Kelly, Florence Finch
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1858-1939) US journalist, suffragist and author, noted for her early Feminist articles, mostly published from around 1895. She is of some sf interest for the Doppelganger tale, The Fate of Felix Brand (1913), clearly meant to evoke Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886), though in this case it is the face-forward "Jekyll", here an amoral architect, who represents the dark side of the tournament within. The winner, a piously philistine "Hyde", seems to learn little from his confrontation with the perplexes of Identity. [JC]
Florence Finch Kelly
born Girard, Illinois: 27 March 1858
died New Hartford, Connecticut: 17 December 1939
works (highly selected)
- The Fate of Felix Brand (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The John C Winston Company, 1913) [illus/Edwin John Prittie: hb/]
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