- Series: Wallypug Series Record # 42500
- Webpages: sites.google.com, Wikipedia-EN
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Note:
- Wikipedia, "G. E. Farrow", lists only the six novels. Google site GEFarrow1stEditions shows cover images and provides some other data for The Wallypug at Play 1898, Wallypug Tales (c)1904, All About the Wallypug (c)1904, and The Wallypug Book (c)1905, all children's picture books apparently. (Both notes 2017-03-12.)
- "The Wallypug of Why undeniably owes a great deal to Lewis Carroll. In the latter decades of the 19th century there were many Alice imitations, many of them very close to the original. Of these imitators Farrow is easily the best, and also the most prolific." ... "She visits the land of Why, the source of all questions and answers, where the Wallypug is king. It is a topsy-turvy place: the Wallypug must address all the citizens as 'Your Majesty' and do what people tell him to do." --Wikipedia, "The Wallypug of Why" Wikipedia cites Gillian Avery, Introduction to the 1968 Gollancz edition, and clearly credits her for a quotation. Avery may be the effective source of the opinion and description quoted here.
- Farrow commonly "frame[d] his narratives as dreams from which the reader awakens. ... particularly damaging in the Wallypug books, which feature the adventures of the eponymous monarch of Why, a Beast Fable land which exists in another Dimension; these adventures, once the disqualifying dream frame is discounted, interestingly combine fantasy and modestly imaginative sf (or, more fairly, Proto SF) material ..." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE: "Farrow, G E" by John Clute
- Wallypug
- 1 The Wallypug of Why (1895) by G. E. Farrow
- 2 The Wallypug in London (1898) by G. E. Farrow
- 3 Adventures in Wallypug-Land (1898) by G. E. Farrow
- 4 In Search of the Wallypug (1903) by G. E. Farrow
- 5 The Wallypug in Fog-Land (1904) by G. E. Farrow
- 6 The Wallypug in the Moon: Or, His Badjesty (1905) by G. E. Farrow