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Set in a projected early-twenty-first-century world, the narrative imagines political consolidation, technological advance, and an enforced peace made inevitable by destructive modern warfare. It follows sweeping social change, particularly the struggle for women’s education, legal rights, and professional equality, and shows how inventions transform household labor and employment. Against this engineered backdrop personal relationships and institutional life are depicted, blending speculative social commentary with romantic episodes and scenes of scientific practice, and examining how shifting customs and mechanical conveniences reshape gender roles, marriage, and civic expectations.

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Title: Mercia, the astronomer royal: A romance

Author: A. Garland Mears

Release date: December 15, 2022 [eBook #69550]
Most recently updated: October 19, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd, 1895

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MERCIA,
THE ASTRONOMER ROYAL:
A Romance.

BY
A. GARLAND MEARS,
AUTHOR OF
‘IDYLLS, LEGENDS, AND LYRICS,’ ‘THE STORY OF A TRUST,’ ‘TALES OF OUR TOWN,’ ETC.
LONDON:
SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & CO. Ltd.
4 STATIONERS’-HALL COURT.
1895.
All rights reserved.
PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
LONDON