Depopulation: A Romance of the Unlikely
| Title | Depopulation: A Romance of the Unlikely |
| Year for Search | 1899 |
| Authors | Wright, Henry(1852-ca. 1940) |
| Date Published | 1899 |
| Publisher | George Allen |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Male author, UK author |
| Annotation | Mostly an economic novel depicting trusts controlling the economy followed by the trusts being taken over by government, and a eutopia is foreshadowed but not presented in detail. The tool used by the working class, which led to the capitulation of the trusts, was to refuse to have children to provide future workers. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 123-99. Editor's notes, 121, 202-03. |
| Title Note | The cover adds a second subtitle--Labour v. Capital. |
| Holding Institutions | DL, L, MH, O, PSt |
| Author Note | Claeys says that author (1852-ca. 1940) was the translator of Eugen Richter’s Pictures of a Socialistic Future (1893). |
| Full Text | 1899 Wright, Henry (1852-ca. 1940). Depopulation: A Romance of the Unlikely [The cover adds a second subtitle--Labour v. Capital]. London: George Allen. Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 123-99. Editor’s notes, 121, 202-03. DL, L, MH, O, PSt Mostly an economic novel depicting trusts controlling the economy followed by the trusts being taken over by government, and a eutopia is foreshadowed but not presented in detail. The tool used by the working class, which led to the capitulation of the trusts, was to refuse to have children to provide future workers. Claeys says that author was the translator of Eugen Richter’s Pictures of a Socialistic Future (1893). |
