Ives, Cora Semmes
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1834-1916) US amateur theatrical producer and author, whose The Princess of the Moon: a Confederate Fairy Story (1869 chap; exp vt as coll The Princess of the Moon: A Fairy Story and Some Nursery Rhymes 1897) as by A Lady of Warrenton, Va, combines fantasy and sf devices, in a manner lacking a consciously Equipoisal strategy. A wounded Confederate officer, whose land has been ruined by vicious Yankees after the end of the Civil War, is given a Pegasus-like flying horse called Hope (see Mythology) by the Fairy of the Moon, and travels to a Utopia that awaits him there, falling in love with the Princess whose father and mother rule this land. A gang of Yankee carpetbaggers soon follows in a Balloon, but they are forgiven. The utopia is a purified vision of the antebellum South. [JC]
Cora Matilda Semmes Ives
born Georgetown, Washington, District of Columbia: 26 June 1834
died New York: 27 January 1916
works
- The Princess of the Moon: a Confederate Fairy Story (Baltimore, Maryland: Printed at The Sun Book and Job Office, Baltimore, 1869) as by A Lady of Warrenton, Va [novella: chap: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Princess of the Moon: A Fairy Story and Some Nursery Rhymes (Baltimore, Maryland: Printed at The Sun Book and Job Office, Baltimore, 1897) [exp of the above as coll: binding unknown/]
- Queen Floradine of Flowerland (New York: W H Young and Company, 1900) [novella: chap: hb/]
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