Katharine Burdekin

Katharine Burdekin was a very powerful feminist and anti-facist writer of 1930s and 40s. Three of her books came back into print during the 1980s as the result of work by Daphne Patai; the best-known of these is the anti-facist dystopia Swastika Night, which "includes a feminist analysis of fascism, and extrapolates Nazi sexism to its logical extremes" (see here).

I was poking around Abebooks earlier today to see what was available. Apart from some copies of the 1980s reprints and one or two editions from the 1940s, there was also, excitingly, this:

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