Lanza, Clara
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1859-1939) US author, a marquise by marriage into the Italian nobility in 1878, whose Mr Perkins' Daughter (1881) flirts with Amnesia on the skirts of the fantastic; her sf novel, Scarabaeus: The Story of an African Beetle (1892) with James Clarence Harvey (1865-1945), features a camera capable of photographing the past (see Time Viewer), a scene in which retinal images identify a murderer (a commonplace of speculative forensics at this time; see Scientific Errors), while carrying its cast to Africa where the eponymous gem, and other ruins from a Lost World, are discovered. [JC]
Marquise Clara Hammond Lanza
born Fort Riley, Kansas: 1859
died 1939
works
- Mr Perkins' Daughter (New York: G P Putnam's Sons, 1881) [pb issue in the publisher's Knickerbocker Novels series: hb/pb/]
- Scarabaeus: The Story of an African Beetle (New York: Lovell, Coryell and Company, 1892) with James Clarence Harvey [hb/]
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