A World of Women

J. D. Beresford, Astra Taylor

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MIT Press
07 April 2022

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Dystopia

Series: MIT Press / Radium Age

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.

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. The

few men who survive descend into lechery and atavism. 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. 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. D. Beresford-one that has particular resonance for the planet's residents in the 2020s. This edition of A World of Women offers twenty-first century readers a new look at a neglected classic.

Beresford introduces us to the solidly bourgeois, prim and proper Gosling family. As once-bustling London shuts down-Parliament closes, factories grind to a halt, nature reclaims stone and steel-the paterfamilias Mr. Gosling adopts a life of libertinism while his daughters in the countryside struggle to achieve a radically transformed and improved egalitarian and feminist future.

By: J. D. Beresford, Astra Taylor
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780262543354
ISBN 10: 0262543354
Series: MIT Press / Radium Age
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 07 April 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Series Foreword vii Introduction: Out of the Wreckage xiii Astra Taylor Book I The New Plague 1 1 The Gosling Family 3 2 The Opinions of Jasper Thrale 19 3 London's Incredulity 39 4 Mr Barker's Flair 45 5 The Closed Door 53 6 Disaster 65 7 Panic 79 8 Gurney in Cornwall 91 9 The Devolution of George Gosling 99 10 Exodus 121 Book II The March of the Goslings 127 11 The Silent City 129 12 Emigrant 149 13 Differences 169 14 Aunt May 183 15 From Sudbury to Wycombe 193 16 The Young Butcher of High Wycombe 209 Book III Womankind in the Making 223 17 London to Marlow 225 18 Modes of Expression 245 19 On the Flood 277 20 The Terrors of Spring 291 21 Smoke 299 Epilogue: The Great Plan 309

J. D. Beresford (1873-1947) was a British writer of science fiction and horror. His novel The Hampdenshire Wonder was much influenced by H. G. Wells, and in 1914 Beresford published the first critical study of Wells.