Walter Besant 3 hr 57 min read

In a future England where women rule and men are the weaker, subordinate sex, the natural order at last stirs, and the long-suppressed revolt of man begins.

Walter Besant's 1882 novel is a satirical dystopian tale of a gender-reversed society. Pointed, provocative, of its era. Read it for a much-discussed Victorian thought-experiment, a matriarchal Britain and the uprising that overturns it, a fascinating (if pointed) artifact of the era's anxieties about the changing roles of the sexes.

In its time

Published in 1882, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

3 hr 57 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).