Barlow, Jane
Entry updated 26 October 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1856-1917) Irish author, often under pseudonyms, including Antares Skorpios (technically a House Name, as her father, James William Barlow, later used that name for an sf novel) and Felix Ryark. Her first book of genre interest is the Fantasy poem The End of Elfintown (1894 chap), which describes the departure of the elves [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] from Earth, travelling perhaps to a distant Star. A Strange Land (1908) as by Felix Ryark is a Lost Race tale whose protagonist, penetrating a mysterious mist in a tiny boat, comes across the land in question, which is not described in much detail. Barlow's collection From the East Unto the West (coll 1898) includes the story "An Advance Sheet" which features travel to other times or worlds via mental projection, with the speculation that "a limitless atomic universe necessarily involves the existence, the simultaneous existence, of innumerable solar systems absolutely similar to our own ..." [JC/DRL]
Jane Barlow
born Dublin, Ireland: 17 October 1856
died Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland: 17 April 1917
works
- A Strange Land (London: Hutchinson and Company, 1908) as by Felix Ryark [hb/]
collections and poems
- The End of Elfintown (London: Macmillan, 1894) [poem: chap: illus/Laurence Housman: hb/]
- From the East Unto the West (London: Methuen, 1898) [coll: hb/]
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