Jarrett, Cora
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Working name of Cora Hardy Jarrett (1877-1969), who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Latch-Key" (December 1928 Vanity Fair) as by Faraday Keene. Her novel Strange Houses: A Tale (1936) features a scientific experiment – psychic rather than technological – that brings about Identity Exchange between two women, one middle-aged and the other a nineteen-year-old striptease dancer. [DRL]
Cora Jarrett
born 1877
died 1969
works (selected)
- The Ginkgo Tree (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935) [hb/]
- Strange Houses: A Tale (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936) [hb/]
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