The Son of a Star; A Romance of the Second Century - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) (Longmans, Green, 1888)
Most of the novel is an adventure story set around Roman Britain and the relations between Rome and Palestine. Noviomagus or the state of the New Magicians is an enclave in Roman Britain that produces a eutopia by reversing the usual patterns. For example, every person holds an office except for one, who is designated the "Regular Citizen". The general commanding all the military is chosen for his peacefulness. The Treasurer must be able to write but not be able to read, which kept him from reading texts in political economy. See also 1876 Richardson.
Also published in an abr. one volume ed. New York: Longmans, Green, 1888; and London: Longmans, Green, 1889. The eutopia, "The Noviomagians", is found in volume II, Chapter 5 (66-96) and, in the one volume edition, Chapter XXI (187-202). The utopia was published separately as At Noviomagus: A Tribute of Affection to the Late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson Fifteen Years Lord High President of the Noviomagians, 1881-1896. London: Chiswick Press, 1897.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Thoth: A Romance - [Joseph Shield] [Nicholson] (1850-1927) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1888)
Society intended by its founders to be a eutopia is a dystopia. Rule by reason alone with mixed result. Genetics produces a class system based on inbred talents and physical characteristics. Scientifically advanced. Most people are happy, but the founder hated women and upper class women are treated very badly. Plan to kill everyone else in the world.
2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 contains as an appendix a previously unpublished version of the first chapter as it had been originally written in 1876.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Crystal Age - [William Henry] [Hudson] (1841-1922) (T. Fisher Unwin, 1887)
Future Arcadian society organized in large families. Detailed picture of the society. Appears eutopian but is not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.
[2nd ed.]. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1906. 2nd ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 375-696, with a brief note by the editor (371-73).
Keywords: Argentinian author; English author; Male author

A Harmony in Deep Mourning” - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (his Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales, 1887)
Satire. Technological utopia. Marriages on short term license, the shortest being three months.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“How We Live and How We Might Live” - William Morris (1834-1896) (Commonweal, 1887)
Morris sums up his position as “First, a healthy body; second, an active mind in sympathy with the past, and the future; thirdly, occupation fit for a healthy body and an active mind; and fourthly, a beautiful world to live in” (Book 76). See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, 1890 Morris.
Rpt. in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 56-77, with editorial notes on 184-86
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Island of Anarchy. A Fragment of History in the 20th Century - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) (Miss Langley, Lovejoy's Library, 1887)
An island of transported revolutionaries, mostly anarchists, is presented in mostly dystopian terms because there is conflict among them. Some are then converted to Christianity and the situation improves.
Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Two Rivers, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“A Lady and the Lords” - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales, 1887)
Satire on women getting the vote.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Letters from the Planets" - [Wladjslaw Somerville] [Lach-Szyrma] (1841-1915) (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.
The stories from April and October are rpt. as “Letters from Mars.” in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 53-72 with an editor’s not on 51-52. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet. Series continued as "The Portals of the King of Day. A Journey To the Regions of the Sun." 14 (January 1888): 96-98; "Our Second Voyage to Mars." 15 (February 1889): 166-70; "Letters from the Planets--Canal Life on Mars." 16 (February 1890): 285-87; "A Trip to Jupiter's Moonlet." 18 (December 1891): 55-56; and "Corresponding With the Planets." 19 (June 1893): 403-05. Entire series rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 1-26.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of Tomorrow - [Samuel Middleton] [Fox] (1856-1941) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1887)
Satire on British high society focusing on a pleasure city on the Riviera.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Strephon and Phyllis in 1920” - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales, 1887)
Satire of sex role reversal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Tables Turned; or Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude - William Morris (1834-1896) (Office of "The Commonweal", 1887)
Play describing revolution and (briefly) the resulting eutopia which is presented at greater length in 1890 Morris. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, and 1890 Morris.
Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 528-67. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 528-67; and ed. Pamela Bracken Wiens. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Brotherhood of Rest - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) (E. Langley, Lovejoy's Library, 1886)
A community where the overworked can go for a complete rest. Modeled on retreats.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A Dream of John Ball" - William Morris (1834-1896) (The Commonweal, 1886)
John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, and his dream is of the success of the revolt. See 1958 Fairburn for another eutopia focusing on Ball. See also 1884, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris.
First published in book form as A Dream of John Ball and A King’s Lesson (Reprinted from the ‘Commonweal’). London: Reeves and Turner, 1888. Rpt. in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King’s Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 213-88. L, L(NL)
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) (Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Etc., 1886)
One section of the poem (lines 155-74 in the Ricks edition) has the future of 1842 Tennyson facing overpopulation and the renewal of war.
Rpt. "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After."  Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), III: 148-59, with an introductory note (148-49) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 551-61.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Notes from Another World - Lord Granville [Armyne] Gordon (1856-1907) (Remington & Co Publishers, 1886)
A loosely connected stories sent back to a living person from one recently deceased and getting used to living in the underworld, which has heavenly and hellish subdivisions. Strongly influenced by Brave fra Helvede/Letters From Hell (1866) by the Danish author Valdemar Adolph Thisted (1815-1887), which was translated into English in 1866 and 1884.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs - Joseph Carne-Ross, ed. [written by] (1844-1911) (John and Robert Maxwell, 1886)
Flawed utopia. Rational, egalitarian eutopia that has gone too far and rejected emotion. Stress on technology, health, and cleanliness. Hospitalization for drunkenness and illiteracy; police are also physicians. Intellectual women, who are all narrow-hipped, rejected child-bearing; men show an atavistic tendency to prefer unintellectual women, imported from outside, who will bear children.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 3-55. Editor's notes, 1, 391.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

A Romance of Two Worlds - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) (Richard Bentley, 1886)
While the novel is mostly romance and spiritualism, it includes a tour of the solar system. Earth is the only planet where people doubt God. On Saturn people can talk with spirits, sickness and old age do not exist, and death is simply going to sleep. Venus is one great garden, and everyone is inspired by Nature and Art. Jupiter is an electrical civilization with everything done by electricity and part of the book is about Christ as an electrical being. "The Electric Creed" is on pages 229-44.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1976; and Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing Co., 1986. New and rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1896 has an Appendix of letters received commenting on the book (326-38) and a Postscript (358-59) commenting on the discovery of what she calls the Röntgen Ray (X-Ray).
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Siege of Bodike: A Prophecy of Ireland's Future - Edward Lester (1831-1905) (John Heywood, 1886)
An anti-Home Rule tale of the future, but one that is sympathetic to Ireland's problems. The "Severance of Union Act" is passed and then repealed. The new regime established gives considerable power to localities, with each having a local board to "regulate tariffs, rents, and all technical and local matters" (137). More police. Absentee landlords heavily taxed. Money invested in improving agriculture, industry, and infrastructure. Education is improved, and a Roman Catholic university of quality is established, so that clergy will be better educated. Censorship is imposed as a means of improving education. Royalty visits regularly.
Keywords: English author; Male author

After London; or, Wild England In Two Parts. Part I.--The Relapse into Barbarism. Part II.--Wild England - [John] Richard Jefferies (1848-87) (Cassell and Company, 1885)
aeturn to barbarianism is initially dystopian, with slavery, ignorance, and continuing warfare, but a strong leader brings unity and the possibility of eutopia.
Rpt. London: Cassell and Company, 1886; London: Duckworth, 1905; New York: Arno Press, 1975; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1980; and ed. Mark Frost (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2017 with an “Introduction” (vii-l), Jefferies “The Great Snow (fragment 1876)” (194-98), and Jefferies, “[‘Alone in London’] (Untitled fragment, undated MS, British Library, Add. MSS 58817), which was originally published in the Richard Jefferies Society Journal 1 (1992): 2-3 (199-201). Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Most reprints have the title as After London; or, Wild England.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Bread Riots and What Came of Fair Trade - [John] S[aint] L[oe] Strachey (1860-1927) (J.W. Arrowsmith, 1885)
Dystopia brought about by protective tariffs.
Serialized in The Daily Mail (1885). Rpt. with minor revisions and with the author's name as J. St. Loe Strachey as The Great Bread Riots: A Political Romance. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Modern Daedalus - Tom [Thomas] Greer (1846/7-1904) (Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh, 1885)
An Irishman builds an airplane and wins independence for Ireland. There is only the vaguest suggestion of a eutopia beyond independence.
Rpt. London: Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh/New York: E.P. Dutton, [1887]; and New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The New Utopia, or England in 1985. A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Sunday February 8th, 1885 - Rev. W[illiam] Tuckwell (1829-1919) (Birmingham Sunday Lecture Society, 1885)
Eutopia. Village society with trained farmers and all land owned by the state and rented to farmers based on their qualifications.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bertha: A Romance of Easter-tide - W[illiam Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) (J. Burns, 1884)
A novel of spiritualism that includes a chapter (292-302) describing a proposed spiritualist intentional community planned for Texas. It will be democratic and cooperative.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Child of the Phalanstery" - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) (Belgravia, 1884)
Satire directed at Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Presents a Fourierist phalanx in dystopian terms.
Rpt. in The New York Times (August 24, 1884): 10; in his Strange Stories (London: Chatto and Windus, 1884), 301-20; in his Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and An Intermezzo: Being Selected Stories (London: Grant Richards, 1899), 45-64; in his The Backslider (New York/London: Lewis Scribner, 1901), 313-42; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 92-107.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Jamaican author; Male author; US author

"A Factory As It Might Be" - William Morris (1834-1896) (Justice, 1884)
Depiction of an ideal factory with a garden tended by the workers, simple but beautiful buildings, and the workers doing useful work using the best machines and thus working shorter hours. The factory will also be a center of education for both its workers and any children in the area interested in its work. ​See also 1886-87, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris.
Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 130-40; rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 130-40); in his Political Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890. Ed. Nicholas Salmon (Bristol, Eng.: Thoemmes Press, 1994), 32-35; 39-46; in A Factory As It Might Be with Colin Ward, The Factory We Never Had (Nottingham, Eng.: Mushroom Bookshop, 1994), 5-20; and in Utopia [Ed. Ross Bradshaw] (Nottingham, Eng.: Five Leaves, 2012), 34-43 with Colin Ward’s “The Factory We Never Had” on pp. 44-49.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - [Edwin Abbott] [Abbott] (1838-1926) (Seeley & Co, 1884)
Primarily an exercise in geometry using an imaginary country, but the novel includes commentaries, some satirical, on art, eugenics, religion, class, the position of women, and other contemporary issues. For a 21st century use of the idea, see Steve Tomasula, VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2002. A humorous comment is Anne Toole. “Secrets of Flatland.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multuiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 172-77. Others who have written sequels to Flatland include Dionys Burger, Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Space and an Expanded Universe. Trans. Cornelie J. Reinboldt. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, 1965 (Originally published in Dutch in 1957); Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946), “Message Found in a Copy of Flatland.” The 57th Franz Kafka (New York: Ace Books, 1983), 224-34; and Rucker, The Sex Sphere. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1983; A[lexander] K[eewatin] Dewdney, The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. New York: Poseidon Press, 1984; and Ian Stewart, Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. See also 1907 Hinton and 1965 Calisher.
2nd and rev. ed. London: Seeley & Co., 1884. Rpt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991; and illus. Frank Mayo. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995, with an “Introduction” by Gregory Benford (ix-xxvii). See also The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Introduction and Notes by Ian Stewart. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. Other recent eds. are ed. Rosemary Jann. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2006; and ed. William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff with Notes and Commentary. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press/Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Simiocracy; A Fragment from Future History - [Arthur Montagu] [Brookfield] (1853-1940) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1884)
Satire in which monkeys take over England, partially as a result of failures in education and partially due to political failures.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Aleriel; or, A Voyage to Other Worlds. A Tale - Rev. W[ladjslaw] S[omerville] Lach-Szyrma (1841-1915) (Wyman and Sons, 1883)
Eutopia. Continuation of his 1874 A Voice From Another World. See also his 1887 "Letters from the Planets." Includes a voyage around the solar system with visits to Mars and Venus (both eutopias), Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and some of the moons of the latter two. The eutopias are both based on religion. He describes the eutopia on Venus as one of the perfection of "a future state" (i. e. heaven) and the one on Mars as "a more practical Utopia, implying the tendencies of human progress, and suggesting improvements for human society as it now exists" (viii).
Keywords: English author; Male author

King Bertie, A.D. 1900 - [Samuel Orchart] [Beeton] (1831-77); [George Rose] [Emerson]; [Mr.] [Doughty] (The Crown Pub Co., 1883)
Satire on British politics set slightly in the future plus a catalog of reforms that brings Britain from penury to wealth and peace. Introduction of paper currency. Channel tunnel. Constitutional reform with a limited monarchy. Nationalization and reclamation of the land allows Britain and Ireland to feed themselves. Immigration ends. Land given to people who will settle on it and use it. The Catholic Church gives up temporal power. Home rule for Ireland. Poem of thirty-four cantos.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Adventures of Halek: An Autobiographical Fragment - John H[enry] Nicholson (1838-1923) (Griffith and Farran/ E. P. Dutton, 1882)
Allegorical oriental tale set in a variety of eutopian and dystopian settings. A sequel was published as Almoni. Companion Volume to Halek. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1904. This continues the hero’s wanderings, but he finds true love at the end of the novel.
2nd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: A. J. Ross & Co., 1896. 3rd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Companion to "Almoni". Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop, and Co., 1904.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Revolt of Man - [Sir] [Walter] [Besant] (1836-1901) (William Blackwood & Sons, 1882)
Gender-role reversal. Women had taken political power, abolished the House of Commons, replaced the House of Lords with the House of Peeresses, abolished the monarchy, and introduced a theocracy based on rule by the ideal Perfect Woman. Men were uneducated, did most of the work while caring for their families, and generally had the attitudes traditionally assigned to women. A manly man and true love leads to the overthrow of the system, and women welcome the restoration of the right order of things.
New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 9th ed (1890) rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 7-366, with a brief note by the editor (1-5). U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1882.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Fixed Period" - [Anthony] [Trollope] (1815-82) (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1881)
A society is established with a voluntary fixed period for life, which is intended to produce a eutopia but problems arise as the first people reach that age. Set on an island near New Zealand.
Repub. with deletions restored. 2 vols. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Rpt. ed. R[obert] H. Super. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990; and ed. David Skilton. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993. The Robert H. Super ed. rpt. illus. Elisa Trimby. London: Folio Society, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Three Hundred Years Hence; or, A Voice from Posterity - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) (Newman and Co, 1881)
Racist, socialist, sexist, technologically advanced society presented as a eutopia. Huge population growth. The oriental and Negro races have been exterminated. People live in and on the seas and in the air. Women have symbolic power but no actual power, and are described as mentally inferior.
Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 7-370, with a brief note by the editor (1-5).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Across the Zodiac; The Story of a Wrecked Record - Percy Greg (1836-89) (Trübner & Co, 1880)
Dystopia set on Mars. The society has some characteristics of the eutopias of the time (world government, one language, highly developed technology), but its lack of religion, the extreme inferiority of women, and the narrowness of intellectual outlook makes it a dystopia.
Rpt. in one volume Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Chapter III: The Untravelled Deep is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 257-269.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Doom of the Great City; Being The Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942 - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) (Newman & Co, 1880)
Catastrophe due to the dystopia that is contemporary London. Brief New Zealand eutopia of 1942 at the beginning.
Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 17-68, with a note by the editor (1-16).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

“The Last African Explorer” - Eustace Hinton Jones (Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel, 1879)
Satire on African exploration in which a man walks from London to Central Africa and comes across a eutopia. Government ministers are paid to think; other government officials are paid to propagandize and not think; murderers become army officers with those guilty of violent assaults forming the ranks; thieves are placed in the financial ministry or made tax collectors. Since no debt is recoverable by law, all transactions are in cash.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Monks of Thelema. A Novel - [Walter] [Besant] 1836-1901; [James] [Rice] (1836-1901) (The World, 1878)
Mostly romance but presents a eutopian abbey based very loosely on the Abbey of Thélème of François Rabelais (1483?-c.1533). The inmates of this Abbey are attractive young men and women whose "vows are of permission to marry, to be rich, if the Lord will, and to live at liberty" (I: 2). Throughout the book much humor is directed at social reform, the communal movement, and attempts at "higher thought".
Vol. 2 has the subtitle An Invention. New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Positivism on an Island: The New Paul and Virginia" - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) (The Contemporary Review, 1878)
Satire on Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in a vein similar to the author's 1877 The New Republic.
Rpt. as The New Paul and Virginia or Positivism on an Island. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Age of Science; A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century - [Frances Power] [Cobbe] (1822-1904) (Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1877)
Satirical dystopia of science gone too far. The Age of Science is the name of the paper and the date given is January 1, 1977. Medicine is particularly powerful, and Parliament is composed entirely of medical people who act in their own interest. People are executed for such heresies against science as homeopathy, religion, and not getting vaccinated. There are so few servants that people must recruit them with excellent offers.The author published an essay along similar lines as “The Scientific Spirit of the Age” The Contemporary Review 54 (July 1888): 126-39. Rpt. in her The Scientific Spirit of the Age and Other Pleas and Discussions (Boston, MA: Geo. H. Ellis, 1888), 3-34. The author anonymously published a story on the nineteenth century as seen from the far future; see “The Nineteenth Century.” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 69.412 (April 1864): 481-94. There is very little on the future.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

The Future Australian Race - Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846-81) (A.H. Massina and Co, 1877)
Satiric essay describing a twentieth-century Australia, which will include all of the area to the North including Singapore and to the East including New Zealand. North of the middle of Australia will be an empire. South of it will be a republic with the capital in New Zealand, which the author considers to be the real Australia. In five hundred years the Australian race will be extinct.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) (Chatto and Windus, 1877)
Conservative eutopia constructed over a country weekend. Much discussion, but little detail. The people involved have been identified as Matthew Arnold (1822-88), John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-94), Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Herbert Spencer (1820-1902), John Tyndall (1820-93), William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79), Mary Montgomerie Singleton, later Lady Currie, who wrote as Violet Fane (1843-1905), and Mallock.
2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. New [4th] ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Rpt. ed. J. Max Patrick. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1950, with an "introduction" by the editor (xi-xxxvi); and Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1975, with "Introduction" by James Lucas (7-37). Parts originally published in Belgravia 29 - 31 (June - December 1876), 514-43; 48-73, 133-51, 343-60, 434-49; 46-65; 189-209.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The New Utopia" - [Augusta Theodosia] [Drane (Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D.)] (1823-94). (Irish Monthly, 1877)
A eutopia created on an estate, a eutopian monastery built, and labor reform. The emphasis is on religion, temperance, and hard work. Some Australian content.
Rpt. in the New Zealand Tablet 5.238 - 257 (November 23, 1877 - April 5, 1878): 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 11, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 5. Repub. in book form under the author's name. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1898. Also rpt. with no author given as The Australian Duke; or, The New Utopia. Np: np., nd.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Coralia; A Plaint of Futurity - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) (Samuel Tinsley, 1876)
While the novel focuses on an unhappy immortal who attempts to find solace in life, Coralia is called "the land of happiness" (11), and, while it is beneath the sea, it is a sort of heaven. "Here life was not as what we know it, but a serene existence without insignificant and unworthy objects such as those of earth" (49). The novel ends with the unhappy immortal united with God.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hygeia: A City of Health - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) (Macmillan and Co, 1876)
Very detailed eutopia in an address to the Health Department of the Social Science Congress describing the healthy city of the future. Pollution controls on fires. Roof gardens. No carpets. No one smokes or drinks alcohol and everyone exercises. Factories out of town. Public laundries under state supervision; public street cleaning. Burial without embalming or a casket. Low houses. Railroads and sewage underground; roads all paved. No rooms underground. Publicly supervised slaughter houses. Model hospital. The author was a scientist and a leader of the temperance movement as well as a sanitation campaigner. The author says that he is suggesting only what is now easily possible. See also 1888 Richardson.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Robert Pemberton's The Happy Colony (1854).
Keywords: English author; Male author

In Front of the World. A Novel - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) (Charing Cross Publishing Co., 1876)
A messianic figure attempts to bring about human unity, writes a new Bible, and creates a new religion through a group with telepathy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice - [John Aloys] [Petzler] (1814?-1898) (Samuel Tinsley, 1876)
Non-fiction eutopia. The author summarizes the book as follows: "The guiding principles upon which this social demolition and reconstruction is to proceed, are chiefly the following:--1. Abolition of money, inheritance, and private property. 2. Restriction of the isolated household, and development of the associated home. 3. Freedom of sexual unions. 4 Compulsory and equal sharing of all physical labour. 5. Economical arrangements for the prevention of waste. 6. Organization of labour. 7. Equal division of the means of existence and enjoyment. 8. Universal diffusion of education, sciences, and arts" (80). Includes 1870 Petzler as an Appendix (423-39). See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). In the "Preface" to the book Petzler says that he shared imprisonment in France with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-65), the mutualist and anarchist theorist. After his release he was expelled to England.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under the Ice - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) (Bickers and Son, 1875)
Eutopia called the Universal Community of Free Brethren located inside a glacier in Switzerland. While the institutions of the society are presented positively, there is a general sense that the people are too unemotional. Pyrna means "The Beautiful Home". Emphasis on the educational system. Gender equality. Highly refined. The people "looked upon eating as a disagreeable necessity. . ." (125/Claeys 57).
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 3-64. Editor's notes 1, 349.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Skyward and Earthward - [George Theodosius Boughton] [Kyngdon] (1821-1916) (Samuel Tinsley, 1875)
Voyages by balloon to various locations beginning with an inhabited moon, which is presented as a satire on Earth customs. They then visit Mars that is a simple eutopia with friendly people, tame birds, and a diet of fruit. No government or laws. No disease or old age. After their return to Earth, the novel is one of adventure and romance.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The King of No-Land - B[enjamin] L[eopold] Farjeon (1833-1903) (Tinsley’s Magazine, 1874)
A king who would prefer not to be a king abdicates to a democracy and finds an idyllic life in the country. Invited back by the people, he creates a better society.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1875.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

Tales in Political Economy - Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) (Macmillan & Co, 1874)
An island becomes a eutopia through free trade and the free market.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Transmigration - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) (Hurst and Blackett, 1874)
Volume two is set in a eutopia on Mars. The eutopia is a paradise caused in large part by a gas in the air that prolongs life and generally provides health and a good feeling. No money. The various planets are places where souls spend their lives after death or between reincarnations. Most of the volume consists of interactions among people from the past, mostly classical Greece.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Voice From Another World - W[ladislaw] S[omerville] L[ach]-S[zyrma] (1841-1915) (James Parker, 1874)
A Christian eutopia stressing science, art and religion. Little or no political, economic, or social material. Written in 1865. See also 1883 and 1887 Lach-Szyrma.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Another World; or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah - [Benjamin] [Lumley] (1811-75) (Samuel Tinsley, 1873)
Eutopia based on the correct cultivation of character.
Keywords: English author; Male author

By and By; An Historical Romance of the Future - Edward Maitland (1824-97) (Richard Bentley and Son, 1873)
Mostly adventure but includes a future technological eutopia as well as a description of a lower heaven as eutopia. Much discussion of the need for religion to recognize science. Stresses individualism. Racist, sexist, and imperialist. In the “Preface to New Edition” (iii-vi) the author says that the book was conceived and mostly written before The Coming Race and Erewhon and differs from them in outlining “a condition of things easily imaginable as resulting from the natural development of existing tendencies in knowledge and thought” and in indicating “the necessary future development of society” (iii). The author lived in New South Wales, Australia from 1849 to 1858 and some of the novel deals with the future of Australia.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977. New ed. London: Richard Bentley, 1875.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Colymbia - [Robert Ellis] [Dudgeon] (1820-1904) (Trübner and Company, 1873)
A mixture of satire and reform in a society located under water. Given the mixture, it is difficult to be sure what parts the author means seriously. The author was a friend of Samuel Butler, and the book was his response to Erewhon.
Extract illus. Mark Toner. Shoreline of Infinity, no. 9 (Autumn 2017): 91-99, with an introduction “SF Caledonia” by Monica Burns (85-90), with a photograph of Dudgeon on 87.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Fifth Voyage of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Sometime of Nottinghamshire" - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) (Squire Silchester's Whim, 1873)
Satire. In Amazonia men are slaves and even dogs are considered superior to men. Women had left England after men had concluded that men were superior to women. Common stores. No money.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Franklin Bacon's Republic: Diary of an Inventor" - [Eustace Clare Grenville] [Murray] (1824-81) (Cornhill's Magazine, 1873)
Satire on the founding of an island community that the inventor hopes will be a eutopia but is in constant conflict.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In the Clouds; A Glimpse of Utopia. A Fairy Extravaganza - Gilbert [Arthur] A'Beckett (1837-91) (Samuel French, 1873)
Satire both on the idea of utopia and on specific reform movements, including women's rights. A military that does not fight. No votes for anyone. Government that does nothing. Only Shakespeare in the theatre. No newspapers. There is a well of the water of truth, and anyone exposed to it can no longer live in Utopia.
In vol. 100 of Lacy's Action Edition.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Millennium: An Epic Poem - Edward Francis Hughes (1814-79) (Author, 1873)
Long poem describing all the stages of the millennium.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Erewhon; or, Over the Range - [Samuel [Butler] (1835-1902) (Trübner, 1872)
The classic utopian satire.
2nd ed. rev. and corr. London: Trübner, 1872. New rev. ed. London: Grant Richards, 1901. Rpt. as vol. 2 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew. London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Rev. ed. London: De La Mare Press, 1906. New and rev. ed. London: Fifield, 1910. Rpt. with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings and with an Introduction and illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson. New York: Chesire House, 1931; with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Montgomeryshire: The Gregynog Press, 1932; with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley and illustrations by Rockwell Kent. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934 [Huxley’s introduction is rpt. in Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond 2 (2003): 49-54; with illustrations by Graham Byfield. [London]: Distributed by Heron Books, [1969]; without the subtitle, with an “Introduction” by Peter Mudford (7-24), a “List of Passages Butler added to the text of the 1872 edition” (261), and “Notes” (263-70). 150th Anniversary Edition. New York: Erewhon, 2022, with “Looking Backward to Local Utopia: An Introduction” by Octavia Cade (1-29) also includes the Prefaces to the 1st, 2nd, and revised eds. (xi-xv). Critical ed. ed. Hans-Peter Breuer and Daniel F. Howard. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981, which reprints the 1872 edition and includes the later revisions in an appendix. Chapters XXIII-XXV of the 1872 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 57-72. Two parts were originally published as “Darwin Among the Machines.” Signed Cellarius. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.192 (June 13, 1863): 1-2; and “Lucubratio Ebria.” Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 8.847 (July 29, 1865): 2. These two parts are available in The Notebooks of Samuel Butler. Ed. Henry Festing Jones (London: A. C. Fifield, 1912), 42-53. Rpt. (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 42-53; and in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 179-94. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 179-94. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 208-20. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Butler also published the related article [“Darwin on the Origin of the Species. A Dialogue”]. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.93 (December 20, 1862): 2. This is also available, together with correspondence that followed, in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. [Richard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 149-78. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 149-78. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 184-207. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. The origin of the chapter “The Book of the Machines” is “The Mechanical Creation.” The Reasoner: A Political and Secular Review (London), no. 833 (July 1, 1865): 30-31, which is rpt. in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 231-37. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Not in the Streatfield ed. An interesting oddity is the translation into Esperanto--Erevono. Trans. by Alec Venture. London: Alec Venture, 1978. The DU-Ho copy of the Esperanto translation includes a lengthy errata sheet. Three chapters were published separately as Book of the Machines. Illus. Corydon Bell. [Cleveland, OH]: Bonnar-Vawter Fanform Company, 1940.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

"Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-two" - Jean Ingelow (1820-97) (The Little Wonder Horn, 1872)
Children's technological eutopia.
Rpt. in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 4.221 (April 25, 1872): 9. Repub. in Vol. 4, The Snowflake and the Water-lily and 1972 of her The Fourth Wonder of The Little Wonder Box. 6 vols. (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, & Welsh, 1887), 222-52. Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Children’s Short Stories. Ed. Jan Mark (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993), 134-45.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Ranolf and Amohia: A South-Sea Day-Dream - Alfred Domett (1811-87) (Smith, Elder & Co, 1872)
Very long poem that is in part a romantic Aotearoa/New Zealand and South Seas eutopia presenting the Maori as both Noble Savage and just savage.
2nd ed. rev. with the subtitle A Dream of Two Lives. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The Coming Race - [Edward] [Bulwer-Lytton] (1803-73) (William Blackwood, 1871)
Classic utopia in the center of the earth. Highly rational winged people illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of reason. Each individual holds the power, called vril, of destroying any other individual and, as a result, all get along well. Some sex role reversal.
Rpt. as by The Right Hon. Lord Lytton. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1874]. Canadian ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Toronto, ON, Canada: Adam, Stevenson, 1871. US ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Reprinted from the English Edition. New-York: Francis B. Felt & Co., 1871. Also published as Vril. The Power of the Coming Race. Blauvelt, NY: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1972; as The Coming Race. Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Publishing Co., 1973 with notes and commentary connecting it to New Age thought by Emerson M. Clymer; Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press Pub. Co., 1979; Stroud, Eng.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995, with a “Biographical Introduction” by Julian Wolfreys; in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 1: 143-36; Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2002 with an "Introduction" by Brian W. Aldiss (5-11); ed. David Seed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005; and ed. Peter W. Sinnema. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008, with extensive appendices.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain" - John Ruskin (1819-1900) (The Works of John Ruskin, 1871)
Includes throughout the series, but particularly in Letters LVII and LVIII, a proposal for the Guild of St. George, which will provide land for workers. Other works of Ruskin have been included in lists of utopias, particularly “Unto This Last”: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. London: Smith, Elder, 1862, originally published as “‘Unto This Last.’--I. The Roots of Honour;” “‘Unto This Last.’--II. The Veins of Wealth; “‘Unto This Last.’--III. Qui Judicatis Terram; and “‘Unto This Last.’--IV. Ad Valorem.” Cornhill Magazine 2.8-11 (August - November 1860): 155-66, 278-86, 407-18, 543-64. There is a utopianism in much of Ruskin’s thought, and various intentional communities were founded on the basis of Ruskin’s ideas but without his participation.
Fors Clavigera is in vols. 27 - 29 (1907). Vol. 27 contains letters 1-36; Vol. 28 contains letters 37-72; and Vol. 28 contains letters 73-96. The letters were originally published separately and collected into volumes as follows: 1-12 (1871) Vol. 1; 13-24 (1872) Vol. 2; 25-36 (1873) Vol. 3; 37-48 (1874) Vol. 4; 49-60 (1875) Vol. 5; 61-72 (1876) Vol. 6; 73-84 (1877) Vol. 7; 85-96 (1878-84) Vol. 8 described as new series]; 85-87 (1878); 88-89 (1880); 90-93 (1884); 94-96 (1884); 85-90 issued as ns 1-6; 91-96 as ns 7-12. New ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1896. Second Small. ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1899-190?. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Ed. Dinah Birch. The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin. Edinburgh, Scot.: Edinburgh University Press, 2000 is an edited selection from the letters.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World" - Edward Lear (1812-88) (Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871)
Mostly standard Lear nonsense, but many of the places the children visit have elements of a cockaigne, particularly concerned with food.
Rpt. in his Nonsense Books with all the original illustrations (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1921), 98-114; and in his The Complete Nonsense Book Containing all the Original Pictures and Verses, together with New Material. Ed. [Constance], Lady Strachey, 18th ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961), 149-65.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Universal Equality, or, Jonathan Baxter's Peep into the Future - Julia Agnes Fraser (1841-1915) (John Menzies and Co, 1871)
Parody written partially in an Irish brogue in which a man visits the future France, Scotland, Ireland, America, and England in all of which he discovers that his ideal of universal equality produces a negative rather than a positive result.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Wicked World: An Allegory" - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) (Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1871, 1871)
Humor. The eutopia of the fairies makes contact with the real world.
Rpt. in The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert. Ed. Peter Haining (London: Robson Books, 1982), 143-56.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Democratic Charter of the Future; or, Outlines of Progressive Reforms, in Government, Social Economy, Labour-Arrangement, Education, Law, Police, Military, Poor-Relief, Etc. - [John Aloys] [Petzler] (1814?-1898) (E. Truelove, 1870)
Non-fiction eutopia. Twenty page pamphlet giving a series of detailed proposals for the stages from the current situation to what he calls the "Communistic State". Includes all of the areas included in the title. See also 1876 Petzler, which reprints this text and 1890 Petzler. See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L).
Rpt. as an Appendix to his Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice. By An Exile from France [pseud.] (London: Samuel Tinsley, 1976), 423-39.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams - Annie Denton Cridge (1825-75) (William Denton, 1870)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Rpt. in Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York) 1.17 - 25, 2.1 (whole no. 27) (September 3 - November 5, November 19, 1870): 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 2-3, 2-3, 2-3; 3-4. Selections rpt. without Comprising Dreams in the title in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 75-94 with an editor’s note on 74. Complete text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 5-60.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Moslem in Cambridge. A Liberal and Advanced Journal of Universal Scope, Views and Tendencies, Adapted to the Tastes of all Nations - [Gerald Stanley] [Davies] ed. [written by] (1845-1927) (The Moslem in Cambridge. A Liberal and Advanced Journal of Universal Scope, Views and Tendencies, Adapted to the Tastes of all Nations [An Undergraduate magazine], 1870)
Satire on a future Cambridge University that is no longer just Christian, admits women, has abolished tests, and is completely cosmopolitan.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Page of American History. Constitution of the United States of the World. An Address by Victoria C. Woodhull. Delivered in Lincoln Hall, Washington, U.S.A., in 1870. The First Suggestion of its kind made in America, and commented on widely by the Press - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull (1838-1927) (Norman, Sawyer, 1870)
Eutopia presented through a detailed constitution, which the title suggests is to be world-wide but the details of which are limited to the U.S. The basic governmental structure is similar to that in effect in the U.S. at the time. The Constitution is egalitarian, with the only division of the population is that between adults, those eighteen and over, and minors. All over eighteen can vote with minor residence requirements. See also 1890 Martin and Victoria C. Woodhull, A Speech on The Garden of Eden; or, Paradise Lost and Found, delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City, December 30, 1875. New York: Woodhull & Claflin, 1876. A statement of the equality of the sexes. A completely different version was published in her Victoria C. Woodhull’s Life Sketches. Np: np, nd.  Their The Garden of Eden; or, The Paradise Lost and Found is a commentary on Genesis and Revelations on women with a brief comparison to the Vedas.
Rpt. in The Victoria Woodhull Reader. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. Weston, MA: M S Press, 1974. [Items are separately paged]. Rpt. slightly rev. as A New Constitution for the United States of the World Proposed for the Consideration of the Constructors of Our Future Government. New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1872. Rpt. in We, the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence By Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman’s Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829-1975. Ed. Philip S. Foner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), 177-201 with an editor’s introduction (177-80).
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Paradise of Birds: An Extravaganza in Modern Dress - William John Courthope (1842-1919) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1870)
Humans kill off most animals and then killed or drove away the birds. As a result, bugs destroy all the crops and starvation threatens. An expedition discovers the Paradise of the Birds at the North Pole and negotiates for their return. See also 1869 Courthope.
2nd ed. without the subtitle. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. 1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. Another ed. London: Macmillan, 1895.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ludibria Lunae; or, The Wars of Women and the Gods. An Allegorical Burlesque - William John Courthope (1842-1919) (Smith, Elder and Co, 1869)
Epic poem. Satire on women's rights following Aristophanes. Presented as beginning in a eutopia which has no rights for women. Women plan to travel to the moon, discover that it is inhabited by the old gods and goddesses, who they challenge. Women are defeated by love and vanity. See also 1879 Courthope.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Two Thousand Years Hence - Henry [Nelson] O'Neil, A.R.A. (1817-80) (Chapman and Hall, 1868)
Picture of nineteenth century Britain from the point of view of a future in which Britain has been destroyed by a volcanic eruption and climatic changes. There is a world state centered in the Antipodes with one religion and English is the only language. Anti-democratic.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Yesterday, To-Day, and For Ever: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Edward H[enry] Bickersteth (1825-1906) (Rivington's, 1866)
Christianity in a long poem. Cantos II "The Paradise of the Blessed Dead", X "The Millennial Sabbath", and XII "The Many Mansions" present Christian eutopias. The poem looks at the damned and the saved and the Second Coming of Christ.
There were at least twenty-three editions. U.S. ed. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1875.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for Land-Babies" - Rev. Professor Charles Kingsley (1819-75) (Macmillan's Magazine, 1862)
Famous children's book that includes the presentation of a cockaigne-like utopia (the Doasyoulike) which is punished for living without care. The Water Babies slowly devolve back into apes. In addition, St. Brendan's Island is described, and Laputa from Gulliver's Travels and other utopias are briefly mentioned. A strong anti-Irish prejudice is present in the two main utopias.
Rev. illus. Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901). London: Macmillan, 1863. Rpt. illus. Linley Sambourne. London: Macmillan, 1886; and illus. W[illiam] Heath Robinson (1872-1944). London: Constable, 1915. U.S. ed. illus. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935). New York: Dodd and Mead, 1916. Critical eds. include The Water-Babies. Ed. Brian Alderson. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Textual Variants” (185-95), “The Iconography of The Water-Babies (197-200), and “Explanatory Notes) (201-30) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Richard D. Beards. New York: Penguin Books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxiii) and “Explanatory notes (191-98) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with illus. from various editions]; The Water-Babies. Ed. Richard Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (9-38) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with the illus. from the 1886 ed. and the 1863 illus. It also includes some other nineteenth century children’s literature, reviews of The Water-Babies, and some of Kingsley’s essays.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Brian Alderson with an Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (vii-xlix), “Textual Variants” (182-89), Kingsley, “The Wonders of the Shore” (190-201), and “Explanatory Notes” comp. by Alderson and rev. by Douglas-Fairhurst (203-35), [This ed. reprints the 1863 edition with its illustrations]. The book was advertized as the 150th anniversary ed., but this does not appear in the book.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Labour's Utopia" - [William Thomas] [Thornton] (1813-80) (Modern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and Other Poems, 1857)
Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.
Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions - William [Henry] Smith (1808-72) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1857)
The eutopia is spread throughout the book. It is a fairly conservative one aiming at improved community and family life. As it appears it is critiqued by those, generally more conservative, who believe it impossible. The author’s Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862. 2nd ed. with the additional subtitle Knowing and Feeling. A Contribution to Psychology with a Memoir of the Author by his wife (3-121) and “Contributions by William Smith to Blackwood’s Magazine” (122-25). Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Son, 1875 supplements the positions taken. Gravenhurst (127-329) and Knowing and Feeling (331-442).
2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Love Among the Ruins" - Robert Browning (1812-89) (Men and Women, 1855)
Poem set in the ruins of a city in which the rural life and love are the eutopia.
Rpt. In Men and Women. Ed. Paul Turner (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1972), 5-8, 312; Men and Women and Other Poems. Ed. J.W. Harper (London: J.M. Dent/Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975), 1-3, 231; in The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations. Ed. Roman A. King, Jr. 5 vols. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1981), 5: 163-66, 360; The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Volume 5 Men and Women. Ed. Ian Jack and Robert Inglesfield (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1995), 3-8; and Robert Browning. Ed. Adam Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 157-59.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Happy Colony. Dedicated to the Workmen of Great Britain - Robert Pemberton (1788-1879) (Saunders and Otley, 1854)
A eutopia designed to be established in New Zealand and based on a reformed educational system. It was never established. There are two fold out designs showing the layout of the proposed colony and of the colleges.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Benjamin Ward Richardson's Hygeia: A City of Health (1876).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved - F. A. Wilson, K.L.H., G.S.; Alfred B[ate] Richards Esq. (1820-76) (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850)
Non-fiction describing Canada incorporated within England and producing a eutopia for both.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Social Sketch, or, Everything in Common" - John Leech (1817-64) (Punch's Pocket Book for 1850, Containing Ruled Pages for Cash Accounts and Memoranda for Every Day of the Year; An Almanack; and a Variety of Useful Business Informations. The Illustrations by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and H.K. Browne, 1850)
Satire by means of a colored frontispiece showing the conflicts arising from common ownership.
Keywords: English author; Male author

National Evils and Practical Remedies, with the Plan of a Model Town. Illustrated by Two Engravings. Accompanied by an Examination of Some Important Moral and Political Problems - James S[ilk] Buckingham (1786-1855) (Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son and Co, 1849)
Eutopia proposes a communal experiment and gives detailed plans for it, including, at the front, a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Triumph of Woman: A Christmas Story - Charles Rowcroft (1798-1856) (Parry & Company, 1848)
A man from a vaguely described ideal planet without women visits earth and experiences both the reasons for the prohibition of women on his planet and their attractiveness. An earth woman's attraction proves too strong for him, and he settles on earth.
Rpt., with The Triumph of Woman as the running head, as Trials and Triumphs, or Tales for All Seasons. Illus. London: Thomas Holmes, nd; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 259-387.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Chronicles of Clovernook; With Some Account of The Hermit of Bellyfulle - Douglas [William] Jerrold (1803-57) (Punch Office, 1846)
Humor. Describes a eutopia of simplicity and no government or laws. Life is based on morality and kindness. Has an element of the Cockaigne with food and wine in abundance.
Rpt. in his A Man Made of Money and The Chronicles of Clovernook. Vol. 6 of The Writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected Edition (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853), 229-344; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 1-91.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Book of Platonopolis: or, The Perfect Commonwealth. A Romance of the Future" - [John Goodwyn] [Barmby] (1820-81) (The Communist Chronicle, or Promethean Magazine, The Apostle of the Communist Church and the Communitive Life; Communion With God, Communion of the Saints, Communion of Suffrages, and Communion of Goods, 1845)
Clearly intended to be a communal eutopia, but the only section published is very general and is mostly about architecture. There will be many of what he calls communitarians. See also his "Marriage in the New Common World." The Communist Journal and Advocate of the Communist Church, no. 1 (July 1846): 9-11, which presents the details of marriage and divorce in his ideal community.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Christian Commonwealth - John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) (Chapman and Hall, 1845)
Eutopia. Proposal for a community to assist the poor with details on how they will be improved economically, morally, and religiously. Includes a plate depicting a "Self-Supporting Institution" accompanied by an explanation and description. See also 1826 and 1834 Morgan.
Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 8: 330-400. Exp. ed. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 with Extinction of Pauperism on the cover and with an additional plate but without the appendices. Bound with Colonie chrétienne. Traduit de l’Anglais. No translator given. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 (43-90); and Extinction du Pauperisme by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Reimprimée comme offrant des suggestions précieuses pour un état de transition dans le progrès de la société vers la réalisation d’une colonie chrétienne. No information given on prior publication (Separately paged as 1-27). And trans. from the French as Extinction of Pauperism. And Published, as Offering Some Valuable Suggestions for a Transition State in the Progress of Society Towards the Realisation of a Christian Commonwealth. No translator given (Separately paged as 1-23).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Locksley Hall" - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) (Poems, 1842)
One section of the poem (lines 119-30 in the Ricks edition) depicts a future world war followed by a world federation and universal law. See also 1886 Tennyson, “Locksley Hall Sixty Years Later”.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 2: 92-111. Rpt. in The Poems of Tennyson. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longmans, 1969), 2: 688-99. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), II: 120-30, with an introductory note (118-20) and textual notes as footnotes.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Voyage from Utopia to Several Unknown Regions of the World. By Yarbfj. Translated from the American - John Francis Bray (1809-97) (Lawrence and Wishart, 1842)
Satire on contemporary nations.
Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 349-486. Claeys re-transcribed the text from the original manuscript.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"The Assassins. A Fragment of a Romance" - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) (Essays, Letters from Abroad, Translations and Fragments, 1840)
The Wandering Jew discovers an isolated Christian sect that is a eutopia of innocence and purity founded on love.
Rpt. in The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Roger Ingram and Walter E. Peck. 10 vols. (London: Published For The Julian Editions by Ernest Benn, 1929), 6: 155-71; in Shelley’s Prose or The Trumpet of Prophecy. Ed. David Lee Clark (London: Fourth Estate, 1988), 144-54; and in The Prose Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. E[ugene] B[ernard] Murray (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1993), 1: 124-39. Editorial Commentary 384-90.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Society Organized. An Allegory: Part I - William Augustus Gordon Hake (1811-1914) (Sherwood, 1840)
Poem with notes producing a vague utopia. Cooperation of elites, masses, and scientists.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Political Pilgrim's Progress" - [Thomas] [Doubleday] (1790-1870) (Northern Liberator, 1839)
An allegory in which Radical makes his way with his family from the City of Plunder to the City of Reform. While meeting much opposition and overcoming many temptations, he arrives in the City of Reform, which has no direct taxes, no professional politicians, no standing army, and no distinctions between rich and poor. It has a citizen's militia and requires its men aged 20 to 50 to be armed both physically and morally.
Rpt. with illustrations as The Political Pilgrim's Progress. From the Northern Liberator. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Eng.: Ptd. at the Northern Liberator Office by John Bell, 1839; and in Chartist Fiction. Thomas Doubleday, The Political Pilgrim's Progress. Thomas Martin Wheeler, Sunshine and Shadow. Ed. Ian Haywood (Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 1999), 17-59 with "Editor's Notes (59-63).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"An Island" - Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) (New Monthly Magazine and Humourist, 1837)
Poem describing an idyllic island.
Rpt. in her The Seraphim and Other Poems (London: Saunders and Otley, 1838), 185-88; and in The Complete Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1900), 32-34.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"1980" - H[enry] H[urry] Goodeve (1807-84) (Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835, 1835)
Technological utopia set in India with women serving in Parliament and limited racial equality for the wealthy.
Rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 85-108, with an editor’s introduction on 77-83.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

“The Junction of the Ocean. A Tale of the Year 2098” - Henry Meredith Parker (1796-1868) (Bengal Annual; A Literary Keepsake for 1835, 1835)
Disaster/dystopian story told by a survivor. The construction of the Panama Canal produces a massive flood when the two oceans come together, ultimately inundating most of the world.
Rev. in the author’s Bole Ponjis, Containing the Tale of the Buccaneer; A Bottle of Red Ink; The Decline and Fall of Ghosts; and Other Ingredients. 2. vols. (London/Calcutta, India: W. Thacker & Co., 1851), 1: 132-215. https://archive.org/details/boleponjisconta01parkgoog/page/n2/mode/1up; rpt. in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 38-75, with an editor’s introduction on 29-37.
Keywords: English author; Indian author; Male author

The Doctor &c. - Robert Southey (1774-1843) (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1834)
Chapter CCXLI describes the doctor’s utopia, called Columbia, which is a monarchy with an aristocracy and a Parliament elected by universal (male) suffrage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Hampden in the Nineteenth Century; or, Colloquies on the Errors and Improvement of Society - [John Minter] [Morgan] (1782-1854) (Edward Moxon, 1834)
Vol. 1 includes a cooperative eutopia among the remnants of the Incas (344-61). Vol. 2 includes material on Thomas More (1478-1535) in Chap. II, Robert Owen (1771-1858) in Chap. IV, and William Thompson (1775-1833) in Chap. X. The Appendix (354-431) includes material from Abram Combe (1785-1827), Robert Owen, and others. See also Colloquies on Religion and Religious Education: Being a Supplement to "Hampton in the Nineteenth Century". London: Moxon, 1837, which is not utopian but supplements the discussion in the earlier volume.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Lotos-Eaters" - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) (Poems, 1833)
Sailors are shipwrecked on an island that is a simple eutopia where all needs are easily met, but the implication is that such a life is ultimately not a good one.
Substantially rev. in his Poems. 2 vols. (London: Edward Moxon, 1842), 1: 175-84. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: William D. Ticknor, 1842), 1: 175-84. Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), I: 468-77, with an introductory note (467-68) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 76-80.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Description of an Architectural Model from a Design by Stedman Whitwell, Esq. for a Community Upon a Principle of United Interests as Advocated by Robert Owen, Esq. - [Thomas] Stedman Whitwell (1784-1840) (Hurst Chance & Co. and Effingham Wilson, 1830)
Description of a proposed community based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858) with some supporting essays. A large picture was drawn of the proposed community and may be seen at The Goldsmith’s Library, London University.
Rpt. in Cooperative Communities: Plans and Descriptions. Eleven Pamphlets 1825-1847. New York: Arno Press, 1972. Items separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Dialogue for the Year 2130, Extracted from the Album of a Modern Sibyl" - [Thomas Henry] [Lister] (1800-42) (The Keepsake for MDCCCXXX, 1830)
Satire on technology and colonialism. A future Britain with deep class divisions. Overeducated poor. Written as a play.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"London in a Thousand Years" - Eugenius Roche Esq. (1798-1829) (London in a Thousand Years; With other Poems, 1830)
Dystopia. While the poem begins with an almost eutopian description of London, it quickly becomes a description of London's disintegration and collapse.
Keywords: English author; French author; Irish author; Male author

The New Covenant Between God and His People; or, The Hebrew Constitution and Charter, with the Statutes and Ordinances, the Laws and Regulations, and Commands and Covenants - [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824) (Ptd. by A. Snell for Mr. Finleyson, 1830)
Eutopia. Very detailed constitution. See also 1801 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Letter from Sydney, the Principal Town of Australasia. Together with the Outline of a System of colonization - [Edward Gibbon] [Wakefield] (1796-1862) (Joseph Cross/Simpkin and Marshall/Effingham Wilson, 1829)
Some damning of the settlement process, particularly convict labor and the quality of some of the other immigrants. Shows the difficulty of working the land. Objections to the provincialism of the politics. But he sees Australia with a positive future, an “extension of Britain” that could be settled by young men and women, sent in equal numbers, which would reduce what he saw as the too-rapid growth of the population in Britain. Treated as a eutopia in Matthew Graves and Elizabeth Rechniewski. “Essays for an Empty Land: Australia as Political Utopia.” Cultures of the Commonwealth 17 (Winter 2010-2011): 37-51.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Practical Moral and Political Economy; or, the Government, Religion, and Institutions, Most Conducive to Individual Happiness and To National Power - T[homas] R[owe] Edmonds (1803-89) (Effingham Wilson, 1828)
Includes a short section (270-82) on the founding of a eutopia on an island based on the principles presented in the book. Emphasis on equality, particularly equal administration of justice, division of labor, and "gregariousness." Mentions the need to control population and suggests a parliament for children.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Voyage of Captain Popanilla - [Benjamin] [Disraeli] (1804-81) (Henry Colburn, 1828)
Imaginary voyage to contemporary England (heavily satirized). Starts from a eutopia on a South Seas island with complete sexual freedom. Parts of the novel derive from his first, unpublished novel "Aylmer Paillon".
Rpt. in his Alroy, Popanilla, Count Alarcos (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1906), 361-494; as “Popanilla.” In Popanilla and Other Tales. Vol. 3 of The Bradenham Edition of the Novels and Tales of Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (London: Peter Davies, 1926), 1-107; and rpt. from The Novels and Tales of Lord Beaconsfield (London: Longmans, Green, 1881), 4: 363-463 in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 7: 1-70. A new ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla to the glorious island of Vraibleusia, the wonderful city of Hubbabub, and the peaceable isle of Blunderland. With illustrations from drawings by Daniel Maclise. London: Henry Colburn, 1829. U.S. ed. as The Voyage of Captain Popanilla. Philadelphia, PA: Carey, Lea and Carey, 1828.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-second Century - [Jane] [Webb] (1807?-58) (Henry Colburn, 1827)
Eutopia and satire. Much technical advancement. Female absolute monarch. The Roman Catholic church is the established church. Universal education has led to simple speaking by the upper classes and affected speech by the lower classes.
2nd ed. as by Mrs. Loudon. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Another ed. as by Mrs. Loudon. London: Frederick Warne, [1872]. Another ed. as by Jane (Webb) Loudon abr. by Alan Rauch. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994. Critical ed. as by Jane Webb Loudon. Ed. Nickianne Moody and Andy Sawyer. Brighton, Eng.: EER/Edward Everett Root Publishers, [2022], with “A Note on the Text” (vii), “Preface: ‘A Strange, Wild Novel’: Jane Webb Loudon and The Mummy!” By Nickianne Moody and Andy Sawyer (viii-xix), “Endnotes” (336-49), “Sources of The Mummy: An encyclopedia of the future” (352-60), “Textual Change (361-424), and “John Claudius Loudon’s review of The Mummy!” (424-36). © 2021 but published March 2022.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Sketch of a Journey Through The Western States of North America, From New Orleans, By the Mississippi, Ohio, City of Cincinnati and Falls of Niagara, To New York, In 1827. With a Description of the New and Flourishing City of Cincinnati, By Messrs. B. Drake and E.D. Mansfield. And a Selection from Various Authors, on the Present Condition and Future Prospects of the Settlers, in the Fertile and Populous State of Ohio, Containing Information Useful to Persons Desirous of Settling in America - W[illiam] Bullock (c. 1773-1849) (John Miller, 1827)
Eutopia in that it contains a foldout plan for a proposed Town, to be called Hygeia to be located on the Ohio River in Kentucky.
Rpt. in Vol. 19 of Early Western Travels 1748-1846. A Series of Annotated Reprints of some of the best and rarest contemporary volumes of travel, descriptive of the Aborigines and Social and Economic Conditions in the Middle and Far West, during the Period of Early American Settlement. Ed. Reuben Gold Thwaites (Cleveland, OH: Arthur H. Clark, 1905), 113-54.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Man - [Mary Wollstonecraft] [Shelley] (1797-1851) (Henry Colburn, 1826)
Dystopia of the last man on earth.
Rpt. Ed. Hugh J. Lake. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1965 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxi); 2nd ed. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995, with an “Introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Judith Tarr (vii-xi); Ed. Morton D. Paley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994 with an editor’s “Introduction” (vii-xxviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (471-79); Ed. Anne McWhir. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 1996 with an editor’s “Introduction” (xiii-xli); and as vol. 4 of The Novels and Selected Works of Mary Shelley. Ed. Jane Blumberg with Nora Cook. 8 vols. London: William Pickering, 1996 with an “Introductory Note” (xi-xv) and “Silent Corrections” (366-67). Muriel Spark’s, Child of Light: A Reassessment of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly. Hadleigh, Eng.: Tower Bridge Publications, 1951 contains an “Appendix--The Last Man--An Abridged Version” (195-230) that summarizes the three volumes. Chapters I-V rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 321-71.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Revolt of the Bees - John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) (Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1826)
Dystopia followed by a eutopia. Opens with a colony of bees choosing capitalism and degenerating into starvation and war. A eutopia is then presented based on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858), specifically his ideas on the formation of character. Most of the text is taken up with discussion of the ideas. See also J.C. Prince, "The Revolt of the Bees. Verses Suggested by Reading the Above Work; Presented to Me By My Valued Friend Quintus Hortensius." The New Moral World [6].58 (November 30, 1839): 927-28. See also 1834 and 1845 Morgan. For Owen's eutopias, see 1813, 1831, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen.
2nd ed. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1828. Rpt. London: Ptd. for Hurst, Chance and Co. and Effingham Wilson, 1830. 3rd ed. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1839; rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 6: 309-438
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Rebellion of the Beasts; Or, The Ass is Dead! Long Live the Ass!! - [Robert Mackenzie] [Beverley] (1798-1868) (J. & H. L. Hunt, 1825)
Anti-monarchical satire in which animals successfully revolt against human domination.
Rpt. with Leigh Hunt as the author Chicago, IL: Wicker Park Press, 2004.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Australasia. A Poem Written for The Chancellor's Medal at the Cambridge Commencement, July, 1823 - W[illiam] C[harles] Wentworth (1790?-1872) (Ptd. for G. and W.D. Whittaker, 1823)
Australia as a eutopia.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"Final Chorus" - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) (Hellas A Lyrical Drama, 1822)
The Earth enters a new Golden Age.
Rpt. as Hellas. A Lyrical Drama. Reprinted from the Original Edition of 1822. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; as Hellas A Lyrical Drama. A Reprint of the Original Edition Published in 1822 With the Author’s Prologue and Notes in Various Hands. Ed. Thomas J. Wise. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886, with an Editor’s Preface on xi-xxiv, “Notes on Hellas by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley” on xxvii-xxx, “Note on the Prologue to Hellas: by Richard Garnett on xxxiii-xxxiv, Shelley’s Prologue on xxxv-xlv, Editor’s Notes on the Prologue to Hellas on xlvii-li, “Errata for Hellas on liii-lviii, Notes on 55-58, and “Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon” on 59-60; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. See also Hellas: A Lyrical Drama. The Choruses Set to Music by William Christian Selle, Mus. Doc. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1886; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975. Three stanzas that are in http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/174388 are not in the printed text.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Epipsychidion: Verses Addressed to the Noble and Unfortunate Lady Emilia V--- Now Imprisoned In the Convent of ---- - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) (C. and J. Ollier, 1821)
Love poem describing a lover's eutopia on an island.
Rpt. in Epipsychidion. A Type Fac-simile Reprint of the Original Edition First Published in 1821. With an Introduction by The Rev. Stofford A. Brooke, M.A. And a Note by Algernon Charles Swinburne. Ed. Robert Alfred Potts. London: Published for the Shelley Society by Reeves and Turner, 1887; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975; and in The Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley Including Materials Never Before Printed in Any Edition of the Poems. Ed. Thomas Hutchinson (London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press, 1919), 405-19, with “Fragments Connected with Epipsychidion” (419-24) and “Notes on the Text and Its Punctuation” (893); in Shelley’s Poetry and Prose. Authoritative Texts Criticism. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Sharon B. Powers (New York: W.W. Norton, 1977), 373-88; 2nd ed. Ed. Donald H. Reiman and Neil Fraistat (New York: W.W. Norton, 2002), 390-407; and in The Poems of Shelley. 4 vols. Ed. Michael Rossington, Jack Donovan, and Kelvin Everest. With the assistance of Andrew Lacey and Laura Barlow (London/New York: Routledge, 2014), 4: 126-172, with introductory notes on 115-125, and “Appendix: Fragments connected with Epipsychidion” (173-190).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Christian Policy in Full Practice Among the People of Harmony, A Town in the State of Pennsylvania, North America; As Described in Melish's Travels through the United States, and Birkbeck's Notes on a Journey in America. To Which are subjoined, a Concise view of the Spencean System of Agrarian Fellowship, and some Observations on the manifest Similarity between the Principles of that System and of the truly Fraternal and Christianly Establishment of the Harmonists - [Thomas] [Evans] (b. 1763) (Hay and Turner, 1818)
Christian eutopia in which all land and other major goods are public. Written constitution. Politically divided into small parishes or districts. The first thirteen pages (of sixteen) are a description of the Harmony Community in the United States founded by the German religious leader George Rapp (1757-1847). See also 1816 and 1817 Evans.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Address of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists To All Mankind On the Means of Promoting Liberty and Happiness - [Thomas] [Evans] (b. 1763) (Ptd. by order of the Society, 1817)
A critique of the current system and a summary of the proposals of Thomas Spence (1750-1814) as slightly revised by Evans and made explicitly Christian.See also 1816 and 1818 Evans and The Address and Regulations of the Society of Spencean Philanthropists With an Abstract of Spence’s Plan. London: Pub. by order of the Society, 1815 with the Regulations (7-10) and the Abstract (11-12). 12 pp. [LU].  For Spence’s utopias, see 1782, 1795, 1798, and 1801 Spence.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Laon and Cythna; or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) (Ptd. for Sherwood, Neely, & Jones and C. and J. Ollier, 1817)
Poem. Includes a eutopia inspired by the French Revolution and the writings of William Godwin (1756-1836). The eutopia occurs throughout the text and stresses liberty, equality, and the emancipation of women.
This was the original edition which was withdrawn and slightly revised because the printer objected to the suggestion of incest and the radicalism of parts of the text. It was rpt. as The Revolt of Islam; A Poem in Twelve Cantos. London: Ptd. for C. and J. Ollier, 1817 [Some copies have 1818 as the publication date] and was known under this title for some time, with the original title being restored in late 20th century editions. Rpt. as “Laon and Cythna or the Revolution of the Golden City [Usually known as 'The Revolt of Islam' 1817]”. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume II 1814-1817. Ed. Neville Rogers. 4 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1975), 99-270, including “Laon and Cyntha: Rejected Passages” (265-270) with “Note by Mary Shelley On Loan and Cyntha [The Revolt of Islam]” (270-73) and “Notes” (360-95); as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Jack Donovan. The Poems of Shelley. Volume Two 1817-1819. Ed. Kelvin Everest and Geoffrey Matthews (Hatlow, Essex, Eng.: Pearson Educational, 2000), 10-265, with an [“Introduction”] by the editor (10-29), extensive footnotes throughout, and “Fragments from the L&C Notebooks.” Ed. Jack Donovan (261-65); and as “Laon and Cythna; Or, The Revolution of the Golden City: A Vision of the Nineteenth Century. In the Stanza of Spenser.” Ed. Michael J. Neth. The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Volume Three. Ed. Neil Fraisat and Nora Crook (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), 109-320, with “Commentary” by Michael J. Neth (550-941), including “Supplements: Rejected Opening and Ancillary Fragments for Laon and Cyntha” (908-941) “Historical Collation” (993-1061), Mary Shelley’s “Note on The Revolt of Islam” (1073-75), “The Revision of Laon and Cythna to The Revolt of Islam (1077-88), and “Shelley’s List of Errata for Laon and Cythna/The Revolt of Islam (1082). See also The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. A Facsimile Edition, with Full Transcripts and Scholarly Apparatus. Ed. Donald H Reiman. Volume XIII Drafts from Laon and Cythna Facsimiles of Bodleian MSS. Shelley ADDS. e 14 and ADDS. e. 19. Ed. Tatsuo Tokoo with an Introduction and Notes. New York/London: Garland Publishing, 1992.
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Melincourt - [Thomas Love] [Peacock] (1785-1866) (Ptd. for T. Hookham, Jun. and Co. and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817)
One theme is a satire on English politics in which an orangutan is elected as an MP.
U.S. ed. 2 vols. Philadelphia, PA: Moses Thomas, 1817.
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Christian Policy, the Salvation of the Empire. Being a Clear and Concise Examination into the Causes that Have Produced the Impending, Unavoidable National Bankruptcy; And the Effects that must ensue, unless averted by the Adoption of this only real and Desirable Remedy, Which would elevate these Realms to a Pitch of Greatness Hitherto Unattained By any Nation that ever Existed - Thomas Evans (b. 1763) (Ptd. for the author, 1816)
Eutopia in which all land, water, mines, houses, and feudal permanent property belong to the people. Evans was a close associate of Thomas Spence (1750-1814), and this work says that the policy of the early Christians should be adopted and then goes on to describe Spence's plan. For Spence's utopias, see 1782, 1795, 1798, and 1801 Spence. See also 1817 and 1818 Evans.
2nd ed. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1816. The 2nd ed. is identical except for 2nd ed. on the title page.
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"Darkness" - George Gordon Byron [Lord Byron] (1788-1824) (Lord Byron: The Complete Political Works, 1816)
End of world dystopia.
Rpt. in A Year Without Winter. Illus. Ed. Dehlia Hannah, ed. with Brenda Cooper, Joey Eschrich, and Cynthia Selin, Fiction eds. (New York: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, 2018), 25-27.
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Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. A Poem - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) (Ptd. for J. Johnson, 1812)
Dystopian predictive poem showing the ruin of Britain after Commerce leaves her. See 1814 Grant for a response. A detailed study of the poem and its context is E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Rpt. Warrington, Eng.: The “Sunrise” Publishing Co., 1911 with the cover adding A Prophecy of England’s Downfall; in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 1: 232-50; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 1: 232-50; in The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 152-61 with “Notes and Variants” (309-17); as Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. 1812. Poole, Eng: Woodstock Books, 1995; in Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwells, 1997), 10-18, with an editor’s introduction (7-10) and notes (10-18); in her Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 160-73; and in E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 270-77.
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The Empire of the Nairs; or, The Rights of Women. An Eutopian Romance, in Twelve Books - James [Henry] Lawrence (1773-1840) (Ptd. for T. Hookham and E.T. Hookham, 1811)
Largely adventure and romance but presented as a picture of a eutopia of equality for women. Men are completely free from all duties except warfare. Women are revered as mothers and supported as such by the state. No marriage and women choose their lovers as they wish. Every house belongs to some woman and men live with relatives or lovers. Lawrence drew inspiration from and refers to Mary Wollstonecraft's (1759-97) Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1782). The description of sexual freedom influenced Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822); see 1817 and 1821 Shelley, both of which were so influenced. Shelley wrote Lawrence on August 17, 1812, saying "Your 'Empire of the Nairs,' which I read this Spring, succeeded in making me a perfect convert to its doctrines" (The Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Ed. Frederick L. Jones. 2 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1964), 1: 323. See Walter Graham, "Shelley and The Empire of the Nairs." PMLA 40.4 (December 1925): 881-91. The Nairs are based on an actual Hindu caste from Kerela in India. On the actual Nairs, see Élie Reclus, "The Naïrs, Warrior Nobility and the Matriarchate." In his Primitive Folk: Studies in Comparative Ethnology (London: Walter Scott, [1891?]), 143-77. Originally published in French but no translator given.
Rpt. as The Empire of the Nairs (1811). 4 vols. in 1. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1976; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 5: 1-328.
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Publicola, A Sketch of the Times and Prevailing Opinions, from the Revolution in 1800 to the Present Year 1810. Addressed to the People of England, and now first translated from the Russian copy - [John] [Reeves] (1752-1829) (Ptd. for J. Wright, 1810)
The dystopia created by a successful republican revolution in England.
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"Equality--A Political Romance" - [John] [Lithgow] (The Temple of Reason (Philadelphia, PA), 1802)
Eutopia. No money, land is held in common, and labor is required from all until age 50. No towns--houses are spread over the entire country. Everyone over 15 has a separate apartment and keeps it even when married. Gerontocracy. Deist. Every male over 18 is provided with arms and must know how to use them.
Rpt. as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: Liberal Union, 1837. This ed. rpt. in The New Moral World (London) [5].3 - 5, 7, 10, 13, 15 - 16, 20 (November 10 - 24, December 8, 29, 1838; January 13, February 2 - 9, March 9, 1839): 45-46; 51-52; 69-71; 99-100; 158-59; 206-07; 239-40; 247-49; 310-11; as Equality; or, A History of Lithconia. Boston, MA: Pub. by J. P. Mendum, 1863; and as Equality, A History of Lithconia. Philadelphia, PA: The Prime Press, 1947. Rpt. from The Temple of Reason as by James Reynolds in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
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A Description of Jerusalem: Its Houses and Streets, Squares, Colleges, Markets, and Cathedrals, The Royal and Private Palaces, with The Garden of Eden In the Centre, As laid down in the last chapters of Ezekiel, Also The First Chapter of Genesis Verified, as Strictly Divine and True and The Solar System, With All Its Plurality of Inhabited Worlds, and Millions of Suns, As Positively Proved To Be Delusive and False. By Mr. Brothers, Who Will Be Revealed To the Hebrews As Their King and Restorer - Mr. [Richard] Brothers (1757-1824); Mr. Brothers (Ptd. for George Riebau, 1801)
Restored Jerusalem as eutopia. See also 1830 Brothers, his A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times. Book the First. Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the First Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the Restoration of the Hebrews to Jerusalem, by the Year of 1798: Under their Revealed Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794. The second part has the separate title page A Revealed Knowledge of the Prophecies & Times particularly of the present time, the present war, and the prophecy now fulfilling. The Year of the World 5913. Book the Second. Containing, with other Great and Remarkable Things, Not Revealed by any other Person on Earth, the sudden and perpetual fall of the Turkish, German, and Russian Empires, Wrote under the direction of the Lord God, and Published by his Sacred Command: It Being the Second Sign of Warning for the Benefit of all Nations. By the Man that will be revealed to the Hebrews as their Prince and Prophet. London: Np, 1794; and A Letter from Mr. Brothers to Miss Cott, the recorded daughter of David, and future queen of the Hebrews. With an Address to the Members of His Brintannic Majesty’s Council and through them to all governments and people on Earth. London: G. Riebau/Edinburgh, Scot.: Rpt by J. Robertson, 1798.
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The Restorer of Society to Its Natural State in a Series of Letters to a Fellow Citizen. With a Preface, Containing the Objections of a Gentleman Who Perused the Manuscript, and the Answers of the Author - Thomas Spence (1750-1814) (Ptd. for the Author by A. Searle, 1801)
Eutopia similar to 1782, 1795, and 1798 Spence. As in all Spence's eutopias, this one stresses that land should be in the hands of the local parish with one simple tax that will support all needed services. Public granary; easy divorce; no war; free trade; improved hospitals.
Rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 69-103. Version of 1803 rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 127-65.
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"To Miss Kinder, on Receiving a Note dated February 30th" - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) (The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1800)
Eighteen line poem describing a day when everyone behaves well.
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The Vagabond. A Novel - George Walker (1772-1847) (Ptd. for G. Walker, 1799)
Satire on William Godwin (1756-1836), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), David Hume (1711-76), and other mostly republican philosophers. Chaps. 7 and 8 of vol. 2 depict "a perfect Republic on the Principles of Equality and Political Justice" where nothing works the way it was intended.
Two other editions in 1799. The 2nd ed. is identical to the 1st and the 3rd ed. has changes. There is one edition with the subtitle or, Practical Infidelity: A Novel. Harrisonburg, VA: Davidson & Bourne, 1814. Critical ed. in one vol. ed. W.M. Verhoeven. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2004, including relevant essays.
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The Captive of the Castle of Sennaar: An African Tale Containing Various Anecdotes of the Sophians Hitherto Unknown To Mankind in General - George Cumberland (1754-1848) (Ptd. for the author, 1798)
Two lost race eutopias in central Africa. The first, presented in the 1798 and 1810 editions, is peopled with Greek sun worshippers. These people, the Sophians, are art lovers, Deists, have gender equality, and racial, religious, and ethnic toleration. The second, presented in the second part first published in 1991, are Christians. These people, the Jovinians, have no art and proselytize their failure simple form of Protestantism and practice a general community of goods. They recognize the importance of sex, and the 1810 edition downplayed the sexual elements.
Rpt. rev. as vol. 1 of his Original Tales. London: Miller and Pople, 1810. First ed. rpt. together with the previously unpub. second part ed. G.E. Bentley, Jr. Montréal, QC, Canada: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991, which includes “Notes on the Text” (297-306), “Epilogue The Geography of The Captive and the Historical Contexts of the Sophians, the Jovinians, and Menno” (307-22), “Appendix I Substantive Emendations to the Text of The Captive Part I (1798) found in the Second Edition (1810)” (323-48), “Appendix II Description of the Manuscript of Part 2” (349-51).
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The Constitution of a Perfect Commonwealth. Being the French Constitution of 1793. Amended, and rendered entirely conformable to the Whole Rights of Man - T[homas] Spence (1750-1814) (Author, 1798)
Detailed eutopia. Another version of Spence’s cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1795, and 1801 Spence.
Later ed. as The Constitution of Spensonia A Country in Fairyland Situated Between Utopia and Oceana Brought from Thence by Captain Swallow (i.e. Thomas Spence). London: Author, 1801. This ed. rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 93-109. Versions are also available in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, England: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications, 1982), 54-69, 104-118; Pig’s Meat: Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Glossop (Nottingham, England: Spokesman, 1982), 166-185; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 145-161. An extract was published anonymously as The receipt to make a millennium or happy world. 4th ed. Single sheet. Np, [1805?] This was also published as Something to a Purpose. A receipt to make a millennium or Happy World. Extracts from The Constitution of Spensonia. London: Ptd. for T. Spence, [1803].
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The History of Mr Fantom, The New Fashioned Philosopher and His Man William - Hannah More (1745-1833) (Sold by J. Marshall, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; J. Elder, at Edinburgh, 1797)
Satire on utopian projections.
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The Commonwealth of Reason - William Hodgson, Now confined in the prison of Newgate, London, for sedition (1745-1851) (Ptd. and sold by the author, and also by H.D. Symonds, B. Crosby, J. Ridgway, J. Smith, J. Burke, 1795)
Essay including an outline of a new government and a proposed constitution. The author's crime was proposing a toast to "The French Republic" and "comparing the king to a German hog butcher".
Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 199-247.
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Description of Spensonia - [Thomas] [Spence] (1750-1814) (Hive of Liberty, 1795)
A version of Spence's cooperative commonwealth. See also 1782, 1798, and 1801 Spence.
Rpt. in Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 Together With His Description of Spensonia, Constitution of Spensonia, End of Oppression, Recantation of the End of Oppression, Newcastle on Tyne Lecture Delivered in 1775. Also a Brief Life of Spence and a Description of His Political Token Dies by Arthur W. Waters (Leamington Spa, Eng.: Privately Ptd., 1917), 82-91; and in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 25-33. First published in somewhat different form in Spence’s journal Pig’s Meat; or Lessons for the Swinish Multitude as “The Marine Republic” 2.6 (1794): 68-72; and “A Further Account of Spensonia” 2.18-19 (1794): 205-18. These versions rpt. in Pig’s Meat: The Selected Writings of Thomas Spence, Radical and Pioneer Land Reformer. Ed. G.I. Gallop (Nottingham, Eng.: Spokesman, 1982), 76-90.
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Memoirs of Planetes, or a Sketch of the Laws and Manners of Makar - [Thomas] [Northmore] (1766-1851) (Ptd. by Vaughan Griffiths, 1795)
Eutopia. Detailed constitution of thirty-one articles and the positive effects of adopting it. The first articles are concerned with democratic political reform and the reduction in the number of laws. Trial by jury. No capital punishment. Reform of inheritance. Improved education. Marriage and divorce civil not religious. Freedom of the press.
Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 137-97.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters Between Mrs. Darnford and Her Friends - Clara Reeve (1729-1807) (Ptd. for T. Hookham and J. Carpenter, 1792)
Eutopia in the form of an epistolary novel. Begins as an essay on education but broadens into one on society as a whole and plans for the best one. Conservative in that it is hierarchical, and women's education is in those things thought suitable for women.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1974.
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Panopticon; or, The Inspection-House: Containing the Idea of a New Principle of Construction Applicable to Any Sort of Establishment, In Which Persons of Any Description Are To Be Kept Under Inspection; And in Particular to Penitentiary-Houses, Prisons, Houses of Industry, Work-houses, Poor-house, Manufactories, Mad-houses, Lazarettos, Hospitals, and Schools: With a Plan of Management Adapted to the Principle: In a Series of Letters, Written in the Year 1787, From Crecheff in White Russia, To a Friend in England - Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) (Sold by T. Payne, 1791)
Detailed plans for an ideal utilitarian building where the inmates can be kept under constant observation at low cost.
Rpt. in The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Published Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring. 11 vols. (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843), 4: 37-172; and in The Panopticon Writings. Ed. Miran Božovič. London: Verso, 1995. Includes “Panopticon Letters” (29-95), “Postscript, Part I. Containing Further Particulars and Alterations Relative to the Plan of Construction Originally Proposed; Principally Adapted to the Purpose of a Panopticon Penitentiary-House” [printed 1791] (97-114), and “A Fragment on Ontology” (115-38), which is about fictions not the panopticon. See also “Panopticon versus New South Wales: or, The Panopticon Penitentiary System, and The Penal Colonization System, Compared. In a Letter Addressed to the Right Honourable Lord Pelham. By Jeremy Bentham, of Lincoln’s Inn, Esq.” (Bowring 4: 173-248).
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Mammuth; or, Human Nature Displayed on a Grand Scale: In a Tour with the Tinkers, into the Inland Parts of Africa - [William] [Thomson] (1746-1817) (Ptd. for J. Murray, 1789)
Eutopia. Anti-technology--better to use nature than the best mechanical contrivances. Reason, learning, good repute, and nobility are the bases for government. Elective monarchy. Euthanasia is allowed for the old of good character after they have been judged worthy and paid “the usual fine.”
Rpt. in Gulliveriana: IV. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1973), 229-384. Another edition--London: Ptd. for G. and T. Wilkie, 1789.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

"Letter XV. For the Lewes Journal. A Midsummer-Night's Dream; or, a Trip to the Moon" - Richard Michell (Fugitive Pieces, on Various Subjects, 1787)
The moon is described as having luxuriant parks, with lots of flowers and other natural and artificial beauties. The parks were filled with people “. . . variously engaged, but to appearances all equally happy.” Elegantly simple dress. Huge amphitheatre that can hold the entire population of the planet filled for the Autumn Festival to given thanks for the year’s productions. “The inhabitants of the Moon, Man, are perfect strangers to all those irregular, turbulent passions, in the gratification, instead of the government of which, you mortals are madly seeking happiness. . .” (89. Original emphasis). “. . . total absence of all the disorderly affections that torment the HUMAN breast” (89. Original emphasis). “The Lunarians are wiser, and better, and therefore happier beings than you are” (90. Original emphasis).
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"An Island in the Moon" - William Blake (1757-1827) (Blake. Complete Writings With Variant Readings., 1784)
A satire on contemporary events, manners, and people using an imaginary society on the moon.
The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake. Newly rev. ed. Ed. David V. Erdman, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 449-65, with Textual Notes (849-50. Also pub. as An Island in the Moon. A Facsimile of the Manuscript Introduced, Transcribed, and Annotated by Michael Phillips with a Preface by Haven O’More. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press in association with Institute of Traditional Science, 1987. A different version Ed. and Decorated by Gavin O’Keefe. [U.S.] The Purple Mouth Press, 1998. A 1787 ms. was published as An Island in the Moon. Illus. Nicholas Parry. Market Drayton, Eng.: Tern Press, 2007.
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The Man in the Moon; or, Travels into the Lunar Regions - [William] [Thomson] (1746-1817) (Ptd. for J. Murray, 1783)
The Man of the People is Charles James Fox (1749-1806). Mostly famous people living on the moon after death. Some minor eutopian parts, including a convent of women.
Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 121-215.
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Mount Henneth, A Novel - [Robert] [Bage] (1728-1801) (T. Lowndes, 1782)
A small part of the novel is a description of a group of friends creating a eutopia in a castle.
Rpt. Dublin, Ireland: Ptd. Price, Whitestone, Sleater, Moncrieffe, Walker, Mills, Beatty, E. Cross, and Burton, 1782; and as Mount Henneth, A Novel in a Series of Letters. 2nd ed. 2 vols. London: W. Lowndes, 1788. Dublin ed. rpt. New York: Garland, 1979
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A Supplement to the History of Robinson Crusoe, Being the History of Crusonia, or Robinson Crusoe's Island, Down to the Present Time. Copied from a letter sent by Mr. Wishit, Captain of the Good-Intent, to an intelligent Friend in England, after being in a Storm in May, 1781 driven out of his course to the Said Island. Published by the said Gentleman, for the agreeable Perusal of Robinson Crusoe's Friends of all Sizes - [Thomas] [Spence] (1750-1814) (T. Saint, 1782)
Eutopia. Robinson Crusoe’s island had developed the institutions found in Britain at the time, but a revolution had overthrown the system, abolished all landlords except the local parish, and established majority rule and a citizen’s militia. See also 1795, 1798 and 1801 Spence.
Also in Spence’s phonetic spelling in the same volume. The standard version is rpt. in The Political Works of Thomas Spence. Ed. H.T. Dickinson (Newcastle upon Tyne, Eng.: Avero (Eighteenth-Century) Publications Ltd., 1982), 5-15; in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 4: 105-120; and in Thomas Spence: The Poor Man’s Revolutionary. Ed. Alastair Bonnett and Keith Alexander (London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2014), 133-144.
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"The State of England In the Year 2199" - [Thomas] [Lyttelton Lyttelton], [Baron] (1744-79) (Poems By a Young Nobleman, of Distinguished Abilities, lately deceased: Particularly The State of England, and the once flourishing City of London. In a Letter from an American Traveller, Dated from the Ruinous Portico of St. Paul,s, in the Year 2199, 1780)
Dystopia of the downfall of England. The poem is dated March 21, 1771.
2nd ed. (London: Ptd. for G. Kearsley, 1780), 1-16. 3rd ed. rev. (London: Ptd. for G. Kearsley, 1780), 11-26.
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"The Hill of Science. A Vision" - [Anna Laetitia] [Barbauld] (1743-1825) (Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, 1773)
Allegorical dream of a hill topped by the Temple of Truth with various people trying to reach the top and mostly falling by the wayside. Entry is through the Gate of Languages. Application does the best.
Rpt. (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ptd. by James Magee, 1774), 14-19; (London: J. Johnson, 1775), 27-35; (London: J. Johnson, 1792), 27-35; and in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 2: 163-70; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 2: 163-70. Rpt. in The American Museum, or Universal Magazine 11.3 (March 1792): 82-84; and the Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 6.265 (June 8, 1793).
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"Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government." - [Catherine] [Macaulay] (1731-91) (Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli, 1767)
Eutopia. Essay describing a formal government organization designed for Corsica, with a Senate of no more than fifty members and a house of the people of no fewer than 250 members. Generally, the Senate debates issues before the house of the people. Rotation of office; agrarian law to limit land holding. Limitations on the increase in property holding include the division of property to all male heirs on death and no dowries. Unmarried women are provided with annuities. Compare with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712-78) Constitutional Project for Corsica (Projet de constitution pour la Corse) (1763).
Rpt. in her Political Writings. Ed. Max Skjönsberg (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 103-108, with an editorial introduction on 86-88. 2nd ed. as “Short Sketch, &c Addressed to Signior Paoli. The Second Edition with Two Letters One From an American Gentleman to the Author Which Contain some Comments on Her Sketch of the Democratic Form of Government and the Author’s Answer.” In her Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’s Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli (London: Ptd. for W. Johnston, T. Davies, E. and C. Dilly, J. Allmon, Robinson and Roberts, and T. Cadell, 1769), 19-28.
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An Account of the Giants Lately Discovered. In a Letter to a Friend in the Country - [Horace] [Walpole] (1717-1797) (Ptd. for F. Noble, 1766)
Satire on discovery narratives, particularly John Byron, The Narrative of the Honourable John Byron (Commodore in a Late Expedition round the World). Containing an Account of the Great Distresses Suffered by Himself and His Companions on the Coast of Patagonia, From the Year 1740, till Their Arrival in England, 1746. With a Description of St. Jago de Chili, And the Manners and Customs of the Inhabitants. Also a relation of the Loss of the Wager Man of War. Written By Himself. To which is prefixed, A Biographical Sketch of the Author. London: Ptd for S. Baker and G. Leich, 1768. Rpt. with slight variations in the title Aberdeen, Scot.: Ptd. and pub. by James Johnson, 1822.
Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Edited by Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 329-39.
Keywords: English author

An Account of the First Settlement, Laws, Form of Government, and Police, of the Cessares, a People of South America: In Nine Letters, from Mr. Vander Neck [pseud.], one of the Senators of that Nation, to his Friend in Holland. With Notes by the Editor - [James] [Burgh] (1714-75) (Ptd. for J. Payne, 1764)
A detailed, regimented eutopia presented in the founding of a colony. Each male colonist to get sufficient land for their needs and the rest reserved for their descendants. Everyone is expected to be "sober, industrious and peaceable" (Claeys 80), and anything that would lead to a different condition is illegal. There are no lawyers, and plain speaking in trials is expected. Inspectors report annually on both the condition of the people, with ministers a particular concern, and that of the infrastructure. Useful trades taught along with intellectual, moral, and religious material.
Rpt. in Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994), 71-136.
Keywords: English author; Scottish author

A Trip to the Moon. Containing an Account of the Island of Noibla. Its Inhabitants, Religious and Political Customs, &c. - [Francis] [Gentleman] (1728-84) (Ptd. by A. Ward for S. Crowder, et al.,, 1764)
Eutopia with simple laws. The head of the family is responsible for the conduct of all family members and must give a weekly account of their activities. Everyone must attend public worship at least once a day. Children are raised by a woman other than the natural mother because mothers are less likely to be willing to correct a child.
Rpt. in Gulliveriana: I. Ed. Jeanne Welcher and George E. Bush, Jr. (Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1970), 97-204; and as A Trip to the Moon. New York: Garland, 1974.
Keywords: English author; Irish author

A Description of Millenium Hall, And the Country Adjacent: Together with the Character of the Inhabitants, And such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections, As May excite in the Reader proper Sentiments of Humanity, and lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue - [Mrs.] [Sarah (Robinson)] [Scott] (1723-95) (Ptd. for J. Newbery, 1762)
Describes a country estate of celibate women who help support the people of the area by providing work for everyone, a start in life for young married couples, and orphans and children from large families for older women to raise. There is also an enclosure for deformed people who would otherwise have to show themselves in sideshows. Much of the novel is taken up with the stories of the women, and these provide a critique of contemporary society.
Rpt. as A Description of Millenium Hall. An 18th Century Novel. Ed. Walter M. Crittenden with a “Preface” (5-22) by the editor. New York: Bookman Associates, 1955; ed. Jane Spencer with an “Introduction” (v-xvi) by the editor. London: Virago, 1986; ed. Gary Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 1995; and the 1778 4th ed. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 183-327.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale - Samuel Johnson (1709-84) (R. and J. Dodsley, 1759)
A critique of utopianism. Happy Valley has a supposedly perfect life for the children of an emperor but seems dull to Rasselas, and he explores the world finding problems with almost all activities. Eutopia is found neither in the Happy Valley nor in the outside world. A continuation that is sometimes called a utopia, e.g., by Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 79, that I cannot make fit any reasonable definition of utopia is [Ellis Cornelia Knight], Dinarbas; A Tale: Being a Continuation of RASSELAS, Prince of Abissinia. London: Dilley, 1790. Rpt. ed. Ann Messenger. East Lansing, MI: Colleagues Press, 1993.
Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. London: Harrison and Company, 1787; and Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia: A Tale. London: Ptd. for Joseph Wennman, 1787. Rpt. as The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia. A Tale. Ed. Geoffrey Tillotson and Brian Jenkins. London: Oxford University Press, 1971, with “Textual Notes” (135-39) and “Explanatory Notes” (140-45). Rpt. under the original title in Samuel Johnson. Ed. Donald Greene (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984), 335-418, with “Notes” (811-13). Rpt. as “The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia.” Rasselas and Other Tales. Ed. Gwin J. Kolb (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990), 3-176, with a discussion material related to the text in the editor’s “Introduction” (xxvi-lxxi), additional material in footnotes, and the editor’s “Appendix The Reception of Rasselas, 1759-1800” (251-58). Fourth ed. (1766) rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 99-181.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Vindication of Natural Society: or, A View of the Miseries and Evils arising to Mankind from every Species of Artificial Society. In a Letter to Lord **** By a late Noble Writer - [Edmund] [Burke] (1729/30-97) (Ptd. for M. Cooper, 1756)
Satire on the idealization of the state of nature.
2nd ed. London: Ptd. for R. and J. Dodsley, 1757 adds The Second Edition: With a New Preface to the title. Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3: 1-38.
Keywords: English author; Irish author

Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain: Interspersed with Literary Reflexions, and Accounts of Antiquities and Curious Things. In Several Letters - Thomas Amory (1691-1788) (Ptd. for John Noon, 1755)
Includes (340-45) a description of a eutopian community of women with twenty-four members and twelve boarders.
Keywords: English author

The Dreamer - [William] [King] (1685-1763) (Ptd. for W. Owen, 1754)
A series of dreams, largely satirical but with the description of an Athenian-style republic and a variety of specific reforms such as suggestions for a healthy life.
Keywords: English author

"Crumble-Hall" - Mrs. [Mary] Leapor of Brackley in Northamptonshire (1722-46) (Poems on Several Occasions, 1751)
Poem describing an English country house as a eutopia. Food and rest are provided for all, including the poor. The emphasis on food makes it read like a cockaigne. Stress on kitchen workers.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Life and Adventures of Peter Wilkins A Cornish Man: Relating particularly, His Shipwreck near the South Pole; his wonderful Passage thro' a subterraneous Cavern into a kind of new World; his there meeting with a Gawry or flying woman, whose life he preserv'd, and afterwards married her; his extraordinary Conveyance to the Country of Glums and Gawrys, or Men and Women that fly. Likewise a Description of this strange Country, with the Laws, Customs, and Manners of its Inhabitants, and the Author's remarkable Transactions among them. Taken from his own Mouth, in his Passage to England from off Cape Horn in America, in the Ship Hector. With an INTRODUCTION, giving an Account of the surprizing Manner of his coming on board that Vessel, and his Death on landing at Plymouth in the Year 1739. Illustrated with several CUTS, clearly and distinctly representing the Structure and Mechanism of the Wings of the Glums and Gawrys, and the Manner in which they use them either to swim or fly - [Robert] [Paltock] (1697-1767) (J. Robinson and R. Dodsley, 1751)
Imaginary voyage which begins with a Robinsonade in which the man then meets and marries a winged woman. She then takes him to her homeland where the man introduces reforms, with, for example slavery being abolished and democratic procedures introduced.
Rpt. Dublin. Ireland: George Faulkner, 1751; in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 201-348 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with very slight changes in the title and illus. D. H. Friston. London: John Dick, [1861]; with an “Introduction” by A. H. B. (vii-xiii). London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, [1915]; with the same “Introduction” (vii-xiii) illus. Edward Bawden. London: J. M. Dent/New York: E. P. Dutton, 1928; Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974; Ed. Christopher Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1973 with an “Introduction” (ix-xviii) and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88); rev. ed. ed. Bentley with a new “Introduction (vii-xxxiii) by James Grantham Turner and “Explanatory Notes” (383-88) by Bentley. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990; New York: Garland, 1974; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 143-410, which reprints the first edition.
Keywords: English author

The Capacity and Extent of the Human Understanding; Exemplified In the Extraordinary Case of Automathes; A Young Nobleman, Who was Accidentally left in his Infancy, upon a desolate Island, and continued Nineteen Years in that solitary State, separated from all Human Society. A Narrative Abounding with many surprizing Occurrences, both Useful and Entertaining to the Reader - [John] [Kirkby] (1705-54) (Ptd. for R. Manby and H. Shute Cox, 1745)
Opens with a shipwreck and the discovery of Christian eutopia called Soteria with a detailed description of church organization. Separation of church and state. The church runs the educational system. Separation of men and women in church, so that women will not be visible. The point is made that strict discipline is needed even in a good society due to human backsliding. The eutopia is then followed by a Robinsonade.
Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 583-638 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 2: 49-141.
Keywords: English author

The Memoirs of Sigr Guadentio di Lucca: Taken from his Confession and Examination before the Fathers of the Inquisition at Bologna in Italy. Making a Discovery of an Unknown Country in the midst of the Vast Deserts of Africa, as Ancient, Populous, and Civilized, as the Chinese. With an Account of their Antiquity, Origine, Religion, Customs, Polity, & c. and the Manner how they got first over those vast Deserts. Interspers'd with several most suprizing and curious Incidents. Copied from the original Manuscript kept in St. Mark's Library at Venice: With Critical Notes of the Learned Signor Rhedi, late Library-Keeper of the said Library. To which is prefix'd, a Letter of the Secretary of the Inquisition, to the same Signor Rhedi, giving an Account of the Manner and Causes of his being seized. Faithfully Translated from the Italian, by E.T. Gent - [Simon] [Berington] (1680-1755) (Ptd. for T. Cooper, 1737)
Eutopia. Social system based on the law "Thou shalt do no wrong to anyone." This avoids legal hairsplitting. Patriarchal political system.
Rpt. as The Memoirs of Signior Guadentio di Lucca. New York: Garland, 1973, with an “Introduction” by Josephine Grieder (5-11); and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 267-411. Excerpt rpt. in The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies. Ed. Faith K. Pizor and T. Allan Comp (New York: Praeger, 1971), 103-25. The book went through many editions with significant variations in the title. Variant editions were rpt. as The Memoirs of Signor Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Dublin, Ireland: Re-printed by George Faulkner, 1738; The Adventures of Sigr Guadentio di Lucca . . . . 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for W. Innys and R, Manby and H.S. Cox, 1748; The Adventures of Sig Guadentio di Lucca . . . . London: Ptd. for J. Richardson, 1763; The Life & Adventures of Sig Guadentio di Lucca . . . . First American Edition. Norwich, CT: Ptd. by John Trumbull, 1796 [This ed. is considerably shorter than the others]; The Adventures of Sig. Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Philadelphia, PA: Re-printed by William Conover, 1799; and The Adventures of Signor Guadentio di Lucca . . . . Baltimore, MD: Ptd. by Bonsal & Niles, 1800.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Crapulia: or, The Region of Cropsicks” - William King (1663-1712) (Remains of the Late Learned and Ingenious Dr. William King, Some Time, Advocate of Doctors Commons, Vicar-General to the Archbishop of Armagh, and Record-Keeper of Ireland. Containing Miscellaneous Pieces in Verse and Prose, upon various Subjects; with Reflections, Observations, and Critical Remarks upon Men and Books: With a particular Critick upon a Favourite Ministry; prticulaly, that of Rufinus, Favourite of the Emperor Theodossius, and his Character rendered into Verse from Claudian; together wiith the Author’s Life and Writings, 1732)
Satire similar to Joseph Hall, Mundus Alter et Idem (1605), specifically the section on gluttony.
Rpt. in Posthumous Works of the late Learned William King, L.L.D. in Verse and Prose. Published from his Original Manuscripts. Purchased of his Sister, by Joseph Brownr, M.D. To which is Prefixed, An Account of his Life and Writings, with a True Copy of his Last Will and Testament made by himself the Night before he Died [Published in two separately paged parts] (London: Ptd. for Edmund Curll, 1734), [Part 2], 27-43; and with the subtitle “A Fragment, in the Manner of Rabelais.” In The Original Works of William King, LL.D. Advocate of Doctors Commons; Judge of the High Court of Admiralty and Keeper of the Records in Ireland, and Vicar General to the Lord Primate. Now First Collected Into Three Volumes: With Historical Notes, and Memoirs of the Author (London: Ptd. for the Editor, 1776), 3: 278-87. Rpt. (Westmead, Farnborough, Eng: Gregg International, 1972), 3: 278-87.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprizing Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. To which is added a Map of the World, in which is Delineated the Voyages of Robinson Crusoe - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) (Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1719)
The sequel to the much better known 1719 Defoe, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. This volume begins, after some adventures at sea, with a return to Crusoe’s island and the experiences of the people he had left there. There are conflicts with the natives from a neighboring island and many trials and tribulations, but the settlement is generally presented positively. The rest of the work is primarily adventure in various voyages. A third volume was published. See also Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by Himself. London: Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes.
Rpt. London: Ptd. for John Stockdale, 1790; as The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974, neither of which include the foldout map; and as The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 2: The Farher Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1719). Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with “Explanatory Notes” (219-45) and “Textual Notes” (247-49); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from different editions (ix), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xxxiv), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (261-268), “Textual Notes” (269-270), “Bibliographical Descriptions” (271-281), “Variants” (283-414), a “Selected Bibliography” (415-417), and an Index (421-440).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight and twenty Years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, where-in all the Men perished but himself. With An Account of how he was at last strangely deliver'd by Pyrates. Written by Himself - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) (Ptd. for W. Taylor, 1719)
This work gave rise to a whole sub-genre of works dealing with a castaway on an isolated island, the most famous of which is The Swiss Family Robinson (1812-1827) by Johann [Rudolf] Wyss (1781-1830) that appeared in hundreds of versions. Possible to treat it and the sub-genre as eutopias of solitude. See also 1719 Defoe. The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe which is much more clearly a utopia in that more people are involved. A third volume was published, Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Written by himself. London: Printed for W. Taylor, 1720. Rpt. without the “Vision of the Angelick World.” In Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 1: 113-226, 266; and with the “Vision of the Angelick World” as Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe: With His Vision of the Angelick World. Ed. George A. Aitkin. Illus. J.B. Yeats. London: J.M. Dent, 1895; rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1974; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 3: Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1720). Ed. G.A. Starr. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Starr (1-47); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2022, with a list of Illustrations (xi), an Introduction by the editors (xv-xxxvi), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (335-336), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (337-349), a “List of Editorial Emendations” (351-353), a “Selected Bibliography” (355-358), and an Index (361-394). It is not a utopia, but Defoe says it lays out the moral basis of the first two volumes. A related work is J[ohn] M[axwell] Coetzee (b. 1940), Foe. London: Secker & Warburg, 1986.
Rpt. in Popular Romances: Consisting of Imaginary Voyages and Travels. Containing Gulliver’s Travels, Journey to the World Under Ground, The Life and Adventure of Peter Wilkins, The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, and The History of Automathes. To Which is Prefixed An Introductory Dissertation by Henry Weber, Esq. (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co., 1812), 349-582 [Probably the first anthology of utopias]; rpt. with illustrations by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” (iii-xiv) by Ford Madox Ford. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930; ed. Michael Shinagel. 2nd ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994; in The Novels of Daniel Defoe. Volume 1: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Ed. W.K. Owens. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008, with an “Introduction” by Owens (15-51), “Explanatory Notes” (287-324) and “Textual Notes” (325-28); and a critical edition as The Stoke Newington Edition. Ed. Maximillian E. Novak, Irving N. Rothman, and Manuel Schonhorn (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 2020, with a list of Illustrations that are taken from many different editions (ix-x), an Introduction by the editors (xiii-xlviii), footnotes throughout the text, “Notifications of Books Printed and Sold” (253-260), “Bibliographic Descriptions” (261-289), “Variants” (291-357), “Works Consulted” (359-360), a “Selected Bibliography” (361-365), and an Index (369-379). An interesting edition for children is Robinson Crusoe In Words of One Syllable. Illus. Philadelphia, PA: Henry Altemus, 1900.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Petition for an Absolute Retreat" - [Anne] [Finch] (1661-1720) (Miscellany Poems. Written by a Lady [pseud.], 1713)
Eutopian poem. Plea for a retreat from the troubles of life and a description of the retreat in terms of the tradition of a eutopia achieved without human effort.
Rpt. in The Poems of Anne Countess of Winchilsea. Ed. Myra Reynolds. 2nd ser., vol. 5 of The Decennial Publication (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1903), 68-77.
Keywords: English author; Female author

["The Vision of Mirzah"] - Joseph Addison (1672-1719) (The Spectator, 1711)
Allegory that presents heaven as a eutopia composed of islands that are "the Mansions of good Men after Death." "Every Island is a Paradise accommodated to its respective Inhabitants." Described as the first vision, but no more were published.
Rpt. in The Spectator (Edinburgh, Scot.: Ptd. R. Fleming, 1753), 277-81; and in The Spectator. Ed. Donald F. Bond. 5 vols. (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1965), 2: 121-26.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Secret Memoirs and Manners of several Persons of Quality, of both Sexes. From the New Atalantis, an Island in the Mediterranean. Written originally in the Italian and translated from the third Edition of the French - [Delarivière] [Manley] (1660s?-1724) (Ptd. for John Morphew and J. Woodward, 1709)
Fairly obvious satire on contemporary English politics and society set in an imaginary country.  A section of vol. 2 describing the "feminist Cabal" has utopian elements, including common property.
Better known as New Atalantis. Rpt. under that title ed. Ros[alind] Ballaster. London: Pickering & Chatto, 1991 with an “Introduction” (v-xxviii). Rpt. ed. Rosalind Ballaster. London: Penguin, 1992 with the “Introduction” (v-xxviii).  U.S. ed. New York: New York University Press, 1992 with the “Introduction” (v-xxviii). L, PSt
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Retreat" - [Mary] [Egerton] (1670-1723?) (Poems on Several Occasions Together with a Pastoral, 1706)
The English country house as a eutopia.
Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1987.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Consolidator: or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon. Translated from the Lunar Language - [Daniel] [Defoe] (1660-1731) (Ptd. by Benj. Bragg, 1705)
Satire on contemporary life, particularly politics,  by picturing a world in the moon. See [Joseph Browne], The Moon-Calf, or Accurate reflections on The Consolidator: Giving an Account of some Remarkable Transactions in the Lunar World, transmitted hither in a Letter to a Friend. By Man in the Moon [pseud.]. London, 1705. Rpt. Augustan Reprint Society no. 269. New York: Published for the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library and the UCLA Center for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Studies by AMS Press, 1996 for a response.
Rpt. in ed. Michael Seilel, Maximillian E. Novak, and Joyce D. Kennedy. The Stoke Newington Daniel Defoe Edition. New York: AMS Press, 2001; and in Satire Fantasy and Writing on the Supernatural by Daniel Defoe. Volume 3 of The Works of Daniel Defoe. The Consolidator (1705) Memoirs of Count Tariff &c (1713) The Quarrel of the School Boys at Athens (1717). Ed. Geoffrey Sill (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003), 27-158 with “Explanatory Notes” (215-48) and “Textual Notes” (262-63). Extracts published as A Journey to the World in the Moon. By the Author of the True-born English-man [pseud.]. Ptd. at London and rpt. at Edinburgh by James Watson, 1705 (MH); A letter from the Man in the Moon. To the Author of the True Born Englishman. [London: Np, 1705] (InU); and A second, and more strange voyage to the world in the moon; containing a comical description of that remarkable country, with the characters and humours of the inhabitants, etc. By the author of the true Born Englishman [pseud.]. [London: Np, 1705]. A New Journey to the World in the Moon. . . . 2nd ed. London: C. Corbett, 1741 is an imitation not by Defoe.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Iter Lunare: or, A Voyage to the Moon. Containing Some Consideration on the Nature of that Planet. The Possibility of getting thither. With other Pleasant Conceits about the Inhabitants, their Manners and Customs - David Russen of Hythe (Ptd. for J. Nutt, 1703)
Mostly satire on moon voyage literature, but the description of the inhabitants suggests eutopian elements. For example, poetry is money, and there is a gun that when fired brings down the fowl ready plucked, dressed, and roasted. The planets and the sun are inhabited.
Repub. without the author's name. London: Ptd. for Robert Gofling, 1707. Rpt. with the author's name Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Law Book" - Sir Ambrose Crowley (1658-1713) (The Law Book of the Crowley Iron Works, 1700)
A very odd book that presents one hundred and thirteen "laws" for the operation of the author's iron works. It is borderline as a utopia but is included because it details all the daily activities of the workers in a large factory including "welfare services" and "poor relief".  See the discussion in J.C. Davis, Utopia and the Ideal Society: A Study of English Utopian Writing 1516-1700 (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 351-55.
The original manuscript in 307 folios, which is incomplete, is in the British Library Add. Ms. 34,555.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry Of All Useful Trades and Husbandry. With Profit for the Rich. A Plentiful Living for the Poor, and A Good Education for Youth. Which will be Advantage to the Government by the Increase of the People, and their Riches - [John] [Bellers] (1654-1725) (Ptd. for T. Sowle, 1695)
Eutopia. Detailed non-fiction proposal for an institution to educate the poor and young people in useful trades and arguing that a much better society will result. The appeal is quite conservative in that it is directed to government and the rich, but the system is primarily designed to improve the lot of the poor.  See also his To the Lords and Commons in Parliament assembled. A Supplement to the Proposal for a Colledge of Industry, Shewing a Regular Constant Imploy for the Poor, is the best Foundation of Trade, and the greatest Improvment to the Nation, and Consequently support to the Government, whilst the want of it tends to the Poor’s Misery, Poverty of the Rich, and Governments Weakening. [London]: Np., 1696. 3 p. (L). Rpt. in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 74-76.
2nd ed. under the author’s name London: Ptd. for T. Sowle, 1696. Rpt. as New View of Society. Tracts Relative to this Subject; viz. Proposals for Raising a Colledge of Industry of all useful Trades and Husbandry. By John Bellars. (Reprinted from the Original, published in the year 1696). Report to the Committee of the association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor. A Brief Sketch of the religious Society of People called Shakers. With an Account of the Public Proceedings connected with the subject, Which took place in London in July and August 1817. Published By Robert Owen. London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; Cadell and Davies; J. Hatchard; Murray; Constable and Co., and Oliphant and Co., Edinburgh; Smith and Sons, and Brash and Reid, Glasgow, 1818. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1972; in [James Peacock, attributed to], A Plan of a Public Charity, With some former Plans for the same Purpose, in Three Appendixes, Which are submitted to the Consideration of the Benevolent, that they may select and adopt from the Whole such Parts as can be most suitably connected together, in order to form “an effectual General Charity”; but more especially for affording immediate “Relief, Protection”, and Free-Labour, to all Persons who want Employment (London: np, 1790), 5-28; and in John Bellers: His Life, Times and Writings. Ed. George Clarke (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul,1987), 47-73; and with footnotes comparing the two editions in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 187-205.
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A Serious Proposal To the Ladies, For the Advancement of their true and greatest Interest - [Mary] [Astell] (1668-1731) (Ptd. for K. Wilkin, 1694)
Eutopia. An essay suggesting the establishment of an institution where women would be able to live and work independently of men. See also her non-utopian A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Part II: Wherein a Method is offer'd for the Improvement of their Minds. London: Ptd. for Richard Wilkin, 1697. Rpt. in A Serious Proposal To the Ladies (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 45-162; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 67-196.
4th ed of 1701 rpt. without the subtitle (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 1-43; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3-65. [2nd ed. enl.] as A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I and II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 49-126.
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Antiquity Reviv'd or the Government of a Certain island Antiently Called Astreada, In Reference to Religion, Policy, War, and Peace. Some hundreds of Years Before the Coming of Christ - [Francis] [Lee] (1661-1719) (Np, 1693)
Largely political philosophy and an essay on religion. Defense of absolute monarchy. Force those who disobey to be identified as such together with all their relatives.
Rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 137-85.
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An Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe by the Establishment of an European Dyet, Parliament or Estates - William Penn (1644-1718) (Np, 1693)
A proposal for a federation of European governments with the aim of establishing permanent peace. One of numerous such proposals, often called utopias; the best known is probably Immanuel Kant's (1724-1804) Perpetual Peace (1795).
Rpt. in The Political Writings of William Penn. Ed. Andrew R. Murphy (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 2002), 401-19.
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The Folly of Love, or, An Essay Upon Satyr Against Women - Richard Ames (1643-93) (Ptd. for E. Hawkins, 1691)
Brief eutopia of a society without women (26-27). Compare to 1688 Ames. See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.
2nd ed. corrected and enlarged as The Folly of Love, or A New Satyr Against Women, to which is now added The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins, 1693. 4th ed. of 2nd ed. as The Folly of Love. or A New Satyr Against Women, together with The bachelors Lettany By the Same Hand. London: Ptd. for E. Hawkins., 1700.
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Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History - Mrs. A[phra] Behn (1640-89) (Ptd. for Will Canning, 1688)
Eutopia depicting a naturally good man. See Susan B. Iwanisziw, Oroonoko: Adaptations and Offshoots. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2006 for nine works responding to Oroonoko.
Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 5: 125-208; Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 145-224; and in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), 3: 50-119.
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Sylvia's Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Man in Answer to the Satyr Against Woman - Richard Ames (1643-93) (Ptd. by Joseph Streater, 1688)
Brief eutopia of a society without men (20-21). See also 1691 Ames and his Sylvia’s Complaint of Her Sexes Unhappiness. A Poem: Being the Second Part of Sylvia’s Revenge, or, A Satyr Against Men. London: Ptd. by Richard Baldwin, 1692. Rpt. London: Robert Battersby, 1698.
Later ed. London: Ptd. for Samuel Clement, 1693.
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A Common-Wealth of Women. A Play: As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal, By their Majesties Servants - Mr. [Thomas] D'Urfey (1653-1723) (Ptd. for R. Bentley and J. Hindmarsh, 1686)
Standard story of a society of isolated women, in this case ruled by a man-hating woman. Handsome man appears and the women revert to traditional roles led by their previous ruler.
Rpt. with added title at the head of the page--Bibliotheca Curiosa. Ed. Edmund Goldsmid. Edinburgh, Scot.: Privately Ptd., 1886.
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"The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French" - Aphra Behn (1640-89) (Poems Upon Several Occasions: With a Voyage to the Island of Love, 1684)
Eutopia. Poem about the Golden Age adapted from the poem Aminta (1573) by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95).
Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. 4 vols. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering, 1992), 1: 30-35.
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The Informer's Doom, or An Amazing and Seasonable Letter from Utopia Directed to the Man in the Moon. Giving a full and pleasant Account of the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation, of all those grand and bitter Enemies that disturb and molest all Kingdoms and States, throughout the Christian World. To which is added (as a caution to honest Country-men) the Arraignment, Tryal, and Condemnation of the Knavery and Cheats that are used in every particular Trade in the city of London. Presented to the consideration of all the Tantivy-Lads and Lasses in Urope, by a true Son of the Church of England. Curiously Illustrated with about Threescore Cuts - [John] [Dunton] (1659-1733) (Ptd. for John Dunton, 1683)
A trial in Utopia of those, from the Pope on down, who threaten the kingdom.
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Situation of Paradise Found Out: Being a History of a Late Pilgrimage unto the Holy Land With a necessary apparatus prefixt, Giving Light Into the whole designe - [Hugh] [Hare] [First Baron Coleraine] (1606-67) (Ptd. by J.C. and P.C. for S. Lowndes, H. Fairborne, and J. Kersey, 1683)
Combines a concern with the location of Paradise, with descriptions of Paradise, and two visions that are part eutopia (Paradise) and part dystopia (Hell).
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The World that Now is, and the World that is to Come: Or the First and Second Coming of Jesus Christ. Wherein several Prophecies not yet fulfilled are Expounded - Han[serd] Knollys (ca. 1599-1691) (Ptd. by Tho. Snowden, 1681)
Eutopia of the Second Coming of Christ. The second part (105-48) describes the Second Coming and the actions that Christ will take in establishing his rule on earth. See also the author's The Parable of the Kingdom of Heaven Expounded. Or, An Exposition of the first thirteen Verses of the twenty fifth Chapter of Matthew. London: Ptd. for Benjamin Harris, 1674; An Exposition of the Eleventh Chapter of the Revelation. Wherein All those Things therein Revealed, which must shortly come to pass, are Explained. London: Np, 1679; and An Exposition Of the whole Book of the Revelation. Wherein The Visions and Prophecies of Christ Are Opened and Expounded: Shewing The great Conquests of our Lord Jesus Christ for his Church over all His and Her Adversaries, Pagan, Arian and Papal; and the glorious State of the Church of God in the New Heavens and New Earth, in these Latter Days. London: Ptd. for the Author, 1689.
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The Pilgrim's Progress From This World, to That which is to come: Delivered under the Similitude of a Dream Wherein is Discovered, The Manner of his setting out, His Dangerous Journey; And safe Arrival at the Desired Countrey - John Bunyan (1628-88) (Nath. Ponder, 1678)
Classic evangelical Protestant allegory of the trip from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City, from the dystopia of contemporary life to the eutopia of eternal life.
Rpt. as The Pilgrim’s Progress. Ed. Roger Sharrock. Baltimore, MD: Penguin Books, 1965; Ed. N.H. Keeble. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1984; and as The Pilgrim’s Progress: An Authoritative Text, Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Cynthia Wall (New York: W.W. Norton, 2009), 1-252.
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"Anti-fanatical Religion, and Free Philosophy. In a Continuation of the New Atlantis" - Joseph Glanvill (1636-80) (Essays On Several Important Subjects in Philosophy and Religion, 1676)
Mostly a repetition of British history and a lecture on religion and philosophy with Bacon's New Atlantis (1627) as a starting point.
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A Country Not Named - Francis Lodwick (1619-1695) (A Country Not Named (MS. Sloane 913, fols. IR-33R). An edition with an annotated primary bibliography and an introductory essay on Lodwick and his intellectual context by William Poole, 1675)
Eutopia. Detailed records kept on all people and all "matters notable" in each division of the country. The people had been monotheists, became polytheists, then returned to monotheism, and ultimately became Christians. Ideal language, which was one of the author's interests. Compulsory education from six with separate schools for girls with women teachers, with the education for girls the same as that for boys except that they are taught sewing and not taught gymnastics. Few laws and those read out to the population once a month.
Also in Francis Lodwick, On Language, Theology and Utopia. Ed. Felicity Henderson and William Poole (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 2010), 265-87.
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Gerania: A New Discovery of a Little sort of People Anciently Discoursed of, called Pygmies. With a lively Description Of their Stature, Habit, Manners, Buildings, Knowledge, and Government, being very delightful and profitable - Joshua Barnes (1654-1721) (Ptd. by W.G. for Obadiah Blagrave, 1675)
Agrarian, monarchical eutopia. The people are Christian and appear to be naturally good. No desire for riches. The people recognize their interdependence, and everyone has an occupation that helps others.
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A Letter Touching a Colledge of Maids, or, a Virgin-Society. By B.C. Appended to St. Cyprian Bishop and Martyr, Anno 250. Of Discipline, Prayer, Patience. St. Basil the Great, Of Solitude - C[lement] B[arksdale] (1609-87) (Ptd. for Sam[uel] Keble, 1675)
Proposal for a community of young women being educated. Most will leave for marriage. The inspiration was probably Anna Maria Schurman (1607-78), The Learned Maid or Whether a Maid May Be a Scholar? A Logick Exercise. [Trans. Clement Barksdale]. [London: Ptd. by John Redmayne, 1659]. Rpt. London: Virago Modern Classic, 1986.
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The Six Days Adventure, or the New Utopia. A Comedy, as it is acted at his Royal Highness the Duke of York's Theatre - [Edward] [Howard] (1624-1712) (Tho. Dring, 1671)
Satire set in Utopia. Emphasis on women's rights. Women take over the government, but the men all decide to leave and under this threat the women choose to return to their previous subservient roles. See Aphra Behn, “To the Honourable Edward Howard, on his Comedy, The New Utopia.” The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 6: 204-07; rpt. as “To the Author of the New Utopia.” In The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd 7. vols. (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1992), 1: 3-5.
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The Womens Conquest. A Tragi-Comedy As it was Acted by Her Highness the Duke of York's Servants - E[dward] H[oward] (1624-1712) (Ptd. by J.M. for H. Herringham, 1671)
Satire on gender relations in which women temporarily establish female rule.
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Scydromedia seu sermo, quem Alphonsus de la Vida Habuit Coram Comite de Falmouth, De Monarchia. Liber Primus - Antonii Le Grand (1629-99) (Johannis Ziegeri, 1669)
A utopia similar in form to 1516 More but rejecting common ownership of property.
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“Appendix to the Grounds of Natural Philosophy" - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) (In her Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: With an Appendix Containing Five Parts. The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical Opinions. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle, 1668)
Throughout the “Appendix” Cavendish presents two parts of her mind arguing about a number of issues, including in Parts III and IV (265-309), the nature of happy and unhappy worlds and of regular and irregular worlds and, in doing so, develops some suggestions of eutopia and dystopia.
Rpt. as by Margaret Lucas Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1996), 237-311.
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The Convent of Pleasure. In her Plays. Never Before Printed. Written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, The Duchess of Newcastle - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) (Ptd. by A. Maxwell, 1668)
A rich woman creates a eutopian all-female community on her estate.
Rpt. separately ed. Jennifer Rowsell. Oxford, Eng.: Seventeenth Century Press, 1995; in The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1999), 217-47;and in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 97-135.
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The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita Being A True Relation of certain English persons, who in the dayes of Queen Elizabeth, making a Voyage to the East Indies, were cast away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women whereof one was a Negro. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount to ten or twelve thousand persons, as they suppose. The whole Relation follows, written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild. Licensed June 27, 1668 - [Henry] [Neville] (1620-94) (Ptd. by S.G. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper, 1668)
One man and four women shipwrecked on a beautiful island. They establish political and religious order based on European forms. This is followed, in the part that was originally A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines, by a period of "whoredoms, incest and adulteries" followed by the imposition of harsh laws.
This nine page pamphlet was followed shortly by A New and further Discovery of The Isle of Pines In A Letter from Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] a Dutch-man (who first discovered the same in the Year, 1667.) to a Friend of his in London. With a Relation of his voyage to the East Indies. Wherein Is declared how he happened to come thither, the Scituation of the Country, the temperature of the Climate, the manners and conditions of the people that inhabit it; their Laws, Ordinances, and Ceremonies, their way of Marrying, Burying, &c. The Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the pleasantness and facility thereof, with other matters of concern. Licensed according to Order. London: Ptd. for Allen Bankes and Charles Harper, 1668. The two were combined and published together as The Isle of Pines, or, a late Discovery of a fourth Island near Terra Australis, Incognita, by Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten [pseud.] Wherein is contained, A True Relation of certain English persons, who in Queen Elizabeths time, making a Voyage to the East Indies were cast away, and wracked near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. And now lately Anno Dom. 1667. a Dutch Ship making a Voyage to the East Indies, driven by foul weather there, by chance have found their Posterity, (speaking good English) to amount (as they suppose) to ten or twelve thousand persons. The whole Relation (written, and left by the Man himself a little before his death, and delivered to the Dutch by his Grandchild) is here annexed with the Longitude and Latitude of the Island, the scituation and felicity thereof, with other matter observable. Licensed July 27, 1668. London: Ptd. for Allen Banks and Charles Harper, 1668. An extract was published anonymously as “An account of certain English people, who in the year 1569, making a voyage to the East-Indies, were away, and wracked Upon the Island near to the Coast of Terra Australis, Incognita, and all drowned, except one Man and four Women. Given by Cornelius van Sloetten, captain of a Dutch ship, which was driven there by foul weather, in the year 1667, who found their posterity (speaking good English) to the amount of 10 or 12 thousand souls.” The New-Haven Gazette and the Connecticut Magazine 1.29 (August 31, 1786): 222-24; The New-Haven Gazette 1.33 (December 23, 1794) [not found]; and The New Hampshire Mercury and General Advertiser 2:95 [sic. 94] (October 4, 1786): 1-2. A fifty-one copy edition was published as The Isle of Pines. Katoomba, NSW, Australia: The Wayzgoose Press, 1991. One version is rpt. in Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 225-43; and in [On Cover: Three Early Modern Utopias: Utopia New Atlantis The Isles of Pines]. Title Page: Thomas More Utopia Francis Bacon New Atlantis Henry Neville The Isle of Pines. Ed. Susan Bruce (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 187-212 with “Explanatory Notes” 239-42. Another version, which includes part of A New and further Discovery of the Isle of Pines is rpt. in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 113-30. Another rpt. can be found in “The Isles of Pines: Texts.” Utopian Studies 17.1 (2006): 20-75. Includes the July 27, 1668, English edition (25-51), “Novvelle Decovverte De L’Isle Pinés Située au delà de la ligne Æquinnoctiale Faite par vn nauire Hollandois L’an 1667. Paris: Sebastien-Mabre Cramoisy, 1668 known as the Cramoisy edition in both French and English trans. Christine Reno, Peter G. Sullivan, and Vassar College students (53-61), the edition from The Grand Magazine of Universal Intelligence 1 ( August 1758): 394-96 (63-71), and notes on the Hollis edition of 1768 (73-75). There is a critical text in John Scheckter, The Isles of Pines, 1668. Henry Neville’s Uncertain Utopia (Farnham, Eng.: Ashgate, 2011), 13-30 with notes on the text 183-98. The July 27, 1688, edition is rpt. in The Isles of Pines and Plato Redivivus. Ed. by David Womersley (Carmel, IN: The Liberty Fund, 2020), lvi, 1-38, with footnotes by the editor, an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-lv), Appendices (317-472), including “A Copy of a Letter from an Officer of the Army in Ireland, to his Highness the Lord Protector, concerning his changing of the government” (317-37), “Neville’s Major Speeches in Parliament, 1659” (339-49), “The Armies Dutie (1659)” (351-74), “The Humble Petition (1659)” (375-82), “Manuscripts Relating to Sir Henry Neville” [Neville’s grandfather] (383-93), “[John Somers]. A Brief History of the Succession (1681)” (395-427), “Thomas Hollis’s Life of Henry Neville” (429-32), “Corrections to the Copy-Texts The Isle of Pines (433-35) and Plato Redivivus (435-38), “Textual Collation of the First and Second Editions of Plato Redivivus (439-72), and an Index to the entire volume (473-88).
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Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books - John Milton (1608-74) (Ptd. by Peter Parker; Robert Boulter; and Matthias Walker, 1667)
Classic description of Eden that, unusually, includes substantial material on what life in Eden would have been like before the Fall.
2nd ed. rev. and aug. London: Ptd. by S. Simmons, 1674. Critical eds. as Paradise Lost: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds, and Sources. Criticism. Ed. Scott. Elledge. New York: W.W. Norton, 1975; as Paradise Lost. Ed. Alastair Fowler. rev. 2nd ed. New York: Longman, 2007; and Paradise Lost. Ed. Barbara K. Lewalski. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007.
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The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) (Part IV of her Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy, 1666)
World attached to Earth at the Pole. Various animals (bears, foxes, geese, etc.) with human characteristics. The eutopia is a small part of an allegory. Monarchy, religion, few laws. Peaceable world because it has only one religion, one language, and one government.
First separate publication London: Ptd. By A. Maxwell, 1668. Rpt. in The Description of a <st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place> Called The Blazing World and Other Writings. Ed. Kate Lilley (London: William Pickering, 1992), 119-225 with notes 227-230; Ed. Sara H. Mendelson. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2016 with footnotes by the editor, an Introduction by the editor (9-49), a chronology (51-52), and a note on the text (53); in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 53-114; in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 151-251; and in Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Political Writings. Ed. Susan James (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-109. See also The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish. An Illuminated Edition. Illus. in color by Rebekka Dunlap. Np: Beehive Books, 2020, with “Any Mortal Creator. A Foreword” by Brooke Bolander (i-iv), “A Blazing Life. The Invention of Margaret Cavendish” by James Fitzmaurice (101-111), and “A Note on the Text Used Here and on the Early Publishing History of A Blazing World” (112).
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The Holy City: Or, The New Jerusalem: Its Goodly Light, Walls, Gates, Angels, and the manner of their standing, are Expounded: Also, Her Length and Breadth, Together with the Golden-Measuring-Reed, Explained And The Glory of all unfolded. As Also, The Numerousness of its Inhabitants: And what the Tree and Water of Life are, by which they are sustained - John Bunyan (1628-88) (Np, 1665)
Explication of Revelation XXI:10 - XXII:1-4 detailing the eutopia suggested there.
Rpt. London: J. Dover, [1665]; London: Francis Smith, 1669. Dover ed. rpt. in The Miscellaneous Works of John Bunyan Volume IIII Christian Behaviour The Holy City The Resurrection of the Dead. Ed. J. Sears McGee (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1987), 63-196, with editorial notes on 65-67 and 299-314.
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"A Country-life" - Katherine [Fowler] Philips (1631-64) (Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda. To Which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French, 1664)
Life in the country as eutopia.
Rpt. (London: Ptd. by J.M., 1667), 88-91; (London: Ptd. by T.N., 1678), 88-91; and (London: Ptd. by Jacob Tonson, 1710), 111-14. An unauthorized edition of her poems was published as Poems by the incomparable Mrs. K.P. London: Ptd, for J.G. for Rich. Marriott, 1664 and withdrawn after a few days, with this poem on pages 177-82 [Wing 286:08]. The differences are minimal.
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The Holy Guide: Leading the Way to the Wonder of the World. (A compleat Phisitian) teaching the Knowledge of all things, Past, Present, and to Come; viz. Of Pleasure, long Life, Health, Youth, Blessedness, Wisdome and Virtue; and to Cure, Change and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old. With Rosie Crucian Medicines, which are verified by a Practical Examination of Principles in the great World, and fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of mean Capacities - John Heydon (1629-67) (Ptd. by T.M, 1662)
Rosicrucian eutopia. The "Preface" to Book 1 (unnumbered pages) is partly plagiarized from and partly a revision of the New Atlantis entitled "Journey to the Land of the Rosicrucians." Salomon's House becomes the Temple of the Rosy Cross. Alchemy. Heydon copies Bacon in modifying More's policy of showing a couple naked by having pools where men and women bathe naked separately and can be observed by friends of the same sex.
Also entitled The English Physitians Guide: Or A Holy Guide. Leading the Way to know all Things, Past, Present, and to Come; To Resolve all manner of Questions, viz. Of Pleasure, Long-life, Health, Youth, Blessednes, Wisdome and Vertue; and teaching the way to Change, Cure, and Remedy all Diseases in Young and Old, fitted for the easie understanding, plain practice, use, and benefit of the meanest Capacities. London: Ptd. by T.M. for Samuel Ferris. Six books with separate, generally shorter, title pages, and separate pagination.
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Bentivolio and Urania, in [six] books - N[athaniel] I[ngelo], D.D. (Ptd. by J.C. for Richard Harriot, 1660)
Allegory. Book six describes a Christian eutopia called Theoprepia (The Divine State) stressing good will to others, self-knowledge, and the other Christian virtues. The eutopia appears at various points throughout the book, which is largely an allegorical life of Christ.
2nd ed. under the author’s name, with six in the title, and with the added subtitle Wherein all the Obscure words throughout the Book are interpreted in the Margins, which makes this much more delightful to read than the former edition. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Second title page Bentivolio and Urania, The Second Part, In Two Books. 2nd ed. London: Ptd. for T. Dring, J. Starkey, and T. Baffet, 1669. Books I-IV and V-VI are separately paged.
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The Rota: or, A Model of a Free-State, or Equall Common-wealth; Once proposed and debated in brief, and to be again more at large proposed to, and debated by a free and open Society of ingenious Gentlemen - [James] [Harrington] (1611-77) (Ptd. for John Starkey, 1660)
A constitution for England thinly disguised as an imaginary country. See also 1656 Harrington.
Rpt. in Works. The Oceana and Other Works. With an Account of His Life by John Toland (London: Ptd. for T. Beket, and T. Cadell, and T. Evans, 1771), 587-98; rpt. Aalen, Germany: Scientia Verlag, 1963; and in The Political Works of James Harrington. Ed. J.G.A. Pocock (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1977), 807-26.
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Chaos: or, A Discourse, Wherein Is presented to the view of the Magistrate, and all others who shall peruse the same, a Frame of Government by way of a Republique, wherein is little or no danger of miscarriage, if prudently attempted, and thoroughly prosecuted by Authority. Wherein is no difficulty in the Practice, nor obscurity in the Method; But all things plain and easie to the meanest capacity. Here's no hard or strange Names, nor unknown Titles (to amaze the hearers) used, and yet here's a full and absolute Power derivative insensibly from the whole, and yet practically conveyed to the best men: wherein if any shall endeavour a breach, he shall break himself: and if its must be so, that Cats shall provide Supper, here they shall do it suitable to the best Palats, and easie to digest. - A well-willer to the Publique Weale [pseud.] (Ptd. for Livewel Chapman, 1659)
Eutopia. Democratic system with annual election to Parliament and with various reforms aimed at establishing more unity. Anti-Roman Catholic. Complex public registry system in which all transactions are recorded. Detailed legal system.
Eight page version also published as Chaos. London: Ptd. for Livewel Chapman, 1659. The shorter version consists of the first eight pages of the longer one and was published three weeks before the longer one.
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The Christian Commonwealth: or, The Civil Policy of the Rising Kingdom of Jesus Christ. Written Before the Interruption of the Government. Written by Mr. John Eliot, Teacher of the Church of Christ at Roxbury in New-England. And Now Published (after his consent given) by a Server of the Season - John Eliot (1604-90) (Ptd. for Livewell Chapman, 1659)
Detailed eutopia written in the 1640s that derives government structure from the Bible, particularly Exodus 18:25 and Deuteronomy 1:15. Millennial and based on covenant theology. Focused on political institutions combining theocracy with a democracy with widespread manhood suffrage (woman and children were included within a man’s covenant). Born and educated in England, Eliot moved to America in 1631 where he established a school in Roxbury, Massachusetts and was known as the “Indian Apostle”. Although it was reinstated, this was the first book banned by an American government.
Rpt. in the Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 3, 9 (1846): 128-64; and New York: Arno Press, 1972
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A Holy Commonwealth, or Political Aphorisms, Opening the true Principles of Government: For The Healing of the Mistakes, and Resolving the Doubts, that most endanger and trouble ENGLAND at this time: (if yet there may be hope.) And directing the desires of sober Christians that long to see the Kingdoms of this world, become the Kingdoms of the Lord, and of his Christ - Richard Baxter (1615-91) (Ptd. for Thomas Underhill and Francis Taylor, 1659)
Description of a theocracy based on obligation and consent. Mostly a treatise setting out rules for areas of possible conflict between the pastor and the magistrate.
Rpt. as The Holy Commonwealth. Ed. William Lamont. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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The Examination of Tilenus before the Triers; In order to his intended settlement in the office of a publick Preacher in the Commonwealth of Utopia. Whereunto are annexed The Tenents of the Remonstrants touching those five Articles Voted, Stated, and imposed, but not disputed, at the Synod of Dort. Together with a short Essay (by way of Annotations) upon the Fundamental Theses of Mr. Thomas Parker - [Laurence] [Womock] (1612-86) (Ptd. for R. Rayston, 1658)
The questions and answers in an examination of a man applying to be a Christian minister in Utopia.
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