Rosewater, Frank
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1856-1934) US reformer and author whose arguments about the Utopia – focused on a reiterated argument that all income should be spent in the year of its earning – shape his obscurely told fictions. Two are of some interest: '96: A Romance of Utopia (1894; vt Utopia: A Romance of Today 1894) [for subtitles for this and the next title cited, see Checklist], whose protagonists travel by balloon to a Lost World in Africa, where the state of Lukka exemplifies Rosewater's theses; and Doomed (1920) as by Marian and Franklin Mayoe, which is set aeons earlier in an Underground Atlantis, which suffers under Dystopian constraints, and Monsters who attack from the depths. [JC]
Frank Rosewater
born Cleveland, Ohio: 6 January 1856
died New York: 12 February 1934
works
- '96: A Romance of Utopia: Presenting a Solution of the Labor Problem, a New God and a New Religion (Omaha, Nebraska: Utopia Company, 1894) [hb/]
- Utopia: A Romance of Today: Presenting a Solution of the Labor Problem, a New God and a New Religion (New York: F Tennyson Neely, 1894) [vt of the above: hb/]
- The Making of a Millennium: The Story of a Millennial Realm and its Laws (Omaha, Nebraska: Century Publishing Company, 1908) [hb/]
- Doomed: A Startling Message to the People of our Day, Interwoven in an Antediluvian Romance of Two Old Worlds and Two Young Lovers: By Queen Metel and Prince Loab of Atlo, Re-incarnated in its Editors, Marian and Franklin Mayoe, by the Atlon Calendar the Year 14,009, by our Calendar the Year 1920 (New York: Frank Rosewater, Publisher, 1920) as by Marian and Franklin Mayoe [spelling "Marion" on cover is incorrect: hb/]
- Easy Millions: A Story of Adventure and the Discovery of How to Make and Keep Everybody Rich (New York: Frank Rosewater Publisher, 1925) [hb/]
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