Jane Gaskell

Jane Gaskell (born July 7, 1941 in Grange-over-Sands , Lancashire ) is a British fantasy and horror author.

Life

Gaskell is the daughter of Andrew Gaskell Denvil and Edith, née Hackett. She wrote her first work ( Strange Evil , 1957) as a student at the age of fourteen.

Her best-known work is the fantasy cycle about the heiress to the throne Cija, the first volume of which was published in 1963. Cija is revered as a goddess in her homeland, but since the soldiers of the queen, her mother, are subject to invaders from the north, Cija has to take part as a hostage in the further course of the campaign, which aims at the mysterious Atlantis . As soon as the army of invaders invades the southern realm, Cija becomes superfluous as a hostage and has to suffer many hardships from then on. They range from minor humiliations and insults to rape and death. Five volumes have now been published: The Serpent , The Dragon , Atlan , The City and Some Summer Lands .

Her novel All Neat in Black Stockings , published in 1968, was made into a film in 1969. She also wrote the script for the film All Neat in Black Stockings with Hugh Whitmore.

In 1970 she received the Somerset Maugham Award for her novel A Sweet, Sweet Summer .

In 1963 she married Gerald Lynch. In 1965 a daughter was born. In 1968 the marriage was divorced again. Gaskell is distantly related to Elizabeth Gaskell , a well-known 19th century writer and biographer of Charlotte Brontë .

bibliography

Cija cycle

• 1 The Serpent (1963)
  • English: The Tower of the Goddess. Heyne SF&F # 3508, 1976, ISBN 3-453-30398-9 .
• 2 The Dragon (1963)
  • German: The dragon. Heyne SF&F # 3516, 1976, ISBN 3-453-30382-2 .
• 3 Atlan (1965)
  • German: In the realm of the Atlantids. Heyne SF&F # 3530, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30396-2 .
• 4 The City (1966)
  • German: In the land of the ape men. Heyne SF&F # 3543, 1977, ISBN 3-453-30436-5 .
• 5 Some Summer Lands (1977)
  • German: The countries of summer. Heyne SF&F # 4455, 1988, ISBN 3-453-00999-1 .

The volumes The Serpent and The Dragon originally appeared in one volume under the title The Serpent . The German translations are all by Horst Pukallus .

Single novels

• Strange Evil (1957)
• King's Daughter (1958)
• Attic Summer (1962)
• The Shiny Narrow Grin (1964)
• All Neat in Black Stockings (1968)
• A Sweet, Sweet Summer (1969)
• Summer Coming (1969)
• Sun Bubble (1990)

script

• All Neat in Black Stockings (1969)

literature

• Hans Joachim Alpers , Werner Fuchs , Ronald M. Hahn : Reclam's science fiction guide. Reclam, Stuttgart 1982, ISBN 3-15-010312-6 , p. 169.
• John Clute : Gaskell, Jane. In: John Clute, Peter Nicholls : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction . 3rd edition (online edition), version dated April 4, 2017.
• John Grant : Gaskell, Jane . In: John Clute , John Grant (eds.): The Encyclopedia of Fantasy . Orbit, London 1997, ISBN 1-85723-368-9 .
• George Kelley: Gaskell, Jane . In: Noelle Watson, Paul E. Schellinger: Twentieth-Century Science-Fiction Writers. St. James Press, Chicago 1991, ISBN 1-55862-111-3 , pp. 307 f.
• Robert Reginald : Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature. A Checklist, 1700–1974 with contemporary science fiction authors II. Gale, Detroit 1979, ISBN 0-8103-1051-1 , pp. 909 f.
• Robert Reginald: Contemporary Science Fiction Authors. Arno Press, New York 1974, ISBN 0-405-06332-6 , pp. 105 f.
• Donald H. Tuck : The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy through 1968. Advent, Chicago 1974, ISBN 0-911682-20-1 , p. 182.

Web links

• Jane Gaskell in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Jane Gaskell in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Works by and about Jane Gaskell at Open Library
• Jane Gaskell in Fantastic Fiction (English)
• Jane Gaskell on Goodreads , accessed February 26, 2018