Charles James Hankinson


Charles James Hankinson, pen name: Clive Holland, was an English journalist and photographer.

Biography

Hankinson lectured on France, Belgium, the English countryside of Hardy's novels, and other travel and literary subjects. He made many contributions to The Westminster Gazette and The [Pall Mall Gazette] and wrote a number of books. He wrote three novels in the genre of science fiction and fantasy: Raymi; Or, the Children of the Sun, The Spell of Isis: A Romance of Egypt, and The Hidden Submarine; Or, the Plot That Failed. He wrote a book on photography and collected Japanese photographs, prints, and old books.
Hankinson married in 1894 and was the father of numerous children.

Selected works

  • 1896: The Lure of Fame
  • 1898: The Use of the Hand Camera
  • 1901: Mousmé: a story of the West and East
  • 1902: My Japanese Wife: a Japanese idyl
  • 1904: A Japanese Romance
  • 1906: Wessex
  • 1907: Things Seen in Japan
  • 1908: Things Seen in Egypt
  • 1908: From the North Foreland to Penzance
  • 1912: In the Vortex: a Latin Quarter romance
  • 1929: ''Things Seen in Normandy & Brittany''