"Sketches of the Future"
| Year for Search |
1898
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| Secondary Title |
Sketches of the Future
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| Author | |
| Annotation |
Satire on women in power, including "The Foreign Secretary's Baby", where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); "The Lord Chancellor's Husband" (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; "The New Childhood", which describes the power of the "Children's Union" (31-42); and "The Pole of Heredity" (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst. |
| Pagination |
3-54
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| Published Date |
1898 |
| Publisher |
John Macqueen
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| Place Published |
London
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| Keywords | |
| Full Text |
1898 Gorst, Harold Ed[ward] (1868-1950). “Sketches of the Future.” In his Sketches of the Future (London: John Macqueen, 1898), 3-54. Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun. L, NLS Satire on women in power, including “The Foreign Secretary’s Baby”, where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); “The Lord Chancellor’s Husband” (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; “The New Childhood”, which describes the power of the “Children’s Union” (31-42); and “The Pole of Heredity” (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst. |
| Additional Publishers |
Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun |
| Author Note |
(1868-1950) |
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