Publisher's Synopsis
Henrietta Augusta Dugdale (1827-1918) was born to John Worrell and Henrietta, née Austin in London, England. She moved to Melbourne, Australia with her first husband in 1852 and would there go on to become a leading radical feminist of her time. She was president of the first Victorian Women's Suffrage Society in 1884 and worked tirelessly for women's emancipation and equality (Brownfoote). Dugdale's firm belief in evolution and its ability to one day influence the eventual creation of an ideal human society is the basis of A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age. In this story, an omniscient narrator - perhaps the author herself - tags along with several groups of young students as they learn about the savage history of the narrator's own time. While the narrator marvels at the advances of this far-off age, the students simultaneously wonder that they could have possibly descended from the barbarians of the narrator's world.
