Clyde, Irene
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK lawyer and author Thomas Baty (1869-1954), in Japan from 1916. Of sf interest is Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909), whose protagonist, Mary Hatherley, travels back through time (see Time Travel) discovers in a Lost World an egalitarian Utopia inhabited by Amazons; Genders are no longer recognized, and the diction in which the story itself is told lacks all masculine or feminine identifiers. Hatherley eventually marries a native woman. [JC]
Thomas Baty
born Stanwix, Cumberland: 8 February 1869
died Ichinomiya, Chiba Prefecture, Japan: 9 February 1954
works
- Beatrice the Sixteenth (London: George Bell, 1909) [hb/]
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