Author: W. T. Stead (ed.)
Title: The Despised Sex: The Letters of Callicrates to Dione, Queen of the Xanthians, Concerning England and the English, Anno Domini 1902
Description: London , Grant Richards , 1903. First edition. Cloth. A scarce fiction woven with letters, following a Queen's servant as he is sent from an established matriarchal society to report on the patriarchal ways of England. The first edition of this work.In the publisher's original cloth binding. This intriguing work comprises of letters, interwoven with the narrative.Dione, the Queen of an established Matriarchate the Xanthians, sends her trusty servant Callicrates to England to study their way of life, including how they worship a male God rather than their Divine Mother.Callicrates reports back in letters often humorous to the readers for its enlightening and naive perspective of male dominance within society. In the original cloth binding. Externally, smart with rubbing and bumping to the extremities. Markings to the front board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean with offsetting to the endpapers and the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .

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