![]() ![]() Because Bennett was estranged from her daughter, for a number of years researchers believed Bennett died in 1939 (the date of her final letter to her daughter). In the mid 1920s, she moved to California. When her father died toward the end of World War I, Bennett assumed care for her invalid mother.ĭuring this time period Bennett began to write a number of short stories and novels, only stopping when her mother died in 1920. With a new-born daughter to raise, Bennett continued working as a stenographer. A year later her husband died while on an expedition. ![]() In 1909 Barrows married Stewart Bennett, a British journalist and explorer, and moved to Philadelphia. Instead, she began working as a stenographer, a job she held on and off for the rest of her life. She completed school through the eighth grade, then attended night school in hopes of becoming an illustrator (a goal she never achieved). Gertrude Mabel Barrows was born in Minneapolis in 1883. Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919). Lovecraft called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read") and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 19 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy." Among her most famous books are Claimed (which H. ![]() ![]() Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. ![]()
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