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Jarrett, Cora

Working name of Cora Hardy Jarrett (1877-1969), who began to publish work of genre interest with "The Latch-Key" (December 1928 Vanity Fair) as by Faraday Keene. Her novel Strange Houses: A Tale (1936) features a scientific experiment – psychic rather than technological – that brings about Identity Exchange between two women, one middle-aged and the other a nineteen-year-old striptease dancer. [DRL]

Cora Jarrett

born 1877

died 1969

works (selected)

• The Ginkgo Tree (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935) [hb/]
• Strange Houses: A Tale (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1936) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 03:42 am on 25 April 2024.
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