Martha Cabanne Kayser
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Martha Cabanne Kayser | |
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| Born | September 27, 1872 St. Louis |
| Died | May 14, 1966 (aged 93) Long Beach |
Martha Mitchell Cabanne Kayser Brown (September 27, 1872 – May 14, 1966) was an American utopian novelist.
Martha Mitchell Cabanne was the daughter of St. Louis businessman Joseph Charles Cabanne and Susan Martha Preston Christy Mitchell.[1] She married Robert Lee Kayser in 1893.[2]
Her first novel was The Aerial Flight to the Realm of Peace (1922), where two characters take a balloon flight to another planet. They discover a peaceful, egalitarian utopia and vow to never return to Earth.[3] Her second was Faith (1931), later republished as Heaven is Here (1938).[4] She adapted it for the stage as The Way, which premiered at the Cherry Lane Theatre on October 11, 1940. Faith Morton (played by Eve Casanova) is the headmistress of a Naples school who campaigns for world peace through her students, sheer willpower, and positive thinking. The play was poorly received; by the second act the audience "began to participate vocally in the proceedings."[5]
Martha Kayser died on May 14, 1966 in Long Beach, California.[6]