Moon, Cynthia Charlotte
Entry updated 27 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1828-1895) US actor, journalist and author, who also wrote as by C M C and as by Charles M Clay, using her married name, Charlotte Moon Clark, for some work; she was also known as Lottie Moon, and is probably most widely remembered as a Confederate spy in the American Civil War, along with her sister Virginia "Ginnie" Moon (1844-1925). Her post-war life as a journalist included a stint as foreign correspondent, during which she covered the Franco-Prussian war (1870). She is of sf interest for How She Came into her Kingdom: A Romance (1878 as by C M C; vt A Daughter of the Gods; Or, How She Came into her Kingdom 1883 as by Charles M Clay), a vigorously told tale involving Suspended Animation. [JC]
Cynthia Charlotte Moon Clark
born Danville, Virginia: 10 August 1828
died Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 20 November 1895
works (highly selected)
- How She Came into her Kingdom: A Romance (Chicago, Illinois: Jansen, McClurg and Company 1878) as by C M C [cover of book gives author as "Mrs C M Clarke": hb/]
- A Daughter of the Gods; Or, how She Came into her Kingdom (New York: White, Stokes and Allen, 1883) as by Charles M Clay [vt of the above: hb/]
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