Lena Jane Fry | |
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![]() Lena Jane Fry, from a 1905 publication | |
Born | Selena Jane Hawke March 6, 1850 Hawkesville, Ontario, Canada |
Died | October 26, 1938 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Children | 5, including Nena Blake |
Lena Jane Hawke Fry (March 6, 1850 [1] – October 26, 1938) was a Canadian-born American writer. Her Other Worlds (1905) is considered an early utopian novel by a North American woman. [2] [3] [4]
Selena Hawke was born in Hawkesville, Ontario, the daughter of Gabriel Hawke and Jane Machell Hawke. Both of her parents were born in the United States; [5] her father was a lawyer and a local official in Waterloo County. [6] She married Stephen Fry in 1870, [5] and had five children (one son died in infancy). They divorced in 1894. [7]
In 1907, Fry was drawn into a public controversy when her daughter, actress Nena Blake, [8] refused to marry a suitor who spent extravagantly, either on building or destroying her stage career. [9] Nena Blake achieved some Broadway success [10] before she died in 1924. [11] Fry died in 1938, at the age of 88, in Chicago. [12]
Fry's utopian novel [13] [3] Other Worlds (1905) is set in a communitarian colony [4] on a planet named Herschel, after William Herschel. [14] The book was dedicated to her three daughters. [15]
Lena Jane Fry | |
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![]() Lena Jane Fry, from a 1905 publication | |
Born | Selena Jane Hawke March 6, 1850 Hawkesville, Ontario, Canada |
Died | October 26, 1938 Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
Occupation | Writer |
Children | 5, including Nena Blake |
Lena Jane Hawke Fry (March 6, 1850 [1] – October 26, 1938) was a Canadian-born American writer. Her Other Worlds (1905) is considered an early utopian novel by a North American woman. [2] [3] [4]
Selena Hawke was born in Hawkesville, Ontario, the daughter of Gabriel Hawke and Jane Machell Hawke. Both of her parents were born in the United States; [5] her father was a lawyer and a local official in Waterloo County. [6] She married Stephen Fry in 1870, [5] and had five children (one son died in infancy). They divorced in 1894. [7]
In 1907, Fry was drawn into a public controversy when her daughter, actress Nena Blake, [8] refused to marry a suitor who spent extravagantly, either on building or destroying her stage career. [9] Nena Blake achieved some Broadway success [10] before she died in 1924. [11] Fry died in 1938, at the age of 88, in Chicago. [12]
Fry's utopian novel [13] [3] Other Worlds (1905) is set in a communitarian colony [4] on a planet named Herschel, after William Herschel. [14] The book was dedicated to her three daughters. [15]