Oppenheim, Josephine Greve
Entry updated 27 February 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1849-1915) US author, who wrote as by John Emersie and as by A O (she was married to Ansel Oppenheim from 1869). She is of sf interest for Allisto: A Romance (1884 as by John Emersie; cut vt Evelyn: A Tale of the West and the Far East 1904 as by A O), whose protagonist, the mysterious Allisto, may be the scion of a stock superior to Homo sapiens, but whose Telepathic powers do not give him respite. Before his death, he conveys to his wife a report of his experiences with "the Ulterre Race", inhabitants of another planet who have achieved an Utopian society. [JC]
Josephine Greve Oppenheim
born Johnston, Pennsylvania: 7 March 1849
died Chicago, Illinois: 6 September 1915
works
- Allisto: A Romance (New York: John D Williams, 1884) as by John Emersie [hb/]
- Evelyn: A Tale of the West and the Far East (New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904) as by A O [cut vt of the above: illus/William L Hudson: hb/]
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