I Read Books: An Anglo-American Alliance

An Anglo-American Alliance

A 1906 novel set in 1960. British Aurora Cunningham and American Margaret MacDonald attend a ladies seminary where they become romantically attached via their membership of a secret society.

Just before graduation Professor Allenson gives an outline of events of the Twentieth Century, laying out the future history including interesting solutions to problems that continue to vex the modern world as well as some rather dubious racial commentary*. Between his first and second lecture he gets in a fistfight with Carlos DeSeville who has been making unrequited advances on Aurora. The women win a boat race and split up to go to their homes.

Margaret then transitions to male via experimental surgery and hypnosis, takes the name Spencer Hamilton and reveals himself though music to Aurora. They marry and live happily ever after.

A curiosity that has some slightly odd things to say about gender and romance, also as I said weird about colonialism and race.

Read This: For a mind-bending look into an Edwardian Future History along with transgender romance
Don’t Read This: If casually referring to someone as a “Jewsky” is going to throw you out of the story before it gets going
Out Of Copyright: And available online

 

* Victorian And Edwardian Authors Write A Book Without Laying Out A Weird Racial Theory For Several Pages Challenge 2021 is not going well.