Juggernaut
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About the author
Alice Campbell (1887–1976) is an author about whom relatively little biographical information is available; what can be confirmed centers mainly on her dates and a single surviving work. Her representative novel, Juggernaut, is the key clue to her writing profile. Judging from the title's suggestion of something heavy and irresistible, the work most likely unfolds around suspense or strongly plotted narrative, with attention to atmosphere and pacing. Because public information is limited, her nationality, education, creative career, and full bibliography cannot be reliably established, and most scholarly and readerly interest in her attaches to this one work. Nonetheless, Juggernaut, as the only record remaining in bibliographic sources, offers researchers a window onto popular narrative in the early twentieth century and suggests that future study might begin with edition history and contemporary reviews to recover a fuller sense of her literary place.
