Author:Thomas Anstey Guthrie

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Thomas Anstey Guthrie (1856–1934)

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English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the Pseudonym F. Anstey. Best remembered for his comic novels including Vice Versa (1882), The Giant's Robe, and other works. Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A. (1897), and A Bayard from Bengal (1902) are humorous yet truthful studies of the East Indian with a veneer of English civilization.

Thomas Anstey Guthrie

Works

• Vice Versa (1882) (external scan)
• Tourmalin's Time Cheques (1891)
• Cowrote The Fate of Fenella (1892) (external scan)
• Baboo Hurry Bungsho Jabberjee, B.A. (1897)
• A Bayard From Bengal (1902)

• The Black Poodle And Other Tales (1884) (external scan)
• The Giant's Robe (1884) (external scan)
• The Tinted Venus (1885) (external scan)
• A Fallen Idol (1886) (external scan)
• Burglar Bill And Other Pieces (1888) (external scan)
• The Pariah (F Anstey) (1889) (external scan)
• Voces Populi (1890) (external scan)
• Mr. Punch's Model Music-Hall Songs And Dramas (1892) (external scan)
• The Talking Horse And Other Tales (1892) (external scan)
• The Travelling Companions: a Story in Scenes (1892) (external scan)
• The Man From Blankley's And Other Sketches (1893) (external scan)
• Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen (1893) (external scan)
• Under the Rose (1894) (external scan)
• Lyre and Lancet (1895) (external scan)
• The Statement of Stella Maberly, Written By Herself (1896) (external scan)
• Puppets At Large (1897) (external scan)
• Love Among The Lions (1898) (external scan)
• Paleface And Redskin (1898) (external scan)
• The Brass Bottle, 1900 (external scan)

• Only Toys! (1903)
• Salted Almonds (1906) (external scan)
• Winnie, An Everyday Story (1909)
• In Brief Authority (1915) (external scan)
• Percy and Others (1915)
• The Last Load (1925)
• The Would-Be Gentleman (Adapted From Molière's Le Bourgeois gentilhomme) (1927)
• The Imaginary Invalid (Adapted From Molière's Le Malade imaginaire) (1929)
• Humour and Fantasy (1931)
• A Long Retrospect (1936)

Individual short stories

• "A Canine Ishmael" (1894, Short Stories magazine) (From A Talking Horse)
• "A Farewell Appearance" (1892, Short Stories magazine)
• "Shut Out" (1894, Short Stories magazine)
• "Taken by Surprise" (1892, Short Stories magazine)

Works about Guthrie

• "Guthrie, Thomas Anstey ("F. Anstey")," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)