"Our Lady of Desperation"
| Title | "Our Lady of Desperation" |
| Year for Search | 1979 |
| Authors | Roberts, Keith [John Kingston](1935-2000) |
| Secondary Title | Ladies From Hell |
| Pagination | 13-53 |
| Date Published | 1979 |
| Publisher | Victor Gollancz |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Dystopian satire. After a revolution in the U.K. in which the Civil Service becomes dominant a four class system is established. Class A (the Civil Service and other powerful people) pays no taxes and classes B and C pay taxes at the rate of 60 and 70 percent respectively. Class D, the focus of the story and composed "anybody on whom the suspicion of creativity falls" (21) is supposed to pay at the 70% rate, but an error in the law allows them to make considerable incomes. In response the government assigns a minder to every individual in Class D to oversee all their activities. |
| Holding Institutions | SFF, O, PSt |
| Author Note | (1935-2000) |
| Full Text | 1979 Roberts, Keith [John Kingston] (1935-2000). “Our Lady of Desperation.” In his Ladies From Hell (London: Victor Gollancz, 1979), 13-53. SFF, O, PSt Dystopian satire. After a revolution in the U.K. in which the Civil Service becomes dominant a four class system is established. Class A (the Civil Service and other powerful people) pays no taxes and classes B and C pay taxes at the rate of 60 and 70 percent respectively. Class D, the focus of the story and composed “anybody on whom the suspicion of creativity falls” (21) is supposed to pay at the 70% rate, but an error in the law allows them to make considerable incomes. In response the government assigns a minder to every individual in Class D to oversee all their activities. |
