Bruère, Martha Bensley
Entry updated 30 December 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1879-1953) US artist, editor and author, known early as a portrait painter, later in various social reform campaigns as a member of the Women's Trade Union League, an organization noted for its advocacy of women's rights (see Feminism). Her sf novel, Mildred Carver, U.S.A. (1919), depicts a Near Future Utopian America modestly reconstructed on socialist principles, a main feature of the new order being the requirement of a year's Universal Service from young men and women before they can legally marry. The narrative is a kind of dual Bildungsroman which follows the growing into responsible adulthood of two young protagonists, who think they have outstepped each other during their transformative Service, but thankfully discover that they have in fact become worthy of each other. [JC]
Martha Bensley Bruère
born Chicago, Illinois: 1879
died New York: 10 August 1953
works (selected)
- Mildred Carver, U.S.A. (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1919) [first appeared June 1918-February 1919 Ladies' Home Journal: hb/]
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