![]() ![]() 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. Citadel of Fear was serialized in The Argosy in 1918. ![]()
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