"Remarkably progressive James Lovegrove, The Financial Times
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 an English dramatist, journalist, and author. His proto-science fiction novels include The Hampdenshire Wonder (1911), A World of Women (1913), and The Riddle of the Tower (1944, with Esme Wynne-Tyson); he also wrote in the horror and ghost story genres. A great admirer of H.G. Wells, he wrote the first critical study of Wells in 1915. His daughter, Elisabeth Beresford (1926 2010), was creator of the literary and TV franchise The Wombles.
Astra Taylor is director of the philosophical documentaries Zizek! (2005), Examined Life (2008), and What Is Democracy? (2018). She is author of the American Book Award winner The People s Platform (2014) and Democracy May Not Exist, But We ll Miss It When It s Gone (2019), and coauthor of Can t Pay, Won t Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition (2020). Her latest book is Remake the World: Essays, Reflections, Rebellions (2021).
