Lady Ermyntrude and the Plumber; A Love Tale of MCMXX - Percy [Arthur Perceval] Fendall (1850-1917) (S. Swift, 1912)
The Great Compulsory Work Act requires that everyone work. For example, the monarch is paid by the job for ceremonial duties, and the Queen takes in paying guests. No House of Lords. Illegal to give credit.
Rpt. London: S. Swift, 1919
Keywords: Australian author; English author; French author; Male author

Life--the Jade - Martin H[enry] Potter (1871-1955) (Everett & Co., 1912)
Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a substance that granted immortality. Set between its discovery in 1921 and the rediscovery of the need to love and bear children in 2021.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The New Gulliver" - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) (The New Gulliver and Other Stories, 1912)
Dystopia. Two class-society in which the lower class is bred as slaves to the upper class. The upper class is sexless, long-lived, and lives underground. Stress on moderation and safety. High technology. Live on pills and water.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Picture of the Church in the Great State" - Rev. Conrad [le Despenser Roden] Noel (1869-1942) (The Great State: Essays in Construction, 1912)
Fiction set about 2000. The Church of England will encompass most Christian groups in England and will be more democratic. The church has been disestablished, but there is a movement to have it re-established. New saints include Thomas More (1478-1535), who was actually canonized twenty years later by the Roman Catholic Church, and John Ball (c. 1338-81), the English Lollard priest involved in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 (See 1886-87 Morris). The church stresses a balanced life, including a healthy sex life. There is a description of a cathedral, which includes chapels for different groups within the faith, including a Chapel of Our Lady of Health and a Chapel of Santa Claus, for children.
U.S. ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912.
Keywords: English author; Male author

5000 A.D. A Review and an Excursion. Read Before ye Sette of Odd Volumes at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant on Jan. 24th, 1911 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) (Privately ptd., 1911)
Pages 39-56 presents a eutopia based on the samurai of 1905 Wells. Pages 9-39 gives a survey of previous literature on utopias.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Centaur - Algernon [Henry] Blackwood (1869-1951) (Macmillan, 1911)
The novel is mostly adventure but includes, although without much detail, a eutopia of the Simple Life in contact with nature.
Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1938.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Dawn of All - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) (Hutchinson, 1911)
Eutopia of the Roman Catholic Church completely dominant in sixty years. Democracy and equality eliminated. Socialism illegal. Monarchy re-established. Heretics are handed over to the state and executed. See 1907 Benson for an alternative dystopian future.
US ed. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1911.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Kalomera; The Story of a Remarkable Community - W[illiam] J[ohn] Saunders (1873-1928) (Elliot Stock, 1911)
Communist eutopia in which each town manages its own affairs under the supervision of the central government. Each town also provides some national service like producing goods for the national stores and working on construction projects. All people equal. Gender roles are fairly traditional but the head of state and the heads of all departments that concern both sexes rotate. Separate gender authority in those areas where only men or women work. Religion that teaches morality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kantsaywhere" - Francis Galton (1822-1911) (University College, London, Galton Papers 138/6, 1911)
Eugenic eutopia.
The work, which was significantly cut by Galton’s relatives after his death, is described and most of what remains is published in Karl Pearson, “Francis Galton’s Utopia.” The Life and Letters of Francis Galton. 4 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1930), 3A: 411-425. Pearson published the corrected manuscript without indicating the changes made in the original draft. Pearson changed the paragraphing found in the original. A critical edition was published with the permission of University College as “The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere. Critical Edition.” Ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 191-209.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Laws of Leflo - [Beatrice May Butt] [Allhusen] (1853-1918) (John Ouseley, 1911)
Leflo is a lost colony in Africa that has been isolated for over a century. The community was established with very strict laws that were to be followed to the letter. The result was a peaceful community, but the negative effects outweighed the positive. An example is that at eighteen girls must choose to marry or not. They are provided for by the community whatever their choice, but if they choose not to they wear distinctive dress and can never marry. Much of the novel is romance.
Keywords: English author; Female author

One Hundred Years Hence. Being Some Extracts from "The Hourly Mail" of A D 2000 - Walter Emanuel (1869-1915) (Eveleigh Nash, 1911)
Satire, much of it through the advertisements in the newspaper.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Reign of the Saints - [Ernest George] [Henham] (1870-1948) (Alston Rivers, 1911)
Anti-socialist, racist, sexist dystopia and a failed attempt to re-establish a true English life. Britain becomes part of the Japanese Empire.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Road to Avalon - Coningsby [William] Dawson (1883-1959) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1911)
Allegory in a medieval setting with various fantastic countries. Avalon, which is reached in the last chapters, is the goal.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Simple Life Limited - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) (John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1911)
Satire directed against an experimental community of people trying to live the simple life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Building of Thelema - C[harles] R[obert] Ashbee (1863-1942) (J.M. Dent, 1910)
Fantasy with utopian elements. Thelema is the reconstructed city of the dreamers of all times and the protagonist sees it from a variety of perspectives.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Man From Mars or Service, for Service's Sake - Henry Henry Wallace (Dunraven) Dowding (1867?-1938) (Cochrane Publishing Company, 1910)
Detailed Christian eutopia on Mars. No large cities. No military. Stress on the home. Martians are both rational and artistic. Many completely equipped school buildings. "On the planet Mars education starts with a principle called Service" (251). Individual talents developed. Universal language. Includes extracts from a constitution.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Newæra. A Socialist Romance, with a Chapter on Vaccination - Edward G[eisler] Herbert (1869-1938) (P.S. King & Son, 1910)
Socialist intentional community founded with careful selection of members fails due to an inefficient bureaucracy and malice on the part of elected leaders toward the founders. Suggests that socialism is impossible, and the chapter on vaccination is an argument that experiments like Newæra (New Era) can vaccinate a country against the sickness that is socialism.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Raid of Dover: A Romance of the Reign of Woman: A.D. 1940 - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) (King, Sell & Olding, 1910)
Anti-socialist and anti-democratic dystopia. When women got the vote, the votes of the uneducated led to the election of the Labour Party, the triumph of socialism, and the weakening of the British Empire. The "Author's Note" says that it is partially a sequel to 1906 Ford.
Originally published serially.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Beatrice the Sixteenth - [Thomas] [Baty] (1869-1954) (George Bell & Sons, 1909)
While the novel is largely taken up with palace intrigue and conflicts with neighbors, there are eutopian elements in its presentation of an aristocratic society based on slavery and servants (both well treated of course) that is almost entirely female.
Keywords: English author; Transgender author

Captain Tatham of Tatham Island - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) (Gale & Polden, 1909)
Mostly an adventure novel but includes a vague plan for turning an isolated island into a eutopia. Some discussion of alternative ideas.
Rpt. with an added first chapter “The Genesis of the History” as The Island of Galloping Gold. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1916, which was rpt. as Eve’s Island. London: George Newnes, Ltd., 1926.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Finding of Mercia - [Harold Northway]] [Robbins] (1874-1973) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1909)
Detailed eutopia inhabited by Puritans. Austere, devoted Christians. No money. State ownership. Mercia equals Mercy Land.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Future in London” - [Joseph Leopold] Ford [Hermann] Madox Hueffer (1873-1939) (In W.W. Hutchings. London Town Past and Present With a Chapter on the Future in London by Ford Madox Hueffer. Profusely Illustrated from Old Prints and from Photographs and Drawings, 1909)
Divided into Futures Probable and Futures Utopian. People will move to the suburbs with good transportation into London. This will lessen traffic and radically reduce pollution. Poor quality housing will be removed, and many parks will be created. The changes will improve human health. Says there is nothing utopian about his proposals.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last Persecution - S[idney] N[ewman] Sedgwick (1872-1941) (Grant Richards, 1909)
A successful Chinese invasion of Europe is possible due to a falling away from God. A religious revival brings the overthrow of the Chinese.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Machine Stops" - E[dward] M[organ] Forster (1879-1970) (Oxford and Cambridge Review, 1909)
Classic dystopia in which people become dependent on a machine.
Repub. in his The Eternal Moment and Other Stories (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1928), 1-61. Rpt. in Cities of Wonder. Ed. Damon Knight (New York: Macfadden-Bartell, 1967), 164-95; in Science Fiction: The Future. Ed. Dick Allen. 2nd ed. (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1983), 173-98; in his The Machine Stops and Other Stories. Ed. Rod Mengham. Vol. 7 of The Abinger Edition of E.M. Forster (London: André Deutsch, 1997), 87-118, with editor’s notes 187-88; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 50-78 with an editors’ note on 50; illus Chris Bird in AnarchoSF: Science Fiction and the Stateless Society [Cover adds Volume 1]. Ed. Dana Rich (Victor, IA: Obsolete Press, 2014), 127-59; in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 135-74, with an editor’s note on 133; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 35-80.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Real Man - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) (John Long, 1909)
A farce that redoes the material in 1907 Byatt as a group of anarchists whose leader comes to rule Britain.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Unknown To-morrow: How the Rich Fared at the Hands of the Poor Together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England - William [Tufnell] Le Queux (1864-1927) (F.V. White & Co, 1909)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia. Marriage and divorce made easy; children are the property of the state. Churches secularized. Ultimately the system fails.
Originally published as “The Red Rage: How the Rich fared at the Hands of the Poor; together with a full account of the Social Revolution in England.” Black & White (London) 38 (July 3 - October 9, 1909): 16-19; 62-65; 100-101; 138-39; 178-79; 218-19; 258-59; 292-93; 328-29; 364-65; 400-01; 436-37; 474-76; 508-09; 544.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Votes for Men: A Dialogue" - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) (Cornhill Magazine, 1909)
Satire in which the female Prime Minister argues that men do not want the vote despite huge demonstrations and all the other activities of the women's suffrage movement.
Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: Murray, 1921), 200-15. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 200-15.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Zarlah, the Martian - R[obert] Norman Grisewood (1876-1923) (R. F. Fenno, 1909)
Eutopia. Technologically and ethically advanced civilization on Mars. World government, universal language. Much romance and adventure.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

How the Vote Was Won. Produced for the First Time at the Royalty Theatre, London, April 13, 1909 - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952); [Christabel] [Marshall] (ca. 1875-1960) (Edith Craig, 1908)
Successful general strike of all women who do not have the means to support themselves. Those who are refused support by their male relatives (most of them) go on relief.
U.S. ed. as How the Vote Was Won. A Play on One Act. Chicago, IL: Dramatic Publishing Company, 1910. Rpt. in How the Vote Was Won and Other Suffragette Plays (London: Methuen, 1985), 23-33, with production notes by Carole Hayman (19-21); and in The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays. Ed. Naomi Paxton (London: Methuen, 2013), 1-28. The play is best known in this version, but it originated as “How the Vote Was Won (Some Short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s Political History of the Twentieth Century published in the Year 2007 A.D.).” By Cicely [Mary] Hamilton. Woman’s Franchise, no. 20 (November 14, 1907): 227-28, which was published separately as How the Vote Was Won (Some short Extracts from Prof. Dryasdust’s ‘Political History of the Twentieth Century,’ published in the year 2008 A.D.). [London]: Women’s Writers’ Suffrage League, [1908].
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Last Generation: A Story of the Future - James [Herman] Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) (New Age Press, 1908)
Dystopia produced by trying to achieve eutopia. People stopped producing children in order to live better. Horrors of the last generation.
Rpt. in his Collected Prose (London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), 1-32; rpt. (London: William Heinemann, 1922), 1-32; and in The Way to the End Times: Classic Tales of the Apocalypse. Ed. Robert Silverberg (New York: Three Rooms Press, 2016), 46-64, with an “Editor’s Introduction” on 44-45. Expanded version of a story first published in his privately printed The Best Man. Eights Weeks, 1906. Oxford: np, 1906), 9-13.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mystery of the North Pole - Mrs. C. A. Scrymsour Nichol (1830-1916) (Francis Griffiths, 1908)
Christian eutopia at the North Pole.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Singular Republic - W[illiam] H[enry] Koebel (1872-1923) (Francis Griffiths, 1908)
The failure of an attempt to establish a utopian community called Neuvonie in South America.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Triumph of Socialism and How It Succeeded - John D[awson] Mayne (1828-1917) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1908)
Anti-socialist dystopia. The socialists win the 1912 election, establish a republic and nationalize industry while raising parliamentary pay. This proves to be a disaster. Cuts in the military leads Germany to invade, but the socialists are overthrown, and Germany is defeated by a reinvigorated Britain.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

Behold the Days to Come: A Fancy in Christian Politics - James [Granville] Adderley (1861-1942) (Methuen, 1907)
Eutopia of Christian Socialism that depicts a Garden City. On the Garden City movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Dust which is God; An Undimensional Adventure - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) (Samurai Press, 1907)
Eutopia of evolution and religion. A man is shown the First, Second, and Third Worlds, which are stages of human evolution, with the First World the beginning of consciousness, the Second World the contemporary world, and the Third World the eutopia to which evolution is tending. In the Third World friction has been overcome and humanity has evolved wings.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Elixir of Life - William [Arthur] Satchell (1861-1942) (Chapman & Hall, 1907)
Various themes, but one is building a good society on an isolated island after a shipwreck. Stress on the need for authority.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

An Episode in Flatland: or How a Plane Folk Discovered the Third Dimension. To Which Is Added A Outline of the History of UNÆA - C[harles] H[oward] Hinton (1853-1907) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1907)
Satire on contemporary England set in Flatland (See 1884 Abbott) or Astria, as it is called here, which is divided between the savage Scythians and the civilized Unæans, who are the focus of the novel.
Keywords: English author; US author

"Every-day Life in a Socialist State" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Christian Commonwealth, 1907)
Eutopia as described in the title stressing education, the home and family, and work.
Rpt. in "Notes of the Week." New Age 2.5 (November 30, 1907): 84.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Flight of Icarus - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) (Sisley's Ltd., 1907)
An apostate Jew with magical powers rules the world. See also 1909 Byatt.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Hidden Country" - [Janet] Syrett (1865-1943) (Our Jabberwock (London), 1907)
A story for children about the Kingdom of Progressia, which is based on rationality, equality, and freedom but has no fantasy, color, trees, grass, birds, and so forth. Children have no toys. The King and Queen live in a house the same as everyone else and must hold down regular jobs like everyone else. The Fairy Morgana creates a fairy tale setting in the center of the city that only believers can see. Conflict arises between those who can see it and those who can't, and they divide into two cities.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Immortal Light - John Mastin F.S.A. Scot. F.L.S., F.C.S., F.R.A.S., F.R.M.S., R.B.A. (1865-1932) (Cassell, 1907)
The life of reincarnated souls in an underground eutopia. Well developed people both physically and mentally. Water provides all the nourishment needed. Advanced technology, particularly in the use of glass and electricity. Egalitarian. See also 1906 Mastin.
Rpt. London Charles Griffin & Co., [ca 1910]. The rpt. has the publisher as stated on the title page but Selfridge on the spine.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Lord of the World - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) (Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd, 1907)
Armageddon (See Revelation 16) after split between secular humanism and the Roman Catholic Church. See 1911 Benson for an alternative future.
Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1908; New York: Arno Press, 1975; South Bend, IN: St. Augustine's Press, 2001; and in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 101-481, with a brief note by the editor (97-99).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Love Hath Wings. Time: 2007" - Henry Fletcher (1856-1932) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1907)
Eugenic marriage laws enforced by the Sydney Marriage Bureau of the Co-operative Commonwealth in conflict with love. Hygienic clothes for all. Notes that for all the control of marriage, most people had false teeth and had to wear glasses.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Master Beast; Being a True Account of the Ruthless Tyranny Inflicted on the British People by Socialism A.D. 1888-2020 - Horace W[ykeham] Newte (1870-1949) (Rebman Ltd, 1907)
Anti-socialist dystopia.
Repub. as The Red Rosette. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1913]. 2nd ed. as The Red Fury: Britain Under Bolshevism. London: Holden & Hardingham, Ltd., [1919].
Keywords: English author; Male author

"My Utopia" - Cecil [Edward] Chesterton (1879-1918) (The New Age: A Weekly Review of Politics, Literature, and Art, 1907)
A non-fiction description of his eutopia stressing socialism, nationality, religion, festivity, the family, and a fairly conservative gender equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Tyranny - James Blyth (1864-1933) (William Heinemann, 1907)
Dystopia. A tyrant rules Britain and war with Germany leads to a mass uprising.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Utopia" - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) (The New Age: An Independent Review of Politics, Literature, and Art, 1907)
A short poem that compares contemporary life to the possibility of eutopia. See also 1906 Nesbit.
Keywords: English author; Female author

What Might Have Been; The Story of a Social War - [Ernest Bramah] [Smith] (1868-1942) (John Murray, 1907)
Anti-socialist dystopia. Street names were changed to codes in the name of efficiency. The upper classes revolt, restore capitalism, and everybody is better off.
Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2017, with an “Introduction. The History of a Novel” by Jeremy Hawhorn (vii-xxiii), “Notes” (330-32), and “Works by Ernest Brahman” (329-34). An abridged ed. entitled The Secret of the League; The Story of a Social War. London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, [1909] omitted the “Preface” and Chapter III, rearranges the order of other chapters, and makes other internal changes. U.S. ed. of the abridged ed. Atlanta, GA: Specular Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Dennis Jencke (i-iv) and a “Glossary” [287-91). L, NLS
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Further Surprising Adventures of Lemuel Gulliver (First a Surgeon and then Captain of several Ships) in Topsy-Turvy Isle - [Elliott E.] [Mills] (1881-1956) (Alden & Co, 1906)
Satire on contemporary English politics and manners.
Another copy has the publisher as Oxford, Eng.: Alden & Co., Ltd., Bocardo Press/London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Weather Syndicate - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (F.V. White, 1906)
Weather is controlled initially for political purposes, but it is then controlled to improve life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Land of Nison - [Charles Percy] [Sanger] (1871-1930) (C.W. Daniel, 1906)
Nison means no sin and generally the language is simply the reversal of letters. Rule of wisdom. Few institutions. Women are considered to be inferior to men.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Made in His Image - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) (Hutchinson and Company, 1906)
The establishment of slavery in England and how Christianity overcomes it.
U.S. ed. Philadelphia, PA: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1906.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Robinson Crusoe's Return - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1906)
Satire on Crusoe's return to modern England.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Sorcery Shop; an Impossible Romance" - Robert Blatchford (1851-1943) (The Clarion, 1906)
Anarchist eutopia.
Repub. London: The Clarion Press, 1907.  Serial rpt. in British Socialist Fiction 1884-1914. Ed. Deborah Mutch. 5 vols. (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013), 4: 3-104.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Sorry-Present and the Expelled Little Boy" - E[dith] Nesbit (1858-1924) (The Strand Magazine, 1906)
Written for children but a good satire on the Wellsian future by a friend of H.G. Wells (1866-1946).
Rpt. in her The Story of the Amulet. Illus. H.R. Millar (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906), 288-318; and (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1959), 217-38; rev. ed. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Puffin Books, 1996), 224-47. The first Puffin Books ed. has the story copyright of 1901, but The Strand Magazine publication is clearly the first publication. The general title of The Strand Magazine version is “The Amulet: A Story for Children” and appears in 29.173 - 31.184 (May 1905 - April 1906).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Superannuation Department A.D. 1945" - E[dward] F[rederic] Benson (1867-1940) (Windsor Magazine, 1906)
Satire on the balance between individuals and the collective good. Everyone over 65 has to regularly demonstrate their usefulness to society with the testimony of witnesses--usefulness, beauty, moral improvement, and happiness are central but other answers are acceptable. Death for those who fail.
Rpt. in his Desirable Residences and Other Stories. Selected by Jack Adrian (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1991), 197-207.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D., 1910) - [Douglas Morey} [Ford] (1851-1916) (Greening & Company, 1906)
Dystopia set in 1910. Terror as the poor are manipulated by agitators. Attacks on law and lawyers but with a strong suggestion that the legal system is corrupt. Anti-socialist; anti-women's rights. The novel ends with the defeat of the terrorists and the recognition that England must reform. See also 1910 Ford.
2nd ed. A Time of Terror. The Story of a Great Revenge (A.D. 1912). London: Hurst and Blackett, 1912 under the author's name as D[ouglas] Morey Ford.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Colonial King - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) (F.V. White, 1905)
Chapter 21, "The Future Monarch of Democrata" (243-56), and the Epilogue, "The Kingdom of Democrata. The Building of Octavinia" (310-20), contain a eutopia for a democratic kingdom in the U.S. led by a benevolent monarch. State church. See also 1893, 1895 and 1902 Nisbet.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. A brief account of those cases which resulted in the destruction of our late Ally, together with a comparison between the British and Roman Empires. Appointed for use in the National Schools of Japan--Tokio, 2005-- - [Elliott E.] [Mills] (1881-1956) (Alden & Co., Ltd., Bocardo Press/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, Ltd., 1905)
The British Empire fell in 1995 and the colonies are now all colonies of other empires. Brought about by British leaders becoming talkers rather than actors, the shift from country to city, the rejection of sea power, "the growth of refinement and luxury", the decline in taste in literature and drama, the decline in physical health, "the decline of intellectual and religious life", high taxes and exorbitant municipal spending, and the inability to defend themselves or the empire. Compared throughout to the decline and fall of Rome as described by Edward Gibbon in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (1776-88).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fulfilment - Edith Allonby (1875-1905) (Greening & Co., 1905)
The novel is divided into three roughly equal parts, “Earth,” “Hell,” and “Heaven” and describes the experiences of a woman as she lived and after she died with Hell a dystopia and Heaven a eutopia. The book was posthumously published after she committed suicide, and it was revised in ways she had explicitly rejected.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The God of this World: A Story for the Times - [John] [Bagot] (1844-1925) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1905)
The novel is mostly on a revolution against a religion that worshipped Mammon, but it ends with the creation of a eutopia with elements of anarchism, socialism, religion, and the single tax.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"In the Days of the Comet" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Cosmopolitan Magazine, 1905)
Eutopia. Something in the tail of a comet changes all human beings, freeing them from greed, power, and all baser passions. In response, all housing is rebuilt, private property disappears, and human relations are established on a firmer basis. Most of the novel is concerned with the problems of the old society. There is a significant focus on love and sex both in initial descriptions of the bad old world and in contrasts between it and the new world that develops after the passing of the comet.
Repub. London: Macmillan and Co., 1906. Also published in The Daily Chronicle, nos. 13,725 - 13,756 (February 20 - March 29, 1906). All installments appear on page 8 except No. 13,746 (March 16): 10. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume X In the Days of the Comet and Seventeen Short Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), 9-319. The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. The first two sections of Chapter 6 “The Change” are rpt. in The New Improved Sun: An Anthology of Utopian S-F. Ed. Thomas M[ichael] Disch (New York: Harper & Row, 1975), 202-08 with an editor’s note on 201.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mark Meredith: A Tale of Socialism - C[harles] H[enry] Chomley (1868-1943?) (Edgerton & Moore, 1905)
Anti-socialist novel, probably written specifically against William Lane (1861-1917), the founder of New Australia. See 1888 and 1892 Lane for his utopias.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Purple and White; A Romance - Henry Byatt (1855?-1934) (R. A. Everett & Co. (Ltd.), 1905)
Eutopia. Future tale of peace and prosperity under one man rule.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The War of the Sexes - F[lorence] E[thel] [Mills] Young (1875-1945) (John Long, 1905)
Humor about the last man. A partial eutopia has been created by the women.
Keywords: English author; Female author; South African author

"With the Night Mail" - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (McClure's Magazine, 1905)
Introduction to 1912 Kipling, which develops this story.
Rpt. as “With the Night Mail. From ‘The Windsor Magazine,’ October, A.D. 2147.” Windsor Magazine 23.1 (December 1905): 52-66; with the subtitle “A Story of 2,000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared).” In his Actions and Reactions (New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909), 117-81. Rpt. in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 19-89 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).U.K. ed. (London: Macmillan, 1909), 111-169, which was rpt. as Vol. 4144 of Collection of British Authors. Tauchnitz ed. (Leipzig, Germany: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1909), 117-65. An ed. illus. and ptd. on right hand pages only, was published as With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with Extracts from the Contemporary Magazine in Which It Appeared). London: Macmillan, 1909. U.S. ed. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1909. Also rpt. as “With the Night Mail. A Story of 2000 A.D. (Together with extracts from the magazine in which it appeared (1905).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 103-59 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint].
Keywords: English author; Male author

A World Without a Child: A Story for Women and for Men - [John] Coulson Kernahan (1858-1943) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1905)
Dystopia of a world concerned only with variety and pleasure. No children born. Death of religion.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Army of the Dream" - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (Traffics and Discoveries, 1904)
Britain has willingly/happily adopted militarism. Set in the 1920s. Presented positively. Those who do not volunteer cannot vote.
Rpt. (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1987), 202-41 with notes on 334-37. Also rpt. as “The Army of a Dream (1904).” In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. Traffics and Discoveries Actions and Reactions (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 237-88 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Originally published in the Morning Post (July 15 - 18, 1904).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Fourth Conquest of England; A Sequel to "Treason" - Allen Upward (1863-1926) (The Tyndale Press. (W.S. Martin & Co., Ltd.), 1904)
Dystopia based on the revival of the Roman Catholic Church. Science and technology rejected. Pope concluded that the Antipodes do not exist. Treason is probably his High Treason. London: The Primrose Press, [1903], which also has Romance of Politics at the head of the title and is an anti-Roman Catholic work. A note says, "The publications of the Primrose Press are copyright in all civilised countries, but not in the United States, Haiti, Domingo, Liberia, and other Negro Republics" (ii).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest - W[illiam] H[enry] Hudson (1841-1922) (Duckworth, 1904)
A love story set in the tropical  forest  of  South America , with, for a time, the forest providing its Adam and Eve with an idyllic existence. The author was born in Argentina and immigrated to England in 1874.
Rpt. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1916 with a “Foreword” by John Galsworthy (vii-xvi). Rpt. with illus. by Keith Henderson. London: Duckworth, 1926. Rpt. with illus. by Edward A. Wilson and an “Introduction” by William Beere (vii-x). New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; with illus. by E. McKnight Kauffer New York: Random House, 1944; London: Guild Books, 1950; London: Collins, 1957 with an “Introduction” by H. E. Bates (11-16); New York: AMS Press, 1968 with A Note on Hudson’s Romances” by Edward Garnett (v-ix); and New York: Dover, 1989; with Paintings and Drawings by Horacio Butler. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1959. Also rpt. without the subtitle Mount Vernon, VA: Peter Pauper Press, 1943; with the subtitle With illustrations reproducing drawings for early editions and photographs of contemporary scenes together with an introductory biographical sketch of the author and anecdotal captions by Edwin Way Teale. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1949; with the subtitle on the cover but not the title page London: Robin Clark, 1990; and without the subtitle ed. Ian Duncan. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Keywords: Argentinian author; English author; Male author

"A Modern Utopia. A Sociological Holiday" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The Fortnightly Review, 1904)
Classic world state eutopia.
Repub. as A Modern Utopia. London: Chapman and Hall, 1905. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume IX A Modern Utopia and Other Discussions (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925), 1-331. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. ed. Krishan Kumar. London: Everyman, 1994; and ed. Gregory Claeys and Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Francis Wheen (xiii-xxviii), a "Note on the Text" by Gregory Claeys and Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxviii), and "Notes" by Gregory Claeys and Andy Sawyer (267-81); and in The First Men in the Moon A Modern Utopia (Ware, Eng.: Wordsworth Classics, 2017), 195-415, with an “Introduction” by David Stuart Davies (11-25). U.S. ed. New York: Scribner's, 1905. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1967.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Napoleon of Notting Hill - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1904)
Eutopia in an odd combination of humor and a return to the medieval ideal of independent villages in London.
Rpt. New York: John Lane, 1909; Beaconsfield, Eng.: Darwen Finlayson, 1964; in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Denis J. Conlon (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 1991), 6: 215-379; New York: Dover, 1991; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1994; and Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with “Introduction: Dystopias Are Problems Plus Time” (xv-xxiv) by Madeline Ashby.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Food of the Gods" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Pearson's Magazine, 1903)
New food produces giants who are also of superior intelligence. Conflict with the "little people" follows. The giants decide to allow the little people to live but expect them to die out. Little detailed utopianism but includes a section on how the giant children should be educated and brief glimpses of possible ways of improving life for the little people.
U.S. serialization in Cosmopolitan 36 - 37 (November 1903 - August 1904): 33-50, 227-40, 299-313, 395-411, 525-38, 643-56; 29-4o, 193-200, 283-90, 461-69. Repub. with the subtitle And How It Came to Earth. London: Macmillan, 1904. Rpt. London Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Adam Roberts (v-viii). U.S ed. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904; rpt. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume V The Food of the Gods The Sea Lady (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925), 1-306. The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Future Is Ours" - John Addington Symonds (1840-93) (The Comrade (New York), 1903)
Brief poem suggesting the eutopia to come after the revolution. Little detail.
Almost certainly published earlier.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Gates of Afree A.D. 1928: A Romance of the New Empire - Henri Van Laun (1820-96) (W.H. White & Son, 1903)
The novel, with characters and incidents the author describes in the Preface as symbols of the forces at work in South Africa, suggests the eutopia based on technology and a form of socialism that is possible in South Africa as long as it is part of the British Empire. Racist.
Keywords: Dutch author; English author; French author; Male author

Gulliver Joe - [Cecil Eldred] [Hughes] (1875-1941); [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) (Isbister, 1903)
Gulliverian satire on Joseph Chamberlain (1836-1914), who was Secretary of State for Colonies at the time.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"In Our Midst. The Letters of Callicrates to Dione, Queen of the Xanthians, concerning England and the English, Anno Domini 1902" - [William Thomas] [Stead] (1849-1912) (Review of Reviews Annual, 1903)
Satire on Britain in a series of letters back to an African matriarchy.
Repub. as by William T[homas] Stead, ed. [written by]. The Despised Sex: The Letters of Callicrates to Dione, Queen of the Xanthians, concerning England and the English, Anno Domini 1902. London: Grant Richards, 1903.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Morganeering Or, The Triumph of the Trust. A Fragment of a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth - Professor [Alexander William] Bickerton (1842-1929) (1903)
Mostly a dystopia of one man controlling all the world’s wealth. Laissez faire catechisms are taught. Includes a federation of intentional communities and a broad egalitarianism.
A fragment was published earlier as Morganeering Or, The Triumph of the Trust. A Fragment of a Satirical Burlesque on the Worship of Wealth. [Christchurch, New Zealand: Wainoni Publishing Co., 1901?]. Critical ed. ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Dunedin, New Zealand: Otago Studies in English. English and Linguistics, University of Otago, 2021. According to Bickerton, this was based on an even earlier election leaflet, which has apparently been lost.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

"Our Animated Flat” - [Edith Cecil] [Maturin] (b. ca. 1865) (Strand Magazine, 1903)
Satire on technological improvements to domestic life.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author

Our Story of Atlantis. Written down for the Hermetic Brotherhood - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) (Hermetic Book Concern, 1903)
Atlantis as eutopia including details about the island, which in this version is in the Caribbean, its institutions, and its people.
A later ed. adds to the subtitle and The Future Rulers of America. Together with an Introduction, Biography, Prologue, Notes and Epilogue By R. Swinburne Clymer, M.D. Quakertown, PA: The Philosophical Publishing Co., 1937.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Quest of the Simple Life - W[illiam] J[ames] Dawson (1854-1928) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1903)
The first part of the book is taken up with the author’s complaints about city life, while recognizing its advantages. The second part is about his search for a way of living in the countryside, the discovery of a cottage, and his life there with his wife and children. The book ends, though, with a chapter, “The city of the Future” (257-278) in which he discusses how the modern city could be transformed to keep the advantages of city life without the accompanying disadvantages. His solution is a core city with many parks surrounded by towns with all the basic amenities but all, equally, part of the core city.
US ed. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1907.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Dream of Freedom: Romance of South America - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) (F.V. White & Co, 1902)
A novel describing the intentional community of New Sparta (160-318) in Paraguay, which is obviously based on William Lane (1861-1917) and the New Australia experiment. The settlers are described as Practical Communists following the ideals of William Morris (1834-96), which does not fit the actual New Australia. See 1888 and 1892 Lane for his utopias. See also 1893, 1895 and 1905 Nisbet.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Lake of Gold: A Narrative of the Anglo-American Conquest of Europe" - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Argosy, 1902)
Eutopia. Power of money used for good--free trade, trusts abolished, no strikes or lockouts, arbitration, and no war.
Repub. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: F.V. White, 1903.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Trial of Man; An Allegorical Romance - [Charles Edward] [Lawrence] ​(1870-1940) (John Murray, 1902)
Essentially the Biblical story of Eden and its aftermath told regarding a new planet with a new Adam and Eve (Martin and Lucy) facing the same problems.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Donoghues of Dunno Weir" - Francis Galton (1822-1911) (Utopian Studies, 1901)
Eugenic eutopia.
University College, London Galton Papers 138/5
Keywords: English author; Male author

Erewhon Revisited twenty years later, both by the original discoverer and his son - [Samuel [Butler] (1835-1902) (G. Richards, 1901)
Continuation of 1872 Butler stressing religion.
Rpt. as volume 16 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.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

"Inoculation Day" - Eden Phillpotts (1862-1960) (Fancy Free, 1901)
Dystopia in which there is an inoculation for character and to eliminate emotions.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Purple Cloud - M[atthew] P[hipps] Shiel (1865-1947) (Chatto & Windus, 1901)
Last man dystopia set only a few years in the future.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977 with an "Introduction" by David G. Hartwell (v-xviii). Rev. ed. London: Victor Gollancz, 1929. U.S. ed. New York: Vanguard Press, 1930; rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000 with an "Introduction to the Bison Books Edition" by John Clute (v-xii). Originally published serially illus. J. J. Cameron. The Royal Magazine 5 - 6 (January- June 1901): 276-, 358-, 437-, 508-; 37-, 139-112. The Vanguard Press ed. is rpt. abridged illus. Lawrence [Sterne Stevens] (1886-1960). Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.5 (June 1949): 10-; and with additional material for The Reynolds Morse Foundation, 1979. The 1901 ed. is an expanded version of the serial.
Keywords: Creole author; English author; Male author; Montserrat British West Indies author

“Will There Be Servants in 2000 A.D.” - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought, 1901)
No because housing will have so improved that they will no longer to needed.
U.S. ed. (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 118-22. Rpt. in Current Literature 32.4 (April 1902): 426-27.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Dream of a Warringtonian - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) (Sunrise Publishing Company, 1900)
Warrington described as a future eutopia. Clean and improved both architecturally and morally. Much control by local government. See also 1892 Hythloday Junior. Bennett also wrote a utopia advocating a world federation; see 1892 Bennett.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The First Men in the Moon" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The Strand Magazine, 1900)
Classic dystopia of breeding for service to society. On October 19, 2010, BBC Four broadcast a made-for-television version written by Mark Gatniss (b. 1966) and directed by Damon Thomas.
The Strand Magazine sections from July and August 1901 have been rpt. in Moonrise: The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 107-49 with and editor’s not on 105-06. A different version was published in The Cosmopolitan (New York) 30.1 - 6 (November 1900 - April 1901): 65-80, 194-206, 310-23, 415-29, 521-34, 643-56. First collected--Indianapolis, IN: Bowen-Merrill, 1901; and, with minor textual differences, London: George Newnes, 1901. Rpt. London Gollancz, 2013, with an “Introduction” by Lisa Tuttle (ix-xi). Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume VI The First Men in the Moon and Some More Human Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1925), 1-267. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 1.9 – 11 (December 1926 – February 1927): 774-91, 914-39, 1014-38; with illus. Bob Eggleton. Norfolk, VA: Donning Co., 1989; London: Everyman, 1993; as The First Men in the Moon: A Critical Text of the 1901 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1998; New York: Modern Library, 2002, with an “Introduction” by Ursula K. Le Guin (xi-xviii) that has been rpt. in her Words Are My Matter: Writings About Life and Books 2000-2016 (Easthampton, MA: Small Beer, 2016), 173-78, and “Commentary” by T. S. Eliot (223-26) that had been originally published as “Journalists of Yesterday and Today.” The New English Weekly 16.16 (February 8, 1940): 237-38 [The Modern Library edition says the original title was “Wells as Journalist]; and Darko Suvin (227-240) that had originally been published as “Wells as the Turning Point of the SF Tradition.” Minnesota Review, ns 4.4 (1975): 106-15, and a “Reading Group Guide” (241-42); ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by China Miéville (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxvii), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (205-13); and in The First Men in the Moon A Modern Utopia (Ware, Eng.: Wordsworth Classics, 2017), 27-193, with an “Introduction” by David Stuart Davies (11-25). An alternative beginning and an alternative ending were published as “An Unpublished Prologue to The First Men in the Moon.” with an “Introduction” by Charles Blair. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 15-17; and “Terrestrial: An Unpublished Version of the Ending of The First Men in the Moon” with an “Introduction” by Simon J. James. The Wellsian, no. 37 (2014): 18-30.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Great Good Place" - Henry James (1843-1916) (Scribner's Magazine, 1900)
A man with extreme stress from overwork dreams of a eutopia of rest similar to a monastery.
Rpt. in The Novels and Tales Of Henry James. New York Edition.  vol. 16 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), 222-63; The Short Stories of Henry James. Ed. Clifton Fadiman (New York: The Modern Library, 1945), 385-422, with "A Note on The Great Good Place" (413-15);  The Complete Tales of Henry James. 11 1900-1903. Ed Leon Edel (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964), 13-42; and in his Complete Stories 1898-1900 (New York: Library of America, 1996), 152-77, with a Note on the Text (940) and Notes (943) by Denis Donoghue..
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Nineteenth Century; A Dialogue in Utopia - [Henry] Havelock Ellis (1859-1939) (Grant Richards, 1900)
Discussion of the nineteenth century, presented largely in negative terms, from the vantage point of a future eutopia, which is a united world, although nations still maintain their cultures, with one language and one medium of exchange. Communities exist to benefit their members rather than the reverse, which was the nineteenth century norm. The future is concerned with the art of living rather than commerce. Stress on beauty.
US ed. subtitled An Utopian Retrospect. Boston, MA: Small, Maynard, 1900.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Struggle for Empire: A Story of the Year 2236 - Robert William Cole (1869-1937) (Elliot Stock, 1900)
The Anglo-Saxon race had absorbed the world with England and Germany dividing it up and the United States reunited with England. London is the capital of the solar system. New power sources and been discovered. The sciences and engineering are considered the only worthwhile subjects of study because they are ". . . the only subjects that gave an adequate return for the labour spent on them" (7). The study of the humanities has been abolished. Two classes--intellectuals and menials. Riots followed by a future war, with most of the novel on the war.
Rpt. in Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction. Ed. Kate Macdonald. Volume 1 The Empire of the Future. Ed. Richard Bleiler (London: Chatto & Windus, 2013), 133-97, with Bleiler’s “Introduction to Cole’s The Struggle for Empire (107-31), “Contemporary Essays by Robert Cole and Others” (207-39), and “Editorial Notes” (245-49).
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Within an Ace of the End of the World” - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (McClure’s Magazine, 1900)
The dystopia produced when capitalists draw nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce food. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203. The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

Caramella; A Story of the Lotus Eaters Up to Date - George Procter Hawtrey (1847-1910) (J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1899)
Satire using the South Seas Island style of eutopia. Ends with the "Preface" (424-26). Beautiful people, tranquility; little or no work needed; constant good weather; people do what they want. Army for show only and recruited only from foreigners in their early teens who serve for three years and then return to their home country; rifles made of wood. Mostly romance and some adventure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Explorations in the Sit-Tee Desert: Being a Comic Account of the Supposed Discovery of the Ruins of the London Stock Exchange Some 2000 Years hence - Francis Carruthers Gould (1844-1925) (Unwin Brothers, Printers, 1899)
Satire supposedly written on April 1, 3999 describing the discovery of the ruins of the stock exchange near the river Thamisis, which was the site of Bab-y-london.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"How the House of Commons became a Cycling School" - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) (A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction, 1899)
Satire. The House of Commons is accepted as completely useless and votes itself out of existence.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"How the 'House of Lords Question' Was Settled. A Tale of the Terrace or, Mrs. Ponsonby-Jones's Revenge" - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) (A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction, 1899)
Satire. Because women visitors are distracting the Peers from the business of Parliament, the Prime Minister gets a bill passed prohibiting them from the terrace. Women vote in a majority in favor of abolishing the House of Lords. A compromise is reached in which women elect women representatives to a female house and the entire House of Lords becomes the Privy Council.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Jacob's Dream" - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) (Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1899)
Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England.
Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Jamaican author; Male author; US author

Probable Tales - W[illiam] Stebbing ed. [written by] (1832-1926) (Longmans, Green, 1899)
Series of mostly satirical short stories describing countries with one unusual custom.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Son of Africa. A Romamce - Anna [Dunphy] Brémont comtesse de (1864-1922) (Greening, 1899)
Mostly an adventure novel, but it includes a short section in which the immortal Queen of Sheba prophecies a New Jerusalem to be founded in South Africa by Jews and Christians (96-111). Extremely unusual for the time, the novel depicts an interracial marriage positively.
Rpt. as Was It a Sin? London: Hutchinson, 1906.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"A Story of The Days To Come" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Tales of Space and Time, 1899)
Dystopia controlled by trusts and the Labour Company. No family life.
U.S. ed. (New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1899), 165-324. Rpt. in Amazing Stories 3.1-2 (April - May 1928): 6-25, 134-47; and in The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells. Ed. John Hammond (London: J.M. Dent, 1998), 333-98. Originally published as a linked series of stories in the Pall Mall Magazine in 1899 as follows: "The Cure for Love. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (June): 186-99; "The Vacant Country. A Story of the Days to Come (Anno Domini 2090.)" 18 (July): 309-23; "The Ways of the City. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2090-2095.)" 18 (August): 491-505; "Underneath. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2098.)" 19 (September): 81-94; and "The Magnanimity of the Man of Pleasure. A Story of the Days to Come. (Anno Domini 2097.)" 19 (October): 222-34 [L(NL)]. In the 1900 version, the last story is changed significantly, and the title is changed to "Bindon Intervenes."
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Trip to Paradoxia" - T[homas] H[ay] S[treet] Escott (1844-1924) (A Trip to Paradoxia and Other Humours of the Hour. Being Contemporary Pictures of Social Fact and Political Fiction, 1899)
Satire. Paradoxia has completely dysfunctional social arrangements, but its inhabitants believe everything is working well.
Keywords: English author; Male author

When the Sleeper Wakes - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (Harper & Bros, 1899)
Archetypal Wells dystopia in which class divisions have worsened. Rural life has disappeared and been replaced with great class-stratified cities. Religion, and everything else, has to be profit-making.
Originally pub. in The Graphic 59 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 9-11, 41-43, 73-75, 105-07, 137-39, 169-71, 201-03, 233-35, 265-67, 297-99, 329-31, 361-63, 393-95, 433-35, 465-67, 497-99, 529-31, 561-63. Rpt. in Harper's Weekly 43.2194 - 2211 (January 7 - May 6, 1899): 11-13; 39-40; 65-69; 93-95; 117-19; 141-42; 165-67; 191-93; 215-17; 239-41; 263-65; 287-88; 311-13; 339-41; 376-77; 399-401; 427-28; 451-53. Rpt. as "The Sleeper Awakes" in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume II The Island of Doctor Moreau The Sleeper Awakes (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1924), 173-480. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells's works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories Quarterly 1.1 (Winter 1928): 55-126, 136; ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1994. Later ed. entitled The Sleeper Wakes. London: Thomas Nelson, 1910. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000; ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an "Introduction" by Patrick Parrinder (xiii-xxvii), a "Note on the Text" by Patrick Parrinder (xxix-xxxvi), and "Notes" by Andy Sawyer (235-52); and ed. John Sutherland. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sutherland (9-41), “A Note on the Text” (43-46), “Appendix A: Contemporary Reviews” (61-65), “Appendix B: Two Prefaces and an ‘Afterword’” (267-71), “Appendix C: Illustrations by Henri Lanos” (273-76), “Appendix C: Utopian Quarrels [Brief excerpts from Hudson, A Crystal Age; Morris, News From Nowhere; and Bellamy, Looking Backward]” (277-88), “Appendix D: Film Versions of When the Sleeper Wakes (289-90), and “Works Cited and Select Bibliography” (291-92). Esperanto ed. as La Dormanto Vekigás. Tradukita De A. Frank. London: Esperanto Pub. Co., 1929.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Buried Mystery - Clement A[lfred] Mendham (1859-1941) (Digby, Long & Co., 1898)
Lost race novel that depicts a eutopian country in the interior of South America. The only limit on freedom is that no new ideas may be propagated because the people are happy as they are. All things taken from a public storehouse. Marriage by lot at age 20. Love enters and most of the novel concerns issues that arise from this "new idea." The eutopia is destroyed in an earthquake.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Corner in Lightning” - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson’s Magazine, 1898)
The dystopia when capitalists try to control lightning to produce electricity. The author changed his legal name from Jones to Griffith in 1894. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Hellsville, U.S.A." - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson's Weekly, 1898)
Economic reform in the United States beginning with anti-trust legislation followed by something close to civil war of rich against poor with the rich enlisting the Irish and black against white. After the war was won, the problem of what to do with the losers led to the worst and most useless people put on a reservation called Hellsville. While the U.S. becomes a eutopia, Hellsville is a dystopia is destroyed by meteors.
Rpt. in his Gambles With Destiny. By George Griffith [pseud.]. (London: F.V. White, 1899), 3-88.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Keepers of the People - Edgar Jepson (1863-1938) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1898)
The novel focuses on the way an Englishman establishes a dynasty in an Asia country by first defeating its enemies and then establishing Western agriculture and ways of life.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Rev. Annabel Lee. A Tale of To-morrow - Robert [Williams] Buchanan (1841-1901) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1898)
A scientific eutopia set in the middle of the twenty-first century without religion needs a religious revival to overcome too great a dependence on reason. Eugenics policy, which prohibited marriage between those deemed unfit, is referred to favorably and quoted in Harry Campbell, “An Essay on the Marriage of the Unfit.” The Lancet 2.3915 (September 10, 1898):680. Euthanasia is practiced, mostly for the old but can also be applied to the disabled.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Revolt of the Horses - Walter Copland Perry (1814-1911) (Grant Richards, 1898)
Novel based on 1726 Swift. The Houyhnhnms lead a revolt of the horses in Great Britain and establish a Houyhnhnm state. The Yahoos are only adept at killing each other.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Sketches of the Future" - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) (Sketches of the Future, 1898)
Satire on women in power, including "The Foreign Secretary's Baby", where the birth of a child causes international problems (3-13); "The Lord Chancellor's Husband" (17-29), where marital problems cause national problems; "The New Childhood", which describes the power of the "Children's Union" (31-42); and "The Pole of Heredity" (45-54), in which babies mature immediately and parents become infants. See also 1897 Gorst.
Some of the material in the volume was originally published in The Westminster Gazette, a daily newspaper; Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction, which published a story that is not part of “Sketches of the Future”; and The Weekly Sun
Keywords: English author; Male author

Society of the Future - Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) (J.A. Wayland, 1898)
Essay that, while mostly concerned with and critical of contemporary conditions, also describes a socialist utopia that has eliminated poverty and child labor and radically reduced the hours of work.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform - E[benezer] Howard (1850-1928) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1898)
Essay describing a suburban eutopia combining town and country. Basis for the Garden City Movement. On the movement, see The Garden City: Past, Present and Future. Ed. Stephen V. Ward. London: E & FN SPON, 1992.
Rpt. of this edition with commentary by Peter Hall, Dennis Hardy, and Colin Ward. London: Routledge, 2003. Better known as Garden Cities of To-Morrow (Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform"). London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902.  As Garden Cities of To-Morrow. Ed., with a Preface (9-28) by F[rederic] J. Osborn [and] With an Introductory Essay [“The Garden City Idea and Modern Planning”] (29-40) by Lewis Mumford. Cambridge, MA: The M.I.T. Press, 1965. With the exception of the 2003 edition, later editions are all under the title of the 2nd edition.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The War of the Wenuses. Translated from the Artesian of H.G. Pozzuoli By C. L. Graves and E. V. Lucas - C[harles] L[arcom] Graves (1856-1944); E[dward] V[errall] Lucas (1868-1938) (J.W. Arrowsmith, 1898)
Satire. Invasion by women from Venus. Parody of H.G. Wells's The War of the Worlds (London: William Heinemann, 1898) with minimal utopian elements.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The Warstock: A Tale of To-morrow - [William Oliver] [Greener] (1862-1935) (W.W. Greener, 1898)
Mostly adventure and future war but is concerned with patent rights and shows how inventions can both improve life and give power for good to inventors. Argument that improved patent rights will inspire inventors to greater efforts. The first invention is wireless telegraphy, which allows instant communication. A "white" republic called Cristalla is established in Africa in which inventors will be the only aristocrats. A new weapon makes Cristalla invincible, and it defeats Europe and brings world peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author

When All Men Starve: Showing Home England Hazarded Her Naval Supremacy, and the Horrors Which Followed the Interruption of Her Food Supply - Charles [Henry Alfred] Gleig (1862-1945) (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1898)
As a result of the government’s poor policies, England loses its influence in Africa, is blockaded by European governments, the government falls, and a rebellion ensues followed by looting and killing.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The White Women” - Mary E[lizabeth] Coleridge (1861-1907) (Poems, 1898)
Amazons presented in eutopian terms. Said to be “From a legend of Malay, told by Hugh Clifford (78).
Rpt. in The Collected Poems of Mary Coleridge. Ed. Theresa Whistler (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1954), 212-13. The “Preface” to the 1908 ed. says that this poem and eleven others were first published “in a volume by several authors called ‘The Garland’,” which is probably The Garland of New Poetry by Various Authors. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899, which contains twelve poems by the author but not this one. The 1954 edition places the poem as 1900 without explanation.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Ivory Queen: A Story of Strange Adventure - John Pendleton (1848-1926?) (Osgood, McIlvaine & Co, 1897)
Lost race novel. Mostly adventure but ends with a eutopia in Africa which is a successful agricultural society in an isolated valley under a white king descended from early Egyptian settlers. Odd novel for the period in that it includes successful cross-dressing and, together with some fairly standard racism, a successful interracial marriage.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Marooned On Australia: Being the Narrative of Diedrich Buys of His Discoveries and Exploits "In Terra Australis Incognita" About the Year 1630 - Ernest Favenc (1846?-1908) (Blackie and Sons, 1897)
Lost race novel that includes a short eutopian section describing an arcadia in a valley in the Australian desert (31-52). Simple religion. Racist.
New ed. London: Blackie and Sons, 1905.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

“Prehistoric Music. A Lecture Delivered by Professor Boremall Before the Members of the Society of Antediluvian Art, July, 2897” - Edward A[lgernon] Baughan (1865-1938) (Monthly Musical Record (London), 1897)
Satire presenting the music of the Victorian era from the perspective of a future eutopia. There is little about the future, but it is stated that peace prevails because disputes are settled by arbitration. Music in the future is a central part of moral teaching.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Raid of the "Detrimental": Being the True History of the Great Disappearance of 1862; Related By Several of Those Implicated And Others; And Now First Set Forth - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1897)
Mostly adventure and satire set on a South Seas island with particular satire on gender relations.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Trip to Venus - John Munro (1849-1930) (Jarrold and Sons, 1897)
Arcadian, small-town eutopia on Venus. Abundance.
The first chapter is entitled “A Message from Mars” and was originally published under that title as by J[ohn] Munro, C.E. in Cassell's Family Magazine 21 (March 1895): 292-98.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Without Bloodshed; A Probability of the Twentieth Century - Harold E[dward] Gorst (1868-1950) (The Roxburghe Press, 1897)
Satire on English manners. Rich Americans take over all English property through political maneuvering. Intentional community in England. Gorst published a review of his own book in The Quilldriver, no. 1 (October 1897). The journal was the inhouse journal of the publisher and does not appear to be available. See also 1898 Gorst.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The City of Gold; A Tale of Sport, Travel and Adventure in the Heart of the Dark Continent - Edward Markwick (1851-1925) (Tower Publishing Company, 1896)
Lost race eutopia. Matriarchy. Both men and women work at a variety of jobs. Community cares for children from age one. Telepathy.
2nd ed. London: W. Thacker, 1898.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"City of Refuge" - Walter Besant (1836-1901) (The Pall Mall Magazine, 1896)
Much of the setting of the novel is an intentional community in the United States where a man from England is hiding from his past and the authorities. The community is, as the title suggests, presented, not entirely favorably, as a refuge from the world. The people wear unattractive clothing, work, eat, and meditate. No books allowed.
Rpt. in 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1896
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Woman of To-Morrow: A Tale of the Twentieth Century - Hon. [Alice] Coralie Glyn (1866-1928) (Women's Printing Society, 1896)
Eutopia of greater gender equality in 100 years presented from the point of view of a modest, repressed, middle-aged spinster from the 1890s. There are still rich and poor. Some satire on both the 1890s and the 1990s.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Abolition of Money" - I[srael] Zangwill (1864-1926) (The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly, 1895)
Satire on the topic of the title. While workers do well through a system of barter, artists, writers, preachers, and the like do badly so eutopian for one group and dystopian for another, with the latter the focus of the story.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Government by the People - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914); [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) (Bliss, Sands and Foster, 1895)
Non-fiction presentation of a detailed scheme for a new political system stressing administration over politics and how to bring it about. Includes chapters on the civil service; the national assembly, which has no speaker or prime minister, and its committees; "The Chamber of Experts", which has educational qualifications for membership; local government; the constitution; rights of minorities; and social ethics.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

The Great Secret. A Tale of To-morrow - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) (F.V. White, 1895)
Begins as a novel of adventure with a conflict between anarchists set on destruction and the passengers and crew of a ship. The anarchists kill all the others and most of the anarchists come to a bad end. Three of the dead pass through the River Styx to a spirit world of almost static perfection where all the perfected spirits of the past together with a few immortals live in their own civilizations, which have been stripped of their imperfections. Two of the anarchists are reformed and become the center of a good society on an isolated island, which is only briefly described.  See also 1893, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

Hedged With Divinities - Edward Tregear (1846-1931) (R. Coupland Harding, 1895)
All men die but one, who has been put into a trance by Maori elders. The women generally make a mess of things. When the man awakes, he is made king, whereupon he organizes the women, who only needed a man to direct them, and the road to recovery begins. But he is required to marry one hundred women and runs away for true love with a woman who won't share him with others.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The People of the Moon. A Novel - [Edward] Tremlett Carter (1866-1903) ("The Electrician” Printing and Publishing Co. and Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent, and Co., 1895)
A complex multi-genre novel set in a hollow moon combining adventure, fantasy, romance, and science fiction, which is the emphasis of the novel. Some on the lives of the people.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Root of the Matter: Being a Series of Dialogues on Social Questions - H[enry] H[yde] Champion (1859-1928) (E.W. Cole, 1895)
Fiction in which one person describes socialism.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"A Story of Strange Sights" - Ethel Turner (1870-1958) (Australian Town and Country Journal (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1895)
Satire. Future in which many of the social fads of the time have been implemented, but with children raised by the state and everyone better off.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

The Time Machine: An Invention - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (William Heinemann, 1895)
Gradual development of two classes, the Eloi and the Morlocks, who are the final stages of the bourgeoisie and the proletariat, respectively. An authorized sequel is 1995 Barnes. There are many unauthorized sequels.
Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume I The Time Machine The Wonderful Visit and Other Stories (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1924), 1-118. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works. Also rpt. in Amazing Stories 2.2 (May 1927): 148-78; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 11.6 (August 1950): 10-53; in Two Complete Science-Adventure Books 1.4 (Winter 1951): 2-44; in Three Prophetic Novels of H.G. Wells. Ed. E.F. Bleiler (New York: Dover Publications, 1960), 263-335 [Follows the 1895 Heinemann ed. except for including an episode from the National Review serial left out of book versions (325-27); as The Definitive Time Machine: A Critical Edition of H.G. Wells’s Scientific Romance With Introduction and Notes by Harry M. Geduld. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987; Ed. Michael Moorcock. London: Everyman, 1993; Rev. Centennial ed. ed. John Lawton. London: Everyman, 1995; as The Time Machine: An Invention. A Critical Text of the 1895 London First Edition, with an Introduction and Appendices. Ed. Leon Stover. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co., 1996; Ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2001; Ed. Patrick Parrinder. London: Penguin Books, 2005, with an “Introduction” by Marina Warner (xiii-xxviii), a “Note on the Text” by Patrick Parrinder (xxxi-xxxiv), and “Notes” by Steven McLean (97-104); and in London: Gollancz, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Gwyneth Jones (vii-xi). Illustrated by Ale + Ale [Alessandro Lecis and Alessandra Panzeri]. Beverly, MA: Rockport Publishers/Quarto Group, 2019. See also, “The Missing Pages from the Immortal Science Fiction Novel by H.G. Wells. The Time Machine XIII. The Further Vision.” Satellite Science Fiction 2.6 (August 1958): 98-109]; Collectors Edition. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1964 illus. Joe Mugnaini and with an “Introduction” (v-xi) by George Zebrowski; the title page says that the introduction is by Brian W. Aldiss, but it is signed by Zebrowski. Differing text in New York: Henry Holt, 1895 [by three weeks, this is technically the first edition]. The Time Machine began life as “The Chronic Argonauts.” Science Schools Journal 2.11 - 13 (April - June 1888): 312-20, 336-41, 367-71. Serialized versions that differed from each other and from the first book version appeared as a series without a common title in the National Observer as follows: “Time Travelling: Possibility or Paradox?” 11.278 (March 17, 1894): 446-47; “The Time Machine.” 11.279 (March 24, 1894): 472-73; “A.D. 12,203: A Glimpse of the Future.” 11.280 (March 31, 1894): 499-500; “The Refinement of Humanity.” 11.283 (April 21, 1894): 581-82; “The Sunset of Mankind.” 11.284 (April 28, 1894): 606-08; “In the Underworld.” 12.287 (May 19, 1894): 14-15; and “The Time Traveller Returns.” 12.292 (June 23, 1894): 145-47; and as “The Time Machine.” New Review 12.68 - 72 (January - May 1895): 98-112, 207, 221, 329-43, 453-72, 577-88. Much of The National Observer version and some of the New Review version can be found in H.G. Wells: Early Writings in Science and Science Fiction. Ed. Robert M. Philmus and David Y. Hughes (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975), 57-104.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Utopia"; The Story of a Strange Experience - Frederic Condé Williams (ed.) [written by] (1844-1917) (Metcalfe and Company, 1895)
An isolated island Arcadia. Nudity, no formal marriage. Children are raised by the community.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A.D. 1900--Application for Leave to Give a Dinner" - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Pall Mall Gazette, 1894)
Satire on contemporary manners projected slightly into the future.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Curse and Its Cure in Two Volumes - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) (J.H. Reynolds, 1894)
A religious dystopia followed by a religious eutopia. Volume I, set in 2000, describes a Brisbane that has essentially disappeared and ends with a description of Hell. Volume II, set in 2200, describes a Brisbane revived and ends with a description of Heaven. Land and mineral wealth nationalized, and “rational” dress adopted, but the key change is the return to religion. Eight-hour workday. See also 1889 Lucas.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Devil's Pronoun" - Frances Forbes Robertson (1866-1956) (The Devil's Pronoun and Other Phantasies, 1894)
An egalitarian eutopia with people living a simple life where the language has no possessive pronoun. Satan introduces possessive pronouns and destroys the eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The English Revolution of the Twentieth Century; A Prospective History - Henry Lazarus, ed. [written by] (1855-1922) (T. Fisher Unwin, 1894)
Mostly criticism of contemporary society from the perspective of a future eutopia. The Salvation Army, while remaining a religious body, is remodeled into a real army and leads the essentially peaceful revolution. But after the revolution, slum landlords and others who had preyed upon the poor were turned over to those they had preyed upon, who killed them. Government replaced, although the king is kept. Slum clearance. Much on the period of transition and details of reforms in the economy, politics, education, law, and social relations.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Guesses at Futurity" - Fred[erick] T[homas] Jane (1865-1916) (Pall Mall Magazine, 1894)
A series of one-page satirical sketches.
Keywords: English author

“The Hygenic Country” - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Lika Joko, 1894)
Satire on reforms in hygiene and diet through an island called Hygeia where anything that might cause disease has been destroyed and the water purified. The people eat only brown bread, stewed fruit, and new milk.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Ideal City - Rev. Canon [Samuel Augustus] Barnett (1844-1913) (Arrowsmith, 1894)
Eutopia that the author argues is possible. Stress on variety but no very rich or poor. Religion, education, health. Outlines how England could become such a eutopia, with Bristol the specific city being considered. See also Samuel [Augustus] Barnett and Henrietta Barnett, Practicable Socialism: Essays on Social Reform. London: Longmans, Green, 1888. Rpt. in 1894 and 1915.
Rpt. in The Ideal City. Ed. Helen E. Meller (Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1979), 55-66 with a "Note to The Ideal City (47-53).
Keywords: English author; Male author

If Christ Came to Chicago! A Plea for the Union of All Who Love in the Service of All Who Suffer - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) (Review of Reviews, 1894)
Religious, cooperative eutopia in one chapter entitled "In the Twentieth Century." For a response, see 1894 Hale, “If Jesus Came to Boston.” For non-utopian works using the same trope, see M[ilford] W[riarson] Howard. If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to "If Christ Came to Congress". [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh, A Second Coming. London: John Lane: The Bodley Head, 1900.
New ed. as If Christ Came to Chicago! What Would Jesues Do with The Precursor of “In His Steps.” at the head of the title. London: “Review of Reviews” Office, 1899. U.S. ed. Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, 1894.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Island of Opera” - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Lika Joko, 1894)
Satire on opera in which sailors come across the Island of Opera in the Archipelago of Music.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ivanda or the Pilgrim's Quest: A Tale - [Sir] Captain Claude [Arthur] Bray (b. 1858) (Frederick Warne, 1894)
Dystopia or flawed utopia. A lost community in Tibet that was intended to be a utopian religious community is more dystopian as a result of some evil men with power in the community. Mostly adventure and romance.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Outlaws of the Air" - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Short Stories (London), 1894)
Mostly adventure and future war, but two chapters describe eutopias that stress personal freedom in an explicitly capitalist setting. The first is a simple, escapist, South Seas Island eutopia without the usual implication of sexual freedom. The second includes all the islands of the South Seas and is a new, independent company set up by the good capitalists who have wrested control of the air from the bad anarchists.
Rpt. as by George Griffith [pseud.]. London: Tower Publishing Company, 1895.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Revolt of the----: A Page from the domestic history of the Twentieth Century" - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 1894)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 62-71.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Splendid Paupers. A Tale of the Coming Plutocracy - [William Thomas] [Stead] (1849-1912) (Review of Reviews, 1894)
Dystopia. A future Britain in which wealthy Chinese now dominate and the formerly wealthy have had to give up their estates.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Toddle Island. Being the Diary of Lord Bottsford - [James Dennis] [Hird] (1850-1920) (Richard Bentley and Son, 1894)
Satire on British life, politics, and society that presents them as both remarkably inconsistent and extremely silly. The one positive feature of Toddle Island is a cooperative laundry, and, at the end of the novel, a larger cooperative system is being established.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Angel of the Revolution" - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson's Weekly, 1893)
Mostly on war but includes a detailed depiction of a world with complete disarmament. See also 1893-94 Jones.
A synopsis preview was published no. 130 (January 14, 1893): 413. Rev. for book published London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894; and Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Part of the original serial but not included in the book was “The Fall of Berlin”; rpt. in The Raid of “Le Vengeur” and Other Stories (London: Ferret Fantasy, 1974), 59-63.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Fear of It" - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 1893)
Story describing a religious community that believes so deeply in heaven that it welcomes death. Simple, austere life.
Rpt. in his The Face and the Mask (London: Hutchinson, 1894), 30-40. U.S. ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1895), 25-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Great Revolution of 1905; or, The Story of the Phalanx, With an Introductory Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century - Frederick W[illiam] Hayes (1848-1918) (Robert Forder, 1893)
Detailed socialist eutopia describing the development to eutopia with considerable material on the political steps involved. The "Introduction" (Forder v-lxviii/Claeys 169-200/State Industrialism v-lxviii) is a critique of contemporary capitalism or individualism, which is then compared to the preferred collectivism or state industrialism.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 4: 165-420. Editor’s notes, 163, 422-30. Rpt. London: Clarion Newspaper Co., 1894. Also published as State Industrialism: The Story of the Phalanx. With an Account of Civilisation in Great Britain at the Close of the Nineteenth Century. London: William Reeves, 1901. Bellamy Library No. 34.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Island of Progress" - M[ary Eliza] Bramston (1841-1912) (The Wild Lass of Estmere and Other Stories, 1893)
Satire set five hundred years in the future about a future based entirely on science. Equality, but gender roles are unchanged with men working outside the home and women in it, but without servants, science, eugenics, and technology. The physical condition of the race is the highest good. Arranged marriages based on physical characteristics and character. Highly refined. Placid--a phlegmatic mind is best; having an imagination is bad (245-246). Criminals used in scientific experiments (242). Involuntary euthanasia where Extinguishers “extinguish anyone whose existence is hurtful to the progress of the Race” (242).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Man of the Year Million. A Scientific Forecast" - [Herbert] [George] [Wells] (1866-1946) (Pall Mall Gazette 57.8931, 1893)
Satire on far future forecasting; people will have larger brains and larger hands and use their hands for locomotion. The rest of the body has shriveled. Punch took it seriously and spoofed it in "1,000,000 A.D." Punch 105 (November 25, 1893): 250.
Rpt. in the Pall Mall Budget, no. 1312 (November 16, 1893): 1796-97; in "Of a Book Unwritten." In his Certain Personal Matters. A Collection of Material, Mainly Autobiographical (London: Lawrence & Bullen, 1898), 161-71; and in English Illustrated Magazine 26 (January 1902): 381-84.
Keywords: English author; Male author

An Original Comic Opera in Two Acts Entitled Utopia (Limited); or, The Flowers of Progress - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911); Arthur [Seymour] Sullivan (1842-1900) (Chappell & Co, 1893)
Satire on utopia.  See David Eden, ed. Utopia Limited. A Centenary Review of the Year 1893. Ed. for the Sir Arthur Sullivan Society. Coventry, Eng.: The Sir Arthur Sullivan Society, 1993. O
Rpt. as Utopia Limited or The Flowers of Progress. London: Cassell & Co., 1911. For additional textual material, see John Wolfson, Final Curtain: The Last Gilbert and Sullivan Operas Including the unpublished rehearsal librettos and twenty unpublished Gilbert lyrics. London: Chappell & Company in Association with André Deutsch, 1976.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Reveries of World-History; From Earth's Nebulous Origin to Its Final Ruin or The Romance of a Star - T[homas] Mullett Ellis (1850-1919) (Swan Sonnenschein & Co, 1893)
Technological eutopia (131-40) in the last chapter, "The Future" (131-56) plus a universal language and a world government.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Story of My Dictatorship" - [Lewis Henry] [Berens] (?-1914); [Ignatius] [Singer] (ca. 1853-1926) (Weekly Times & Echo (London), 1893)
Single Tax eutopia set in London. See also 1895 Berens and Singer. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
The first version appeared serially in Our Commonwealth (Adelaide, SA, Australia), a newspaper edited by Singer to publicize land nationalization and the single tax, in 1887 and 1888, but the most complete holdings are missing two issues in the middle of the serial. The first part of the series is entitled "When I Was Governor of This Country" and appeared in 2.2 (December 1887): 428-29. A later part appeared as "When I Was Governor of South Australia" in 2.5 (March 1888): 452. This part refers to a previous part and indicates that it is to be continued, but the newspaper appears to have ended with that issue. Rpt. with a "Preface" by William Lloyd Garrison. New York: Sterling Pub. Co. Sterling Library No. 4, May 1, 1894; with the subtitle Dedicated (Without Permission) to the National Association. Auckland, New Zealand: Ptd. by F.W. Harradence, 1894; London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1894 with 2nd ed. on the cover; and Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade, 1894, also described as 2nd ed. There is a Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade edition of 1895 described as the 3rd ed., and there are copies of the 3rd ed. that gives the publication information as Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Cole's Book Arcade/London: Bliss, Sands & Foster, 1895; Rev. ed. Glasgow/Bradford/London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1907], with “Introductory by William Lloyd Garrison from the Preface to the American Edition” (5); New and unabr. ed. London: Land Values Publishing Department, [1910] has the subtitle The Taxation of Land Values Clearly Explained. Rpt. Cincinnati, OH: Joseph Fels Fund of America, 1913 and again in 1931. An edition with the subtitle An Account of an Eventful Experience Abridged From the Record Made by L.H. Berens and I. Singer. London: Henry George Foundation, 1934. Another edition is entitled Dictator--Democrat. Abridged and adapted from The Story of My Dictatorship By Lewis H. Berens and Ignatius Singer. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Henry George Foundation, Australia, 1945. As can be seen, the publishing history of this book is complex and not yet settled.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

"The Syren of the Skies" - [George Chetwynd Griffith] [Jones] (1857-1906) (Pearson's Weekly, 1893)
Sequel to 1893 Jones, set a hundred years after the conclusion of that novel. Peace has existed throughout the period and social and technological changes have brought about a world-wide eutopia. The bulk of the novel is concerned with the re-start of conflict and its defeat, followed by a catastrophe that wipes out human civilization.
An introduction was published as “A Flight into the Future. An Introduction to the Sequel to ‘The Angel of the Revolution”, no. 179 (December 23, 1893): 361-62. Revised for book publication as Olga Romanoff or The Syren of the Skies: A Sequel to “The Angel of the Revolution”. London: Tower Publishing Co., 1894. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Two and Two Make Four. Being the Review of Review Annual, 1893 - William T[homas] Stead (1849-1912) (“Review of Reviews” Office, 1893)
Most of the novel is made up of reflections on current conditions with strong spiritualist elements plus adventure and romance. At the end a wealthy “modern woman” has used her wealth to create an ideal society on and around her estate, although, of course, without changing the class structure.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Valdmer the Viking: A Romance of the Eleventh Century by Sea and Land - [James] Hume Nisbet (1848-1921) (Hutchinson & Co, 1893)
Vikings discover a lost race with a social system in which positions are assigned by lot at birth. The eutopia is a small part of an adventure story. See also 1895, 1902 and 1905 Nisbet.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

A Witch of the Nineteenth Century - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) (The Hermetic Publishing Co., 1893)
Mostly spiritualism, but the novel contains a brief description of an underground eutopia that will be created by those advanced spiritually. It is also technologically advanced.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Woman Free - [Elizabeth Clarke] [Wolstenholme-Elmy] (1833-1918) (Women's Emancipation Union, 1893)
A poem with the title of the book (1-32) followed by notes on the poem (33-222). Much of the poem is on the trials and tribulations of the current position of women, but parts of it project into a future of free, enabled women. Little detail.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The Doom of London” - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly, 1892)
The dystopia created in London when the combination of fog and smoke cut off oxygen at ground level and millions die, with the suggestion that the reduction in population plus advanced technology have produced a better life fifty years later.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 7.1 (38) (July 1954): 25-34 with an editor’s note on 34; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.) 6 ([February 1956]): 23-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Dream of an Englishman - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, 1892)
Eutopia. World federation developed from Britain. Three stages--United Kingdom and Ireland form a federation; the empire is added; and then the entire world joins. Based on self-interest. . See also his letter to the editor, “Federation Made Easy.” Imperial Federation 8 (1893): 320-21. Bennett also wrote a utopia set in his hometown in the future; see 1900 Bennett.
Rpt. Warrington, England: "Sunrise" Pub. Co., 1893.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"From Darkest England, 1890 to Christian England, 1980" - Mrs. Septimus [Maria Emma] Buss (The Women's Herald, 1892)
Christian eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. Cooperative housekeeping. Temperance. Gender equality. Cremation. Land publicly held.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"He Visits an Adamless Eden" - Arthur [William] A'Beckett (1844-1909) (The Member for Wrottenborough: Passages from His Life in Parliament, 1892)
Satire on women's franchise.
Probably originally published in a weekly newspaper.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Island of Fantasy; A Romance - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) (Griffith Farran and Company, 1892)
Greek Arcadian eutopia founded on an island by an Englishman. The entire social structure is based on early Greek forms.
One vol. ed. New York: Lovell, Gestefeld & Co., 1892. Rpt. New York: Fenno, 1905. New ed. London: Griffith Farran and Company, [1893]. Abridged ed. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1914].
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Nineteen Hundred? A Forecast and a Story - [Mary Ann] [Hearn] (1834-1909 (James Clarke, 1892)
Establishment of a successful religious intentional community.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Village Commune: A Labour Poem. Leaflets for the People. No. IV. For God and Home, Humanity, and Fatherland - [Robert Michael] [Cochrane] (1862-1933) (Queensland Social-Democratic Federation, 1892)
Poem in which the second part (10-16) describes a future communal eutopia.
Extracts were published in The Worker (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 3.70 (September 3, 1892): 3; and the Bulletin (December24, 1892), 21.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Yorl of the Northmen; or, the Fate of the English Race; Being the Romance of a Monarchical Utopia - [Charles Wicksteed] [Armstrong] (1871-ca 1963) (Reeves and Turner, 1892)
Feudal eutopia brought about through eugenics. Cottage industries but a few factories are allowed under strict health regulations. Traditional gender roles. See also 1936 Armstrong, Paradise Found; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review 25.2 (ns. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 317-389. Editor's notes, 315, 399-400.
Keywords: Brazilian author; English author; Male author; Spanish author

The Agnostic Island - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) (Watts, 1891)
Agnostic eutopia stressing education and religious toleration. Considerable satire on religion and missionaries in particular.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Arcadian Life - S[ydney] S[avory] Buckman, F.G.S. (1860-1929) (Chapman & Hall, 1891)
Satire on rural life as an imaginary country.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Christ That Is To Be. A Latter-Day Romance - Joseph Compton Rickett (1847-1919) (Chapman & Hall, 1891)
After a revolution, England returns to small, agricultural communities and a craft guild system. The Second Coming is ignored and rejected.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Human Republic - [Henry Robert] Heather Bigg (1853-1911) (David Stott, 1891)
Eutopia depicted in the interior of the human body with the emphasis on interdependence and equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Year of Miracle; A Tale of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) (George Routledge and Sons, 1891)
A plague is deliberately introduced into the world and decimates the population. But after the plague passes, there is a very brief depiction of the better world that has become possible based on the reduced population and the elimination of the poor, who were most affected by the plague.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

The Conditions of Peace - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) ([Shaker Community], 1890)
Six-page pamphlet in which Evans outlines the basis for eutopia, including the franchise for women, vegetarianism, and Christian community. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Universal Republic.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

"An English Tax-Day, June 15, 1927" - [Auberon Edward William Molyneux] [Herbert] (1838-1906) (The Free Life, 1890)
Individualist eutopia. Taxes are freely given not imposed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Girl of the Future” - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) (Universal Review, 1890)
A satirical essay that criticizes the current marriage system as marriage for the man and prostitution for the woman as well as the new education for women that cultivated their brains but neglected their bodies and, specifically, ignored sex. He then suggests the eutopia that would be possible if women were fully emancipated and given the sort of education that would prepare them for motherhood, mentally and physically.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Jamaican author; Male author; US author

The Golden Lake or the Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia - Carlton [William Lanyon] Dawe (1865-1945) (Trischler and Co., 1890)
Typical lost race dystopia in which intrepid explorers discover a lost race, complete with the required beautiful blond woman, who they rescue and who marries one of the explorers.
Colonial Ed. Melbourne, Vic, Australia: E. A. Petherick, 1891.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Humanitarian Government - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull Martin (1838-1927) (Np, 1890)
Eutopia that proposes a government of philosophers, control of the press, and other reforms. Some material on eugenics. A related text is Victoria Woodhull (Mrs. John Biddulph Martin). Humanitarian Money. The Unsolved Riddle. London: Np, 1892. 26 pp. See 1870 Woodhull.
Rpt. London: Blades, 1893. 68 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

In Darkest England and The Way Out - General [William] Booth (1829-1912) (International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, 1890)
Mostly a reform scheme centered on the Salvation Army but includes the transformation of society through a series of city, farm, and overseas colonies. The city colonies were designed to get the poor off the streets. A factory in the city helped train them to work, and the city colony sent people to the farm colony which consisted of a cooperative farm and industrial and agricultural villages. These were then expected to send people to the overseas colonies. Some such schemes were established; see and Norman H Murdoch, “Anglo-American Salvation Army Farm Colonies, 1890-1910.” Communal Societies 3 (Fall 1983): 111-21; and Clark C. Spence, The Salvation Army Farm Colonies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. For an attack on the Salvation Army, see 1890 Pope Booth.
6th ed. London: Charles Knight & Co., Ltd. 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Life in Utopia; Being a Faithful and Accurate Description of the Institutions that Regulate Labour, Art, Science, Agriculture, Education, Habitation, Matrimony, Law, Government, and Religion in this Delightful Region of Human Imagination - John [Aloys] Petzler (1814?-1898) (Authors' Cooperative Publishing Company, 1890)
Fairly standard socialist eutopia. See also 1870 and 1876 Petzler, 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).
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

"The New Utopia" - Jerome K[lapka] Jerome (1859-1927) (Treasure Trove, 1890)
Satire. Equality achieved by limiting those better than the average.
Rpt. in his Diary of a Pilgrimage (And Six Essays). Illus. G. G. Frazar (Bristol, Eng.: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1891]), 261-79. U.S. ed. Illus. G. G. Frazar (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1891), 337-60; and in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 24.1802 (June 10, 1891): 5.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest. Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance" - William Morris (1834-1896) (The Commonweal, 1890)
Agrarian socialist eutopia. See also 1884, 1886-87 1887, and 1889 Morris.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Bros., 1890. The first U.K. ed. was London: Reeves & Turner, 1891 and was extensively revised. Rpt. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892 1892 with a facsimile ed. of the Kelmscott Press was published by London: Thames & Hudson/V&A, 2017, with an “introduction” by Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury (vi-xi); 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: 1-211; ed. James Redmond. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970; ed. Krishan Kumar. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; ; and ed. David Leopold. Oxford, Eng: Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapters II-III rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 292-302.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Universal Republic: A Shaker Pronunciamento - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) (np, 1890)
Eutopia based on the teachings of the Shakers and Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Each child born is due education until its legal age, at which point it is given its portion of land, sufficient to support a family. Childbearing will be controlled by the women. Also suggests a higher order of celibacy and community of goods. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Conditions of Peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Wreck of a World With a Preface by Sir John Brown, C.E., J.P. Knight of the Order of Maximilian of Mexico, etc., etc., etc. - [Reginald Colebrook] [Reade] (1853-1891) (Digby and Long, 1890)
The novel starts in what is presented in the first chapter as a flawed utopia that is technologically advanced but beginning to lose its moral center. There is a Pan-Britannic Confederation with all members having a President and Congress and the nobility gradually disappearing. But much of the novel is concerned with a revolt of the machines against the human race, which is almost eliminated. After a long conflict, humans win but are temporarily limited to one island where a small group begins to create a good society that is compared to More's Utopia. No money. Goods freely exchanged. Sequel to his A Mexican Mystery. London: Digby and Long, 1888 in which a train is given consciousness and turns into a monster.
Long's Albion Library, Vol. II. This ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 3: 5-163, with a brief note by the editor (1-3). The English Catalogue lists the 1st ed. as February 1890, but, due to ads in the book dated 1889, I.F. Clarke's Tale of the Future and some other bibliographies give the publication date as 1889.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny - Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G. (1835-99) (Hutchinson, 1889)
Detailed eutopia. Sexual equality. Includes a chapter on the eutopian results of Home Rule for Ireland (233-48). Satires on the novel include 1889 Juggle, Sir Volius and 1891 Williams, George Phipps and W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves. “Farming in the Future.”
Colonial ed., which is technically the 1st ed., has a picture of the author and different binding. 3rd and cheaper ed. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: Hutchinson, 1890 and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sydney</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1890. 331 pp. 4th and cheaper ed. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hutchinson</st1:place></st1:city>, 1890 has different cover, different ads in the back. Rpt. Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2000. 184 pp.; which is rpt. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:place></st1:city>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Hawai</st1:placename></st1:place>‘i Press, 2002. It was adapted for radio by Dennis McEldowney and broadcast on New Zealand radio 3YC Christchurch May 9, 1962.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

Beneath Your Very Boots: Being a Few Striking Episodes from the Life of Anthony Merlwood Haltoun, Esq. - C[harles] J[ohn Cutcliffe Wright] Hyne (1866-1944) (Digby and Long, 1889)
Society in the earth under Britain. There are eutopian elements to the society in that, for example, everyone dresses uniformly, lives comfortably in good housing, and has excellent medical care. The dystopian elements are stronger in that absolute power is held by a fake god who kills opponents without trial, and all homes are apparently bugged by the god.
2md ed. London: Digby and Long, 1889.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Gobi or Shamo; A Story of Three Songs - G[eorge] G[ilbert] A[imé] Murray (1866-1957) (Longmans, Green and Company, 1889)
Lost race novel with a eutopian Athenian society.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

“How Shall We Live Then?” - William Morris (1834-1896) (International Review of Social History, 1889)
Some details of what he sees as basic to the good life in the future that fit well with his 1890 News From Nowhere. Stress on maintaining a strong and healthy body. Includes a long list of occupations. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1887, 1888, and 1890 Morris.
There is a copy of the manuscript at http://www.iisg.nl/archives/morris/live15.php
Keywords: English author; Male author

John Wilholm’s Class Meeting; or, The Forward Movement: Christlike Christianity - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) (T. Barrett, 1889)
The novel is about how one group of Methodists come to themselves lead more Christian lives and their influence on the area where they live. While most of the book is on the developments within the group, it ends with a brief presentation of the eutopia that is coming into being with pubs closed and jails no longer full. The book is dedicated to Rev. Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), the founder of The Methodist Times and the Forward Movement in the Methodist Church, a movement to make the church more socially relevant. See also 1894 Lucas.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

“The Lady of the Bush. The Dream of an English Traveller” - David Christie Murray (1847-1907) (Adelaide Advertiser (Adelaide, SA, Australia), 1889)
Australia in the future as a metropolitan eutopia. The eutopia is in the last paragraph only with the rest a vision of the Australian bush.
Also in the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW, Australia). The Adelaide paper says that it was written for the Advertiser. The Grafton paper says it was originally published in the Daily Telegraph.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Lesbia Newman - Henry Robert S[amuel] Dalton (1835-1902?) (George Redway, 1889)
Eutopia. Rights for women with training so they can exercise them effectively. Roman Catholic church allows priestesses.
Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 371-702, with a brief note by the editor (367-69).
Keywords: English author; Male author

New Amazonia; a Foretaste of the Future - Mrs. George [Elizabeth Burgoyne] Corbett (b. 1846) (Tower Pub. Co, 1889)
Feminist eutopia in a society of the far future in Ireland. After war and revolution women’s position worsened, and they colonized Ireland, founding New Amazonia. All government posts held by women, and for the most important posts they can never have been married. The story is about a woman and a man who re projected into the future, the woman experiencing the future as eutopia and the man unable to adjust to it. Detailed regulation of the economy, a national dress with no fashion changes. Stress on physical education and diet to ten, and then everyone learned a trade for four years. All earnings from the next five years taken by the state to reimburse it for educating and maintaining the individual. Advanced technology. It turns out to have been the woman’s dream. The “Prologue” (1-8) says that it was inspired by a feature in the Nineteenth Century opposing women’s suffrage. A humorous comment is L[inda] Timmel Duchamp, “Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 184-200.
Rpt. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2014 with an “Introduction: A Foretaste of the Future, a Caution from the Past” by Alexis Lothian (1-23).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Society of the Future" - William Morris (1834-1896) (The Commonweal, 1889)
Essay with a eutopia similar to his 1890 News From Nowhere. See also 1884, 1886-87, and 1887, 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), 453-68. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 453-68; and in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 142-55, with editorial notes on 206-09.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Inner House - Walter Besant (1836-1901) (J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall, 1888)
Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.
Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an “Afterword” by Brian Stableford (199).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Island: or, An Adventure of a Person of Quality - Richard Whiteing (1840-1928) (Longmans, Green, 1888)
A South Seas Island eutopia that depicts a romanticized Pitcairn Island with a series of laws designed to establish and protect a simple life. Mostly romance and adventure.
The 2nd ed. London: Grant Richards, 1889 has two added chapters and minor revisions throughout.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kophetua the Thirteenth" - Julian [Stafford] Corbett (1854-1929) (Time, 1888)
Mostly romance but includes a eutopia, primarily in volume 1, called Oneira that had been established in Africa during the Renaissance. Based on reason. Tax system similar to that in 1656 Harrington results in wealth and the elimination of all taxes. Some satire on politics when there are no real issues. There is a dystopian enclave created deliberately to provide a place for those incapable of living a good Christian life. This is eliminated by the end of the novel.
Rpt. 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co., 1889. One vol. ed. London: Macmillan, 1889.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Shaker Reconstruction of the American Government - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) (Office Register and Gazette, 1888)
Eutopia. Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY)  that first criticizes the policies supported by the New York Tribune and then proposes a revision of the U.S. Constitution based on Shaker teachings. Women will be full citizens. A class of celibate men and women, in separate houses (Senate women; House of Representatives men) will be the legislators. No individual or corporate land ownership with land becoming government owned on the death of the current owner and then distributed to the people. No private or religious education. No alcohol. See also 1890 Evans (2).
Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY).
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author