![]() ![]() 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. Women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The story is about a two-dimensional world referred to as Flatland which is occupied by geometric figures. 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. A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by Edwin A. 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. 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. ![]()
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