Waterhouse, Elizabeth
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1834-1918) UK author whose acknowledged works consist mostly of religious studies and tracts written from a Quaker standpoint. The Brotherhood of Rest (1886 chap) as E W describes a retreat, somewhere in Britain, conceived as a Utopia. Her outright sf novel, The Island of Anarchy: A Fragment of History in the 20th Century (1887), is told as a Future History, detailing an extremely doctrinaire Utopia established in Britain, with women returned properly to their homes (see Feminism; Women in SF) while excess populations are forcibly resettled. To deal with anarchists, the Federal Government of Europe has them branded on their foreheads with an O, and exiles them to an Island newly risen from the Pacific. The island is invaded by dacoits from Burma (see Yellow Peril) and sinks. [JC]
Elizabeth Waterhouse
born Tottenham, Middlesex [now London]: 16 July 1834
died Reading, Berkshire: 3 April 1918
works (selected)
- The Brotherhood of Rest (Reading, Berkshire: E Langley, 1886) as E W [novelette: chap: in the publisher's Lovejoy's Library series: pb/nonpictorial]
- The Island of Anarchy: A Fragment of History in the 20th Century (Reading, Berkshire: Miss Langley, 1887) as E W [in the publisher's Lovejoy's Library series: hb/nonpictorial]
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