Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most 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 wrecklage of London...
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Imagine a plague that brings society to a standstill by killing off most 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 wrecklage of London to start again, establishing a communally run agrarian outpost. 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
