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Mona Farnsworth

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Mona Farnsworth
BornMarch 31, 1897 Edit this on Wikidata
DiedSeptember 1, 1984 Edit this on Wikidata (aged 87)
Sarasota Edit this on Wikidata
Spouse(s)Reginald Grant Barrow Edit this on Wikidata

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

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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

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  • 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

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  1. ^ Whitehead, O. Z. (1976). Some early Baha'is of the West. Internet Archive. Oxford : Ronald. ISBN 978-0-85398-065-0.
  2. ^ 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. doi:10.2307/j.ctt1d8h8m1. ISBN 978-0-8032-3762-9. JSTOR j.ctt1d8h8m1.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Armiento, Amy Branam; Montgomery, Travis (2023-02-15). Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-61146-336-1.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Today, Barbados (2020-01-04). "The Story of Rev. Reginald Grant Barrow". Barbados Today. Retrieved 2024-07-25.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ 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.