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It is late in the 20th century. The Federal government of Europe rounds up its troublesome anarchists and ships them off to a South Sea island. But, of course, all does not go smoothly... Published in Reading in 1887, this extraordinary tale by Elizabeth Waterhouse, wife of the well-known architect Alfred Waterhouse, is by turns prophetic and hopelessly dated. A near facsimile edition.

read an extract from The Island of Anarchy
The ending of the nineteenth century, like that of the eighteenth was a time of terrible and strange things, as if it were coming to be the law of human affairs that the sunsets of the centuries should be red with a 'Terror' and dark with despair.

In England - then, as in the past, the refuge of banished men - social disorder reached a height that would soon have driven all her quiet dwellers to seek more peaceful homes on the other side of the globe, had not a new and strange thing changed the whole aspect of affairs.