Julia Constance Fletcher

Julia Constance Fletcher
Born 1853
Brazil
Died 1938
Other names George Fleming
Alma mater Abbot Academy
Andover, Massachusetts
Occupation Author

Julia Constance Fletcher was an author and playwright who professionally went by the pseudonym of George Fleming. She was born in Brazil in 1853[1] and died in 1938.[2] She went to Abbot Academy, located in Andover, Massachusetts, and was in the class of 1867.[3]

Two of her books, Kismet and Mirage, were published as "no name novels" by Roberts Brothers in Boston.[1] Both books deal with Americans' adventures while traveling abroad, along the Nile and in Syria, respectively. Mirage has been described by Oscar Wilde scholar S. I. Salamensky, as a roman-á-clef fiction in which "a dangerously appealing, if slightly bi- or asexual, figure based on Wilde romantically pursues" a woman who is thought to represent Fletcher.[4]

Selected works

  • A Nile Novel, or Kismet
  • Mirage (1878)
  • The truth about Clement Ker ... Told by his second cousin, Geoffrey Ker, of London
  • Vestigia
  • Andromeda: A Novel
  • The Head of Medusa

References

  1. 1 2 Stern, Madeleine B.; Shealy, Daniel (1991-01-01). "The No Name Series". Studies in the American Renaissance: 375–402. JSTOR 30227614.
  2. ↑ "Julia Constance Fletcher (George Fleming) (1853-1938). Kismet. Keller, ed. 1917. The Reader's Digest of Books". www.bartleby.com. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
  3. ↑ "Phillips Academy - 1800s". www.andover.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-06.
  4. ↑ Salamensky, S. I. (2002-01-01). "Re-Presenting Oscar Wilde: Wilde's Trials, "Gross Indecency," and Documentary Spectacle". Theatre Journal. 54 (4): 575–588. JSTOR 25069138.
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