Harper, Olive
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of US poet, journalist and author Helen Burrell D'Apery (1842-1915) for at least two tales with some sf interest: The Show Girl: Or, the Cap of Fortune (1902), in which an Underground realm inhabited by a Lost Race of Immortal Greeks with Magic powers is found under Cyprus; and The Sociable Ghost [for subtitle see Checklist below] (1903), much of the latter also being set Underground, beneath a New York churchyard. Of more specific sf interest is A Fair Californian (1889), whose protagonist discovers via a mine in New Mexico access to a Hollow Earth world inhabited by angel-like beings, a race of Feminists that boasts high Technology, Immortality, and access to other planets, where an Apes as Human culture has been encountered. Toward the end of her career, Harper novelized many plays, most of them being nonfantastic melodramas. [JC]
Helen Burrell D'Apery
born Tunckhannock, Pennsylvania: 28 September 1842
died Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 2 May 1915
works
- A Fair Californian (New York: Minerva Publishing Company, 1889) [in the publisher's Minerva Series: hb/uncredited]
- The Show Girl: Or, the Cap of Fortune (New York: J S Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1902) [hb/]
- The Sociable Ghost: Being the Adventures of a Reporter Who Was Invited by the Sociable Ghost to a Grand Banquet, Ball and Convention Under the Ground of Old Trinity Churchyard; A True Tale of the Things He Saw and Did Not See While He Was Not There (New York: J S Ogilvie Company, 1903) [hb/uncredited]
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