A World of Women (C format)

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.