Douglas Morey Ford 3 hr 24 min read

In the year 1940, England is ruled by women, and when a foreign fleet raids Dover, a nation weakened by 'the reign of woman' must reckon with the peril at its shores.

Douglas Morey Ford's 1910 novel is a dystopian and military-SF invasion tale with an anti-suffrage edge. Alarmist, pointed, of its era. Read it for a period 'forecast in fiction', a fascinating and provocative artifact of pre-war invasion literature, imagining a future Britain enfeebled and endangered under women's rule.

In its time

Published in 1940, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

3 hr 24 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).