![]() Some of his widely known works are Shakespearean Grammar (1870), Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and The Kernel and the Husk (1886), but he is best known for his novella Flatland. After he retired, Abbott devoted most of his time to his literary and theological interests. In 1865, he was appointed as headmaster of the City of London School and stayed there for 24 years until he retired in 1889. In order to marry Mary Elizabeth Rangeley from Unstone, Derbyshire, he resigned the fellowship and taught at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and then at Clifton College. He was elected to a fellowship at his college and was ordained a deacon. John ’s College of Cambridge, where he received highest honors in classics. He attended the City of London School for his early education years, and then studied at St. ![]() Others had to be explained by Abbott himself in the introduction to the second edition, which followed one month after the rst, at the. Some of these were obvious to his readers and remain obvious today. ![]() Edwin Abbott Abbott was born in 1838 to Edwin Abbott, the headmaster of the Philological School in Marylebone, England and Jane Abbott-they were first cousins. Social Satire in Flatland When Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote his little masterpiece over one hundred years ago, he did it for several reasons. ![]()
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