YOURELL, Agnes Bond

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   US writer whose A Manless World (1891) speculates about what might happen to the human species were an interstellar gas to have destroyed sexual desire in everyone except - it is mooted - the Jews, who might find an elixir: riots and pogroms would occur; the race would vanish. In a manner not uncommon to 19th-century fiction of this sort, the tale is told in an "as if" mode, and claims to do no more than present the speculative thoughts of an embittered old man.

   JC