"Sketches of the Future"
| Title | "Sketches of the Future" |
| Year for Search | 1898 |
| Authors | Gorst, Harold E[dward](1868-1950) |
| Secondary Title | Sketches of the Future |
| Pagination | 3-54 |
| Date Published | 1898 |
| Publisher | John Macqueen |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | English author, Male author |
| Annotation | Satire on women in power, including "The Foreign Secretary's Baby", where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); "The Lord Chancellor's Husband" (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; "The New Childhood", which describes the power of the "Children's Union" (31-42); and "The Pole of Heredity" (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst. |
| Additional Publishers | Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun |
| Holding Institutions | L, NLS |
| Author Note | (1868-1950) |
| Full Text | 1898 Gorst, Harold Ed[ward] (1868-1950). “Sketches of the Future.” In his Sketches of the Future (London: John Macqueen, 1898), 3-54. Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun. L, NLS Satire on women in power, including “The Foreign Secretary’s Baby”, where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); “The Lord Chancellor’s Husband” (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; “The New Childhood”, which describes the power of the “Children’s Union” (31-42); and “The Pole of Heredity” (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst. |
