Fisher, Mary A
Entry updated 21 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1839-1920) UK-born author in US from childhood; The Ghost in the Garret and Other Stories (coll 2010) assembled supernatural tales. She is of sf interest for her novel Among the Immortals, in the Land of Desire: A Glimpse of the Beyond (1916), which is set in a Utopian Afterlife [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] where relations between the sexes (see Feminism) seem clement; of specific sf interest in the tale is the use of telescopes – which, given the atemporal nature of this Afterlife might be thought of as Time Viewers – to witness the devastation of World War One. [JC]
Mary Ann Fisher
born Hampstead [now London]: 1839
died Tenafly, New Jersey: 22 June 1920
works
- Among the Immortals, in the Land of Desire: A Glimpse of the Beyond (New York: The Shakespeare Press, 1916) [hb/]
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