04 August 2026,
Volume II of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong is published today in paperback and ebook. The novel’s arguments about rank, authority and women’s independence now move into sharper conflict.
Read More…02 June 2026,
Why is
Hermsprong being published in three volumes? The answer reveals how novels were originally written, published and read in the late eighteenth century.
Read More…12 May 2026,
Volume I of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong is published today by P-Wave Classics. A radical satire of class, gender and social hypocrisy, restored to its original three-volume form.
Read More…11 May 2026,
What did education prepare women for in the 1790s: thought, work or marriage? In
Hermsprong, Robert Bage exposes the assumptions that kept women praised in theory but constrained in practice.
Read More…04 May 2026,
Maria Fluart is not merely a strong heroine, she is a problem for polite society. In
Hermsprong, Robert Bage uses wit and humour to expose the limits placed on women in the 1790s.
Read More…13 April 2026,
Why does
Hermsprong largely ignore London? Robert Bage’s novel challenges the cultural dominance of the capital and gives voice to a growing provincial readership in late eighteenth-century Britain.
Read More…16 March 2026,
Why does Hermsprong insist on travelling everywhere on foot? In late eighteenth-century Britain, walking signalled social rank, and Bage turns that simple act into a quiet challenge to the hierarchy of polite society.
Read More…02 March 2026,
P-Wave Classics publishes Volume I of Robert Bage’s
Hermsprong (1796), restoring the radical novel to its original three-volume form. A bold satire of privilege and power, newly introduced and annotated.
Read More…22 September 2025,
The current wave of enthusiasm for classics reflects the joy of discovery. At P-Wave Press, we find that same spirit in the radical literature of the late 18th and early 19th century, where writers challenged society across class and gender.
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