A Maid from Mars

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Overview:

Title: A Maid from Mars
Author: Katherine Ross Derrick
Year: 1923
Publisher: Merridine, Redinnick, Penzance : K.R. Derrick, Truro : Oscar Blackford, Royal Printeries
Pages: 48
Binding: unknown
Type: Chapter Book
Title Reference: A Maid from Mars
Notes: Initial data from Worldcat and The Science Fiction Encyclopedia. The publication date is approximate. Text from Book Sale (2008): Description: Derrick, Katherine Ross. A Maid from Mars. Truro, Cornwall: Printed by Oscar Blackford. N.d. c. 1921. First edition. 12mo., 48pp., sandy colored stiff wrappers with illustrated upper cover. Undated but references to wireless, aero-plane, flying machine & the war suggests about 1920. The story of a maid from mars who comes to earth [Cornwall] in human form, learns the language in a few months, attempts to share her Martian culture & spirit & who in the end thinks mankind unready & splits. The earliest piece written about Mars by a woman & in a context which might be called loosely "feminist". Rare.