"Throughout both his fiction and his nonfiction there can be detected hints of some lost (or never possible) Arcadia. A Crystal Age (1887 anon; 1906 as WHH) a quasi-Utopia set in the Far Future, is of fantasy interest for its portrait of a society of harmonious communities divided into Houses, each governed by a Mother, and of a visitor from 19th-century England who fails fatally to comprehend the pattern and Balance of this life." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE: Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), biographical entry by John Clute
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