Timothy S. Miller, Ph.D.
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  • About
  • Blog
  • CV
  • Teaching
  • Dissertation
  • Chaucer Projects
    • Hyper Chaucer
    • The SF Chaucer
    • Chaucer Valentines
    • Chaucer in Translation
  • Botanical Fiction
    • Botanical Fiction Database
    • Critical Bibliography
    • Image Gallery

Year Title Author Place of Publication Commentary
1844 "Rappaccini's Daughter" Hawthorne, Nathaniel TBA
(GSF 777[d]; SF: TEY 1070[d])
1872 Lumen Flammarion, Camille TBA
(SF: TEY 775a)
1874 "Crinoida Dajeeana" / "The Man-Eating Tree (of Madagascar)" Spencer, Edmund (anonymously) TBA
A hoaxed news item frequently reprinted until at least the 1920s,
having originally appeared in The New York World, where Spencer was a staff writer. The original article claims to reproduce a letter from one Karl Leche (sometimes spelled "Carl Liche") to a Dr. Omelius Friedlowsky, telling of the former's discovery of a horrific, tentaculate pitcher plant in the jungles of Madagascar. Later published as an acknowledged fiction, this narrative is undoubtedly one of the most important and influential documents in the history of the modern monster plant.
1877 The Manatitlans, Or, A Record of Recent Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S. A. Smile, R. Elton TBA
(SF: TEY 2053): A race of small
people dwell inside flowers.