@booklet {7470, title = {The Paradise of Birds: An Extravaganza in Modern Dress}, year = {1870}, note = {

2nd ed. without the subtitle. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. 1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. Another ed. London: Macmillan, 1895.

}, month = {1870}, publisher = {William Blackwood and Sons}, address = {Edinburgh, Scot.}, abstract = {

Humans kill off most animals and then killed or drove away the birds. As a result, bugs destroy all the crops and starvation threatens. An expedition discovers the Paradise of the Birds at the North Pole and negotiates for their return. See also 1869 Courthope.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {William John Courthope (1842-1919)} } @booklet {7460, title = {Ludibria Lunae; or, The Wars of Women and the Gods. An Allegorical Burlesque}, year = {1869}, month = {1869}, publisher = {Smith, Elder and Co}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Epic poem. Satire on women\&$\#$39;s rights following Aristophanes. Presented as beginning in a eutopia which has no rights for women. Women plan to travel to the moon, discover that it is inhabited by the old gods and goddesses, who they challenge. Women are defeated by love and vanity.\ See also 1879 Courthope.

}, keywords = {English author, Male author}, author = {William John Courthope (1842-1919)} }