Wootton, Barbara
Entry updated 14 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1897-1988) UK economist, academic and author, whose husband died on the Western Front (see World War One) a month after their marriage, deeply affecting her future work; she was created a life peer in 1958. Her Scientific Romance, London's Burning: A Novel for the Decline and Fall of the Liberal Age (1936), which is set in 1940 London, describes in anti-fascist terms a Near-Future totalitarian exploitation of a general strike that fails. Unlike several British authors of similarly conceived speculations in the 1930s, she did not in fact predict the war to come. [JC]
Barbara Frances Wootton, Baroness Wootton of Abinger
born Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: 14 April 1897
died Nufield, Surrey: 11 July 1988
works
- London's Burning: A Novel for the Decline and Fall of the Liberal Age (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1936) [hb/Kirby]
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