Bio:Christine Campbell Thomson

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Place and date of birth via Peter Stockinger's Traditional Astrology Weblog. --Dirk P Broer 10:50, 29 September 2011 (UTC)


From Wikipedia (April 2022):
Her biography:

  • "She was married to the editor and author Oscar Cook, who also appeared in Weird Tales, most notably with "Si Urag of the Tail". Thomson and Cook divorced in 1938."
  • "... her two non-fiction occult titles" were published as by "Christine Hartley, using the surname of her second husband, whom she had married in 1945."
  • autobiography: I Am A Literary Agent (Sampson Low, 1951)

Oscar Cook biography:

  • Oscar Cook's autobiographical account of his time in Borneo was assigned by Curtis Brown literary agency to its agent Christine Campbell Thomson, who titled it "Borneo: Stealer of Hearts, and placed it with Hurst & Blackett, who published it in 1924."
  • "Cook married Christine Campbell Thomson, but they were divorced in 1938."

--Pwendt|talk 22:22, 4 April 2022 (EDT)