ADAMS, Jack

   Collaborative pseudonym of US writers Alcanoan O. Grigsby (?-?) and Mary P.Lowe (?-?) whose Nequa, or The Problem of the Ages (1900) carries the character Jack Adams - in fact a wronged woman named Cassie - to polar regions, where she and her bigoted fiance (who does not recognize her as Adams) are rescued by the inhabitants of Altruria (William Dean HOWELLS, though there is no explicit connection between his utopias and this one). The Altrurians take them to their country, which lies inside a HOLLOW EARTH, demonstrate their flying machines and other marvels, and explain their sexually egalitarian, non-Christian culture (FEMINISM). Nequa, as Jack Adams now calls herself, will marry her fiance only if he attains some wisdom. Nequa is a surprisingly enjoyable salutary tale.