Martha Cabanne Kayser
Martha Cabanne Kayser | |
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| Born | September 27, 1872  St. Louis |
| Died | May 14, 1966 (aged 93) Long Beach |
Martha Mitchell Cabanne Kayser Brown (September 27, 1872 – May 14, 1966) was an American utopian novelist.
Martha Mitchell Cabanne was the daughter of St. Louis businessman Joseph Charles Cabanne and Susan Martha Preston Christy Mitchell.[1] She married Robert Lee Kayser in 1893.[2]
Her first novel was The Aerial Flight to the Realm of Peace (1922), where two characters take a balloon flight to another planet. They discover a peaceful, egalitarian utopia and vow to never return to Earth.[3] Her second was Faith (1931), later republished as Heaven is Here (1938).[4] She adapted it for the stage as The Way, which premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre on October 11, 1940. Faith Morton (played by Eve Casanova) is the headmistress of a Naples school who campaigns for world peace through her students, sheer willpower, and positive thinking. The play was poorly received; by the second act the audience "began to participate vocally in the proceedings."[5]
Martha Kayser died on 14 May 1966 in Long Beach, California.[6]
Bibliography
- The Aerial Flight to the Realm of Peace (St Louis, Missouri: Lincoln Press and Publishing Co, 1922)[4]
- Faith (Boston, Massachusetts: Meador Publishing Co, 1931)[4]
References
- ^ Emerson, Wilimena Hannah Eliot; Eliot, Ellsworth; Eliot, George Edwin (1905). Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905. Tuttle, Morehouse & Taylor Press.
- ^ St. Louis Post-Dispatch Wed, Dec 20, 1893 ·Page 6
- ^ Carter, Susanne (1992). War and peace through women's eyes : a selective bibliography of twentieth-century American women's fiction. Internet Archive. New York : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27771-9.
- ^ a b c "SFE: Kayser, Martha". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2024-07-10.
- ^ Leiter, Samuel L. (1992). The encyclopedia of the New York stage, 1940-1950. Internet Archive. New York : Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-27510-4.
- ^ Independent, Mon, May 16, 1966 ·Page 33