Daphne Vigers (b. circa 1919; fl. 1940s-1960s)
**updated 26 August 2026**
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| The 1944 Andrew Dakers edition |
Daphne Vigers published only two editions of one book, Atlantis Rising (London: Andrew Dakers,
1944; second edition London: Aquarian Press, 1952). The dust-wrapper to the reprint gives what
little biographical information is known about the author, noting that as a
young woman in her twenties she “went though a series of extraordinary
experiences in which she witnessed the scenes of a long vanished land”. Her
quasi-novel tells of the earthly paradise of Atlantis, and of the “final
cataclysm in which the whole land sank beneath the Atlantic Ocean”. The book describes Vigers’s visits, by psychic projection, to ancient Atlantis, and also to the future
when Atlantis will have risen again above the waves. Vigers declares that the British race is
descended from the noble Atlanteans who did not fall victim to the black magic
of renegade priests. In all, though presented as a novel, this book is more of
an occult tract.
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| The 1952 Aquarian Press edition |
Vigers apparently
wrote at least two other unpublished works. Bernard Miall (1876-1953) served as publisher’s
reader in late 1941 for an earlier novel, City
of Terrible Nights, about the blitzkrieg of London. He called it “an artless, spontaneous,
unaffected novel, with occasional paragraphs or pages of comment, shrewd or
commonplace, but apparently individual.” Another book was Wingless Flight, for which John Gordon Hargrave (1894-1982) completed
twenty-two drawings, under the pseudonym “Thot”, intended to be published with the book.
Their captions indicate the visionary nature of the text, which
apparently no longer survives.
Vigers was
listed as living in southwest London from 1947 thorough 1965, after which time
she disappears from the public record.
A 12 May 1946 article in the Sunday Post describes Miss Vigers as a "26-year-old actress and writer, of Harwood Terrace, Brompton, London."
