Bargains! PROMOTIONS
Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) was an Anglo-Irish actress, author, and feminist campaigner best known for her 1909 treatise Marriage as a Trade. Her prewar plays include Diana of Dobson's (1908) and How the Vote Was Won (1909). After working in the north of France during World War I and witnessing how its violence affected civilians, she was inspired to write Theodore Savage (1922), a proto-sf novel presciently foregrounding modern warfare's destructive power. Susan R. Grayzel is Professor of History at Utah State University, where she researches and teaches about modern European history, women's and gender history, the history of the world wars, and war and culture. Her publications in these areas include Women's Identities at War (1999) and At Home and Under Fire (2012). Her latest book is The Age of the Gas Mask- How British Civilians Faced the Terrors of Total War (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Prescient both to Hamilton's time and to the current moment of war, plague, and refugee crises, this novel deserves to be rediscovered. Readers will have much to chew on. -Publishers Weekly
