"The Last Man", a tale of the last man on Earth, is by this woman known for another book on creating a man
The Last Man on Earth is indeed about 
both life and death, creation and destruction, and the fact that each facet is as 
grim and uninviting as the next is a chilling... [DOC] [TLE] Bennett, "Radical Imaginings" | Romantic Circles [PAR] Mary Shelley's 1826 novel, The Last Man, has been characterized as a rejection 
... final generation of humans on earth, destroyed by an uncontrollable plague.