@booklet {7845, title = {"The Island of Progress"}, howpublished = {The Wild Lass of Estmere and Other Stories}, year = {1893}, month = {1893}, pages = {227-274}, publisher = {Seeley and Co.}, address = {London}, abstract = {

Satire set five hundred years in the future about a future based entirely on science. Equality, but gender roles are unchanged with men working outside the home and women in it, but without servants, science, eugenics, and technology. The physical condition of the race is the highest good. Arranged marriages based on physical characteristics and character. Highly refined. Placid--a phlegmatic mind is best; having an imagination is bad (245-246). Criminals used in scientific experiments (242). Involuntary euthanasia where Extinguishers \“extinguish anyone whose existence is hurtful to the progress of the Race\” (242).\ 

}, keywords = {English author, Female author}, author = {M[ary Eliza] Bramston (1841-1912)} }