1835-1902. English author who made his name
in 1872 with his satiric attack on
contemporary utopianism, Erewhon (nowhere
reversed), but is now remembered for his
autobiographical The Way of All Flesh written
1872-85 and published 1903. The Fair Haven
1873 examined the miraculous element in
Christianity. Life and Habit 1877 and other
works were devoted to a criticism of the
theory of natural selection. In The Authoress
of the Odyssey 1897 he maintained that
Homer's Odyssey was the work of a woman.