Beatrice the Sixteenth

A pioneering feminist adventure in an alternate world--before the concept of gender. Introduced by Lucy Sante, author of the acclaimed memoir of transition

About the author

Irene Clyde (b. Thomas Baty, 1869–1954) was an English lawyer, writer, and activist who spent much of her life in Japan. She co-founded the Aëthnic Union, a society dedicated to challenging binary gender distinctions; and for 25 years she helped edit, write, and publish Urania, a privately circulated journal which covered such topics as same-sex relationships, androgyny, and sex changes, and which sharply criticized heterosexual marriage. Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909) is her only novel.

Lucy Sante’s books include Low Life, Kill All Your Darlings, The Other Paris, Maybe the People Would Be the Times, and I Heard Her Call My Name. She was recently appointed an officer of the Order of the Crown by the Belgian government.

Product details

• Authors: Irene Clyde, Lucy Sante
• Assisted by: Lucy Sante (Introduction)
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 31.03.2026
• EAN: 9780262051620
• ISBN: 978-0-262-05162-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: MIT Press / Radium Age
• Subjects: Fiction > Science fiction, fantasy; Science Fiction, FICTION / Science Fiction / General, Of specific Gay & Lesbian interest, Relating to LGBTQ+ people, Science fiction: time travel, FICTION / LGBTQ+ / General, FICTION / Time Travel