@booklet {486, title = {What Not; A Prophetic Comedy}, year = {1918}, note = {

Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an \“Introduction\” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and \“Notes\” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an \“Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions\” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley\’s original vague note on xxix.

}, month = {1918/1919}, publisher = {Constable and Co.}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {[Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958)} }