unpleasant narcissist with a habit of pursuing women who might be more interesting than his wife.
Deeks is relentless in her search for the truth as to what happened with her manuscript. She pursues Wells through the Ontario court system, appeals the ruling in Wells’ favour and then appeals her case with the British Privy Council. She loses every time as her lawyers are never able to prove how her manuscript was transported across the Atlantic and .ended up in Wells’ hands. McKillop provides a believable scenario at the end while empathizing with and admiring Deeks fortitude and resolve against the publishing industry, the justice system and men like Wells.… (meer)