Mona Farnsworth
Mona Farnsworth | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 31, 1897  |
| Died | September 1, 1984 (aged 87) Sarasota |
| Spouse(s) | Reginald Grant Barrow |
Muriel Newell (June 8, 1904 – July 1981) was an American writer who wrote primarily under the penname Mona Farnsworth. She was a prolific writer of stories for pulp magazines and wrote a series of gothic novels.
She was born Muriel Ives on June 8, 1904, the daughter of Howard Colby Ives, a Unitarian minister who became an early adherent of the Baháʼí faith in the United States, and his first wife, Beth Hoyt.[1]
In the late 1930s she was probably the most frequent contributor to Romantic Range, a Western romance pulp magazine, sometimes contributing as many as three stories an issue using different pseudonyms. Her most memorable creation was the Sherriff Minnie, a middle-aged woman who fought for the law in men's clothing and fended off her frequent suitor, Peter Whittlesley. [2][3]
She also contributed a number of stories to the first two years of Unknown, John W. Campbell's science fiction pulp magazine: "Who Wants Power?" (a pastiche of Edgar Allan Poe's "Some Words with a Mummy"[4]), "Whatever", "The Joker", "All Roads", and "Are You There?" Campbell selected "All Roads" to represent Unknown in the Sam Moskowitz anthology Editor's Choice in Science Fiction (1954).[5]
Personal life
[edit]In 1933, she married the Rev. Reginald Grant Barrow, Bishop of the African Orthodox Church. They had a son, Reginald Grant Barrow. With his first wife, Bishop Barrow was the father of Errol Barrow, the first prime minister of Barbados. [6]
Bibliography
[edit]- House of Deadly Calm. Apollo, 1970[7]
- Ransom Castle. Apollo, 1970.[7]
- Companion to Evil. New York: Ace, 1971.[8] [7]
- The House of Whispering Death. Apollo, 1971.[7]
- The Great Stone Heart. New York: Pinnacle , 1971.[9][7]
- A Cross for Tomorrow. New York: Pinnacle Books, 1972. [8][7]
- Death by the Zodiac. Award, 1972.[7]
- The Three Sisters of No End House. Ace, 1972.[7]
- The Evil That Waited. Pinnacle, 1973.[7]
- The Starcrossed Road. Pinnacle, 1973.[7]
- The Menace of Marble Hill. Manor, 1974.[7]
- The Castle That Whispered. Award, 1976.[7]
- Dark Wood. Award, 1976.[7]
- Footsteps That Follow. Manor, 1976.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ Whitehead, O. Z. (1976). Some early Baha'is of the West. Internet Archive. Oxford : Ronald. ISBN 978-0-85398-065-0.
- ^ Lamont, Victoria (2016). Aranda, José; Graulich, Melody; King, Thomas; Lee, Rachel; Lewis, Nathaniel; Tatum, Stephen (eds.). Westerns: A Women's History. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-3762-9.
- ^ Powers, Laurie (2019-09-26). Queen of the Pulps: The Reign of Daisy Bacon and Love Story Magazine. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-7396-7.
- ^ Armiento, Amy Branam; Montgomery, Travis (2023-02-15). Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-61146-336-1.
- ^ Davin, Eric Leif (2006). Partners in wonder : women and the birth of science fiction, 1926-1965. Internet Archive. Lanham, MD : Lexington Books. ISBN 978-0-7391-1266-3.
- ^ Today, Barbados (2020-01-04). "The Story of Rev. Reginald Grant Barrow". Barbados Today. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hubin, Allen J. (1984). Crime fiction, 1749-1980 : a comprehensive bibliography. Internet Archive. New York : Garland Pub. ISBN 978-0-8240-9219-1.
- ^ a b Glassman, Steve; O'Sullivan, Maurice J. (2001). Crime fiction and film in the Southwest : bad boys and bad girls in the badlands. Internet Archive. Bowling Green, OH : Bowling Green State University Popular Press. ISBN 978-0-87972-845-8.
- ^ Radcliffe, Elsa J. (1979). Gothic novels of the twentieth century : an annotated bibliography. Internet Archive. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1190-4.