Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass

Writing as Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass and also Kate Elizabeth Perkins Glass, this American author was born in 1874 and is remembered for a small group of early speculative novels published in Los Angeles in the 1910s. Confirmed titles include Ruth's Marriage in Mars (1912), Romance in Starland (1915), and Her Invisible Spirit Mate (1917). Her books blend science fiction, spiritual belief, and moral reflection in a way that feels both unusual and personal.

The record that survives suggests she was also known as Reverend Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass, and Her Invisible Spirit Mate presents her not only as a novelist but as someone offering spiritual consultation and lessons in psychology and music. That mix of fiction, spirituality, and self-improvement helps explain the distinctive tone of her work: imaginative, earnest, and deeply interested in invisible worlds and the better side of human nature.

In the dedication to Ruth's Marriage in Mars, she speaks warmly of her husband, Charles Wilder Glass, and her only child, Jennie May Glass, giving her writing a strong sense of family feeling as well as cosmic curiosity. Though she remains an obscure figure today, her novels have found a new audience among readers interested in early women writers, utopian fiction, and the stranger corners of science-fiction history.