SIMPSON, Helen (de Guerry)

SIMPSON, Helen (de Guerry)
(1897-1940)
   UK novelist, the last and longest section of whose The Woman on the Beast (1933) is set in 1999, when a woman anarchist becomes ruler of the world with apocalyptic intentions, including the purificatory abolition of all reading.
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