Fry, Lena Jane
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(? -? ) US author, the larger part of whose Other Worlds [for full title see Checklist] (coll 1905) describes a lightly fictionalized socialist Utopia set on the planet Herschel, named after the composer and astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822), who discovered Uranus; the volume also includes a short story, "The Planet Venus", in which the inhabitants of Venus view Earth through a telescope and lament our shortcomings. [JC]
Lena Jane Fry
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- Other Worlds: A Story Concerning the Wealth Earned by American Citizens and Showing How It Can Be Secured to Them Instead of to the Trusts (Chicago, Illinois: Lena Jane Fry, 1905) [coll: hb/uncredited]
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