E. D. Morel - Miscellany

Miscellany

Arthur Conan Doyle became acquainted with Morel through the work of the Congo Reform Association. In his novel The Lost World (1912), he used Morel as an inspiration for the character of Ed Malone. Morel is the great-grandfather of author Jasper Morel Fforde.

George Orwell, writing in 1946, recalled "this heroic but rather forgotten man."

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