Flatland: Social Satire of Victorian English Society In his most inspiring masterpiece of science titled Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott intended a social satire of Victorian England's society, and an expression of his efforts to advance the cause of education for women and classes lower than the English aristocracy which are the priests. Abbott was a successful theologian, classics scholar, and Shakespeare expert (which explains the Shakespearean references in the frontispiece and several quotations in this book), as well as proficient in mathematics. He was headmaster of the City of London School, a day school from which he had graduated. In his book Flatlands: Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott describes the journey of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flat....

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