HAMILTON, Cicely.

£450 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Lest Ye Die. First edition thus, first impression, review copy with the Cape presentation slip loosely inserted. Lest Ye Die, revised from Hamilton's earlier work Theodore Savage (1922), was published simultaneously in the US. Her most scathing novel about the brutality of war, it presents the UK in a state of collapse as a consequence of chemical warfare and advanced airpower.Cicely Hamilton (1872-1952) was a co-founder of the Women Writers' Suffrage League. In 1909, she wrote A Pageant of Great Women, which became a popular pro-suffrage spectacle staged across Britain. A skilled political satirist, she worked as a playwright, novelist, and journalist, and wrote in favour of feminist and pacifist causes. This is an important example of interwar speculative fiction and is notably uncommon on the market.

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