She stopped writing when her mother died in 1920 one later work published in 1923 appears to have been written during the late 'teens, and submitted to Weird Tales when that magazine was just starting up. Virtually all of Bennett's work dates from 1917 to 1920, when she began to write short stories and novels to support the household. When her father died toward the end of World War I, Bennett assumed care for her invalid mother. With a new-born daughter to raise, Bennett continued working as a stenographer. A year later her husband died during a tropical storm while on a treasure hunting expedition. In 1909 Barrows married Stewart Bennett, a British journalist and explorer, and moved to Philadelphia. Instead, she began working as a stenographer, a job she held on and off for the rest of her life. Gertrude completed school through the eighth grade, then attended night school in hopes of becoming an illustrator (a goal she never achieved). Her father, a Civil War veteran from Illinois, died in 1892. Gertrude Mabel Barrows was born in Minneapolis in 1884, to Charles and Caroline Barrows ( née Hatch). Swift, in a letter to The Argosy called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read") and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear.īennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919). Her most famous books include Claimed (which Augustus T. Bennett wrote a number of fantasies between 19 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy". Gertrude Barrows Bennett (September 18, 1884 – February 2, 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and science fiction. The Modern Library Torchbearers series features women who wrote on their own terms, with boldness, creativity, and a spirit of resistance.Citadel of Fear was serialized in The Argosy in 1918.
Equal parts dystopia and adventure, The Heads of Cerberus is an unjustly forgotten work of early science fiction, written by a trailblazing master of the genre. When Viola, Terry, and Robert are forced to take part in these strange and deadly games, it will take their combined wits for them to escape this strange world and return home.
The position of supreme authority is held by a woman, and once a year she oversees competitions to the death to determine who rules alongside her.
Citizens are issued identification tags instead of having names, and society is split between a wealthy, powerful minority and a downtrodden lower class. The Philadelphia of 2118 is no longer a bustling metropolis but instead a completely isolated city recovering from an unknown disaster. Philadelphia, 1918: Three friends-brave, confident Viola Trenmore, clever but shy Robert Drayton, and Viola´s strong and hot-tempered brother, Terry-discover a mysterious powder that transports them two hundred years into the future.
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