The Giant's Robe

Thomas Anstey Guthrie was an English novelist and journalist, who wrote his comic novels under the pseudonym F. Anstey. He was born in Kensington, London, educated at King's College School and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1880. The Giant's Robe, published in 1883, is a serious novel; but, in spite of its excellence, he discovered (and again in 1889 with The Pariah) that it was not as a serious novelist but as a humorist that the public insisted on regarding him.