{"id":12031,"date":"2023-01-16T11:50:44","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=12031"},"modified":"2023-01-16T11:50:44","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T11:50:44","slug":"three-generations-of-the-family-of-author-sydney-fowler-wright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2023\/01\/16\/three-generations-of-the-family-of-author-sydney-fowler-wright\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Generations of The Family of Author Sydney Fowler Wright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to present <em>Three Generations of The Family of Author Sydney Fowler Wright<\/em> (1874-1965), by leading H.P. Lovecraft scholar Ken Faig Jr. <\/p>\n<p>Ken had shown me the private PDF of his genealogical text before Christmas, and I suggested that a few historians and some fiction readers in the West Midlands would be interested in this local writer, if I could add a biographical introduction and more images. He agreed to the expansion and that it could be made public. This 26-page PDF is the result, now freely available for download.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/fowler_wright_genealogy_life.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/3gen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"391\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12033\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/fowler_wright_genealogy_life.pdf\">fowler_wright_genealogy_life.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>S. Fowler Wright was a key writer in the history of early science-fiction. To earn money for his family he was also a popular crime-mystery writer of the 1930s and 40s. He was raised in Smethwick and then lived in north Birmingham. As a seminal imaginative writer and as a Birmingham man interested in Mercian history he was thus very much a contemporary of Tolkien, and he even went to the same school in New Street. I suspect a connection with Arnold Bennett, and note that Wright apparently advised Churchill on certain matters during wartime (see PDF for details). S. Fowler Wright&#8217;s biography remains to be written. I won&#8217;t be the one to write it, so feel free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m pleased to present Three Generations of The Family of Author Sydney Fowler Wright (1874-1965), by leading H.P. Lovecraft scholar Ken Faig Jr. Ken had shown me the private PDF of his genealogical text before Christmas, and I suggested that a few historians and some fiction readers in the West Midlands would be interested in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}