When a plague wipes out most of the world’s male population and civilization crumbles, Women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.
Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most of the men on Earth.
Gosling adopts a life of libertinism while his daughters in the countryside struggle to achieve a radically transformed and improved egalitarian and feminist future..
As once-bustling London shuts down—Parliament closes, factories grind to a halt, nature reclaims stone and steel—the paterfamilias Mr.
Beresford introduces us to the solidly bourgeois, prim and proper Gosling family.
This edition of A World of Women offers twenty-first century readers a new look at a neglected classic.
Beresford—one that has particular resonance for the planet’s residents in the 2020s.
D.
But their sexist society hasn’t permitted most of them to learn any useful skills—will the commune survive their first winter? This is the bleak World imagined in 1913 by English writer J.
Meanwhile, a group of Women (accompanied by one virtuous male survivor) leave the wreckage of London to start fresh, establishing a communally run agrarian outpost.
The few men who survive descend into lechery and atavism.
When a plague wipes out most of the world’s male population and civilization crumbles, Women struggle to build an agrarian community in the English countryside.
Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most of the men on Earth
