Lena Jane Fry

Lena Jane Hawke Fry (March 6, 1850 – October 26, 1938) was a Canadian-born American writer. Her Other Worlds is considered an early utopian novel by a North American woman. She married Stephen Fry in 1870, and had five children (one son died in infancy). They divorced in 1894.

In 1907, Fry was drawn into a public controversy when her daughter, actress Nena Blake, refused to marry a suitor who spent extravagantly, either on building or destroying her stage career. before she died in 1924. Fry died in 1938, at the age of 88, in Chicago.

Publications Fry's utopian novel Other Worlds (1905) is set in a communitarian colony on a planet named Herschel, after William Herschel. The book was dedicated to her three daughters. "What the Mother Says" (1907)