From Those in White - [Maud Lalita] [Johnson] (np, 1912)
Brief eutopia focusing on marriage and motherhood and emphasizing the continuing independence of partners. No private property. Simple life. Calls Utopia the land of realization.
Keywords: Female author

The Great State: Essays in Construction (Harper and Bros, 1912)
Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other.
US ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, "The Past and the Great State" (1-46), also published as "Socialism." Harper's Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as "The Great State." In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), "The Great State and the Country-side" (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, "Work in the Great State" (67-119); Ray Lankester, "The Making of New Knowledge" (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, "Health and Healing in the Great State" (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, "Law and the Great State" (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, "Democracy and the Great State" (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, "Women in the Great State" (219-47); Roger Fry, "The Artist in the Great State" (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, "The Present Development of the Great State" (273-99); Conrad Noel, "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, "The Growth of the Great State" (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, "The Tradition of the Great State" (357-78).
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

"Her Memories" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
A eutopia in which a large apartment block in New York City is designed to include cooperative housekeeping, pre-school and early schooling, and places for public activities and entertainment.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 174-81.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady - Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1912)
Humorous eutopia describing the joys and pitfalls of love. Arkady, the capital and chief city of Arcadia, is “the Mecca of all Lovers” (1). In Dan Cupid’s Heartware shop, broken hearts can be repaired while you wait (54).
Keywords: Female author

Myriam and the Mystic Brotherhood - Maude Lesseuer Howard (John Wurtele Lovell, 1912)
Occult novel in which a group of spiritually advanced people are invited to assist governments and help create a eutopia of peace and prosperity. Not much detail on the eutopia.
Rpt. Elkhart, IN: Occult Publishing Co., 1915.
Keywords: Female author

Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific Novel - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (Author, 1912)
Spiritualist novel in which Mars is depicted as a place where true love flourishes. The novel also describes various dystopian regions.
Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Strange Land" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
Eutopia about a country with the goal of making all people better and the country more beautiful. They reject capitalism.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 182-85; and rpt. abbreviated as "A Certain Land." Woman's Journal (February 8, 1913): 42.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Superwoman" - Miriam Michelson (1870-1942) (Smart Set. A Magazine of Cleverness, 1912)
A typical, wealthy American male chauvinist ends up on an unknown island inhabited by Amazonian women and effeminate men, although, in this case, the women are presented positively. The editor compares the story to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland" (1915).
Rpt. in The Superwoman and Other Writings. Ed. Lori Harrison-Kahan (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019), 55-135, with an “Introduction: Miriam Michelson, Frontier Feminist” by the editor (1-54).
Keywords: Female author; US author

What Auckland Might Be Or; A Tribute From France - Mrs. S. V Irwin (J. Buelens & Co, 1912)
Redesign of Auckland to be like Paris.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Centaurians. A Novel - [Lottie F.] [Ambrose] (Broadway Publishing Co., 1911)
Lost race flawed utopia located near the North Pole. There are four societies in the area, with one, the Centaurians, the focus of this aspect of the novel. The Centaurians are advanced technologically and see themselves as having achieved perfection and no longer love or hate. The novel contains the standard love story with the man from outside falling in love with a woman who is considered almost divine and is known as the Priestess of the Sun and is wedded to the Sun. Although she is supposed no longer to be able to experience love, she does, but not him.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Day After To-morrow - [Minnie Warren] [Jones] (b. 1968) (F.V. White & Co., Ltd, 1911)
Romance but with a vaguely utopian background. America is a monarchy. Part is located in Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female 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

"Moving the Mountain" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1911)
Detailed feminist eutopia. "'Moving the Mountain' is a short distance Utopia, a baby Utopia, a little one that can grow. It involves no other change than a change of mind, the mere awakening of people, especially the women, to existing possibilities. It indicates what people might do, real people, now living, in thirty years--if they would" (6). No poverty, no pollution, no racial problems, no gender conflict, and little disease. A two-hour workday is required, but most work four.
Repub. New York: Charlton Company, 1911. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 37-149. This ed. compares The Forerunner version with the Clarion version and includes the brief "Preface" from the Clarion version that was not in The Forerunner (37). Excerpt published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 178-88; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 159-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The New Order: Social Revolution of Free Groups - W[illiam] Allen Macdonald; Helen Meredith Macdonald (Questell Press, 1911)
Outlines of an anarchist eutopia in which everyone respects everyone else’s freedom and individuality. The pamphlet identifies the most fundamental social problem as the dominance of money. The solution is that every individual should produce their own food on one-third of an acre of land, thus implying vegetarianism, and also producing for each other’s needs. Although there is no money, there is a medium of exchange which is said to simply be account books where resources, labor, and exchange of goods are recorded. People keep the resources they hold on entering the group, although this will gradually disappear over time. Each person or family would have their own housing depending on their needs.
Keywords: Female author; Male author

Outland - [Mary Hunter] [Austin] (1868-1934) (John Murray, 1910)
Tale of a hidden hunter gatherer society, called the Outliers, with a simple, balanced life.
U.S. ed. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1919.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Appeal to the Artist [To Professor Patrick Geddes.]" - Rachel Annand Taylor (1876-1960) (Rose and Vine, 1909)
Poem reflecting the ideas of Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) and depicting a eutopia of regionalism.
2nd ed. (London: Elkin Mathews, 1910), 162-67. Rpt. without the subtitle in Victor Branford, Whitherward? Hell or Eutopia (London: Williams and Norgate, 1921), xi-xiii.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The Divine Seal - Emma Louise Orcutt (C.M. Clark, 1909)
Mostly a lost race adventure set in a future after 2100. Includes, at the beginning, a brief picture of the eutopian future stressing both technology and politics. Atlantis has been discovered, Atlantean records show a rich continent near the North Pole, and an expedition is mounted to find it. Alaska is now warm. The American Republic includes most of North America and has four capitals, including Yu-kon-il-i-a in Alaska. No one can vote who cannot pass a test on the principles of republican government. No one can be elected to office without a certificate of good character. The expedition includes "several professors from Indian and negro colleges" (4). Women hold office. Technologically advanced. The expedition quickly discovers people of the lost country, some of whom are highly civilized and one of whom is evil. The novel then becomes a typical lost race adventure.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Soul of the World - Estella Bachman (Equitist Publishing House, 1909)
Single tax eutopia and theosophy. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). 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.
Keywords: Female 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

"What Diantha Did" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1909)
The initial development of a eutopia in which a woman creates a for-profit housekeeping business which gradually expands to a complete housing system with professionals doing the cooking, cleaning, and so forth.
Rpt. New York: Charlton, 1910. Rpt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 123-40; and in Carol Farley Kessler’s Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 137-46.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Aunt Mary's Pie Plant" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (Woman's Home Companion, 1908)
Women establish businesses and turn a small town into a eutopia.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 117-28.
Keywords: Female 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 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

A Pilgrim's Progress in Other Worlds; Recounting the Wonderful Adventures of Ulysum Storries and His Discovery of the Lost Star "Eden" - [Marie Antoinette Parish Hough] Martin (1840-1915) (Mayhew Publishing Company, 1908)
Spiritualism. Immature, crude Earthman travels around the planets. Most planets advanced spiritually and socially beyond Earth. The advance is largely due to the improved status of women.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Strange Land - [Jane] [Barlow] (1857-1917) (Hutchinson & Co, 1908)
Fantasy and eutopia depicting an isolated island somewhere in Southeast Asia. There are no animals, birds, or insects. Plants do not die a lingering death but simply disappear in an instant. Something of an Arcadia physically but with a degree of technology such as gas and electricity. The protagonist is an accomplished musician, and the advanced people of the island fear music because it always precedes the disappearance/death of someone.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"Suffrage Island" - Wardle, Jane (The Red Magazine, 1908)
Anti-feminist satire.
Keywords: Female author

When the Saints are Gone - Constancia Serjeant (John Long, 1908)
The novel begins with a critique of the Anglican church and its neglect of the poor, even among its own clergy, while the church hierarchy lives in luxury. All the saved are "raptured" from the world (see 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17), and a dystopia is created by the Antichrist. Christ returns on the last pages.
Keywords: Female author

A Woman's Aye and Nay - [Adelina Georgina] [Kingscote] (d. 1908) (John Long, 1908)
Satire in which votes for women are a disaster.
Keywords: Female 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

A Knight of the Holy Ghost - Edith Searle Grossmann (1863-1931) (Watts & Co, 1907)
Describes the establishment in Australia of a communal settlement of women and, a little later, an associated Brotherhood of Men. Successful reaction against women's rights. Strong prohibition message. See also her In Revolt. London & Sydney: Eden, Remington & Co., 1893 (ATL, L), to which this is a sequel of sorts.
Rpt. as Hermione: A Knight of the Holy Ghost [A Novel of the Woman Movement at the head of the title]. London: Watts & Co., 1908.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Female 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

"A Woman's Utopia" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (The Times Magazine, 1907)
A feminist eutopia with Gilman writing "Now is the time for practical utopias" (Kessler 135). The eutopia was brought about through a new religion with a social conscience and, even more, by women no longer being treated as inferiors and becoming involved in politics and the work force. Radical improvement of the environment. Cooperative housekeeping.
To be continued but not. An additional chapter can be found in the Gilman Collection at Radcliffe College (Cambridge, MA). Rpt., including the first publication of the additional chapter, in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 133-74 with an editor's note on 131-32.
Keywords: Female author; US author

As It Is In Heaven - Mary Sparkes Wheeler (1835-1919). (Universal Book and Bible House, 1906)
Heaven as eutopia.
Also published as by One of the Redeemed [pseud.] (Mary Sparks Wheeler). Illus. Philadelphia, PA: P.W. Ziegler Co., 1906.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Decimon Hûŷdas: A Romance of Mars. A Story of actual experiences in Ento (Mars) many centuries ago given to the Psychic Sara Weiss and by her transcribed under the editorial direction of Spirit Carl De L'Ester - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) (Austin Publishing Co, 1906)
Story of life on Mars related to 1903 Weiss.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Arcadian Adelaide - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) (Modern Printing Co, 1905)
Satire on Adelaide and its inhabitants. In the “Foreword” the author writes, “Adelaide has crushed my youthful ambitions, and, possibly, narrowed my ideas--and you, her people, have done your best (by force of example), and other methods) to root out any broad or human sentiment that was in me” ([5]), but in an undated “Preface to the II., III., IV., V., VI., and VII Editions” on the next page she says she had no malicious intent. There is no evidence of such editions. See also her 1905 The Arcadians.  Mrs. F. Ellis responded in A Scratch from an Adelaide Cat in vindication of Adelaide and its people. Adelaide, SA, Australia: G. Hassell & Co., 1905 (M).
Rpt. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Wakefield Press, 1985.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

The Arcadians. Sequel to Arcadian Adelaide - Thistle [M.C.] Anderson (Mrs. Herbert Fisher). (b. 1879?) (Modern Printing Co, 1905)
Sequel to her 1905 Arcadian Adelaide in which she adds additional individuals and responds to critics.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

As It May Be; A Story of the Future - Bessie Story Rogers (Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1905)
Eutopia of great technological advances, including control of the weather, personal airplanes, and no illness and no death. Religious but no churches (praise God every day and everywhere) (pp. 68-73). Vegetarian and all animals tame. Set in 2905.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

It Beats the Shakers or A New Tune - Anna D. Evans (Anglo-American Corp., 1905)
Satire. The men are on Earth and the women are on Venus. Women come to Earth on a guarantee of good treatment, are not treated well, and leave.
Keywords: Female author

Other Worlds; A Story Concerning the Wealth Earned by American Citizens and Showing How It Can Be Secured to Them Instead of to the Trusts - Lena Jane Fry (Author, 1905)
Socialist eutopia with housing and food at cost. Well-equipped facilities for children. Six-hour day for nurses.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Patmos - [Kate Evelyn] [Isitt] (1876-1955) (Gordon and Gotch, 1905)
Primarily a temperance novel but includes (298-304) a brief vision of a future eutopia in this life and in heaven brought about by the general acceptance of Christianity, which includes prohibition.
2nd ed. London: Gordon and Gotch , 1905.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Sultana's Dream" - Mrs. R[okeya] S[akhawat] Hossan [Hossain] (1880-1932) (The Indian Ladies' Magazine (Madras, India), 1905)
“Sultana’s Dream” is a dream of Ladyland, which is a country of women brought about through education for women. Her Padmarag (Bengali 1924/English 2005) is mostly concerned with the conditions of women in India, but central to the novel is a community of women established by one woman to provide refuge for women, education for girls, and care for sick and poor women. The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. Mohammed Quayum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013 translates and reprints other stories and essays by Hossain, including some essays on women’s rights.
Rpt. as by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (all the reprints use this name) in her Sultana’s Dream and Selections from The Secluded Ones. Ed. and trans. Roushan Jahan (New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1988), 7-18; in The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800--World War II. Ed. A. Susan Williams (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1992), 350-60; in her Sultana’s Dream and Padmarag: Two Feminist Utopias. Trans. Barnita Bagchi. New Delhi, India: Penguin Books India, 2005 [Pamarag was first published in Bengali. Calcutta, India: Author, 1924]; updated ed. New York: Penguin Books, 2022, with an “Introduction” Tanya Agathocleous (vii-xxviii), two essays by Hossain: “God Gives, Man Robs” (203-205), first published in The Mussalman (December 7, 1927), and “Educational Ideals for the Modern India Girls” (205-210), first published in The Mussalman (March 5, 1931), a Glossary (211-212), and ”Suggestions for Further Reading” (213-218); in The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: Peter Owen, 2010): 144-55 with an editor’s note on 143; The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. Mohammed Quayum (Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013), 159-68, which reprints what Quayum identifies as the first book publication (Calcutta, India: S. K. Lahiri, 1908), and includes a chronology of her life (xii-xiv) and a biographical essay (xv-xxxii); in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 10-16 with an editors’ note on 9; in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 140-47; in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 385-94; in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 149-59, with an editor’s introduction on 133-48; and in Voices from the Radium Age. Ed Joshua Glenn (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022), 1-16. Only the Vandermeers and Claeys and Sargent reproduce the original text as published.
Keywords: Female author; Indian 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

The World Above; A Duologue - Martha Foote Crow (1854-1924) (Blue Skys Press, 1905)
Play about a mechanical dystopian world underground and search by two lovers for a way out.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Modern Exodus: A Novel - Violet Guttenberg (Greening & Co., 1904)
An anti-Semitic Prime Minister decides to expel all the Jews in the country, but before the law can take effect, all the Jews move to Palestine. The first part of the novel is concerned with the decision to expel, the second part with the successes and failures in Palestine, and the third part deals with the economic collapse of Britain after the exodus and the decision by the same Prime Minister to welcome the Jews back, and many choose to return.
Keywords: Female author

The Storm of London: A Social Rhapsody - [Mme.] [Fernande] [Blaze de Bury] (d. 1931) (John Long, 1904)
Humorous eutopia. Reform through the disappearance of clothes and of anything that could be used as covering, including paper. People are unable to recognize each other. Stress on class. Only occurs in England and the novel is centered on upper class London. Not being able to tell police from non-police, the streets become self-policing, and government collapses. Much employment (manufacturing and shops) disappears, and shops are initially turned into great dining halls. Since there is no paper, most money is gone, and an economy in which everyone does some useful labor develops. No eroticism; morally better. Reunification of churches. Technological advances using electricity.
U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Herbert B. Turner, 1905. Both eds. have H. Dicksberry on the cover.
Keywords: Female author; French author; Scottish author

"The Story of Loveland" - Lady Florence [Caroline] Dixie (1855-1905) (Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review, 1904)
Egalitarian eutopia stressing gender equality. Everyone works. Dual gender high offices. Vegetarian. Telepathy. Federation of states ruled by similar laws. Land administered by the state. "Discipline brigades" to ensure conformity. Capital of Heartease. "Loveland's people are comrades and are ruled by justice; hence there can be no class or sex privilege, and, in those respects, all are equal" (421). "A Wanderer's Dream." Agnostic Journal and Eclectic Review 53.23 (December 5, 1903): 355-56 serves as an introduction to the story.
Rpt. in her Izra; A Child of Solitude (London: John Long, [1906]), 421-41.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The Angels' Diary; and, Celestion Study of Man - [Mrs.] [J. A. Seeds Samson] [Lender] [Probable author] (Merchants Publishing Co., 1903)
The first part of the book is a visit to Paradise, both before and after death, with brief visits to other planets.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Celestial Hand: A Sensational Story - Joyce Vincent (J.C. MacCartie, 1903)
The novel is mostly on a war with the "non-Aryan" races but includes a brief description of a eutopia of a regenerated world after the Aryans win (255-56). Occult themes.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento - Sara Weiss (d. 1904) (The Bradford Press, 1903)
Spiritualism. Mars is mostly a better, more spiritually advanced society, but there are some people susceptible to the temptations of power. See also 1906 Weiss.
Later published as Journeys to the Planet Mars or Our Mission to Ento (Mars). Being a record of visits made to Ento (Mars) by Sara Weiss, Psychic, under the guidance of a Spirit Band, for the purpose of conveying to the Entoans, a knowledge of the Continuity of Life. Transcribed Automatically by Sara Weiss under the editorial direction of (Spirit) Carl De L’Ester. Rochester, NY: The Austin Publishing Co., 1905; and Eighteen Visits to Mars. Ed. Winthrop Allen Rember. New York: Vantage Press, 1956. Chapter 2 “Special Features” rpt. in rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 28-39.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Walda; A Novel - Mary Holland Kinkaid (1861-1948) (Harper Brothers, 1903)
Novel of a very conservative German religious intentional community with problems. The community is trying to achieve a good life following the dictates of their religion, but these dictates are so narrow that a dystopia is produced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"2002": Childlife One Hundred Years From Now - Laura Dayton Fessenden (b. 1924) (Jamieson-Higgins, 1902)
Children's book describing a future technological eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Dream of the Twenty-First Century" - Winnifred Harper Cooley (1874-1967) (Arena (Boston, MA), 1902)
Eutopia. Government ownership of basic resources and utilities brought about by women's votes. Compulsory education through twenty-two. Initiative and referendum. Everyone works an average five hour day. No trusts. Civil service. Rational religion based on the moral teachings of Jesus. Marriage universal and two children is the norm. See the author’s The New Womankind. New York: Broadway Publishers, 1904.
Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 207-11 with an editor’s note on 205-06; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 126-30.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Isola or The Disinherited. A Drama" - Lady Florence [Caroline] Dixie (1855-1905) (Young Oxford, 1902)
Play with much adventure and romance primarily designed to critique the treatment of women by both church and state. Said to have been written many years ago (a "First Preface" is dated 1877). Ends with a brief presentation of the eutopia of peace and plenty that results.
Rpt. as Isola; or, the Disinherited. A Revolt for Woman and all the disinherited. With Remarks thereon by George Jacob Holyoake, Esq. London: The Leadenhall Press. [1903].
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"Of One Blood. Or, the Hidden Self" - Pauline [Elizabeth] Hopkins (1859-1930) (Colored American Magazine, 1902)
Lost race novel with the first part focusing on passing as white and includes (Chapters XIV - XVIII) a eutopian hidden city in Ethiopia which continues the high traditions of African civilization.
Rpt. in The Magazine Novels of Pauline Hopkins (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 439-621; as One Blood. London: X Press, 1996 [This edition says that the serial started in March 1901, but the serial that started in March 1901 is one of Hopkin’s many nonfiction serials]; under the original title, Naperville, IL: Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks, 2021, with “Introduction to the Novel: Occult Blood,” by Nisi Shawl (xi-xiii), a note “About the Author” (181-182),”Suggested Discussion Questions for Classroom Use” (183-186), and “Suggested Further Readings of Fiction (187-191); in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 240-323; separately as Of One Blood, or the Hidden Self. London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 21-221, with “A New Introduction” by Patty Nicole Johnson (14-17), Further Reading (18-19), “Extract from Hagar’s Daughter” by Hopkins (223-241); and as of One Blood. Cambridge, MA/London: The MIT Press, 2023, with “Introduction: The Afritopian Cryptopolis” (xv-xxxv) by Minister Faust where he rejects the word Afrofuturism.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

A Wee Lassie; or, A Unique Republic - Mrs. May Anders Hawkins (Presbyterian Committee of Publication, 1902)
Reform tract in the form of a novel. The focus of reform is the establishment of a democratically run school for poor children who pay for their education through labor.
Keywords: Female author

Earth's Empress and Victoria: A Romance of two queenly souls and of a revolt in Africa against a benign government - Carmen Reed (Ruskin Guild, 1901)
Eutopia called Athanasia based on the ideas of John Ruskin (1819-1900). Old race. Highly moral. Scientifically advanced. Platonic evaluation of the right place for each person. Prevent disease and crime. No lawyers. Few property disputes.
Keywords: Female author

A Man from Mars - Carra DePuy [Hess] Henley (1869-1905) (Ptd. by B.R. Baumgardt, 1901)
The dead go to Mars, which is an Arcadian eutopia. Very ethereal with little social content. Temples to learning. Many inventions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A New Century Girl: A Dream of the Housewife's Guild" - Mary J. Wright (New Zealand Illustrated Magazine, 1901)
Housekeeping as a profession, which produces a better life for all women.
Rpt. without the subtitle in Happy Endings: Stories by Australian and New Zealand Women. Ed. Elizabeth Webby and Lydia Wevers (Np: Allen & Unwin New Zealand/Wellington, New Zealand: Port Nicholson Press, 1987), 88-91.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

A Woman of Mars. Dedicated to My Mother - Mary Ann Moore-Bentley (Mrs. H.H. Ling) (1865-ca. 1955/9) (Edwards, Dunlop & Co, 1901)
A detailed eutopia set on Mars. Mars is similar to Earth with cities, oceans, and lush vegetation. The focus is on education. Most of the novel concerns Martians visiting Earth to help Earth improve, and after many trials and tribulations the ending is hopeful.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Hermaphro-Deity: The Mystery of Divine Genius - Eliza Barton Lyman (Saginaw Printing and Publishing Co, 1900)
Eutopia. A novel describing a celibate, vegetarian intentional community placed in Benares, California, which suggest the connection to Eastern religions. The California community is a eutopia and expanding rapidly. Much on the doctrine. In her The coming woman: or, The royal road to physical perfection. A series of medical lectures (1880), the female author is described as a lecturer and teacher of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Reinstern - Eloise O. Richberg (The Editor Publishing Co, 1900)
Detailed eutopia with an emphasis on parenthood and education. Spiritualism. Reinstern means "pure star" and is a planet whose people are at a “higher plane of existence” than those on Earth (11).
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Woman of Yesterday - Caroline A[twater] Mason (1853-1939) (Doubleday, Page, 1900)
The novel follows the life of a Christian woman who wants to be a missionary in India but whose plans are regularly derailed. An underlying theme is what it means to be a good Christian, and a small part is a description of a religious community that fails.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1901.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Arqtiq; A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole - Mrs. Anna Adolph (Author, 1899)
Lost race eutopia at the North Pole of an idealized people of gigantic size. Gender equality. Technologically advanced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” - Elizabeth W[hitfield Croom] Bellamy (1837-1900) (The Black Cat, 1899)
Satire on the servant problem.
Rpt in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Dover Publications, 2015), 44-52 with an editor’s note on 43-44; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 61-72, with an editor’s note on 59.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Island Impossible - Harriet Morgan (Little, Brown & Co., 1899)
Children's eutopia with elements of fantasy. A group of children go to live on an island that they organize as they choose, with some adult direction.
Keywords: Female author

Nequa or The Problem of the Ages - [Alcanoan O.] [Grigsby] (1837?-1925); [Mary Prather] [Lowe] (1858-1902) (Equity Publishing Company, 1899)
Standard communal eutopia. Country called Altruria in the interior of the world near the North Pole. Equitable exchange, democracy, education, communal houses. Gender equality.
Rpt. called 3rd ed. [Stevenson, WA?]: Green Snake Press, 2015, with an “Epilogue” (313-345) by Mark Esping. Originally serialized in Equity (Topeka, KS) (1899 - September 1901).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US 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

Zerelda. A Story of Love and Death - Louise F. Suddick (1856-1943) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
An unusual heaven as a eutopia, but there are higher heavens. The inhabitants come from a variety of planets. Those who die young become adults. Marriage can occur in heaven, and marriage partners will find each other. In this one there is a city with parks, trees, and fountains and without dust, smoke, or unpleasant noises. People work, but even physical labor is not tiring. No harsh weather but some seasonal change. A second city is inhabited by people from many planets and has architecture reflecting those planets. No poor. Those who lived selfish lives are servants as a way of overcoming their past. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The City Beyond: A Story of One Who Dwells in the Next Planet” - Agnes L. Pratt (Godey’s Magazine (New York), 1898)
A very detailed first heaven (there are higher ones) as a eutopia
Keywords: Female author

Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light - Samuel Bowles (Spirit) (1826-78); Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (Medium) (b. 1844) (Star Publishing Co, 1898)
Domestic Heaven. See also 1880 Twing, 1881 Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven - Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) (David C. Cook, Publishing Co, 1898)
Heaven as a eutopia of perfection where the author says she lived with her family members who had died.
[2nd ed?] with a "Supplemental Chapter" and bound with David C. Cook "Jesus the Resurrection Now Or, Our Loved Ones Given Back to Us Here." Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, nd. Rpt. As Within Heaven's Gates. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1984. Rpt. as Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914 including a “Supplemental Chapter” (137-48) responding to comments and “Jesus the Resurrection Now; Or, Our Loved Ones given back to us here” (149-65) by David C. Cook. 165 pp. Rpt. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1922. Rpt. with one illus., but without the “Supplementary Chapter” or the Cook as Intra Muros: My Dream of Heaven. Forest Grove, OR: Book Searchers, nd. [
Keywords: Female author; US 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 Day of Resis - Lillian Frances Mentor (G.W. Dillingham, 1897)
Lost Egyptian race eutopia in Africa. All the people are tall, well-formed, and appear to be no older than middle aged. This is made possible by controlling what people eat and limiting work hours. Everyone above twenty-five is a teacher and everyone learns a wide variety of trades. All goods are free for the asking. At eighteen couples are assigned marriage partners after a detailed mental and physical examination. Animals larger and better formed than usual. Lots of gold, onyx, and jewels. On the Day of Resis, the only national holiday, all who have reached the age of sixty-five are put to death. Much of the novel is a standard lost race novel with adventure and the escape of the outsiders.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Passing of Niagara" - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) (The Independent, 1897)
Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Perfection City - Mrs. [Adela Elizabeth] Orpen (1855-1928) (Hutchinson, 1897)
Novel about a rural U.S. intentional community. The novel traces the history of the community from its eutopian hopes to the collapses brought about by personal conflicts.
U.S. ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1897.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Yermah the Dorado - Frona Eunice Wait (1859-1946) (William Doxey, 1897)
Lost race novel describing a scientifically advanced colony of Atlantis located in what is now San Francisco. It is destroyed by an earthquake.
Rev. as by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn with the subtitle The Story of a Lost Race. New York: Alice Harriman Co., 1912. U.K. ed. of rev. ed. London: B.F. Stevens and Brown, 1913.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation" - Graul, Rosa (Lucifer, the Light Bearer, 1896)
Eutopia of a successful communal home. Mothers are free to choose the fathers of their children. Women are taught the skills needed for motherhood. The "Publisher's Preface" to the book describes the author as "a poor, hardworking, unlettered woman" (ii).  See Joan E. Passet, “Reading ‘Hilda’s Home’: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.” Libraries and Culture 40.3 (Summer 2005): 307-23.
Rpt. rev. Chicago, IL: Moses Harman, 1899. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 194-204 with an editor’s note on 192-93. Different selections rpt. in Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction By United States Woman Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 111-24.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

Crankadom - Maud Daws (Jacob North & Co., Printers, 1895)
The novel describes a community established by self-described cranks, who create a eutopia in a fertile, isolated valley. The people re practicing Christians with no conflicts between Protestants and Catholics. Recruited the best “crank” teachers from around the U.S. and created an excellent educational system with a school in each district that boarded students.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Few Years Hence" - [Lucy M.] [Jones] (A Secret of the Sea and Other Colonial Stories, 1895)
Set in 1922 and 1923 showing the effect of women gaining the vote. On the whole presented negatively, suggesting that women are not suited for political life, but the reforms put through by women are generally presented positively, particularly dress reform and temperance.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

Four Girls at Cottage City - Emma D[unham] Kelley-Hawkins (1863-1938) (Continental Printing Co., 1895)
Mostly a sentimental novel, but includes a chapter, “The Dream that Saved a Soul,” that recounts a visit to a eutopian afterlife based on Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s popular Gates novels (see 1883 Phelps).
Rpt. Boston, MA: James H. Earle, Publishing, 1898 which is rpt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988, with an “Introduction” by Deborah E. McDowell (xxvii-xxxviii).
Keywords: African American author; Female author

Mercia, The Astronomer Royal: A Romance - A[melia] Garland Mears (ca. 1842-1920) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, 1895)
Eutopia focusing on a better life for women in 2002. Advanced technology. Population controlled voluntarily.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

The Newest Woman: The Destined Monarch of the World - Millie Finkelstein (Pat Finn, 1895)
Anti-feminist satire set in 1950 showing the dangers of women taking on men's roles.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Problem of Civilization Solved - Mary Elizabeth [Clyens] Lease (1850-1933) (Laird and Lee, 1895)
Eutopia but also racist. Tropical emigration by whites--". . . fifty million white families as planters on estates of 200 acres each, with three families of Negroes or Orientals as tillers of the soil" (17).
Keywords: Female author; US 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

"Who Wrote It? A Cabinet Meeting" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Impress (San Francisco, CA), 1895)
Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Edward Bellamy, shows the leaders of a future eutopian society deciding how to make their society better. The President and many members of the Cabinet are women.
Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (January 12, 1895): 3; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 329-30.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Wife Manufactured to Order” - Alice W. Fuller (The Arena (Boston, MA), 1895)
Satire on marriage.
Keywords: Female 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

"One Thousand Dollars a Day" - Adeline Knapp (1860-1909) (One Thousand Dollars a Day. Studies in Practical Economics, 1894)
Satire on egalitarianism. When every man and woman in the U.S. over eighteen is given one thousand dollars a day, they all quit working. Disaster followed by the voluntary establishment of a labor exchange. Finally, even the bankers and capitalists decided to work.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Regeneration of Two" - [Mary Chavelita] [Dunne] (1859-1945) (Discords, 1894)
The focus of the story is a woman who is dissatisfied with her own life and the hypocrisies of life in contemporary Norway, but the middle section describes the successful community she creates on her estate where she helps others who are rejected by the hypocrites.
Rpt. as Keynotes and Discords (London: Virago, 1983), 163-253 [The two books are separately paged in the reprint].
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Irish author

"Who Wrote It? Five Girls" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Impress (San Francisco), 1894)
Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Louisa May Alcott, shows the establishment of a successful cooperative housekeeping arrangement.
Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 82-86. Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (December 8, 1894): 5; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 327.
Keywords: Female author; US author

At the Threshold - [Nina] [Picton] (Cassell Publishing Co., 1893)
Christian allegory of a soul’s progress after death through various realms occupied by people with different experiences in life, all of whom can still be saved because there is no predestination, and salvation depends entirely on the individual. Ends with the last judgement and the soul entering the final realm with the other saved.
Keywords: Female author

August Episodes: Studies in Sociability and Science. Verses by "The Master of the Revels" - Helen Shipton (1857-1945); A. C. S[hipton] (A.D. Innes & Co., 1893)
An odd book set in an imaginary country called Vinland that has similarities to an out-of-term Oxbridge college that includes both men and women, although the latter are not yet in residence. Life is a round of meetings, lectures, and decorous parties presented as ideal.
Keywords: Female author

“By Act of Parliament, 6 and 7 Edward 15th, Anno Domini 2041” - Helen Hoppner Coode (The Belgravia Annual, 1893)
Starts looking back from 3091 which is a pollution free, safe, disease-free London, where ugly old buildings like the Houses of Parliament have been torn down and replaced by elegant homes. Advanced technology in the homes of the wealthy, but with the comment from the undefined future that it is now in all homes. This was brought about by selecting people to die depending on the food available after the ten-year census, but the story shows the problems, including violations of randomness. The focus is on a young woman from a wealthy family who was one of those selected. Very little social change.
Keywords: Female author

The Daughters of Cain in the Land of Nod: A Satirical Romance - Mrs. A. M. Freeman (Donohue, Henneberry & Co, 1893)
A lost race gender-role reversal novel that is more complicated than most. Anti-religious and feminist.
Keywords: Female 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

A Phantom’s Pilgrimage or Home Ruin - [Isabella Augusta] [Persse, Lady Gregory] (1852-1932) (W. Ridgeway, 1893)
The dystopia created by home rule for Ireland.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Salome Shepard, Reformer - Helen M[aria] Winslow (1851-1938) (Arena Publishing Co, 1893)
Factory reform led by a wealthy young women transforms a town into a Christian Socialist eutopia. She starts by recognizing the union, builds a boarding house with for the young, unmarried workers, builds better houses for the married workers, establishes activities, classes, and entertainment intended to both provide education and training and alternatives to the taverns. She also established a profit-sharing system so that the workers benefited from the mill’s success.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance - [Alice Ilgenfritz] [Jones] (1846-1906); [Ella] [Merchant] (1846-1906) (Arena Publishing Company, 1893)
Eutopia stressing equality between men and women.
Rpt. ed. Carol A. Kolmerten. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 157-75 with an editor’s note on 155-56. Chapter 3 “The Aurora’s Annual” rpt. with Merchant’s name misspelled as Marchant (her husband was Lorenzo Stoddard Merchant) in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 18-27.
Keywords: Female 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

Al-Modad; or, Life Scenes Beyond the Polar Circumflex. A Religio-Scientific Solution of the Problems of Present and Future Life - [M. Louise] [Moore] (M.L. Moore and M. Beauchamp, 1892)
Includes a detailed cooperative eutopia with an emphasis on education. No government, no money. Large cooperative homes with art and music studies and so forth and lots of parks. One society forgot religion and degenerated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The American Peasant; A Timely Allegory - T[homas] H[enry] Tibbles (1840-1928); [Elia Wilkinson] [Peattie] (1862-1935) (F.J. Schulte & Co, 1892)
Eutopia set in a temperate continent in the Arctic. Christian. Few laws because equality is more important than laws, but women are not yet considered capable of full citizenship. United States as a dystopia.
Also published Indianapolis, IN: Vincent Brothers Publishing Company, 1892.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

As It Is To Be - Cora Linn [Morrison] Daniels (b. 1852) (Pub. by the Author, 1892)
Heaven as eutopia described by a soul in Heaven to an individual on Earth. The beings in Heaven are spiritual and can experience whatever they will to experience. They do not have bodies in the way people on Earth do.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Dream Child - Florence [Chance] Huntley (Arena Publishing Co, 1892)
Heaven as eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

The Lost Island - Edward J. Austen; Louise V[escelius] Sheldon (Fels Fund of America, 1892)
Satire in which a ship is wrecked on an unknown island that turns out to be owned by one of the sailors. He imposes a capitalist system until the others build a raft and leave him behind. On the single tax, see Henry George, 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.
Rpt. illus. in The Cosmopolitan 14.3 (January 1893): 365-84. Rpt. without the author’s names as The Lost Island with a Conclusion by William Lloyd Garrison as The Sterling Weekly 2.3 (February 13, 1897): entire issue with “Concluding Chapter” (31-35).
Keywords: Female 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

A Royal Democrat: A Sensational Irish Novel - Alice L[etitia] Milligan (1866-1953). (Simpkin Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co./M.H. Gill & Son, 1892)
Set in 1892-1948. The future King, who does not want to be King, is shipwrecked and settles into life on the West Coast of Ireland. He becomes involved in independence activities, which, when successful, leads to a future eutopia of Ireland which is free but closely tied to Great Britain.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

San Salvador - Mary Agnes Tincker (1831-1907) (Houghton Mifflin, 1892)
Very small, Christian, aristocratic eutopia in a hidden valley. Garden-like. Stress on personal character, and morals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sex Revolution - Lois [Nichols] Waisbrooker (1826-1909) (Purdy, 1892)
Written in response to George Noyes Miller’s The Strike of a Sex (1890) in which women go on strike for “ownership over our person,” specifically control of maternity, with the action taking place after the successful revolution. Even though the strike was successful, men still make war, and the women say that if men go to war, the women will go with them. The ending suggests the possible that the better society brought about by the strike can be made even better, but it is all a dream. There is no mention of Miller’s After the Strike of a Sex (1891), which mostly describes the Oneida Community as eutopian. Her Nothing Like It: Or, Steps to the Kingdom. Boston, MA: Rich & Colby, 1875; rpt. New York: Murray Hill Publishing, 1875. 336 pp. has a dream sequence (234-37) that depicts the situation of women as chained by the state unless chosen by a man and chained to him plus some free women who are despised by all but desired by the men. And her The Wherefore Investigating Company. Topeka, KS: Independent Pub. Co., 1894. 313 pp. is an economic novel on the problems of the time that presents the control of land as the central economic problem.
2nd ed. Topeka, KS: Independent Publishing, Co., 1894. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1985, with an “Introduction: Women in the Lead: Waisbrooker’s Way to Peace” (1-52) by Pam McAllister. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 178-91 with an editor’s note on 176-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Soulless Saints: A Strange Revelation - Bailey Kay Leach (American Publishing Co, 1892)
Satire using an imaginary country called Konko. The satire is based on religion but is extended to "society", politics, economics, and most other human institutions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

As It Is In Heaven - Lucy Larcom (1824-93) (Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1891)
Heaven as eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Better Days: or, a Millionaire of To-morrow - Thomas Fitch (1839-1923); Anna M[ariska] Fitch (1840-1904) (Better Days Publishing Company, 1891)
Eutopia brought about by the transformation of a city by one rich man. He creates a community of ideal apartment buildings within New York City with some cooperative housekeeping. He then reforms Arizona with better marriage laws and children born to those not married under the rules can be taken by the state as are any children born into extreme poverty. Women paid equally for equal work.
New rev. ed. Chicago: F.J. Schulte and Company, 1892.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

A Manless World - Agnes Bond Yourell (b. 1864) (G.W. Dillingham, 1891)
The dystopia that develops when men lose sexual desire.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A New Aristocracy - [Alice Elinor] [Bartlett] (1848-1920 (Bartlett Publishing Co, 1891)
Mostly on the struggles of a poor family, but regularly refers to the eutopia they hope to achieve. An industrial community and a movement for the alleviation of poverty are created.
Rpt. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Tales of a Great-Grandmother" - Ruth Ellis Freeman (The New Nation, 1891)
Eutopia set in 1888 Bellamy's world contrasted with an old woman's memories of the period before the eutopia was established. The single greatest emphasis is on the enhanced leisure, with a long vacation every few years, short vacations throughout the year, and free time daily. This allows people the opportunity to be creative (literature is stressed) and spend time in their gardens and doing other things they enjoy. A particular emphasis is on the way cooperative housekeeping frees women from onerous, unpaid labor to follow their desired pursuits.
Keywords: Female author

Common-Sense Country - L[ouisa] S[arah] Bevington (1845-95) (James Tochatti. "Liberty" Press. Liberty Pamphlets, 1890)
Anarchist socialist eutopia. See also her “The Secret of the Bees.” Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London) 1.4 (April 1894): 31 where the bees have the good life through the use of “common sense.”
Keywords: Female author

“The Doll’s House--T’other Side” - [Ellen Battelle] [Dietrick] (1847-95) (Women’s Penny Paper, 1890)
Women take over from men with positive results, but, ultimately, they begin to feel sorry for the men in their inferior roles.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dorothy’s Experience" - Adeline Trafton (1842?-1920?) (Christian Union, 1890)
Social Gospel novel that includes a woman establishing a place for homeless young women to live.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Elixir of Life: or, Robert’s Pilgrimage: An Allegory - [Mrs.] [H. M.] [Stowe] (Np, 1890)
Fairly standard journey by a pilgrim in search of salvation visiting many cities based on religions, beginning with Pontifico and then many different Protestant denominations and the usual vices until arriving at the eutopian City of the King. In the city the Pilgrim advances through many mansions until he reaches the highest and Truth. The female author wrote other books on Christian Science.
Rpt. as The Progress of the Pilgrim. By Eleve [pseud.]. Chicago, IL: Eleve Publishing Co., 1891 124 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 - Lady Florence [Caroline] Dixie (1855-1905) (Henry and Company, 1890)
The novel is concerned with the struggle for women's rights and includes a few pages (345-50) of a future eutopia in 1999 at the end. London countrified. Righteous government. Federated republic with an Imperial Assembly. No poverty.
U.S. ed. New York: Standard Publishing Co., 1892 (CaSt). There is a brief "An American Introduction" (xiii-xiv) to the U.S. ed. by George Noyes Miller, author of The Strike of a Sex (1890). Repub. under the title The New Woman, or The Revolution of 1900. New York: Holland Publishing Co., 1896. The New Woman does not contain the "Preface" (vii-x) or "Maremma's Dream. Introduction to Gloriana; or, A Dream of the Revolution of 1900" (1-4).
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The God of Civilization. A Romance - Mrs. M. A. [Weeks] Pittock (Eureka Pub. Co, 1890)
Mostly a romantic adventure tale but includes a description of a South Seas island eutopia where the people are naturally good.
Keywords: Female 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 the Year '26" - Pauline Carsten Curtis (Overland Monthly, 1890)
The future of 1888 Bellamy's world in which competition and capitalism are re-established because Bellamy's future Boston was dystopian rather than eutopian. The change back has produced a capitalist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

One of "Berrian's" Novels - Mrs. C[harles] H. Stone (Welch, Fracker Company, 1890)
"This story, in part, takes the conditions in 'Looking Backward' as its setting, and it will be remembered that 'Berrian' was the novelist of that future time" (vi). Love story set in 1997 that sets out some of the personal problems that were faced in achieving the eutopia. The three mentioned are a woman who wanted to trade on her beauty rather than work, the need for "psychic" treatment for atavism, and a temporarily successful conspiracy against the emerging eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Song of Scent-em-lovely. (An Imitation) - S[elina] J[ulia] Hancock (Humffray, Printer, 1890)
A poem describing the environs of Dunedin, New Zealand in eutopian terms. It begins with the description of a river in the Kaikorai Valley with healthy, happy working people and continues with other areas, rich and poor, and ends with a dystopian vision of the city. "Stink-um-awful" is compared to the river "Scent-em-lovely." The next page is an ad for land for sale in Roslyn, which has been described as ". . . the pleasantest of suburbs--/The Belgravia of Dunedin,/Where the mansions of the wealthy,/Reared amid the glow of roses./Sheltered by their groves of blue gum,/Sun themselves in luxury" (7). The author also wrote a temperance story The Two Processions: A Dream of Bye-Law 2. Dunedin: Evening Star Job Printing Works, 1894. 12 pp.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"The Sunlight Lay Across My Bed" - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) (The New Review, 1890)
Hell is depicted as a seeming eutopia but revealed as a dystopia where everyone tries to injure everyone else. Some description of Heaven.
Rpt in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 133-82.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

A Fair Californian - [Helen Burrell] [D’Apery] (1842-1915) (Minerva, 1889)
A lost race of immortals has overcome all mortal passions. No children. Science and the occult are their concerns. No animals in the Sacred City of Seven. As with most lost race novels the eutopia hides a dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Feminine Iconoclast" - Mary H[anford] Ford (b.1856) (The Nationalist, 1889)
Fictional commentary on the position of women in 1888 Bellamy. The protagonist complains about how male Nationalists treat women as weaker than men and needing care even though she is supporting herself and her brother and living a vigorous, healthy life. Bellamy expanded his presentation of the treatment of women in “Woman in the Year 2000” (1891) and significantly modified it in Equality (1897).
Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 149-54 with an editor’s note on 148; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 105-10 with an editor’s note on 104-05 and the author’s name as Mary H[anaford] Ford.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hiero-salem: The Vision of Peace. A Fiction Founded On Ideals Which Are Grounded In the Real, That Is Greater Than All the Greatest of All Human Great Ideals - E[veleen] L[aura] Mason (1838-1914) (J.G. Cupples, 1889)
Spiritualist novel mostly stressing the conflict between our higher and lower natures with some reflections on the better life that is possible. One section of the novel was expanded and published as An Episode in the Doings of the Dualized. Brookline, MA: Author, 1898. The “dualized” are “self-harmonized natures”, with both female and male characteristics. See also her Who Builds? A Romance: Completed in the Month of Addar (which is the last half of February and the first half of March). The “Protecting Deity of Addar--the Seven Great Gods.” The cosmogonic myth of Addar--“The return to the cultivation of the Earth after the cataclysm.” Dedicated to Brother Builders of the 32 o and 33 o of Ancient Scottish Rites and To Builders Yet More Ancient the World Throughout. Illus. Brookline, MA: Author, 1903; Mad? Which? Neither? Illus. Boston, MA: [G.H. Ellis], 1904; The Discovery of Discoveries, Climaxingly collated in the Month of Una and her lion (1908) inclusive of August: and fulfilling “The Message of Ishtar.” Dedicated to Reverers of Self-Poised Mothers of Self-Poised Men of Whatever Race or Era. Illus. Brookline, MA: Author, 1909, which was published as by Eveleen Laura Mason (Mrs. Auguste Francke Hermann Mason).
[2nd ed.] Boston, MA: J.G. Cupples, [1900]. The 2nd ed. differs only in including “Purpose of ‘Hierosalem’” (unpaged), a letter to the editor of the Woman’s Tribune (Washington, DC) dated March 21, 1900, that the author wrote in response to a review of this book and her earlier The Doings of the Dualized. In the letter she refers to Hierosalem, but on the cover and title page and in the “Preface” (v), it is Hiero-salem. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 138-39.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Koradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls - Alice B[unker] Stockham M.D. (1833-1912); Lida Hood Talbot (Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1889)
The book was designed to show the ideal growth and education of a girl from childhood to womanhood, including her sexual education. The novel, in letters from the girl Koradine, includes a description of an intentional community putting its ideals into practice. See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45).
Rpt. as Koradine Letters. A Girl’s Own Story. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1893 without Creative Life. Some copies have one title on the cover and the other on the title page. Creative Life has been excised from all copies that I have been able to examine, but it was published separately Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham Co, 1896. It was then reprinted new, rev., and enl. ed. Illus. Bertha L. Corbett. Chicago, IL: The Progress Co., 1904 and partly concerns basic information on reproduction with illustrations of the uterus and the “mammary gland,” and partly on suitable activities for women, including occupations and exercise, with illustrations of the appropriate clothes. It is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007683219.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Metzerott, Shoemaker - [Katharine Pearson] [Woods] (1853-1929) (Crowell, 1889)
A Christian socialist experiment that produces a small eutopia that has to struggle with problems and internal conflicts but survives. The title character is a secular man who is instrumental in founding the community and is converted near the end of the novel.
U.K. ed. London: Cassell & Co., 1890.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

How She Did It or Comfort on $150 a Year - Mary Cruger (1834-1908) (D. Appleton and Co., 1888)
Novel that the author says is based on her experience creating a personal eutopia by building her own house, which is shown in the frontispiece, and living frugally. The book includes house designs, recipes, the cost of groceries, and other practical matters. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Margaret Dunmore: or A Socialist Home - J[ane] H[ume] Clapperton (1832-1914) (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1888)
Eutopia presented as the story of a successful intentional community established by a wealthy woman. Particularly concerned with the education of children. The story of the community is told mostly through the histories of its members. See also her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885; and her A Vision of the Future Based on The Application of Ethical Principles. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1904, both of which develop her arguments at length.
2nd ed. London: Swan Sonnenschein, [1894].
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The Seventh Dream - [Mrs.] [Desmond] [Humphreys] (1860-1938) (F.V. White & Co, 1888)
Dreams that describe a city of the future inhabited by people who only speak the truth. Perfect health. Simple lives.
Rpt. bound with two other novels as The Seventh Dream (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905), 1-84.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; UK author

"A Week in the Future" - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) (The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly, 1888)
ence, C[atherine] H[elen] (1825-1910). “A Week in the Future.” The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly 1 (December - July): 388-93; 468-79; 552-63; 657-65; 731-40; 828-32; 899-908 [A, ATL, PSt]. Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period  of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia. A, ATL, PSt Eutopia set in London in 1988. Everyone lives in “Associated homes” and works a six-hour day mostly in cooperatives. Population limited, primarily through birth control. No pollution. Strict control on both immigration and emigration. Eugenics with feeble-minded children killed at birth and “criminal lunatics” euthanized (36-37, 115). Women work equally with men in all occupations. Ireland now part of the United Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland, but all four component units have some independent political institutions. Based in part on the writings of Jane Hume Clapperton, particularly her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. See also 1888 Clapperton. See also 1879 and 1884 Spence.
Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an "Introduction" by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

"A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future" - Lillie Devereux [Umstead] Blake (1833-1913) (The Phrenological Journal (New York), 1887)
All women leave the United States to set up an independent republic. Events in the U.S. and in the women's territory are presented. Reconciliation between men and women when men capitulate and promise to reform.
Rpt. in her A Daring Experiment and Other Stories (New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co., 1892), 346-60; in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 95-103 with an editor's note on 94-95; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 93-102 with an editor’s not on 93.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Republic of the Future; or, Socialism A Reality - Anna Bowman Dodd (1858-1929) (Cassell and Company, 1887)
Anti-utopian, anti-socialist, and anti-feminist. Presents a socialist utopia as inevitably dull, boring, and extremely limited. Food requirements are determined by the Hygiene Board and provided from a central, national location. Advanced technology does all the work because the people will not work. Empowering women means that women dress like men and are ashamed of beauty but are more active than the men. Motherhood abolished; if children are born, they are raised by the state. To further equality, there is a law against learning. No religion.
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House/Gregg Press, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Three Dreams in a Desert" - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) (The Fortnightly Review, 1887)
A very brief conclusion to a series of dreams depicting women's struggle for equality is set in a future of gender equality.
Rpt. in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 67-85.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Atla: A Story of the Lost Island - Mrs. J. Gregory Smith (Harper & Brothers, 1886)
Atlantis as a eutopia. Much romance and adventure. Atla is a child from the North who is born as her mother dies as the result of a shipwreck on the shores of Atlantis.
Keywords: Female author

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

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

An Agnostic's Progress from the Known to the Unknown - [Catherine Helen] [Spence] (1825-1910) (Williams and Norgate, 1884)
Allegory which gives the impression of being a standard religious allegory, but it is written from the point of view of an agnostic. The City of Superstition, which believers call the City of Faith while disputing with those who believe differently, is home to the religion of Fear. The other city visited is Vanity Fair. Ends in the Land of Beulah, a eutopia of rest just before death, although it was all a dream. See also 1879 and 1889-90 Spence.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

Bohemian Society - Lydia [Brown] Leavitt (Times Printing and Publishing Co, 1884)
Begins with a simple, isolated, religious, small-town eutopia, which is ruined by contact with the modern world.
Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Hunter, Rose, 1885.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

Life and Labor in the Spirit World. Being a Description of the Localities, Employments, Surroundings, and Conditions in the Spheres. By Members of the Spirit-Band of Miss M. T. Shelhamer, Medium of the Banner of Light Public Free Circle - [Mary Theresa] [Longley] (1853-1928) (Colby and Rich, 1884)
Detailed eutopia of the spirit life which is presented as the writings from the spirit world of Ann Frances Kinsey (1856-77). Uses the language of Andrew Jackson Davis; see 1847, 1874 and 1878 Davis. Stresses gender equality, education, peace and beauty.
There is a later printing, sometimes cataloged as a second edition, with Second Thousand on the title page and the publication date of 1885, but it is otherwise identical.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Beyond the Gates - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883)
Heaven as a eutopia in line with the Swedish thinker Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and the American spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), who published descriptions of what he called the Summer Land in a number of books between 1847 and 1878. The Gates Ajar presents a heaven in which one is reunited with relatives and gives a glimpse of a more fulfilling life for the female protagonist. Between the Gates is the eutopia of the series in that it is explicitly a criticism of the current social order as it affects women and shows a Heaven in which women can lead fulfilling lives. The third volume, Beyond the Gates, focuses on a domineering man who is reformed in heaven. The Gates Ajar provoked considerable controversy. Attacks include J.S.W. Antidote to “The Gates Ajar”. London: Aylesbury, 1870. 2nd ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. U.S. ed. New York: G.W. Carleton, 1872; “The Gates Ajar” Critically Examined. By A Dean [pseud.]. London: Hatchards, 1871; “The Gates Ajar” Criticised and Corrected. By An Englishwoman [pseud.]. London: Geo. John Stevenson, 1872; E[dgar] Stanway Jackson, Faith or Fancy? An Examination of “The Gates Ajar”. London: Elliott Stock, 1871; Charlotte Elizabeth Tidy, The Door Was Shut: An Answer to “Gates Ajar”. London: William Macintosh, 1873; and Watching at the Gates. A Reply to “The Gates Ajar”. London: S.W. Partridge, [1871]. A defense is What Shall We Say About “The Gates Ajar”. Some Thoughts Suggested by the proposed “Antidote”. London: Elliott, [1871]. In her “Introduction.” Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), Nina Baym rejects the label utopian for the novels because “they lack the Utopian thrust toward realizable social reform” and places them in the context of spiritualism (viii). Carol Farley Kessler calls Beyond the Gates a utopia in “A Heavenly Utopia--Heaven for Women.” Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 20-42. So does Lori Duin Kelly in her “Phelps’ Religious Writings: Household Saints in a Feminist Utopia.” The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1983), 25-47.
U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Selections of Beyond the Gates rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 111-16 with an editor’s note on 104-06. The three volumes were published together as Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), with an “Introduction” by Nina Baym (vii-xxiii). The Gates Ajar is on 1-138, Beyond the Gates on 139-232, and The Gates Between on 233-340.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age - Mrs. H[enrietta] A[ugusta] Dugdale (ca. 1826-1918) (McCarron, Bird & Co, 1883)
Much of the novel is a criticism of the past, but it includes a detailed feminist eutopia. Stress on intelligence. Politically involved women brought about far-reaching changes. Strong family ties. Parents required to spend time each day teaching their children. Animals are well treated, and no leather is used. Advanced technology.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"A Little Pilgrim: In the Unseen. (For Easter)” - [Margaret] [Oliphant] (1828-97) (Macmillan’s Magazine, 1882)
Experiences after death in the first level of heaven where those arriving are introduced to their beautiful surroundings.
Rpt. with “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” In The Little Pilgrim. Reprinted from Macmillan’s Magazine. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1882.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Our Utopia: Its Rise and all. A Farce (in two acts) - Kate Hope (Simpkin, Marshall & Co./W.J. Blacket, 1882)
Farce on aestheticism as a means of producing the utopian home.
Keywords: Female author

Contrasts in Spirit Life; and Recent Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in the First Five Spheres. Also a Thrilling Account of the Late President Garfield's Reception in The Spirit World. Written Through the Hand of Carrie E.S. Twing - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) (Star Publishing Co, 1881)
Domestic heaven. The five spheres are the stages that the spirit goes through after death if it is capable of becoming more and more refined. There are separate heavens for Chinese and Negroes. The spirit world also contains hospitals for sick souls. See also 1880 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in Spirit Life; or, Life As He Now Sees It From a Spiritual Standpoint. Written Through the Mediumship of ----------. Westfield, N.Y. - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) (Star Pub. Co, 1880)
Heaven as eutopia but little changed. See also 1881 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Mizora: A Prophecy. A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government. Written by Herself - [Mary E. (Bradley)] [Lane] (1844-1929?) (G.W. Dillingham, 1880)
Feminist eutopia in which science had solved all problems and there is no need for menial work. Men had become extinct. Teachers paid more than any other public position and education was free. No religion. Eugenics had eliminated anyone dark complected.
Rpt. as Mizora: A Prophecy. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975; as Mizora: A World of Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999; and as Mizora: A Prophecy. Ed. Jean Pfaelzer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 119-37 with an editor’s note on 117-18. Originally published as “Narrative of Vera Zarovitch” [subtitle beginning with Being is identical to that of the book]. Cincinnati Commercial (November 6, 12, 20, 27, December 4, 11, 18, 25, 1880, January 1, 15 [mis-dated the 14th], 22, 29, February 5, 1881): 3 cols. 5-7, 3 cols. 4-6, [November 20 and 27 and December 4 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, [December 18 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, Extra Sheet 3 col. 7, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 4-6, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 2 cols. 3-4 [ICN].
Keywords: Female author; US author

“A Glance into the Future; or, The World in the Twenty-Ninth Century” - E[lizabeth] T. Corbett (b. 1830) (Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), 1879)
Technological eutopia combined with satire on technology’s ability to create a utopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Handfasted - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) (Penguin Books of Australia, 1879)
Feminist eutopia focusing on trial marriage set in the US. The Commonwealth of Columba existing in an isolated valley has developed "handfasting" or trial marriage. The word handfasted comes from Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, where it was a promise of fidelity for a year and a day. In Columba it can be extended to two or three years and marriage cannot take place without it. Generally an egalitarian society. See also 1884 and 1888-89 Spence.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

Hope Mills; or, Between Friend and Sweetheart - Amanda M[innie] Douglas (1837-1916) (Lee and Shepard, 1879)
A eutopia brought about through cooperative factories.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard/New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1907.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

"A Dream within a Dream" - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) (Independent (New York), 1874)
A dream of an egalitarian marriage ceremony.
All but a small part of the text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 107-11 with an editor’s note on 104-06. Complete text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 63-67 with an editor’s note on 61-63.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Papa's Own Girl - Marie [Stevens Case] Howland (1836-1921) (John P. Jewett, 1874)
Eutopia. The two titles reflect the two main themes of the novel. Papa’s Own Girl reflects the desire of one of the main characters that his daughter grow up as a strong, independent woman, and she does. The Familistere is the name of the community in Guise, France, founded by Jean Baptiste André Godin (1817-88), which is the basis of the intentional community that is the other focus of the novel.
2nd ed. New York: John P. Jewett, [1885]. Later ed. entitled The Familistere. A Novel. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1918. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an Introduction entitled “The Familistere: Radical Reform Through Cooperative Enterprise” (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 98-103 with an editor’s note on 95-97; and different selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 71-93.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

"Berrytown" - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) (Lippincott's Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), 1873)
Berrytown is described as a eutopia in which all contemporary reforms are being tried. The story has relatively little to do with these reforms but explores the role of women both traditionally and in the eutopia.
Rpt. as "Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown." In her Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Vision of Communism. A Grotesque" - [Bertha] [Thomas] (Cornhill's Magazine, 1873)
Anti-Communist story.
Keywords: Female author

The Coming Man; or, Fifty Years Hence - Vida Varrie (E. C. Markley & Son, 1872)
Sex-role reversal satire with strong minded women and effeminate men. Presented as a three-act play.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

"My Visit to Utopia" - Elizabeth T. Corbett (b. 1830) (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1869)
Marital relations in Utopia.
Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 66-72 with an editor’s note on 65.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story - [Cora Semmes] [Ives] (Np/Ptd. by the Sun Book & Job Office, 1869)
A pro-Confederacy anti-Union novel set on the Moon, which has never known war. Much fantasy and fairy story is an accurate description, but the kingdom on the moon is described in eutopian terms.
Rpt. Louisville KY: Lost Cause Press, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama" - [Ariana Randolph Wormeley] [Curtis] (1833-1922); [Daniel Sargent] [Curtis] (1825-1908) (The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama, Followed by A Change of Base. And Doctor Mondschein, 1868)
Humorous gender-role reversal satire in which the women have forcefully replaced men, burned all books written by men, and after only a few years cannot even remember the previous order, although the men can. The usual man from outside and a young woman fall in love, an out-of-date emotion.
The book went through over twenty editions with the same pagination. Rpt. in On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement. Ed. Bettina Friedl (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1987), 55-82 with editor's notes on 15-18.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

St. Martin’s Summer - Anne M[aria] H[ampton] Brewster (1819-92) (Ticknor & Fields, 1866)
Some utopian elements. See Etta M. Madden, “Anne Hampton Brewster’s St. Martin’s Summer and Utopian Literary Discourses.” Utopian Studies 28.2 (2017): 305-26.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Night at the Club: or, Christchurch in 1963" - [Sarah] [Raven] (Literary Foundlings: Verse and Prose, Collected in Canterbury, N.Z., 1864)
Satire on evolution, technology (mechanical waiters and the like), marriage, sport, and government (there is only one man in Christchurch who is not a government officer).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

A Dream of The Day that must come - [Mrs.] [Anne Judith] [Penny] (1825?-93) (Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1859)
The Last Judgement of a near future irreligious and decadent dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

"Charades on Unpopular Subjects. No. 5" - [Sarah] [Raven] (The Lyttelton Times, 1856)
Poem with some New Zealand as eutopia.
Rpt. with “Railway” in the Table of Contents in The Book of Canterbury Rhymes [Ed. William Pember Reeves and J. Ward] (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ward and Reeves, Printer, 1866), 39-41. 2nd ed. as Canterbury Rhymes: With Notes and an Appendix. Ed. W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ptd by the ‘Lyttelton Times’ Co. Ltd., 1883), 26-28.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles: An Allegory of Life (Joseph Masters, 1855)
A series of allegories using the model of the fortunate isles with each followed by questions and answers to bring home their meaning. Designed for children.
Keywords: Female author

Liberia; or Mr. Peyton's Experiments - Mrs. Sarah J[osepha Buell] Hale, ed. [written by] (1788-1879) (Harper & Brothers, 1853)
The novel concerns the activities of a Virginian who wants to improve the lives of slaves. His first two schemes fail, but he discovers the American Colonization Society, which was founded in 1816 to send emancipated slaves to Africa and decides to work with it. The novel continues with the settlement of Liberia, the initial problems there, and its emergence as a eutopia. The book concludes with letters sent from Liberia and documents regarding Liberia and related activities, including excerpts from a Declaration of Independence and Constitution. .
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Vision of Our Country in the Year Nineteen Hundred" - Miss J[ane] A. E[llis] (The Western Literary Magazine and Journal of Education, Science, Arts, and Morals (Columbus, OH), 1851)
Eutopia set at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The U.S. includes all North and South America. Population growth through immigration and the country is well-settled. Churches everywhere but without denominational differences. More and better education, particularly at the post-secondary level. Equality. Invention and significant advances in the sciences. No prejudice. A congress of nations settles disputes among countries. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Voice from Australia; or An Inquiry into the Probability of New Holland Being Connected with the Prophecies Relating to the New Jerusalem and the Spiritual Temple - Hannah Villiers Boyd (Ptd. by Robert Barr, 1851)
The author argues that Australia is the New Jerusalem. Mostly Biblical exegesis but includes some fairly vague discussion of the future of Australia as a better society.
2nd rev. ed. London: Partridge & Co., 1856.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"Sequel to the 'Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century'" - [Jane Sophia] [Appleton] (1816-84) (Voices from the Kenduskeag, 1848)
Eutopia written in response to 1848 Kent. Women are no longer dependent on men. Whether to marry or not is a free choice. Women have equal rights and opportunities. Women participate fully in the intellectual life of the community.
Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 49-64 with an editor’s note on 49.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A New Society" - [Betsey Guppy] [Chamberlain] (1797-1886) (The Lowell Offering; A Repository of Original Articles, Written Exclusively By Females Employed in the Mills (Lowell, MA), 1841)
A short dream of proposals for a future egalitarian society presented through resolutions from the “Annual Meeting of the Society for the promotion of Industry, Virtue and Knowledge” of 1860. .
Rpt. in The Lowell Offering: Writings by New England Mill Women (1840-1845). Ed. Benita Eisler (Philadelphia, PA: J.B. Lippincott, 1977), 208-10.
Keywords: Female author; Native American author

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

"Three Hundred Years Hence" - [Mary] [Griffith] (1800?-46) (Camperdown; or, News from Our Neighborhood: Being Sketches, 1836)
Eutopia. A strict, reformed society brought about by the economic equality of women. Technologically advanced. Clergy hired for life and in most jobs and professions people remain rather than move for advancement or more money. Literature censured.
Rpt. under the title of the utopia Philadelphia, PA: Prime Press, 1950; [Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975], with an “Introduction” by Nelson F. Adkins rev. from its original publication as “An Early American Story of Utopia.” Colophon, ns 1 (July 1935): 123-32; rpt. from the original in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 31-48 with an editor’s note on 29-30. The Prime Press ed. has many typographical errors.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The New Political Economy, of the Honey-Bee - [Harriet?] [Grover] (Ptd. and Pub. for the Author by W.C. Featherstone, 1828)
Satire on capitalist bees and an argument for the need work workers to unite.
Keywords: Female author

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

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

Voyage to Locuta; A Fragment: With Etchings, and Notes of Illustration - [Mrs.] [Elizabeth Susanna Davenport] [Graham] (1782/3-1844) (Ptd. for J. Hatchard, 1818)
An imaginary country is used to present a grammar book.
Keywords: Female author

Laura's Dream; or, The Moonlanders - [Melesina (Chenevix) St. George] [Trench] (1768-1832) (Ptd. For J. Hatcher, 1816)
A poem in two cantos describing the moon where people are born old and grow young. Traditional gender roles.  The men can fly, the woman can’t. Notes to the text on 45-47.
Rpt. in Science Fiction Studies, no. 101 (34.1) (March 2007): 1-18.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Eighteen Hundred and Thirteen: A Poem, In Two Parts - Mrs. [Anne] Grant of Laggan (Ptd. by James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, London, 1814)
Response to 1812 Barbauld showing Britain remaining strong.
Keywords: Female author

Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. A Poem - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) (Ptd. for J. Johnson, 1812)
Dystopian predictive poem showing the ruin of Britain after Commerce leaves her. See 1814 Grant for a response. A detailed study of the poem and its context is E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Rpt. Warrington, Eng.: The “Sunrise” Publishing Co., 1911 with the cover adding A Prophecy of England’s Downfall; in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 1: 232-50; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 1: 232-50; in The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 152-61 with “Notes and Variants” (309-17); as Eighteen Hundred and Eleven. 1812. Poole, Eng: Woodstock Books, 1995; in Romantic Women Poets: An Anthology. Ed. Duncan Wu (Oxford, Eng.: Blackwells, 1997), 10-18, with an editor’s introduction (7-10) and notes (10-18); in her Selected Poetry and Prose. Ed. William McCarthy and Elizabeth Kraft (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 160-73; and in E. J. Clery, Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Power and Economic Crisis (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2017), 270-77.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"To Miss Kinder, on Receiving a Note dated February 30th" - Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) (The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld, 1800)
Eighteen line poem describing a day when everyone behaves well.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Young Philosopher - Charlotte [Turner] Smith (1749-1806) (T. Cadell Jr and W. Davies, 1798)
A small part of the novel depicts an agrarian, Arcadian eutopia in America in contrast to the empty life available in England.
Rpt. in one vol. ed. Elizabeth Craft. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999, with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Notes to the Novel” (355-90), and “Variants” (391-93).
Keywords: Female author

The History of Mr Fantom, The New Fashioned Philosopher and His Man William - Hannah More (1745-1833) (Sold by J. Marshall, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; J. Elder, at Edinburgh, 1797)
Satire on utopian projections.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Plans of Education; with Remarks on the Systems of Other Writers. In a Series of Letters Between Mrs. Darnford and Her Friends - Clara Reeve (1729-1807) (Ptd. for T. Hookham and J. Carpenter, 1792)
Eutopia in the form of an epistolary novel. Begins as an essay on education but broadens into one on society as a whole and plans for the best one. Conservative in that it is hierarchical, and women's education is in those things thought suitable for women.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1974.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Reverie, Occasioned by Reading the Vision of Mirza" - [Judith Sargent] [Murray] (1751-1820) (The Boston Magazine, 1785)
From birth to death and after humans are accompanied by an unseen guide from heaven who ultimately, after death, help all of them to reach heaven, which is briefly described. It has no night, many flowers always in bloom, exceptional music, and true joy.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Manuscript" - Lady Mary Hamilton (1739-1816) (James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, 1784)
Satire in which the protagonist travels by balloon to a planet inhabited by giants. There she meets the planet’s Royal Academy and its Chief Minister, who is modelled on William Pitt, the Younger (1759-1806), Prime Minister (1783-1801, 1804-06). Most of the text is a commentary on the politics of the planet as a way of commenting on contemporary British politics.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author