A Katharine Burdekin Bibliography

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Biographical Information
Pseudonyms
Novels | Young Adult / Children's
Critical Studies, Reviews, Bibliographies, and Biographies

Note and Credit: Almost all information provided here is drawn from Daphne Patai's published essays.

Novels

• Anna Colquhoun (1922) London.
  Burdekin's first novel. Sequel was written but destroyed by Burdekin without being published.

• The Burning Ring (1927).

• Two in a Sack (unpublished, written in mid-late 1920s, in galleys 1928).

• The Rebel Passion (1929) New York: William Morrow, 1929 (under name Kay Burdekin)
  Burdekin's fourth novel; her first utopian novel; she considered it her first mature work.

• The End of This Day's Business (written 1935; published 1989).
  feministsf.org review
  

• Quiet Ways (1930) London: Thornton Butterworth.
  Sixth novel. anti-war, feminist.

• Proud Man (written 1933; published 1934 under pseudonym Murray Constantine)
  London: Boriswood, 1934; New York: The Feminist Press, 1993
  human from utopian future visits 20th century England
  

• No Compromise: A Political Romance (unpublished, written in mid-1930s). As Murray Constantine.
  Near future England; fascism on the rise; deals with communism.

• Swastika Night (1937)
  London: Victor Gollancz, 1937 (under pseudonym Murray Constantine)
  Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985.
  Published in German as Nacht der braunen Schatten
  An anti-Nazi dystopia.
  feministsf.org review
  

• Children of Jacob (unpublished, written in 1938). As Murray Constantine.
  Attempts to explain Nazism, through looking at masculine violence from the Old Testament to the present.

• The Devil, Poor Devil as Murray Constantine.

• The Reasonable Hope.

• Venus in Scorpio (1940) as Murray Constantine and Margaret Goldsmith. Historical novel about Marie Antoinette; Burdekin's last published book.

• Father to the Man (unpublished; 1940s).

  In the 1930s alone, six published novels; seven unpublished novels (including The End of This Day's Business). Burdekin wrote a total of more than 20 novels before 1956 (when she stopped writing). She also wrote plays, short stories, and poems.

Young Adult / Children's

• St. John's Eve (written 1927; published 1929)
  United States: 1929, as The Children's Country by Kay Burdekin
  Burdekin's only children's novel. A non-sexist children's novel.

Critical Studies, Reviews, Bibliographies, & Biographies

• Bonifas, Gilbert. Notes and Queries V. 34 No. 1 (March 1987), p. 59.
• Gorer, Geoffrey. Letter, in Time and Tide, February 12, 1938, p. 204.
• Patai, Daphne. "Afterword" to Burdekin's The End of This Day's Business (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1989), pp. 159-190.
• Patai, Daphne. "Introduction" to Burdekin's Swastika Night (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1985).
• Patai, Daphne. Foreword and Afterword to Burdekin's Proud Man (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1993)
• Patai, Daphne. "Orwell's Despair, Burdekin's Hope: Gender and Power in Dystopia." Women's Studies International Forum V. 7, No. 2 (1984), pp. 85-95.
• Review of Swastika Night in Time and Tide, June 26, 1937.