American writer
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
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
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
^ Whitehead, O. Z. (1976). Some early Baha'is of the West . Internet Archive. Oxford : Ronald. ISBN 978-0-85398-065-0 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Armiento, Amy Branam; Montgomery, Travis (2023-02-15). Poe and Women: Recognition and Revision . Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-61146-336-1 .
^ 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 .
^ Today, Barbados (2020-01-04). "The Story of Rev. Reginald Grant Barrow" . Barbados Today . Retrieved 2024-07-25 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .