The Question Mark
| Title | The Question Mark |
| Year for Search | 1926 |
| Authors | Jaeger, M[uriel](1894-1969) |
| Tertiary Authors | Jaeger, M. |
| Pagination | 252 pp. |
| Date Published | 1926 |
| Publisher | Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press |
| Place Published | London |
| ISBN Number | 9780712352987 |
| Keywords | English author, Female author |
| Annotation | The author notes that however attractive she finds the utopias of her day, the people in them do not seem real. Ursula K. Le Guin made a similar point in her “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” (1976), The author depicts a deeply flawed utopia in which everyone is well off, but there is a divide between intellectuals, who tend to be overly rational and non-intellectuals (known as normals), who are driven by emotion. The novel stresses how they have grown more and more apart, with marriage mostly within the group, but with the family depicted in the novel a dysfunctional mixed marriage. Religion is a popular hobby for the normals. Much boredom that leads to hero worship and temporary enthusiasms among the normals. Euthanasia is common. Eugenic themes. |
| Additional Publishers | US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 249 pp. Rpt. London: British Library, [2019], with an “Introduction” by Dr. Mo Moulton (7-15). 205 pp. |
| Holding Institutions | L, MoU-St |
| Author Note | (1894-1969) |
| Full Text | 1926 Jaeger, M[uriel] (1894-1969). The Question Mark. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 252 pp. U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 249 pp. Rpt. London: British Library, [2019], with an “Introduction” by Dr. Mo Moulton (7-15). 205 pp. L, MoU-St, PSt The author notes that however attractive she finds the utopias of her day, the people in them do not seem real. Ursula K. Le Guin made a similar point in her “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” (1976), The author depicts a deeply flawed utopia in which everyone is well off, but there is a divide between intellectuals, who tend to be overly rational and non-intellectuals (known as normals), who are driven by emotion. The novel stresses how they have grown more and more apart, with marriage mostly within the group, but with the family depicted in the novel a dysfunctional mixed marriage. Religion is a popular hobby for the normals. Much boredom that leads to hero worship and temporary enthusiasms among the normals. Euthanasia is common. Eugenic themes. Female author. |
