Bertha Louisa Bowhay (1873-1948) was a playwright and author, who wrote across genres: her historical novel Caspar: A Medieval Romance (1930) followed Elenchus and was itself followed by Guessing Deeper (1933). Elenchus has been compared to Winifred Hotly's The Astonishing Island (1933), another satirical novel on the traditional island utopia. Set on the fictional Island of Gurm ("off the coast of Guernsey"), "Elenchus makes gentle fun of a utopian idealist who uses his inheritance to experiment with different forms of government." (Albinski, 1988). Bowhay's protagonist is named for the Socratic method of argumentative dialogue. Nan Bowman Albinski (1988) Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction (London: Routledge). Seller Inventory # 2302