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F. Anstey

Lifespan
1856 – 1934
Nationality
British
Active
1892 – 1986
Works held
4

F. Anstey (1856–1934), pen name of Thomas Anstey Guthrie, was a master of comic fantasy, above all Vice Versa (1882), in which a father and son magically swap bodies (the ancestor of every body-swap comedy since), and The Brass Bottle, in which a released genie causes chaos. A hugely popular Punch humorist, his light fantastic touch shaped the whole genre of comic magical mishap.

The works

  1. 1986
    Cover of Tourmalin's Time Cheques Tourmalin's Time Cheques
  2. 1911
    Cover of The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts The Brass Bottle: A Farcical Fantastic Play in Four Acts
  3. 1900
    Cover of The Brass Bottle The Brass Bottle
  4. 1892
    Cover of The Talking Horse, and Other Tales The Talking Horse, and Other Tales

Wrote across

1890s1900s1910s1980s

Recurring themes

FantasyTime TravelSocial SF

Kindred authors shared themes

Cory DoctorowEdmond HamiltonFritz LeiberH. G. WellsJames BlishMarion Zimmer BradleyMark TwainPhilip K. Dick

Contemporaries writing in the same era

H. G. WellsL. Frank BaumEdgar Rice BurroughsLuis SenarensE. NesbitLord DunsanyAlgernon BlackwoodJohn Kendrick BangsJack LondonVictor Appleton

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