Knapp, Adeline
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1860-1909) US journalist, feminist and author, partner in the 1890s of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, whose collection of speculative tales and disquisitions, One Thousand Dollars a Day: Studies in Practical Economics (coll 1894), contains several items of direct sf interest, including the title story, where a lode of inexhaustible wealth turns sour for the citizens of the United States; "The Discontented Machine", in which an assembly-line mechanism develops consciousness and makes demands upon ruthless employers; and "The Earth Slept", a parable of Evolution. [JC]
Adeline E Knapp
born Buffalo, New York: 15 March 1860
died Mill Valley, California: June 1909
works
- One Thousand Dollars a Day: Studies in Practical Economics (Boston, Massachusetts: Arena Publishing Co, 1894) [hb/]
about the author
- E F Bleiler. Science Fiction: The Early Years (Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1991) [nonfiction: dated 1990 but published 1991: see p 411: hb/nonpictorial]
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