Brian Earnshaw Explained

Brian Earnshaw (26 December 1929 – 15 February 2014) was a British author, known for his Dragonfall 5 series, illustrated by Simon Stern.

Biography

Brian Earnshaw was born in Wrexham, Wales on 26 December 1929. He attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read English. He then spent a number of years as a secondary school teacher in different locations in the UK. From 1964 until his retirement he was a lecturer in English Literature at St Paul's College, Cheltenham (a teacher training college with Bristol University qualifications). In 1982 he completed a doctorate at Warwick University with a thesis entitled 'Translations from German and their Reception in Britain 1760–1800'. After retiring, he moved to Bristol, and worked with Timothy Mowl on a range of books on British architectural and garden history. These sometimes appear with Earnshaw as Mowl's co-author, and sometimes with him in Mowl's acknowledgement as a researcher. He had a great love of botany and travel, and made extensive trips around Europe and elsewhere studying flowers, architecture, gardens and history. Earnshaw died on 15 February 2014, at the age of 84.^[1]

Bibliography

Series

Star Jam Pack

• Starclipper and the Song Wars (1985)
• Starclipper on the Snowstone (1986) ISBN unknown
• Starclipper and the Galactic Final (1987)

Dragonfall 5

See main article: Dragonfall 5.

• Dragonfall 5 and the Royal Beast (1972)
• Dragonfall 5 and the Space Cowboys (1972)
• Dragonfall 5 and the Empty Planet (1973)
• Dragonfall 5 and the Hijackers (1974)
• Dragonfall 5 and the Master Mind (1975)
• Dragonfall 5 and the Super Horse (1977)
• Dragonfall 5 and the Haunted World (1979)

Adult novels

• And the Mistress Pursuing (1966)
• Planet in the Eye of Time (1968)

Other teenage novels

• The Rock Dog Gang (1987)
• Planet of the Jumping Bears (1990)
• Next Stop, Wildstar (1994)

Non-fiction

• Trumpet at a Distant Gate: The Lodge as Prelude to the Country House Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, London: Waterstones, 1985
• John Wood: Architect of Obsession Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, Bath: Millstream Books, 1988
• Architecture Without Kings: The Rise of Puritan Classicism under Cromwell, Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, New York: Manchester Univ. Press, 1995 (Sept.),
• An Insular Rococo: Architecture, Politics and Society in Ireland and England, 1710–1770, Timothy Mowl and Brian Earnshaw, London: Reaktion Books, 1999

Poetry

• At St. David's A Year, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1968
• Cavafy Gone Gothic, Bristol: Redcliffe Press, 2008

External links

• Brian Earnshaw & guest

Notes and References

1. Web site: Brian Earnshaw . ISFDB . 17 November 2023.