to me all this is significant because english translations of verne up to the last three decades or so have been awfull “children’s books” affairs, mostly because of verne’s anti-british sentiments.

thus, griffiths may be the first english author to have acknowledged verne’s influence while verne was still alive.

further, this may be a good place to ask, what caused griffith’s lapse into neglect? what could be the possibility that h.g.wells was influenced by his work(and thus more influenced by verne than he was willing to admit!) or by fawcett’s work such as “secret of the desert?”
anyone with any information please write to me at
medusa@inter.net.il

I am now wondering if my one true purpose in life is to transcribe The Secret of the Desert and make this scarce volume, with its illustrations, available online. Not that I’m particularly enthralled by the idea of that much typing….

Thank you, sincerely, for presenting this fascinating discussion of the works of E. D. Fawcett.

Michael Moorcock’s take on Fawcett and Griffiths is interesting – it can be found in _The Warlord of the Air_, and the introduction to the two volumes of his resea^h^h^h contemporary fiction he edited, _Before Armageddon_ and _England Invaded_.

http://www.forgottenfutures.com/game/ff7/

And he lives in west London, so as you’re now here, Brett, you may want to contact him (details on the linked page).

Jane also did naval related illustrations for magazines such as Pearson’s (I’ve got a full set of Pearson’s covering 1896 through 1899 inclusive, which contains some of his work).