Julia Constance Fletcher
| Julia Constance Fletcher | |
|---|---|
| Born |
1853 Brazil |
| Died | 1938 |
| Other names | George Fleming |
| Alma mater |
Abbot Academy Andover, MA |
| Occupation | Author |
Julia Constance Fletcher was an author and playwright who professionally went by the pseudonym of George Fleming. She was born in Brazil in1853[1] and died in 1938.[2] She went to Abbot Academy, located in Andover, Massachusetts, and was in the class of 1867.[3]
Two of her books, Kismet and Mirage, were published as "no name novels" by Roberts Brothers in Boston.[1] Both books deal with Americans' adventures while traveling abroad, along the Nile and in Syria, respectively. Mirage has been described by Oscar Wilde scholar S. I. Salamensky, as a roman-á-clef fiction in which "a dangerously appealing, if slightly bi- or asexual, figure based on Wilde romantically pursues" a woman who is thought to represent Fletcher.[4]
Selected Works
- A Nile Novel, or Kismet
- Mirage (1878)
- The truth about Clement Ker ... Told by his second cousin, Geoffrey Ker, of London
- Vestigia
- Andromeda: A Novel
- The Head of Medusa
References
- 1 2 Stern, Madeleine B.; Shealy, Daniel (1991-01-01). "The No Name Series". Studies in the American Renaissance: 375–402.
- ↑ "Julia Constance Fletcher (George Fleming) (1853-1938). Kismet. Keller, ed. 1917. The Reader's Digest of Books". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
- ↑ "Phillips Academy - 1800s". www.andover.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
- ↑ Salamensky, S. I. (2002-01-01). "Re-Presenting Oscar Wilde: Wilde's Trials, "Gross Indecency," and Documentary Spectacle". Theatre Journal. 54 (4): 575–588.
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