TY - ABST T1 - The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Woman's Independence Y1 - 1935 A1 - Claire Myers [Wanders] Spotswood (1896-1983) KW - Female author KW - US author AB -

Feminist eutopia using the allegorical form following the protagonist from Smug Harbor in the Land of Err where only Helfish (Half-truths) is spoken to Nithking (Thinking) where Reasonese is spoken. Explores questions of sexuality, marriage, divorce, and the position of women in society. Includes a section on an attempt to establish an egalitarian, simple life community called New Chimera that satirizes such attempts. Female author.

PB - Doubleday, Doran & Co CY - Garden City, NY N1 -

Rpt. as by Claire Myers Spotswood Owens. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993, with an “Afterword” (459-96), “Glossary” (497-508), and “Works Cited” (509-11) by Miriam Kalman Harris .

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