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„The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman” is a novel set in the era surrounding the days of women’s suffrage. The story revolves around the wife of a baking magnate who goes into hiding after his female employees go on strike. Although the hero of this novel Sir Isaac Harman didn’t think much of the suffragette movement, his female employees certainly did, and he thought it prescient that he too should do his...

„Im dalej człowiek posuwa się w tak zwanym ulepszaniu ras i gatunków oraz wytwarzaniu nowych, tym większe przeszkody stawia na jego drodze Natura. Choroby i epidemie, nieznane w początkowym okresie jego bytowania na Ziemi, szerzą się pośród zwierząt domowych i gospodarskich, a pola uprawne są pustoszone przez chmary żarłocznych owadów. Hodowla rasowych koni staje się coraz trudniejsza i wymaga więcej...

First published in 1909, it focuses on feminist issues from the point of view of a young woman entering adulthood and enduring prejudice about her place in the world. And this novel, „Ann Veronica”, tells the story of a middle class young woman who is fed up of being expected to be purely decorative. Her father and her boyfriends really are incapable of understanding why she should want to study science,...