"Divine Right" - Betsy [Elizabeth M.] Curtis (1918-2002) (The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (New York), 1950)
The story shows the beginning of a dystopia with a bad king after a series of good ones and the revolt against him that leads to the possibility of a democracy.
Keywords: Female author

Hunt for Heaven - Elsie [Marion] Oakes Barber (b. 1914) (Macmillan, 1950)
Novel about a religious intentional community established after the Haymarket bombing in Chicago on May 4, 1886, with the usual tale of dreams unrealized.
Keywords: Female author

"Out of Tomorrow" - Vivian Shirley (Other Worlds Science Fiction (Evanston, IL), 1950)
Authoritarian dystopia. Welfare through voluntary slavery. Individuality thought of as negative, considered aggressive.
Keywords: Female author

"In the Days of Our Fathers" - Winona McClintic (b. 1921) (The Magazine of Fantasy [and Science Fiction] (Concord, NH), 1949)
Flawed utopia. A story set in an odd future in which the language suggests the inhabitants are animals (parents are dam and sire; food is fodder), but which has a highly structured educational system and worries about atavism. One child grows up to be proud of her hidden atavism.
Keywords: Female author

The Moment of Truth - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Macmillan, 1949)
Dystopia. Shortly after World War II the U.K. entered a new war with Germany and lost. The novel concerns the internal relations among a group of people waiting for the last plane to evacuate them to the U.S., and the dystopia is very much in the background.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan. 1949.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Oasis - Mary [Theresa] McCarthy (1912-89) (Random House, 1949)
Story of an intentional community named Utopia and the problems that arise from disagreements among members.
UK ed. as Source of Embarrassment. London: William Heinemann, 1950.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Portal in the Picture" - Henry Kuttner (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Startling Stories (Springfield, MA), 1949)
Technological authoritarian dystopia set on a parallel world. Mostly adventure.
Rpt. as by Lewis Padgett [pseud.] and C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore as Beyond Earth's Gates. New York: Ace, 1954. Ace Double bound with Andre Norton, Daybreak--2250 A.D., which was originally published as Star Man's Son: 2250 A.D. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1952.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

A Visitor from Venus - Gertrude Short (1902-68) (William-Frederick Press, 1949)
Venus presented as a eutopia in contrast with the dystopian Earth. On Venus people do the right thing simply because it is the right thing. Venus has a universal language and world government. Argues for a political and religious role for women, who, it is said, must save Earth.
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), 214-43 with an editor's note on 212-13.
Keywords: Female author; US author

White City. A Novel - Paralee Sweeten Sutton (Palopress, 1949)
New Age lost race communal eutopia located in Antarctica. In parallel to the Flood, the people were warned, instructed how to build their city, and survived a catastrophe that covered Antarctica with ice. Quite a bit on the history of the eutopia. One focus is on the correct raising of children. Thought transference, stress on reading color and vibrations.
Keywords: Female author

Gone to Grass - [Alice Elizabeth] [Burton] (b. 1908) (Hutchinson, 1948)
Anti-socialist satire stressing the dullness of utopia.
US ed. as The Roaring Dove. By Susan Kerby [pseud.]. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1948.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Lottery" - Shirley Jackson (1916-65) (The New Yorker, 1948)
Dystopia in which each year every community chooses one person by lot to be stoned to death in the belief that this will make for a better year to come.
Rpt. in her The Lottery or The Adventures of James Harris (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co., 1949), 291-302; in ovels and Stories: The Lottery The Haunting of Hill House We Have Always Lived in the Castle Other Stories and Sketches. Ed Joyce Carol Oates (New York: The Library of America, 2010), 227-35; in Brave New Worlds. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2011), 3-10; 2nd ed. as Brave New Worlds: Dystopian Stories. Ed. John Joseph Adams (San Francisco, CA: Night Shade Books, 2012), 3-10; and illus. Garrett Grove. The New Yorker 96.21 (July 27, 2020): 50-53.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Man at the Crossroads - Margaret Loveseth (d. 1957) (The Rosicrucian Press, 1948)
New Age eutopia. An isolated valley in western China called Sangla-a that was once and is being recreated as a eutopia for adepts. The protagonist is a man from Canada who is chosen to be the next leader of the community. He takes a small group to Sangla-a where they are educated by a woman who is about the become an Ascended Master. Then hundreds and finally thousands of people are brought to Sangla-a and begin the process of transforming the world.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"New Year's Revolution (A Satire)" - [Edythe] [Eyde] (1921-2015) (Vice Versa: America's Gayest Magazine (Los Angeles, CA), 1948)
A violent heterosexual man is transported to a future gay eutopia where the few heterosexuals are thought of the ways gays were at the time.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"That Only a Mother" - Judith (Josephine Juliet Grossman) Merril (1923-1997) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1948)
Dystopian background to a story about the deformities and mutations brought about by a nuclear war.
Rpt. in Science Fiction Hall of Fame Volume One. The Greatest Science Fiction Stories of All Time Chosen by the Members of The Science Fiction Writers of America. Ed. Robert Silverberg (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1974), 279-87; in Homecalling and Other Stories: The Complete Solo Short Science Fiction of Judith Merril. Ed. Elisabeth Carey (Framingham, MA: The NESFA Press, 2005), 11-19; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 211-20 with an editors’ note on 211-12; in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 433-34 with an editor’s note on 433; and in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 88-100. Additional material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Tory Heaven; or Thunder on the Right - Marghanita Laski (1915-88) (Cresset Press, 1948)
Satire on class--"The whole population has been formally divided into the five classes that it naturally comprises" (53). Everything is provided for the highest class. No mixing among classes. Strikes illegal. Women not allowed to work.
U.S. ed. as Toasted English. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1949. Rpt. from the U.S. edition but with the original title and with a new preface by David Kynaston (v-xii). London: Persephone Books, 2018.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Dry Deluge - Kathleen [Cecilia] Nott (1905-99) (Hogarth Press, 1947)
Mostly disaster but includes some dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Fury" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1947)
Venus in the future with a degenerated human race living in safety and the successful struggle to revitalize the people.  Sequel to 1943 [Kuttner and Moore], “Clash By Night”.
Rpt. as by Kuttner. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1950. UK ed. London: Dennis Dobson, 1954. Reissued as Destination Infinity. Original title: Fury. New York: Avon, 1956. Rpt. Boston, MA: Garland, 1975.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

“I Have Been in the Caves” - Margaret Rogers (d. 1955) (Amazing Stories, 1947)
The story is a response to the theories of Richard [Sharpe] Shaver (1907-75), who argued for an underground world of evil, and is presented by the author as autobiography with supporting notes by the editor of the journal, Ray[mond Arthur] Palmer (1910-77). In the author’s version, the underground world is a eutopia of people with advanced technology and psychic abilities. Prior to the publication of the story, the author had written two letters to the editor that were published in issues 20.6 (September 1946) as by Mrs. D. C. Rogers and 20.9 (December 1946) as by Margaret Rogers. The last reference to her is often reported as her writing a review of Jim Wentworth’s The Beginning, which was about her case, in Amazing Stories 22.2 (February 1948): 105. What is actually on that page is a statement by the editor of the journal about a self-published book by Rogers entitled The Beginning that he had read. No such book by either Rogers or Wentworth appears to have survived. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Soma Racks” - Margaret [Neeley] St. Clair (1911-95) (Startling Stories, 1947)
The first of eight Oona and Jick stories, a couple living in a high-tech future. Humor and satire with all the stories focusing on Oona, a supposedly typical, deferential housewife. In each story, something goes wrong with an aspect of the high-tech future, and, in most cases, Oona saves the day without Jick being aware of it. The others are “Super Whost.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Startling Stories 15.3 (July 1947): 97-102; “Aleph Sub One.” Uncredited illus. Startling Stories 16.4 (January 1948): 62-69. Rpt. in Science Fiction Yearbook, Number 5 (New York: Popular Library, 1971); and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), with an editors’ note on ; “The Dobridust.” Illus. [Vincent] Napoli. Thrilling Wonder Stories 31.3 (February 1948): 41-46; “The Metal Lark.” Illus. H. W. Kiemle. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.2 (June 1948): 71-77; “The Rotohouse.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 32.3 (August 1948): 119-; “The Himalaychalet.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 33.3 (February 1949): 110-14, 155; and “The Neo-Geoduck.” Illus. Virgil Finlay. Thrilling Wonder Stories 34.3 (August 1949): 129-136. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Tomorrow and Tomorrow - [Flora Sydney Patricia] [Eldershaw] (1897-1956); [Marjorie Faith] [Barnard] (1897-1987) (Georgian House, 1947)
Dystopia set in the 24th century that uses the device of an author writing an historical novel to explore the second quarter of the twentieth century. The dystopia is a technologically advanced socialist eutopia gone wrong through over-organization.
Rpt. London: Phoenix Press in Association with Georgian House Melbourne, 1948. "Uncensored ed." with the original title Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow. London: Virago, 1983 with an "Introduction" (vii-xix) by Anne Chisholm. The Virago edition restores both the relatively few cuts made by the censor and the cuts made by the authors and publisher. The Garden City, NY: Dial Press, 1984 edition reprints the Virago edition.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The World The World Wants (A Sociocratic Order) - [Octavio] Felix Pedroso (d. 1944); Elizabeth Pedroso (np, 1947)
Detailed eutopia with one world-wide corporation, a universal language (English), one currency, and one flag. The World Corporation will own the productive resources of the world and will build a new city for its headquarters. Free education and health care.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Female author; Male author

Balance the Universe or The Heavenly Abode - Marie G[ertrude] Holmes Joseph (Hobson Book Press, 1946)
Odd religious eutopia that specifies the various occupational groups that will exist throughout the world and lays out projects that must be undertaken to "balance the universe" such as building oases in deserts. Strict birth control with a limit of three children. Lays out stages of education. There will be a World City to serve as World Capitol.
Keywords: Female author

Future Imperfect - Bridget [Walsh] Chetwynd (1910-70) (Hutchinson, 1946)
Humorous gender-role reversal novel in which British men are disenfranchised in 1965 with their approval.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Welsh author

The Island Forbidden to Man - Muriel [Florence] Hine (ca. 1874-1949) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1946)
A community of women inhabit an island and forbid men to land. For a time, it appears to be a feminist eutopia, but various conflicts emerge with some of the younger women wanting to marry. The community survives as a community but with men as well as women
Keywords: English author; Female author

Into the Dawn - Gaile Churchill McElhiney (1888-1978) (DeVorss & Co, 1945)
Eutopia for the spiritually advanced on an isolated island, which can be found only by those who have reached the right stage of consciousness. Vegetarian. Radioactivity in food and drink is believed to be invigorating.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Valley of the Poor - Wertie Clarice [Blackwell] Weaver (Wetzel Pub. Co, 1945)
Science cures racial prejudice and brings eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Atlantis Rising - Daphne Vigers (Andrew Dakers, 1944)
Detailed eutopia stressing cooperation and education presented through the history of Atlantis, its fall, and return.
2nd ed. London: Aquarian Press, 1952.
Keywords: Female author

Bread and Roses; An Utopian Survey and Blue-print - Ethel Edith Mannin (1900-84) (McDonald and Co, 1944)
Detailed eutopia based on freedom, equality, and brotherhood. No central government or state. Equal distribution of goods.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author; UK author

Fly Envious Time - Lou[ise Olga Elisabeth] King-Hall (b. 1897) (Peter Davies, 1944)
The first part describes the middle class before World War II. This is followed by two stages of the future. In 1979 an authoritarian society exists that stresses science and eugenics. Tablet food. In 1999 there is an emphasis on art, but World War III starts.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Heart Consumed. A Novel - [Julia Eileen Courtney] [Greenwood] (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1944)
The novel is partially set in the 21st century and discusses eugenics and training for leadership.
Keywords: Female author

The Riddle of the Tower - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947); Esmé Wynne-Tyson (1898-1972) (Hutchinson, 1944)
A number of past and future societies are presented from an anti-utopian perspective. The focus of the novel is on the horrors of communalism.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

"Clash By Night" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Astounding Science Fiction (New York), 1943)
Dystopia. Permanent war among mercenaries on Venus.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Iron Standard" - [Henry] [Kuttner] (1914-58); [Catherine Lucille] [Moore] (1911-87) (Astounding Science Fiction 32.4 (December 1943), 1943)
Flawed utopia on a Venus that sees its system, thousands of years old, as perfect and allows no innovation, which benefits those in power. Men from Earth upset the system
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

World Without Raiment. A Fantasy - Louise Dardenelle (Valiant Press, 1943)
Two eutopias. The first is the description of a nudist colony where people "live as nature intended" (99). The second is a new world along the lines of an earthly paradise that Nature has produced. Warmer. No clothes or paper. People live simply.
Keywords: Female author

Change of Heart - Mea Allan (1909-82) (George G. Harrap, 1942)
Dystopia set in post-World War II Germany in which a committed National Socialist develops a plan to become the next Führer with his infant son to follow him in that role.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; Scottish author

Grand Canyon - V[ictoria Mary] Sackville-West (1892-1962) (Michael Joseph, 1942)
Dystopia and eutopia. Germany wins World War II and Japan is defeated by the U.S., but peace last only briefly until Germany and Japan attack the U.S. During the attack a few people escape to the bottom of the Grand Canyon, where they create a good, cooperative society.
U.S. ed. with the subtitle A Novel. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1942.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Then We Shall Hear Singing; A Fantasy in C Major - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Cassell, 1942)
Fascist dystopia set in a country that has experienced many invasions and has a tradition of resistance. The people are not allowed to sing, and the native language is prohibited in schools. The dictator approves a program of medical experiments on the people of the country intended to eliminate resistance by removing part of the brain.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1942.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Eden Island. A Novel - [Alethea Catherine] [Hayter] (1911-2006) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1941)
While most of the novel is the story of the life of an heiress, there are utopian elements both in the good works she undertakes and in her creation of Eden Island, which she establishes to provide a home for a refugee orchestra and others.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Happiness Highway - [Edith] [Sutherland] (Whitcombe and Tombs, 1941)
Eutopia reflecting the position of the 1942 Crusade for Social Justice and 1943 The People's Plan in which Christian values are put into practice.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author; Male author

Of Things Entire: A Fantasy - Valerie Chick (Mingay Pub. Co, 1941)
Detailed eutopia including all the peoples of Earth who dream of a better life but not including those who are greedy or make wars. Called "the dream world that lives in the hearts of men" (9). Simplicity, love, and a natural life. Everyone does both mental and physical labor. Because everyone is motivated by the same goals, there is harmony and not conflict. World peace. Everyone has their own home; they do not live in apartments or high-rise buildings. Much of the novel presents the contrasting lives of people before and after entering the eutopia, where they are able to lead the lives really suited for them.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Yucay: A Romance of Early Peru - Dorothea Knox Martin (Suttonhouse Publishers, 1941)
Incas as eutopia before the Spanish conquest. Most of the book follows a female character through the conquest.
Keywords: Female author

Elizabeth in Africa - Florence A[ntoinette] Kilpatrick (1888-1968) (Herbert Jenkins, 1940)
Humorous lost race novel with all the usual plot lines.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

First Port of Call - Elizabeth Garver Jordan (1867-1947) (D. Appleton-Century, 1940)
Purgatory fictionally described from a Roman Catholic viewpoint as a place where most people are preparing themselves for heaven. It is a pleasant transition period that has similarities to the many depictions of heaven as a eutopia little different from life on Earth.
U.K. ed. London: John Long, 1940.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Moscow 1979 - Erik [Maria Ritter] von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (1909-99); Christiane von Kuehnelt-Leddihn (Sheed & Ward, 1940)
Communist dystopia successfully opposed by the Roman Catholic Church. The focus of the dystopia is Russia.
Rpt. London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. New and rev. ed. London: Sheed & Ward, 1946. U.S. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1940. U.S. new and rev. ed. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1946.
Keywords: Austrian author; Female author; Male author

"The Radium Bugs" - Helen [Rose] Weinbaum (1906-82) (Super Science Stories, 1940)
While a central premise of the story is straightforward science fiction, it begins in a U. S. dictatorship, which punishes any deviance by freezing. When an earthquake awakes the protagonist 300 years later, he finds himself in a telepathic, vegetarian society that only allows the telepathic to live, which can be considered a flawed utopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Suzanna and the Elders: An American Comedy - Lawrence Langner (1890-1962); Armina Marshall [Langner] (Random House, 1940)
Failure of an intentional community with close resemblances to the Oneida Community, including its eugenic experiment. The failure follows initial success, with the usual internal conflicts a major factor. The "Preface" (7-14) on the history of such communities in the U.S. has errors, such as calling Brook Farm Brookfield and ascribing the establishment of New Harmony to Robert Dale Owen (1801-77) rather than to his father Robert Owen (1771-1858).
Keywords: Female author; Male author

The Arrogant History of White Ben - [Winifred] [Ashton] (1888-1965) (William Heinemann, 1939)
Allegory on the rise of National Socialism. A scarecrow comes to life dedicated to eliminating all crows and leads a campaign to exterminate them.
Rpt. Portway, Bath, Eng.: Cedric Chivers, 1971.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Enchanted Wood - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) (George Newes, 1939)
Children’s fantasy with three children exploring the Enchanted Wood and discovering the Faraway Tree that leads them to many unusual places where they meet a variety of characters including some from fairy tales.  Includes Cockaigne episodes together with other adventures. Continued in her The Magic Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1943; The Folk of the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1946; and Up the Faraway Tree. Illus. Dorothy M. Wheeler. London: George Newes, 1951, all of which is composed of illustrations with captions and have a similar format. The first part of Up the Faraway Tree was originally published in Enid Blyton’s Sunny Stories Magazine (1948).
Rpt. London: Deanes, 2012
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Greater Than Gods” - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) (Astounding Science Fiction, 1939)
The story projects two dystopia futures depending on which woman a scientist marries. One ends in apathy; the other ends in a dictatorship.
Keywords: Female author; US author

This Is Armageddon - Muriel Howorth (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1939)
A novel about Armageddon (See Revelation 16) as seen through the eyes of individuals on both sides. As a result, there are dystopian pictures of the evil contrasted with eutopian ones of the good.
Keywords: Female author

Anthem - Ayn Rand [pseud.] (Cassell, 1938)
Authoritarian dystopia. Sketches of an individualist eutopia.
Rpt. London: Cassell, 1953. Rev. US ed. Los Angeles, CA: Pamphleteers, 1946; rpt. New York: New American Library, 1946; and in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 14.4 (June 1953): 12-33, 113-14. Exp. 50th Anniversary ed. New York: Dutton, 1995 with an "Introduction to the 50th Anniversary American Edition" by Leonard Peikoff (v-xiii). The 50th anniversary edition uses the 1946 edition and includes Rand's marked up 1938 edition showing the extensive revisions (109-253). Graphic novel version as Anthem. The Graphic Novel. Script Charles Santino. Art Joe Staton. New York: New American Library, 2011
Keywords: Female author; Russian author; US author

Armageddon; A Tale of the Anti-Christ - Eleanor De Forest (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1938)
Dystopia with the stress on struggle between good and evil. Armageddon (see Revelation 16).
Keywords: Female author

At Midnight on the 31st of March - Josephine Young Case (1907-90) (Houghton, Mifflin, 1938)
A small town is totally cut off from the outside world and creates a eutopia. The novel is in blank verse.
Rpt. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1990 with a “Foreword” by Frank Bergmann (vii-x).
Keywords: Female author; US author

My Life in Time - Bertha Newton (C.W. Daniel, 1938)
Spiritualist novel in which the protagonist visits a golden city and tours the solar system. Quite vague.
Keywords: Female author

No Borderland - M[artha] Marlowe Morris (b. 1867); Laura B[elle] Speer (b. 1883) (Mathis, Van Nort, 1938)
Atlantis as an agrarian, tribal, spiritualist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

The Secret Island - Enid [Mary] Blyton (1897-1968) (Basil Blackwell, 1938)
Three children who believe their parents are dead and are mistreated by the aunt and uncle and a boy who has been abandoned by his grandfather un away to an island in the middle of a large lack. Seen through their eyes, it is a utopia.
Rpt. illus. Dudley Wynne. Worksop, Eng.: Award Publications Limited, 2009. 190 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Selestor’s Men of Atlantis - Clara Iza [Tibbets] Von Ravn (b. 1870) (Christopher Publishing House, 1937)
Presented as a depiction of the history of a real Atlantis described by Selestor. Includes descriptions of government, religion, marriage customs, and education, , which was available to all boys, language, music, farming, food, metallurgy, and other topics are touched on. Much of the book is on the decline of Atlantis through a king who broke the law that the king could only marry a woman born of parents from Atlantis.
Keywords: Female author

The Shelter in Bedlam - [Beatrice Lamberton Becker] [Warde] (1900-69) (Privately ptd, 1937)
Dystopia with everyone living in bomb shelters with the goal of everyone living permanently underground. Re-telling to a child of the Christmas story designed for the new circumstances but with an emphasis on how language has been warped to disguise the changes brought about by the dictator.
A short passage was rpt. in The Golden Road: An Anthology of Travel. Ed. Arthur Stanley (London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1938), 283. Also, with a new appendix, entitled Peace Under Earth: Dialogues from the Year 1946 Recorded by Paul Beaujon With a Frontispiece by Denis Tegetmeier. London: Megaw, 1938. U.S. ed. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1939.
Keywords: Female author

Some Plant Olive Trees - Emma Gelders Sterne (1894-1971) (Dodd, Mead, 1937)
A French settlement in Alabama with the intention to establish a community with the aims of the French Revolution. Combines fiction and non-fiction.
Keywords: Female author

Swastika Night - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) (Victor Gollancz, 1937)
Dystopia where there has been five hundred years of Nazi rule, and the Nazi creed has become transmuted into a religion which directly supports the current power structure of the future Germany. There is still a single Führer who rules with the blessing of Hitler and God the Thunderer over a clearly defined hierarchy that is nationalist, racist, sexist, with love only between men and women kept separate and only for breeding, and anti-Christian. Much of the book is about one of the German Knights who knows the truth of the past and works to preserve that knowledge the future. Female author.
Rpt. in the Left Book Club Edition. London: Victor Gollancz, 1940; and by Burdekin writing as Murray Constantine. London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michael Dirda (1-4); and under the author's real name Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1985  with an “Introduction” iii-xv) by Daphne Patai; and London: Gollancz, 2016, with an “Introduction” by Michel Dirda (1-4).
Keywords: English author; Female author

Wednesday's Children - [Iris Guiver] [Wilkinson] (1906-39) (Hurst & Blackett, 1937)
A feminist novel in which a woman creates an ideal, eutopian family on an island in Auckland harbor as well as assisting poor people through her work as a fortune teller. The family is a fantasy, and she chooses to kill herself rather than give up her family and enter into a traditional marriage.
Rpt. Auckland, New Zealand: New Women's Press, 1989; and Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press, 1993.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The World Ends - [Margaret Storm] [Jameson] (1891-1986) (J. M. Dent and Sons, 1937)
Massive earthquakes have been occurring in Europe, and one destroys most of England. In the novel, only one simple, farming family and the sophisticated protagonist author from London are depicted as surviving. Overwhelmingly dystopian, but the protagonist ultimately finds happiness in the simple life on the farm.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Empty World (A Romance of the Future) - D[orothy] E[mily] Stevenson (1892-1973) (Herbert Jenkins, 1936)
Describes two societies after a catastrophe. One is purportedly a eutopia but is an authoritarian dystopia. The other is a simple society that has no eutopian aspirations but almost becomes a eutopia.
U.S. ed. A World in Spell. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1939.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The Heritage of the Quest - Gertrude Venetta Cope (Marshall Jones, 1936)
Fantasy and allegory describing a vaguely described ideal world.
Keywords: Female author

In the Second Year - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Cassell, 1936)
Authoritarian dystopia set after World War I. The inability of governments to deal with post-war economic problems combined with communist agitation leads to the rise of a strong man. Labour and Training Camps are established, the former for the unemployed, the latter to punish dissidents. The novel traces three months under the regime as seen by an outsider.
Rpt. Ed. Stan Smith. Nottingham, Eng.: Trent Editions, 2004 with "Notes on the Text" (216-26).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Lost Paradise" - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore (1911-87) (Weird Tales, 1936)
A story in the author’s series about the character Northwest Smith in which he visits the far past when the inhabited moon was called Seles and in a golden age.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Retreat from Armageddon - Muriel Jaeger (1894-1969) (Duckworth, 1936)
Set in a house-party waiting for the coming of war. Each guest is asked to speak. One (a biologist) presents a eugenic eutopia; the next (an artist) presents a critique of the eugenic eutopia which stresses that it will become a dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Celestial Visitor" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
Satire on a visitor to Earth from Eutopia who is dissatisfied with contentment, and Earth provides the alternative. Eutopia has no laws and is based equality.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Fraudulent Conversion. A Romance of the Gold Standard - [Matilda Angela Antonia] [Hunter] (1877-1960) (Stanley Paul, 1935)
Eutopia. A wealthy man sets out to reform England and fights for reform against fascists. Gaining control of newspapers and the bank were essential to his success. He buys freedom for prisoners of dictators. Slum clearance and medical reform.
Keywords: English author; Female author

If I Were New Zealand's Dictator - Irwin, Madeleine (Emeny & Co., Printers, 1935)
Essay supporting Social Credit. Detailed economic and parliamentary reforms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Isle of Madness" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Wonder Stories (Springfield, MA), 1935)
A dystopia that literally reflects the title.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Man With Four Dimensional Eyes” - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Wonder Stories, 1935)
The man of the title is blind in our world but can see in an alternative high-tech eutopian world that he has seen since he was a child and describes he some detail.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Martha Brown M.P.; A Girl of To-Morrow - [Annie Sophie ("Vivian")] [Cory] (1868-1952) (T. Werner Laurie, 1935)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Cheap ed. London: T Werner Laurie, [1936].
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Soul of Man in the Age of Leisure - [Margaret] Storm Jameson (1891-1986) (Stanley Nott, 1935)
Non-fiction but projects a better future society based on leisure. The pamphlet series is a Social Credit series, but this one does not mention Social Credit.
Rpt. in The Social Credit Pamphleteer by Various Hands being Numbers 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, 12, 13, 14 and 17 of the Listed material opposite [A full list of the Pamphlets on the New Economics] (London: Stanley Nott, 1935). Items separately paged.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Woman's Independence - Claire Myers [Wanders] Spotswood (1896-1983) (Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1935)
Feminist eutopia using the allegorical form following the protagonist from Smug Harbor in the Land of Err where only Helfish (Half-truths) is spoken to Nithking (Thinking) where Reasonese is spoken. Explores questions of sexuality, marriage, divorce, and the position of women in society. Includes a section on an attempt to establish an egalitarian, simple life community called New Chimera that satirizes such attempts. Female author.
Rpt. as by Claire Myers Spotswood Owens. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1993, with an “Afterword” (459-96), “Glossary” (497-508), and “Works Cited” (509-11) by Miriam Kalman Harris .
Keywords: Female author; US author

We Have Been Warned. A Novel - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) (Constable & Co, 1935)
The novel describes a future England in which local fascists rise up against the ruling socialists, killing individualism or interning them in camps. The socialists who can flee to Scotland with hopes of reaching the Soviet Union. Women are leaders on both sides, and much of the novel focuses on relationships among individuals within each group as well as between individuals in each group.
Two chapters were originally published as “Interlude (From an unpublished Novel).” The Modern Scot (St. Andrews, Scotland) 4.2 (July 1933): 100-04; and as “Chapter from an Unpublished Novel.” The New Oxford Outlook (Oxford, England) 1.3 (February 1934): 274-87.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

When Yvonne Was Dictator - Elsie [Elizabeth] Kay Gresswell (1877-1944) (John Heritage, 1935)
A woman becomes a benevolent dictator after the mass suicide of the unemployed and the failure of three parties to form a government. She ends unemployment and brings about a number of other reforms, particularly in the area of gender equality.
Keywords: English author; Female author

With the Lid Off - [Mary Eliza Louise] [Cooke] (1883-1941) (T. Werner Laurie, 1935)
A benevolent dictatorship transforms England. Nationalization with people forced to work. if necessary, eugenics, required exercise, and slum clearance. Most of the novel is on the battle for success.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Woman Alive - Susan Ertz (1887-1985) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1935)
War and a disease it produced left only one woman alive. Drama of convincing her to marry and start again. Suggests that eutopia will be possible.
US ed. New York: D. Appleton, 1936. Also published as "One Woman Alive." The Delineator 128.3 - 5 (March - May 1936): 4, 6, 7, 42-44, 46-47; 16-19, 21, 47-50; 24-25, 56-58, 60.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The World As I Want It" - Margaret Haig [(Thomas) Mackworth] Rhondda [Viscountess] (1883-1958) (The Forum and Century (New York), 1935)
A eutopia in a series of reforms that bring about peace, no fear of war, and no economic or political conflict between nations. Sufficient food, good housing, and comfort for all. Work is available for all, and everyone works. Good health. No overpopulation. No barriers based on race, class, sex, marital status, etc. Education is available to all based solely on ability.
Keywords: Female author; Welsh author

Christopher Brand; Looking Forward - [Mary Estella] [Yerex] (1867-1947) (Wetzel Pub. Co, 1934)
Socialist eutopia similar to 1888 Bellamy. National ownership, no money, and everyone works. Emphasis is on the struggle for the acceptance of the scheme.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; US author

Landslide - Monica [Mary] Curtis (1892-1956) (Victor Gollancz, 1934)
Political novel set in an alternative future in which nothing was done after World War I to support the peace and another brief war followed that united Europe as the Confederation of Western Powers, which continued after the war under a leader who became a dictator.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"London Utopia: Democracy in Disarray" - [Adelaide Ann] [Boodle] (MS. University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1934)
Presents a utopian experiment of 1750 people in London named Cosmopolitan House or London Utopia with restaurants, gymnasium, indoor pool, library, nursery, and so forth. Various nationalities represented and one goal was to overcome national animosities.
Keywords: Female author

Manifesto: Being the Book of The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals - C[yril] E[dwin] M[itchinson] Joad (1891-1953); Allan Young; W[illiam Edward] Arnold-Forster; Francis Meynell; W[illiam] Olaf Stapledon (1886-1950); Janet Chance; D[ennis] N[owell] Pritt; Clough Williams-Ellis; G[eoffrey] M[axwell] Boumphrey; Archibald Robertson; J[ohn] C[arl] Flugel (George Allen & Unwin, 1934)
Similar to 1912 The Great State in that the essays collectively describe a vision of a future eutopia that is, in essence, a socialist world state. See also Plan for World Order and Progress: A Constructive Review (The Federation of Progressive Societies and Individuals) 1.1 - 1.9 (April - September 1934), which published a review of the Manifesto by Aldous Huxley in 1.4 (July 1934): 7, 15.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

Prelude to Christopher - Eleanor Dark (1901-85) (P.R. Stephensen & Co, 1934)
Attempt to establish a utopian colony on a Pacific island as seen from after its failure. The utopian vision of the founder is based on eugenics and the ability to produce an improved future generation.
Rpt. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Rigby, 1961; and Rushcutters Bay, NSW, Australia: Halstead Press, 1999. U.K. ed. London: Collins, 1936. Another ed. Leipzig, Germany: Bernard Tauchnitz, 1937.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Proud Man - [Katharine Penelope Cade] [Burdekin] (1896-1963) (Boriswood, 1934)
Complex satire on contemporary Britain from the point of view of a future human visiting in a dream. The future is a eutopia in which the people appear to be hermaphrodites, and there are no national governments and no class structure. Calls contemporary people sub-human.
Rpt. New York: The Feminist Press, 1993 with a “Foreword (ix-xxiv) and an “Afterword” (319-50) by Daphne Patai.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Victorian Family Robinson. A Novel - Beatrice [Ethel] Grimshaw (1877-1953) (Cassell & Co, 1934)
Strait-laced Victorians are shipwrecked on a South Pacific island inhabited by the descendants of British sailors previously shipwrecked there. What follows is mostly adventure and romance with the required happy ending of marriages all around.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Irish author

War Upon Women; A Topical Drama - Maboth Mosely (1906-75) (Hutchison, 1934)
Authoritarian dystopia. England with a dictator and war with an emphasis on the impact of war on women.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Astonishing Island; Being a Veracious Record of the Experience, Undergone by Robinson Lippingtree Mackintosh from Tristan Da Cunha during an Accidental Visit to Unknown Territory in the Year of Grace MCMXXX---? - Winifred Holtby (1898-1935) (Lovat Dickson, 1933)
Satire on English customs.
Part originally published as "Freedom of Speech." Radio Times 38.489 (February 10, 1933): 321.
Keywords: English author; Female author

At the request of . . The Chairman of the A to L Committee of Parliament, Parliament Buildings, Wellington, N.Z., I herewith submit my ideas concerning . . My Community Land Settlement Scheme To Give YOUTH a CHANCE Also Map of SETTLEMENT and Design for Social Hall - Marian C. Algie (Author, 1933)
Detailed proposal for a community of ten-acre farms with central common land and social hall. Stress on the simple life without machinery.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Australia, 1999" - Helen [de Guerry] Simpson (1897-1940) (The Woman on the Beast, Viewed from Three Angles, 1933)
Dystopia as the third part of three stories representing the history of religion. Mrs. Emma Jordan Sopwith (a thinly disguised Aimee Semple Macpherson--1890-1944), the Antichrist, becomes world ruler through conversion and violent suppression of all opposition. All books are burnt except Mrs. Sopwith’s writings and her version of the Bible, Rome is bombed, Ireland depopulated, privacy abolished, and thought is controlled. Australia is the only holdout, although the entire population has become nomadic to avoid assault. End of the world.
(U.S. ed Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Female author

Little Arthur's History of the Twentieth Century - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) (J.M. Dent & Sons, 1933)
Transition to a world state. Satire both on failed experiments and on the uniformity of the future world state.
Parts originally published in Time and Tide 14.6 - 12 (February 11 - March 19, 1933): 141-43; 174-76; 210-12; 243-45; 283-85; 314-16; 351-53.
Keywords: English author; Female author

My Visit to the Sun - Phoebe Marie Holmes (Los Angeles, CA: De Vorss & Co., 1933)
The author is taken by an angel to the center of the sun where she finds the heavenly city as described in the Revelation/Apocalypse of John and is reunited with her deceased husband, who has built a home for them that waits for her to furnish. She, of course, has to return to Earth to finish the work assigned to her.
2nd ed. Santa Barbara, CA: J. F. Rowney, 1933. 135 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Unborn Tomorrow - [Margaret Maud] [Brash] (1880-1965) (W. Collins & Co, 1933)
Anti-Communist dystopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Approaching Storm - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) (Hutchinson, 1932)
Dystopia of a Communist dictatorship in Britain. See also 1930 Tillyard, Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Egoland. Recorded by Emily Loweman. Transmitted through her Father by Camille Flammarion - Emily Loweman (Rider & Co, 1932)
Purports to be a report back after death by [Nicolas] Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) describing a remarkably uninteresting heaven as eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

The Hidden Kingdom - M[arianne] Lynn (Hamilton-Lewis) Hamilton (1886-1976) (N. Wentworth-Evans, 1932)
Mostly adventure but includes an isolated authoritarian dystopia, called Ordsborough, established by one man in the N.W. of Australia for his own benefit. The novel follows the conventions of the lost race novel, with a beautiful woman held captive and finally rescued. Although the title page is as her, the book is presented as if it were written in 1915, compiled by Louis Zaring, and edited by Hamilton with testimonies attesting to its accuracy.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The New Group of World Workers - [Alice Ann] [Bailey] (1880-1949) (Author, 1932)
The earliest of many works based on a group like the Samurai in 1905 Wells that will lead the world to eutopia. See also her The Next Three Years (1934-1935-1936). New York: Lucis Pub. Co., 1934 [Pub. in the U.K. as The New Group of World Servers]; and The Functions of the New Group of Servers. London: Edson, 1935, which focus on this group.
Keywords: Female author; UK author; US author

Prohibiting Poverty. Being Suggestions for a Method of Obtaining Economic Security - Prestonia Mann Martin (1861-1945) (Rollins Press, 1932)
Eutopia. Essay describing The National Livelihood Plan which will require everyone to spend the ages 18-26 in an industrial army similar to that in 1888 Bellamy. The author was editor of the American Fabian and ran a socialist summer camp called the Summer Brook Farm; see Herbert Ernest Cushman, "Summer Brook Farm." Outlook 57 (November 13, 1897): 665-66.
Many eds. with 9th ed. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Voice Across The Years" - [Inga Marie Stephens] [Pratt] (1906-70); [Murray] Fletcher Pratt (1897-1956) (Amazing Stories Quarterly (Dunnellen, NJ), 1932)
Mostly interplanetary adventure but describes a scientifically advanced alien civilization. Eugenics--children are tested and sterilized or killed if they have criminal tendencies. Rigid class system run by scientists. Young adults are tested by having to survive in a wilderness where killing is the norm. Cities are all in very tall buildings generally built on unproductive land. Education through sleep teaching.
Rpt. as Alien Planet. New York: Avalon, 1962; and New York: Ace Books, 1962.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

"The Conquest of Gola" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Wonder Stories (Mt. Morris, IL), 1931)
Eutopia with dystopian elements. Described at the beginning in purely eutopian terms but becomes an atypical gender-role reversal story with the women having primarily mental powers and the men from another planet having only physical and technological powers. The women expel the invaders, and their men remain subversive.
Rpt. in New Eves: Science Fiction About the Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 31-42 with an editors’ note on 30; in Daughters of Earth: Feminist Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century. Ed. Justine Larbalestier (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2006), 36-49; in The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction. Ed. Arthur B. Evans, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger, Rob Latham, and Carol McGuirk (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2010), 96-109 with an editors’ note on 96-97; in The Big Book of Science Fiction: The Ultimate Collection. Ed. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer (New York: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard Vintage Books, 2016), 99-107 with an editors’ note on 98; in The Future is Female! 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories by Women from Pulp Pioneers to Ursula K. Le Guin. Ed. Lisa Yaszek (New York: Library of America, 2018), 24-43; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 214-233-, with an editor’s note on 211-214. 978-6200496324. Additional material, including biographies, can be found at womenSF.loa.org.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Faith - Martha Cabanné Kayser (b. 1871) (Meador Publishing Co, 1931)
Much of the novel is concerned with the problems of the contemporary world, but it ends with the beginnings of a eutopia based on religion and moral values from a generally conservative perspective. The eutopia is being brought about through the successful establishment of a community on an island off Naples, Italy where a school is educating young people in the appropriate morals and spirituality. See also 1922 Kayser.
A rev. ed. entitled Heaven Is Here. New York: Author, 1938 is reported to have been published, but no copies can be located.
Keywords: Female author; US author

On the Shores of the Infinite - Mrs. G. Stuart (:Simpkin Marshall/Jarrold & Sons., 1931)
Theosophical novel that tours the solar system and the afterlife with depictions of higher beings.
Keywords: Female author

A Woman's Utopia - [Mrs.] [Ellen Warner (Olney)] [Kirk] (1842-1928) (Ernest Benn, 1931)
Eutopia. The introduction summarizes Gerhart Hauptmann's (1862-1946) The Island of the Great Mother or The Miracle of Île des Dames. A Story from the Utopian Archipelago. Trans. Willa and Edwin Muir. New York: B.W. Huebach and The Viking Press, 1925. Originally published as Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (1924). The first chapter then follows with a critique of utopias created by men. This is followed by her eutopia. Two houses in Parliament, men's and women's. Ability and intelligence rewarded. Best salaries for the worst work such as mining.
Keywords: Female author; US author

After - M[ary Helena] Saltoun (Duckworth, 1930)
Hell as dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

"The Ape Cycle" - Clare Winger Harris (1891-1968) (Science Wonder Quarterly, 1930)
A dystopia is created when apes are trained to be servants and come to find their servitude unacceptable
Rpt. in her Away From the Here and Now: Stories in Pseudo-Science (Philadelphia, PA: Dorrance & Co., 1947), 296-365.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Concrete: A Story of Two Hundred Years Hence - Aelfrida [Catherine Wetenhall] Tillyard [(Mrs. Constance Graham](1883-1959) (Hutchinson, 1930)
Dystopia of reason and communism. People are euthanized if they fail a physical. Kissing children is illegal because it is unhygienic. People are bored. See also 1932 Tillyard, The Approaching Storm.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Creatures of the Light" - Sophie Wenzel Ellis (1893-1984) (Astounding Stories of Super-Science (New York), 1930)
The focus of the story is the struggle between good and evil, but the setting is an attempt to create perfect human beings and shows that apparent perfection is undesirable.
Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp. and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 169-202; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 176-212 with an editor’s note on 176. PUP
Keywords: Female author

"The End of the World" - Helen Sutherland (Truth, 1930)
The story depicts the world as it faces the period after a plague kills most men with few men born afterwards until the last man dies. Women successfully fulfil all the roles that men had held, but they will all gradually die.
Rpt. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 31-35, with an editor’s note on 29.
Keywords: Female author

Here Is Thy Victory - Iris Barry (1895-1969) (Elkin Mathews & Marrot, 1930)
Involuntary immortality and its generally bad effects, which are reversed when death returns.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

“The High School Library of the Future” - Aniela Poray (Wilson Library Bulletin, 1930)
Satire on the library of the future where knowledge is provided chemically and the librarians choose what students should know.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Into the 28th Century" - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL), 1930)
Vague golden age eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The People of the Blue Mountains - H[elena] P[etrovna] Blavatsky (1831-91) (Theosophical Press, 1930)
An odd book that is often cataloged as an ethnography, but it presented as an account of an obviously fictional trip into an earthly paradise in the mountains of India. Lost race eutopia used as an excuse to teach Theosophy.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Indian author; Russian author

Ultimo: An imaginative narration of life under the earth with projections by John Vassos and text by Ruth Vassos - John Vassos (1898-1985); Ruth Vassos (1896?-1965) (E. P. Dutton, 1930)
Flawed utopia. A new ice age forces people to develop a new society underground where the heat of the earth's core is balanced by the ice above. Almost all travel stops, and there is no communication among cities. Industry, which is mostly for the production of food, is separate from housing. The little work needed is distributed equally. No money. Population kept balanced. No marriage. No crime. Unrest results from the monotony of life and rules become necessary.
Keywords: Female author; Italian author; Male author; Romanian author; UK author; US author

The Valley of the Great Ray - Pansy E[llen] Black (1890-1957) (Stellar Publishing Corporation, 1930)
Lost race story where no one grows old. Set in Australia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Via the Hewitt Ray" - M[argaret] F. Rupert (Science Wonder Quarterly (Mt. Morris, IL), 1930)
World with women dominant and men kept for breeding.
Rpt. in Fantastic Story Magazine (Kokomo, IN) 2.3 (Summer 1951): 95-114; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 103-40 with and editor’s not on 103.
Keywords: Female author

The Brain of the Planet - [Mary Maud Dunn] [Wright] (1894-1967) (Stellar Publishing Co, 1929)
A eutopian world state is achieved as a result of a machine that broadcast positive images of social solidarity directly to human brains. As a result, capitalism disappeared, followed by national boundaries. Inventions flourished replacing much physical labor. Men and women were able to marry for love.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Children’s Country - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) (William Morrow & Co., 1929)
Children’s story in which two Earth children visit and have adventures in The Children’s Country, where children, none of whom will ever grow up to be a man of a woman, rule.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Elenchus Brown, The Story of an Experimental Utopia - Bertha Louisa Bowhay (H.R. Allenson, 1929)
Satire on the failure of an intentional community.
Keywords: Female author

"The Goat: Cardiff A.D. 1935" - Naomi [Margaret] Mitchison (1897-1999) (Barbarian Stories, 1929)
Near future tale in which each year one of the rich is chosen by lot to be executed. Background of extreme poverty.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

Halcyon or The Future of Monogamy - Vera Brittain (1893-1970) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1929)
Presented as part of a book from the mid-21st century. Chapter I "Morals in the Post-Victorian Era, 1900-1930 (9-28); Chapter II "The Period of Sexual Reform, 1930-1975" (29-52); Chapter III "Scientific Progress, 1950-2000, and Its Relation to the Moral Revolution" (53-78); Chapter IV "The Triumph of Voluntary Monogamy, 2000-2030" (79-92).
Keywords: English author; Female author

The King of Cosmopoland. A Farce in One Act - Margaret Brown (Repertory Farces. No. 10, 1929)
Humor using an imaginary country after a revolution.
Keywords: Female author

"Letter of the Twenty-Fourth Century" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
Brief depiction of a future eutopia based on a rural world-wide democracy.
Rpt. in Sci-Fi Womanthology. Comp, and ed. Forrest J. Ackerman and Pam Keesey (Rockville, MD: Sense of Wonder Press, 2003), 9-13; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 23-28 with an editor’s note on 23.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Men With Wings" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Air Wonder Stories, 1929)
The first of two stories about winged people in South America that were created by an English scientist and have evolved into a substantial, well-established civilization, conflicts with the outside world, and, finally, acceptance and integration. In comparison to the men, the women are small and weak. The second story is “Women With Wings.” Illus. [Ed] Leonard. Air Wonder Stories 1.11 (May 1930): 984-1003. Rpt. in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 131-210. In it, the political geography of the world has changed substantially, primarily through consolidation, and the world is ruled by the representatives (all men) of the ten most powerful nations. “Color was of no consequence” (986). Universal language (987). Use the sun and radium for energy (988). The issue faced by the culture is that a high percentage of women are dying in childbirth. Contact is made with Venus where an amphibious race has evolved, also with wings, in which the women are dominant, and the men are weak and small. The solution for Earth is interbreeding which is successful.
Rpt. without the illus. in Femspec 11.1 (2010): 86-155, with an editor’s note on 86-87; and in “The Conquest of Gola” and Other Stories by Leslie F. Stone. Ed. Batya Weinbaum (Beau Bassim, Mauritius: JustFiction! Edition//International Book Market Service/Omniscriptum Publishing Group, 2021), 32-139, with an editor’s note on 29-31 that covers this and “Women With Wings” below.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Moon Woman: A Tale of the Future" - [Minna] [Odell] (c.1857-1940) (Amazing Stories (Jamaica, NY), 1929)
Eutopia set in 3014. Earth is technologically and socially advanced with the help of the inhabitants of the moon. World government. Food in liquid form.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Out of the Void" - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Amazing Stories, 1929)
Mostly adventure and romance, but a flawed high-tech utopia is present that is vegetarian, telepathic, can communicate with animals, has painless euthanasia for both humans and animals, and has an island with no government set aside for higher education where men and women are free to go to study and teach. But the society is also hierarchical with slavery and has treated one group as not even able to be slaves. The ending indicates that some of this will change.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Prince of Atlantis - Lillian Elizabeth Roy (1868-1932) (Educational Press, 1929)
Atlantis as a eutopia with classical trappings but democratic and egalitarian. Includes an Appendix (344-51) presenting material that the author contends relates to Atlantis and the Atlanteans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Rebel Passion - Katharine [Penelope Cade] Burdekin (1896-1963) (Thornton Butterworth, 1929)
Traces history through the past and the then present to a religious, medieval, Christian eutopia in about 3150 (US 254-305). Women priests who serve women; the male priests serve men. No divorce. Everyone works. Some machinery including a “flying boat,” electricity that powers lights and radio. There has been no history in Europe since the passing of the machine age. If a country is happy, it has none.” Throughout it is suggested that the main character is not wholly male but a mix of male and female.
U.S. ed. as by Kay Burdekin [pseud.]. New York: Morrow, 1929.
Keywords: English author; Female author

When the Sun Went Out - [Leslie Frances] [Silberberg] (1905-1991) (Stellar Publishing Co., 1929, 1929)
The sun is dying, and the human population has declined in numbers, intelligence, and physique from relying on the machines and production of the past, machines that are also dying. The most intelligent of the remaining population build great caves far underground to which the remaining population of the Earth retreated after the sun died. The decline was from a scientific world eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Blessing of Azar. A Tale of Dreams and Truth - E[dith] V[irginia] Gazella (The Christopher Publishing House, 1928)
Founding of a eutopia by a group of wealthy friends, one of whom contributes thirty million dollars in gold. The novel starts with vague plans, veers into adventure and romance, and ends back with the plans and their fulfillment through commerce. The very end shows a eutopian Cuba with very little detail, but service is honored.
Also published Passaic, NJ: George Dixon Press, 1928.
Keywords: Female author

The Common Round - Dolores Charlotte Frederica Harding (Hurst & Blackett, 1928)
Spiritualism in which an advanced planet, Icar, is described.
Keywords: Female author

"A Few Things Altered or Abolished" - Edna Ferber (1887-1968) (The Nation (New York), 1928)
Critical of the idea of utopia. She would change marriage but unsure how, abolish automobiles, ensure work for all, require gardens and trees with all homes, require open wood-burning fireplaces, and other very miscellaneous changes. In a series of articles describing the world the authors would like to live in.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Nor Shall My Sword Sleep - Stella Callaghan (Skeffington & Son, 1928)
Presents a successful struggle to establish an intentional community on an estate. A physically good city for the poor and fair treatment for employers.
Keywords: Female author

The Exile - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) (Little, Brown, 1927)
The novel begins with Eldorado Island, where English settlers are shipwrecked in the eighteenth century and establish a flourishing community, which grows with additions from visiting ships and the birth of children. Presented as a eutopia of simplicity. But on the mainland war and a dictatorship develop and Eldorado Island is used as a place of exile for dissidents. The novel follows the latest exile's experience on the island, the coming of another war, and its ending with a worldwide spiritual awakening that suggests that a eutopia will follow.
U.K. ed. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1927.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Red Octopus": An Allegory in the Form of a Novel - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) (Hermes Press, 1927)
An anti-Semitic novel showing Jews taking over the world, but they are defeated by Christians. This novel was by The Paraclete or Coming World Mother. Pretoria, South Africa, 1936 that was said to be a eutopia, but no evidence copies exist outside South Africa. See also 1918 Brandt.
Keywords: Female author; German author; South African author

"Venus" - Rachel Crothers (1878-1958) (Unpublished play, 1927)
See the brief synopsis in Colette Lindroth and James Lincoln. Rachel Crothers: A Research and Production Sourcebook (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1995), 58-59, which refers to two people having returned from the advanced civilization of Venus.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Candle in the Hills - I[sabell] F[rancis] Grant (1887-1983) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1926)
Dystopia of a Communist Britain and a successful revolt against it inspired by a woman.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

City of Desire - Juanita Savage (Geoffrey Bles, 1926)
Lost race novel set in a Mayan city where a young woman finds a handsome, white, English-speaking king, and, after the usual adventures, they fall in love and everything ends happily.
U. S. ed. New York: Lincoln Mac Veagh/The Dial Press, 1930; and Chicago: A. L. Burt Company Publishers, 1930.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Lucullus The Food of the Future - Olga Hartley; Mrs. C. F. [Hilda] Leyel (1880-1957) (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, 1926)
Future history ending in a eutopia. Considerable satire presented through a speech by a scholar in the far future. First vegetarians win the day; then Neo-Vegetarians, who won't eat plants; then scientists create chemical food. A backlash against science occurs when Glasgow is destroyed during an experiment and then all science is regulated and begins to develop things that are useful. General decentralization occurs and people return to eating meat.
Keywords: Female author

Man's World - Charlotte [Franken] Haldane (1894-1969) (Chatto and Windus, 1926)
Satire. The novel presents a future devoted to the improvement of the white race through eugenics. On the whole, the society is presented positively, but there is a strong satiric thread throughout. In her Women's Utopias in British and American Utopian Fiction Nan Bowman Albinski calls this an ambiguous eutopia and simply a eutopia (79-80). I initially called it a eugenic dystopia, but I have concluded that dystopia is too strong a label.
US ed. New York: George H. Doran, 1927.
Keywords: Female author

Posterity; A Novel - Diane Boswell (1899-1995) (Jonathan Cape, 1926)
Good life brought about by a reduction in the birth rate, which becomes a required limit. This leads to a mixed result, some good, some bad. Good living conditions but strict rule.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Question Mark - M[uriel] Jaeger (1894-1969) (Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1926)
The author notes that however attractive she finds the utopias of her day, the people in them do not seem real. Ursula K. Le Guin made a similar point in her “Science Fiction and Mrs. Brown” (1976), The author depicts a deeply flawed utopia in which everyone is well off, but there is a divide between intellectuals, who tend to be overly rational and non-intellectuals (known as normals), who are driven by emotion. The novel stresses how they have grown more and more apart, with marriage mostly within the group, but with the family depicted in the novel a dysfunctional mixed marriage. Religion is a popular hobby for the normals. Much boredom that leads to hero worship and temporary enthusiasms among the normals. Euthanasia is common. Eugenic themes.
US ed. New York: Macmillan, 1926. 249 pp. Rpt. London: British Library, [2019], with an “Introduction” by Dr. Mo Moulton (7-15). 205 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Murderers' Island - [Hilda C.] [Adshead] (1901?-85?) (Methuen, 1925)
Romance but includes both a eutopia and a dystopia. The eutopia is a reformed future world. The emphasis in the novel is on the legal system, but hints of more general reform abound. The dystopia is a self-governing island to which convicted murderers are sent.
Keywords: Female author; UK author

Neutopia - E[mmeline] Richardson (b. 1867) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co, 1925)
Lost race socialist eutopia. Revolution had been brought about by women. Eugenics; hygienic life. If health standards are not met, health workers are punished. Mostly vegetarian. Free education. Stress on development and self-control. Training to be parents. Telepathy. Food, housing free. Solar power. Individual flight through a counter-gravity device. Main government departments are ones of Health and Education, Labour and Land, and Law and Economics. Changes are suggested and voted on by the people; if accepted, put into place for ten years and then resubmitted.
Keywords: Female author

The Rule of the Beasts - V[iolet] T[orlesse Holland] Murray (b. 1874) (Stanley Paul & Co, 1925)
After a catastrophe, animals bring about a eutopia among themselves and the remaining humans with an emphasis on the spiritual.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Silent Voice - Berenice V. Dell (The Four Seas Co, 1925)
Gender-role reversal in the far future City of New Thought initially presented as a feminist eutopia. But it is a dystopia because there is no religion, and women have given up their true place. Some young escape to True America, which is a eutopia because it is religious and Aryan. Both countries are technologically advanced.
Keywords: Female author

Ten Years Hence? - Hannah Coron (J.M. Ouseley & Son, Ltd, 1925)
The novel satirizes the pacifist tendencies of the Labour Party and predicts war and the easy defeat of Britain if it gains power. Right thinking men establish a secret air force and are able to win when the predictions come true.
Keywords: Female author

“White Man’s Madness” - Lenore E[dith Johnstone] Chaney (1881-1972) (Weird Tales, 1925)
Lost race story in which the protagonist is a white man searching for the storied riches of the Incas. He accidentally discovers a peaceful, sheep-tending pre-Incan Aryan community that worships the sun and uses gold for their dishes and jewels as decoration.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Melody from Mars - [Violet Lilian] [Perkins]; [Archer Leslie] [Hood] (Authors' International Pub. Co, 1924)
An odd future tale of spiritually advanced people, which includes the description of a eutopia called the Electric City. Not much detail.
Keywords: Female author

"Utopia Interpreted" - Sarah N[orcliffe] Cleghorn (1876-1959) (Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1924)
Traces the history of the world up to a future eutopia. Four "interpretations" of the future are presented--a new ice age, a modern Franciscan movement among women, technological change, and the new nomads. Written as if from July 1995.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Venus - Rena Oldfield Pettersen (Dorrance & Co, 1924)
Eutopia. Telepathy in an idyllic society about two thousand years in advance of Earth. Much romance and the picture of Venus comes out through the interactions of two Venusians with people on Earth during a visit to Earth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Idealia: A Utopia Dream; or, Resthaven - [Mrs.] [Harriet Alfarata (Chapman)] [Thompson] (d. 1922) ([Ptd. by J.B. Lyon Co.], 1923)
Arcadia. Simple life in one large family in one large house with extensive grounds.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Our All - American Almanac and Prophetic Messenger” - Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950) (Vanity Fair, 1923)
Selections from January, April, July, and September from an almanac that describing events taking place in a future that becomes more and more restrictive and puritanical. Happy New Year changed to Virtuous New York; dancing abolished; the Society for the Suppression of Imagination in Children censors children’s stories; women’s clothing regulated in the name of modesty; dancing outlawed; compulsory church attendance; co-education abolished; and more.
Rpt. as by Nancy Boyd in Distressing Dialogues. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1924), 29-37. Rpt. under the author’s real name in her Poems and Satires. Ed. Tristram Fane Saunders (Manchester, Eng.: Manchester, Eng.: Carcarnet, 2021), 165-69
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Aerial Flight to the Realm of Peace - Martha [Cabanné] Kayser (b. 1871) (Lincoln Press & Pub. Co, 1922)
The eutopia is based on religion, and there is only one throughout the world. Equality. Arbitration. Early education is the key. Each nation has distinctive dress. Marriage--men cannot marry before eighteen, women before sixteen; most marry by twenty-two. See also 1931 Kayser.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Perfect World: A Romance of Strange People and Strange Places - Ella M[arie] Scrymsour[-Nicol] (1888-1962) (Eveleigh Nash & Grayson Ltd., 1922)
A complex novel that includes both a dystopia and a eutopia. The dystopia is in the center of the Earth and is inhabited by the descendants of Jews condemned by God to be swallowed by the Earth. The protagonists from the surface escape the dystopia, and, while the Earth is destroyed, they escape in a "airship", which takes them directly to a eutopian Jupiter. Jupiter had a separate Adam and Eve, but without the Fall and has developed a good society that, while hierarchical, is based on pro rata sharing.
U.S. ed New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1922.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Theodore Savage: A Story of the Past or the Future - Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952) (Leonard Parsons, 1922)
Presents a picture of a destroyed civilization that manages to create a new, more primitive lifestyle that is initially violent becomes more settled over time. Science is rejected, and the human race slowly rebuilds a healthy hunting, fishing, and farming life structured around tribes. This is depicted as more in tune with our capacities than the civilization that it replaced. The revised volume is slightly more positive than the original.
Rpt. Boston, MA: HiLo Books, 2013 with an introduction “A Cargo Cult in Reverse” by Gary Paynter (13-17); and without the subtitle Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with “Introduction: The Wars of the Air and the Laboratory’: Theodore Savage at 100” by Susan R. Grayzel (xiii-xxi). Rev. ed. entitled Lest Ye Die. London: Jonathan Cape, 1928. U.S. ed. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1928.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Three Worlds - Isabel Griffiths (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1922)
Heaven presented as a eutopia on Jupiter. Little detail. Abundant food. Hell or purgatory is on Mars.
Keywords: Female author

"Lolly-pop Land. A Poem" - Minna B. Noyes (The Brownies' Book, 1921)
A children's cockaigne. The Brownies' Book was a periodical for African-American children founded in 1920 by W[illiam] E[dward] B[urghardt] Du Bois (1868-1963).
Rpt. in facsimile in The Best of the Brownies' Book. Ed. Dianne Johnson Feelings (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996), 316-17.
Keywords: Female author

The New Race of Devils - [Anna O'Meara de Vic] [Beamish] (b. 1883) (Anglo-Eastern Pub. Co, 1921)
Dystopia in which Germany creates supermen.
Keywords: Female author

A Secret Power - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) (Methuen, 1921)
Most of the novel is romance with a somewhat demented scientist who develops a weapon that he hopes will stop war. Embedded in the novel is a brief description of the “Golden City,” where people much advanced beyond normal humans live.
U.S. ed. without the subtitle Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Writing on the Wall In Three Parts Past, Present and Future - [Hilda (Glynn)] [Howard] (1887-1966) (Sun Pub. Co., 1921)
Dystopia. Chinese immigration and Japanese invasion lead to their domination of Canada.
Rpt. without the subtitle Toronto, ON, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1974.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author; Welsh author

A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain - Sidney Webb (1859-1947); Beatrice Webb (1858-1943) (Longmans, 1920)
Just what the title says. Most of the book focuses on the political organization of a socialist state, but there are chapters on voluntary associations concerning the Co-operative Movement, other consumers’ associations, adult education, and the press, among other issues, and work, which is primarily about the nature and organization of vocations, with both obligatory and voluntary associations based on vocation, and the development of professional ethics, among other issues. The final chapter is on the transition from capitalism to socialism.
Rpt. London: London School of Economics and Political Science/Cambridge University Press, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

"Moonward" - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) (Moonward and Other Orientations, 1920)
A trip to the moon in 1935 to escape an overpopulated, polluted, violent, dystopian Earth.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Reductio ad Absurdum" - Mary Keyt Isham (1871-1947) (Moonward and Other Orientations, 1920)
Anti-socialist satire. No traffic laws because they interfered with freedom. No requirements for drivers because such requirements curtailed the freedom of "defectives".
Keywords: Female author; US author

Sweet Rocket - Mary Johnston (1870-1936) (Harper & Brothers, 1920)
Sweet Rocket is an estate/farm in Virginia that is in effect a religious, agrarian eutopia.
U.K. ed. London: Constable & Co., 1920.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The White Dawn - [Ingeborg] Belle Hagen Winslow (1872-1956) (Augsburg Publishing House, 1920)
Religious dystopia set inside the Earth where people descended from a Jew who cursed and spat on Christ were condemned to live without souls. The novel is set in Norway as it transitioned from the ancient gods to Christianity.
Keywords: Female author

The Castle in the Air or The Might Be Land - Clara Gilbert Cole (1868-1956) (The Dreadnought Press, 1919)
Communist eutopia. "No buying and selling; only giving, taking and making" (2). Education mostly through play outdoors among flowers and gardens. Everyone works. No Parliament. No money.
Keywords: Female author

"The Dark Cottage" - Mary Cholmondeley (1859-1925) (Pears's Christmas Annual (London), 1919)
Eutopia in which a man who had been a relatively enlightened industrialist wakes up fifty years after being injured in World War I and is led to see how unenlightened he had actually been. Examples given are that he introduced electricity to his own estate but not, although easily able to do so, to his works, built houses for his workers but in an extremely unhealthy, swampy area because it was convenient to his factories, which were polluting the atmosphere, opposed women's suffrage, and generally opposed any legislation that would have improved the education, health, or working conditions of the lower classes. The eutopia, though, is still class based and the upper classes still have servants.
Rpt. in her The Romance of His Life and Other Romances (London: John Murray, 1921), 55-82. U.S. ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1921), 55-82.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Heads of Cerberus" - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). (Thrill Book (New York), 1919)
Authoritarian dystopia set in a parallel Philadelphia in 2118. There is a corrupt government with many petty rules.
Repub. illus. Ric Binkley. Reading, PA: Polaris Press, 1952 with an "Introduction" by Lloyd Arthur Eshbach (13-16). Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978;  New York: Carroll & Graf, 1984 with an "Introduction" by Robert Weinberg ([15-18]); and New York: The Modern Library, 2019 with an Introduction by Naomi Alderman (vii-xi).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Somewhere in Christendom - Evelyn [Jane] Sharp (1869-1955) (George Allen & Unwin, 1919)
The novel describes a small country between two regularly warring large countries that establishes an egalitarian, Christian cooperative eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Friend Island" - [Gertrude Barrows] [Bennett] (1884-1948?). (All-Story Weekly (New York), 1918)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Rpt. in Fantastic Novels Magazine 4.3 (September 1950): 110-16; in Under the Moons of Mars: A History and Anthology of "The Scientific Romance" in the Munsey Magazines, 1912-1920. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970), 125-36; and in New Eves: Science Fiction About Extraordinary Women of Today and Tomorrow. Ed. Janrae Frank, Jean Stine, and Forrest J. Ackerman (Stamford, CT: Longmeadow Press, 1994), 5-15 with an editors' note on 4; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 152-63 with an editor’s note on 163.
Keywords: Female author

Mildred Carver, U.S.A. - Martha Bensley Bruère (1879-1953) (Ladies Home Journal (Des Moines, IA), 1918)
Eutopia. Universal service produces an egalitarian system. Each person must serve a period of time in some labor for the country, which turns them into patriots as well as producing public works. The focus is on two very wealthy people and the way they become truly useful citizens by serving their required time, interacting with people from varied backgrounds, and doing useful work.
Rpt. as Mildred Carver, U.S.A. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 218-32 with an editor’s note on 216-17; 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), 195-211.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Millennium: A Prophetic Message to the Native Tribes of South Africa - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) ([Rustica Press], 1918)
Short version of a longer work. Brief description of the apocalypse, the Second Coming, and the millennium. Patronizing pamphlet directed at the Black majority telling them to not take advantage of the coming troubles to wreck revenge on the white minority. See also 1927 Brandt.
Keywords: Female author; German author; South African author

The Professor in Erin - L. [Charlotte Elizabeth] (known as "Lal" and Lilly) McManus (ca. 1850-1941) (M.H. Gill and Son, 1918)
Parallel history of Ireland as a eutopia developed from original Irish roots and based on the assumption that the Irish defeated the English at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602. As a result, Ireland becomes a eutopia with a monarchy. Much of the novel is mystery and romance
Originally serialized in Sinn Finn.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

What Not; A Prophetic Comedy - [Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958) (Constable and Co., 1918)
Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.
Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and “Notes” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley’s original vague note on xxix.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Her Invisible Spirit Mate: A Scientific Novel and Psychological Lessons on How to Make the World More Beautiful - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (Author, 1917)
Spiritualist novel in which other planets are depicted as higher spiritually and better than Earth and an improved Earth is predicted after the war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Among the Immortals In the Land of Desire. A Glimpse of the Beyond - Mary A[nn] Fisher (b. 1839) (Shakespeare Press, 1916)
Mostly romance, but there is a description of paradise as a eutopia that includes a discussion of the social institutions of paradise. Young people who die can fulfill the potential they had but were unable to realize in life, and they can study with the greats of the past. Those who have not married in life can marry in heaven, those who die before their spouses can also marry, and women can have children. There are banks, publishers, and most of the activities of life are available in heaven.
Keywords: Female author

The Birth of Universal Brotherhood - Anna Ratner Shapiro (Barton Publishing Co, 1916)
A few pages of a eutopia at the end. Christianity, education. Some spiritualism.
Keywords: Female author

"Building a Socialist City" - A[lice] Constance Austin (1862-1955) (The Western Comrade (Llano, CA), 1916)
Detailed eutopia showing what the Llano Community was supposed to become.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Five Generations Hence - Mrs. Lillian B. Jones (1880-1965) (Ptd. by Dotson-Jones Company, 1916)
Eutopia. Mostly on race relations in the U. S. but includes a vision of a future Africa that is civilized and prosperous. The eutopia is brought about by African-Americans returning to Africa.
Rpt. ed. and annotated by the editor with notes on 96-102 in Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writings of Lillian Jones Horace. Ed. Karen Kossie-Chernyshev (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013), 1-96. 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), 176-88 with an editor’s note on 175-76.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"How They Were Denobled" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
Satire on the "servant question" in which twenty-five members of the nobility find themselves in a castle without servants.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"If the Germans Came" - [Mary] [Carbery] (Irish Times, 1916)
Satirical dystopia. The first letter describes the general lack of welcome that the Governor received, except from Sinn Fein, which had supported the German invasion and now expected to be rewarded. On the principle "once a traitor, always a traitor" all Sinn Fein members and their families are immediately shipped to Germany and given small holdings or enrolled in the German Army. To clear the slums, all the patients in a large mental hospital are gassed and cremated, the slum dwellers moved into the hospital, and the slums torn down. The second letter includes such reforms as requiring all the Irish to rise early.
Rev. as The Germans in Cork: Being the Letters of His Excellency The Baron von Kartoffel (Military Governor of Cork in the Year 1918) and Others. Dublin, Ireland: The Talbot Press/London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1917].
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"A Surplus Woman" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
A solution to what the women who are left without families, widowed, or without men to marry as a result of all the men killed in the war. The proposal is, like so many of Gilman's, is for women to go into business, with the difference here that they do into business together in a Women's Economic Alliance to provide services for a town and housing for the women. See also her "Women After the War." The Forerunner (New York) 7.7 (July 1916): 173-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Through Gates of Pearl: A Vision of the Heaven-Life - Augusta Albertson (Fleming H. Revell, 1916)
Heaven as eutopia as experienced by those who achieve it. Presented partially through the different gates by which it is entered, such as the children's gate, the martyr's gate, the gate of gentle service, etc. and partially through descriptions of the heaven entered.
Keywords: Female author

"With Her in Ourland" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
Continuation of 1915 Gilman in which one of the couples tours and comments on world conditions and then more specifically on the U.S. The woman from Herland concludes that she could not have a child in the U.S. She wants to return to Herland and hopes for a boy.
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), 270-387. First book publication as With Her in Ourland. Sequel to Herland. Ed. Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), 59-193. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 200-08; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 242-52.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Women of the Future - Meta Stern Lilienthal (1876-1948) (The Rand School of Social Science, 1916)
Pamphlet describing the better society that socialism will bring about emphasizing the changed position of women. With everyone a worker, everyone will be able to work at what most interests them and change work as their interests change, women will not be limited to the home, and most domestic work will be done collectively. Everyone will have a good education and the right training for their work. No children working. There will be no male sex privilege. Marriage will be based on love and divorce will be easy. High quality child-care readily available.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Herland" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1915)
Feminist eutopia on an island inhabited only by women and girl children. Stress on sisterhood. Parthenogenesis. Deep concern for the physical and mental health of the children and educating them appropriately. No poverty. No punishment, which has been replaced by treatment. There are strong environmental themes, but animals have been generally eliminated. The novel is told from the point of view of one of three men who discover Herland and marry three Herland women. See also the sequel 1916 Gilman.
First book publication New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. 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), 150-269. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 189-99; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 229-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Romance in Starland: A Scientific Novel - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (New Herald Publishing Co, 1915)
Includes a visit to planets, including eutopias on Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. On Venus there is no war or sin. Simple life. Women are unable to give birth to more than two children. Saturn is home to "angelic missionaries". On Jupiter there is no need for money and people communicate telepathically.
Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Virgin’s Treasure: A Romance of the Tropics - [Amelia] Louise Gerard (1878-1979) (Mills & Boon, 1915)
The novel is mostly romance and adventure but ends in a religious allegory in which a man struggles past the Tomb of Buried Hopes, the Tomb of Dead Desires, and the Plain of Despair and gets temporarily lost in the Mountains of Self-Abasement before winning through.
Rpt. London: Mills & Boon, [1919?].  245 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Wireless Messages from Other Worlds - Eva (Love-Light) Harrison (L.N. Fowler, 1915)
Spiritualism with other planets more advanced than Earth.
Keywords: Female author

A Marriage of Souls: A Metaphysical Novel - Veni Cooper-Mathieson (b. 1867). (The Truth-Seeker Pub. Co., 1914)
Allegorical novel. Presents a future eutopian Australia based on religion.
Keywords: Female author

Angel Island - Inez Haynes Gillmore (1873-1970) (Phillips Pub. Co., 1913)
Isolated island with shipwrecked men showing the range of male attitudes toward innocent winged-women. The men capture some of the women and cut their wings off and clip them every six months so that they cannot grow back. Girl children are born with wings, and the men plan to cut theirs off when they reach adulthood. The women revolt and win. A boy with wings is born.
1913 Gillmore, Inez Haynes (1873-1970). Angel Island. Illus. John Rae. New York: Phillips Pub. Co. Rpt. New York: Holt, 1914; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 10-90; New York: Arno Press, 1978; and New York: New American Library, 1988. U.K. ed. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Female author; US author

"Bee Wise" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1913)
A group of women establish two communities, Beewise and Herways, which provide an economic base for transforming lives.
Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 226-34; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 211-19.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Court of Infant Relations" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1913)
The Court of Infant Relations is an institution established in a future eutopia to protect the rights of children and ensure that parents are adequately trained in childcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

1960 (A Retrospect) - James [Scott] Marshall; Margaret Scott Marshall (J.F. Rowny Press, 1912)
Apartheid as a utopia with problems, but those problems are not related to the racial separation.
Also entitled World of Tomorrow. 3rd ed. Chico, CA: Author, 1954. First published in the Natal Advertiser (South Africa) (1912).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; South African author; US author

“The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away” - Margaret McMillan (1860-1931) (The Labour Leader, 1912)
A brief eutopia depicting healthy young girls in a future where children are fed right, get good health care, and learn how to correctly care for themselves. The author includes one-paragraph exhortation to the Labour Party saying that it needs to learn what needs to be done to produce the eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

The Downfall of Grabbum: An Ulster Fable - [Adela Elizabeth] [Orpen] (1855-1928) (R. Carswell & Son, 1912)
Some satire, but the novel ends with a eutopia of peace and harmony brought about by forensic phrenology or reading the bumps on the heads of individuals.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"A Flight to Freedom" - [Chancey Corey] [Brainerd] (1874-1922); [Edith Rathbone Jacobs] [Brainerd] (885-1922) (Munsey's Magazine 47.2 (May 1912), 1912)
Two couples escape to the countryside where they create a new Eden.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Forecast" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1858-1919) (The Englishman and Other Poems, 1912)
Eutopian poem. World peace, eugenics, knowledge.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Freed" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
Eutopia brought about by the loss of memory of the past and the disappearance of legal records and most books, except in the sciences. Humanity then recreates itself, establishes a world language and frees women to become full participants in the creation of knowledge. Women chose to limit the number of children to the number that could be supported.
Keywords: Female author; US author