Susan Stratton
has called this novel the first by a woman to examine the interactions between the credulous, the persuaded and the immovable skeptics with respect to paranormal ability.
Stratton, Susan. “Muriel Jaegers The Question Mark, a Response to Bellamy and Wells”. Foundation, No. 80, 1 Sept.–30 Nov. 2000, pp. 62-9.
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Literary responses
Muriel Jaeger
Brian Stableford
discussed this book in Scientific Romance in Britain 1890-1950, 1986 (the only text by a woman that he considered). He judged that it influenced Aldous Huxley
's far more famous Brave New...
Literary Setting
Muriel Jaeger
In this future society people are divided into two categories, the normals or emotionals, and the intellectuals. The latter have chosen education (in a socialist utopia where poverty and competition no longer exist); the...
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Texts
Stratton, Susan. “Muriel Jaegers The Question Mark, a Response to Bellamy and Wells”. Foundation, No. 80, pp. 62-9.