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Clara H. Holmes
An older white woman with curly grey hair in an updo, wearing a high-collared ruffled blouse
Clara H. Holmes, from a 1910 newspaper
Born1838
Ohio, U.S.
DiedJuly 14, 1927
Colorado Springs, Colorado, U.S.
OccupationWriter
Notable workFloating Fancies Among the Weird and Occult (1898)

Clara H. Holmes (1838 – July 14, 1927) was an American writer, author of short stories and poems that appeared in magazines and newspapers, and of an early science fiction and horror collection by an American woman, Floating Fancies Among the Weird and Occult (1898).[1]

Career

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Holmes contributed to magazines including Midland Monthly,[2][3] Overland Monthly,[4] and Travel; her poems and stories were also published in newspapers, including Street & Smith's New York Weekly.[5][6] She published a collection of science fiction and horror short stories, Floating Fancies Among the Weird and Occult (1898),[7][8] and a collection of poetry, Scattered Autumn Leaves (1926).[9] She ran a florist business in Cripple Creek, Colorado.[1][10]

Publications

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  • "Out on the Prairie" (1865, story)[5]
  • "My Husband and I" (1865, story)[11]
  • "The Foundling, or Why I Endured It" (1865, story)[12]
  • "The Shores of Dreamland" (1867, essay)[13]
  • "September" (1867, poem)[6]
  • "Spring is Coming" (1868, poem)[14]
  • "Rowena Clare" (1869, story)[15]
  • "A Teacher's Story: Incidents of Western Life" (1892, story)[16]
  • "Little Mittie's Christmas" (1896, story)[2]
  • "The Cripple Creek Boom" (1896, article)[3][17]
  • "Ferd's Luck: A Character Sketch" (1898, story)[18]
  • "A Lilt" (1898, poem)[19]
  • Floating Fancies Among the Weird and the Occult (1898, eleven short stories)[20][21]
  • "Fragmentary" (1899, poem)[22]
  • "A Hero and His Wife" (1899, story)[23]
  • "In Pensive Strain" (1900, poem)[24]
  • "How Bess Won Her Wager" (1908, story)[25]
  • "Uncle Eben's Mistake" (1908, story)[26]
  • "Gordon's Proposal" (1909, story)[27]
  • "Mattie's Lucky Find" (1910, story)[28]
  • "Trifling Telephone Tangles" (1910, story)[29]
  • "How Joe Went Home for Good" (1910, story)[4]
  • "A Case of Tit for Tat" (1915, story)[30]
  • Scattered Autumn Leaves (1926, poetry)[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "A Cripple Creek Authoress". The Victor Record. December 1, 1898. p. 1 – via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
  2. ^ a b Holmes, Clara H. (January 1896). "Little Mittie's Christmas". Midland Monthly Magazine. 5 (1): 56–60.
  3. ^ a b Holmes, Clara H. (March 1896). "The Cripple Creek Boom". Midland Monthly. 5 (3): 195–201.
  4. ^ a b Holmes, Clara H. (November 1910). "How Joe Went Home for Good". Overland Monthly. 56 (5): 459–466.
  5. ^ a b Holmes, Clara H. (August 3, 1865). "Out on the Prairie". Street & Smith's New York Weekly. p. 2.
  6. ^ a b Holmes, Clara (October 31, 1867). "September". Street & Smith's New York Weekly. p. 2.
  7. ^ "SFE: Holmes, Clara H". The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  8. ^ Seed, David (2023-07-18). Nineteenth Century Science Fiction: Volume II: Experiments, Inventions, and Case Studies. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-000-89911-5.
  9. ^ a b Office, Library of Congress Copyright (1926). Catalogue of Copyright Entries: New series. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1151.
  10. ^ "Miss Edith Smithee Is Winner of $100 Prize In The News-Times Red Symbol Mystery Contest" The Rocky Mountain News (April 17, 1910): 4. via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection
  11. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (July 6, 1865). "My Husband and I". Street & Smith's New York Weekly. p. 8.
  12. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (October 26, 1865). "The Foundling, or Why I Endured It". Street & Smith's New York Weekly. p. 5.
  13. ^ Holmes, Clara L. (January 31, 1867). "The Shores of Dreamland". Street & Smith's New York Weekly. p. 4.
  14. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (July 9, 1868). "Spring is Coming". Street & Smith's New York Weekly. p. 1.
  15. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (July 22, 1869). "Rowena Clare". Street & Smith's New York Weekly. 24 (36): 4 – via Stanford Digital Repository.
  16. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (February 6, 1892). "A Teacher's Story: Incidents of Western Life". Good News. 4 (92): 1470–1471 – via Horatio Alger Collection. Rare Books and Special Collections, Northern Illinois University.
  17. ^ Benson, Peter (Spring 1980). "No 'murmured thanks': Women and Johnson Brigham's Midland Monthly". American Studies. 21 (1): 62. ISSN 0026-3079. JSTOR 40643547.
  18. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (February 1898). "Ferd's Luck: A Character Sketch". The Midland Monthly. 9 (2): 154–160 – via Internet Archive.
  19. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (1898-12-14). "A Lilt". The Courier-News. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  20. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (2019-12-23). Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult.
  21. ^ "Pre-1950 Utopias and Science Fiction by WomenAn Annotated Reading List of Online Editions of Speculative Fiction". Digital Library, University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
  22. ^ "The New Era". Victor Record. March 5, 1899. p. 1 – via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
  23. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (February 1899). "A Hero and His Wife". The Midland Monthly. 11 (2): 143–150 – via Internet Archive.
  24. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (February 6, 1900). "In Pensive Strain". Victor Record. p. 8 – via Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection.
  25. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (1908-05-22). "How Bess Won Her Wager". The Fairbury Blade. p. 15. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  26. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (1908-04-30). "Uncle Eben's Mistake". The Agitator. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  27. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (1909-09-18). "Gordon's Proposal". The Buffalo News. p. 3. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  28. ^ "Mattie's Lucky Find". The Brownell Courier. 1910-05-06. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  29. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (1910-08-25). "Trifling Telephone Tangles". Canon City Record. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via Newspapers.com.
  30. ^ Holmes, Clara H. (1915-01-14). "A Case of Tit for Tat". Bridgeton Pioneer. p. 6. Retrieved 2024-07-12 – via Newspapers.com.
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