Author Description

"Full of color, movement, passion and pathos." -Country Life "A fine piece of imaginative writing....Enhances Miss Johnston's already conspicuous position in American letters." -Springfield Republican "She tells with wonderful success a series of tales of man and woman at different stages of civilization." -Observer "Intensely interesting throughout. The characters are vividly defined, the descriptions excellent, and the transition periods well chosen." -The Virginia Spectator "In 'The Wanderers,' Mary Johnston with her unusual gift for interweaving history and romance has produced a story which is an interesting study of the development of the differences, both physical and spiritual, between men and women. Miss Johnston starts from the time when practically the only difference lay in the fact that women 'made' children and men could not. From this period in aboriginal history, she develops her theme to the present day of many and perplexing differences, choosing for her settings those times and places in history which best suit her purpose. Miss Johnston has shown a clear knowledge of the scientific side of her subject combined with the skill to make her characters living beings and the action of the story strongly dramatic." -The Living Age "Mary Johnston, the popular historical novelist, has recently happened on a new and startling discovery, and now sets it forth for the world to see, namely, that women from the beginning of time and throughout the ages has occupied a quite inferior position to man, and that it was chiefly by her finer intuitions that she gradually won to that idea of equality which is her present desire and on which alone true love can be based. The book is built on a novel plan, that of a number of sketches...dealing with the 'love relation' between man and woman from the apocryphal days of the Tree Dwellers down to the times of the French Revolution....The book voices in fictional form feminine unrest."