(1875-1945) UK author mostly of romances from the turn of the century to about 1936; of sf interest is The War of the Sexes (1905), set in a distant Near Future as envisioned in a dream where the Invention in the twentieth century of a fertility drug for rabbits has caused the virtual elimination of the human male; women breed by parthenogenesis. [JC]

Florence Ethel Mills Young

born Twickenham, Middlesex: 1875

died Three Anchor Bay, Cape District, South Africa: 6 November 1945

works

• The War of the Sexes (London: John Long, 1905) [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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