author
Lillian Frances Mentor
Best known for a single adventurous 1897 novel, this little-known writer left behind a curious blend of lost-world fantasy and early science fiction. Her work sends readers from a mysterious manuscript to a hidden society in Africa, with all the wonder and drama of turn-of-the-century popular fiction.
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The Day of Resis
by Lillian Frances Mentor
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author appears to have survived in readily available reference sources. What can be confirmed is that she was an American writer associated with early speculative fiction, and that her known reputation today rests on The Day of Resis, published in 1897.
That novel has been described by major genre reference sources as a lost-race tale set in Africa, in which explorers follow clues from a strange manuscript and uncover a society linked to the Ancient Egyptians. Modern catalog and library records also consistently connect her name with that book, suggesting it is the work by which she is remembered.
Because so few personal details are documented online, her life remains somewhat shadowy. Even so, The Day of Resis gives her a place in the long prehistory of science fiction and adventure writing, especially for readers interested in obscure late nineteenth-century works.