"Vision of the Paradise of Female Patriotism" - Clarissa, a Lady of this City [pseud.] (The United States Magazine, A Repository of History, Politics and Literature (Philadelphia, PA), 1779)
A woman daydreaming by her window in Philadelphia is visited by the male, or at least that is the pronoun used, “angel of the paradise of female patriotism,” who urges her to visit this paradise, which requires an apparently dangerous trek over a mountain. On her arrival, she finds a garden where women from all eras, mostly in separate areas, live. Although some have already arrived, a separate hill is reserved for women from the thirteen colonies, and among the women who will reside there will be those who opposed the revolution but have seen their error and become patriotic Americans.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Munster Village - [Mary] [Hamilton] (1739-1816) (Ptd. for Robson and Co.; Walter; and Robinson, 1778)
Eutopian academic retreat. Education for women, including in the sciences.
Rpt. Dublin, Ireland: Ptd. by Peter Hoey, 1779; and London: Pandora, 1987.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"The Hill of Science. A Vision" - [Anna Laetitia] [Barbauld] (1743-1825) (Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose, 1773)
Allegorical dream of a hill topped by the Temple of Truth with various people trying to reach the top and mostly falling by the wayside. Entry is through the Gate of Languages. Application does the best.
Rpt. (Belfast, Northern Ireland: Ptd. by James Magee, 1774), 14-19; (London: J. Johnson, 1775), 27-35; (London: J. Johnson, 1792), 27-35; and in her The Works of Anna Laetitia Barbauld with a Memoir By Lucy Aikin. 2 vols. (London: Ptd. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1825), 2: 163-70; rpt. (London: Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1996), 2: 163-70. Rpt. in The American Museum, or Universal Magazine 11.3 (March 1792): 82-84; and the Impartial Gazetteer, and Saturday Evening Post 6.265 (June 8, 1793).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government." - [Catherine] [Macaulay] (1731-91) (Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes's Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli, 1767)
Eutopia. Essay describing a formal government organization designed for Corsica, with a Senate of no more than fifty members and a house of the people of no fewer than 250 members. Generally, the Senate debates issues before the house of the people. Rotation of office; agrarian law to limit land holding. Limitations on the increase in property holding include the division of property to all male heirs on death and no dowries. Unmarried women are provided with annuities. Compare with Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s (1712-78) Constitutional Project for Corsica (Projet de constitution pour la Corse) (1763).
Rpt. in her Political Writings. Ed. Max Skjönsberg (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2023), 103-108, with an editorial introduction on 86-88. 2nd ed. as “Short Sketch, &c Addressed to Signior Paoli. The Second Edition with Two Letters One From an American Gentleman to the Author Which Contain some Comments on Her Sketch of the Democratic Form of Government and the Author’s Answer.” In her Loose Remarks on Certain Positions to be Found in Mr. Hobbes’s Philosophical Rudiments of Government and Society. With a Short Sketch of a Democratical Form of Government, In a Letter to Signior Paoli (London: Ptd. for W. Johnston, T. Davies, E. and C. Dilly, J. Allmon, Robinson and Roberts, and T. Cadell, 1769), 19-28.
Keywords: English author; Female author

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

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

The Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo: A Pre-Adamitical History. Interspersed with a great Number of remarkable Occurrences, which happened, and may again happen, to several Empires, Kingdoms, Republicks, and particular Great Men. With some Account of the Religion, Laws, Customs, and Policies of those Times - [Eliza Fowler] [Haywood] (1693-1756) (S. Baker, 1736)
Described as about the world before Adam and purported to have been translated from the Chinese. Ijaveo, near the South Pole, is described as having a good climate, little work, a long life, and a wise king. The King educates his daughter to be an excellent monarch, which she is for seven years. Then the novel stresses her trials and tribulations.
Rpt. as The Unfortunate Princess: Life and surprizing Adventures of the Princess of Ijaveo; Intersprs’d with several curious and entertaining Novels, 1741; and as Adventures of Eovaai, Princess of Ijaveo. New York: Garland, 1972, with an “Introduction” (5-13) by Josephine Grieder
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

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

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

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

A Serious Proposal To the Ladies, For the Advancement of their true and greatest Interest - [Mary] [Astell] (1668-1731) (Ptd. for K. Wilkin, 1694)
Eutopia. An essay suggesting the establishment of an institution where women would be able to live and work independently of men. See also her non-utopian A Serious Proposal to the Ladies. Part II: Wherein a Method is offer'd for the Improvement of their Minds. London: Ptd. for Richard Wilkin, 1697. Rpt. in A Serious Proposal To the Ladies (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 45-162; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 67-196.
4th ed of 1701 rpt. without the subtitle (New York: Source Book Press, 1970), 1-43; and in A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I & II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 3-65. [2nd ed. enl.] as A Serious Proposal to the Ladies Parts I and II. Ed. Patricia Springborg (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Literary Texts, 2002), 49-126.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Oroonoko: or, The Royal Slave. A True History - Mrs. A[phra] Behn (1640-89) (Ptd. for Will Canning, 1688)
Eutopia depicting a naturally good man. See Susan B. Iwanisziw, Oroonoko: Adaptations and Offshoots. Aldershot, Eng.: Ashgate, 2006 for nine works responding to Oroonoko.
Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Montague Summers. 6 vols. (London: William Heinemann, 1915), 5: 125-208; Shorter Novels: Seventeenth Century. Ed. Philip Henderson (London: J.M. Dent, 1967), 145-224; and in The Works of Aphra Behn. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering/Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995), 3: 50-119.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Golden Age. A Paraphrase on a Translation out of French" - Aphra Behn (1640-89) (Poems Upon Several Occasions: With a Voyage to the Island of Love, 1684)
Eutopia. Poem about the Golden Age adapted from the poem Aminta (1573) by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544-95).
Rpt. in The Works of Aphra Behn. 4 vols. Ed. Janet Todd (London: William Pickering, 1992), 1: 30-35.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“Appendix to the Grounds of Natural Philosophy" - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) (In her Grounds of Natural Philosophy: Divided into Thirteen Parts: With an Appendix Containing Five Parts. The Second Edition, much altered from the First, which went under the Name of Philosophical and Physical Opinions. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle, 1668)
Throughout the “Appendix” Cavendish presents two parts of her mind arguing about a number of issues, including in Parts III and IV (265-309), the nature of happy and unhappy worlds and of regular and irregular worlds and, in doing so, develops some suggestions of eutopia and dystopia.
Rpt. as by Margaret Lucas Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle, Grounds of Natural Philosophy (West Cornwall, CT: Locust Hill Press, 1996), 237-311.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Convent of Pleasure. In her Plays. Never Before Printed. Written By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, The Duchess of Newcastle - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) (Ptd. by A. Maxwell, 1668)
A rich woman creates a eutopian all-female community on her estate.
Rpt. separately ed. Jennifer Rowsell. Oxford, Eng.: Seventeenth Century Press, 1995; in The Convent of Pleasure and Other Plays. Ed. Anne Shaver (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1999), 217-47;and in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 97-135.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) (Part IV of her Observations Upon Experimental Philosophy, 1666)
World attached to Earth at the Pole. Various animals (bears, foxes, geese, etc.) with human characteristics. The eutopia is a small part of an allegory. Monarchy, religion, few laws. Peaceable world because it has only one religion, one language, and one government.
First separate publication London: Ptd. By A. Maxwell, 1668. Rpt. in The Description of a <st1:place w:st="on">New World</st1:place> Called The Blazing World and Other Writings. Ed. Kate Lilley (London: William Pickering, 1992), 119-225 with notes 227-230; Ed. Sara H. Mendelson. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2016 with footnotes by the editor, an Introduction by the editor (9-49), a chronology (51-52), and a note on the text (53); in Restoration and Augustan British Utopias. Ed. Gregory Claeys (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000), 53-114; in Paper Bodies: A Margaret Cavendish Reader. Ed. Sylvia Bowerbank and Sara Mendelson (Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2000), 151-251; and in Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, Political Writings. Ed. Susan James (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 1-109. See also The Description of a New World Called The Blazing World By the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and Excellent Princesse, the Duchess of Newcastle, Margaret Cavendish. An Illuminated Edition. Illus. in color by Rebekka Dunlap. Np: Beehive Books, 2020, with “Any Mortal Creator. A Foreword” by Brooke Bolander (i-iv), “A Blazing Life. The Invention of Margaret Cavendish” by James Fitzmaurice (101-111), and “A Note on the Text Used Here and on the Early Publishing History of A Blazing World” (112).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A Country-life" - Katherine [Fowler] Philips (1631-64) (Poems By the most deservedly Admired Mrs. Katherine Philips The Matchless Orinda. To Which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, Tragedies. With several other Translations out of French, 1664)
Life in the country as eutopia.
Rpt. (London: Ptd. by J.M., 1667), 88-91; (London: Ptd. by T.N., 1678), 88-91; and (London: Ptd. by Jacob Tonson, 1710), 111-14. An unauthorized edition of her poems was published as Poems by the incomparable Mrs. K.P. London: Ptd, for J.G. for Rich. Marriott, 1664 and withdrawn after a few days, with this poem on pages 177-82 [Wing 286:08]. The differences are minimal.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Inventory of Judgements Commonwealth, the Author cares not in what World it is established" - [Margaret] [Cavendish] Duchess of Newcastle (1623?-74) (The Worlds Olio, 1655)
Eutopia. The author provides something close to a constitution for a monarchical system detailing the relations between the King and the people and relations among the people.
2nd ed. (London: A. Maxwell, 1671), 399-412. Rpt. in The Utopia Reader. Ed. Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower Sargent (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 128-37; 2nd ed. (New York: New York University Press, 2017), 145-54.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Twelve Humble Proposals To the Supreme Governours of the three Nations now assembled at Westminister concerning The Propagation of the Gospel, The New modling of the Universities, The Reformation of the Laws, The Supply of the necessities of the poor; And many other things of great moment, which may conduce to the honour of God, and the comfort and joy of his people. By M[ary] R[ande] an admirer and adorer of the good providence of God, in making such happy changes in these Nations - [Mary] [Cary] (fl. 1636-53) (Ptd. by Henry Hills, for R.C. and are to be sold by Giles Calvert, 1653)
A reform tract based on the assumption that Christ is to return soon. Generally, rule well but with a list of specifics. See also 1651 Cary.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Little Horns Doom & Downfall: Or A Scripture-Prophesie of King James, and King Charles, and of this present Parliament, unfolded. Wherein it appeares, that the late Tragedies that have bin acted upon the Scene of these three Nations: and particularly, the late Kings doom and death, was so long ago, as by Daniel pred-eclared. And What the issue of all will be, is also discovered; which followes in the Second Part. - M[ary] Cary (fl. 1636-53) (Ptd. for the Author, 1651)
Fifth Monarchist eutopia. Description in some detail of life as it will be lived during the millennium. The Little Horn is Charles I (1600-49). See also 1653 Cary. Fifth Monarchists believed, based on Daniel 2:44, that after the first four stages of history, the Babylonian, Persian, Greek, and Roman, there would be a thousand year reign of the “son of man” followed by the physical return of Christ. Female author.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Countess of Montgomeries Urania - Lady Mary Wroath (ca. 1586-ca. 1640) (Ptd. for Ioh Marriott and Iohn G. Frismand, 1621)
A wide-ranging romance set in an Arcadia. This is the first known original prose fiction by an English woman and one of the main concerns of the book is gender relations. Female author.
Rpt. as The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Binghamton, NY: Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 1995 with a “Critical Introduction” (xv-civ) and a “Textual Introduction” (cv-cxx). A continuation still in manuscript was published as The Second Part of the Countess of Montgomery’s Urania. Ed. Josephine A. Roberts. Completed by Suzanne Gosset and Janel Mueller. Tempe: Renaissance English Text Society in conjunction with Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1999 with a “Textual Introduction” (xvii-xliv), “Textual Notes” (419-71), “Commentary” (473-550), “Genealogical Tables” (552-53), an “Index of Characters in Part Two” (555-73), and an “Index of Places in Part Two” (574-75). A volume containing parts of both volumes was published as The Countess of Montgomery’s Urania (Abridged). Ed. Mary Ellen Lamb Tempe: ACMRS (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2011 with an “Introduction” by the editor (1-38), an “Episode List” (255-64), an “Index of Characters” (265-78), and “Family Relationships” (279).
Keywords: English author; Female author

"A Description of Cooke-ham" - Aemilia [Bassano] Lanyer (1569-1645) (Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum, 1611)
An English country house as a eutopia with much of the emphasis on the grounds surrounding the house.
Rpt. as The Poems of Aemilia Lanyer. Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum. Ed. Susanne Woods (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993), 130-38.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“The maner of her Wyll, and what she left to London, and all those in it: at her departing” - Isabella Whitney (b. 1545?-1578? fl. 1566–1573)73) (A sweet Nosegay, or Pleasant Posye: contayning a hundred and ten Phylosophicall Flowers, 1573)
The poem describes in detail a London that is prosperous, clean, and safe.
Rpt. in The Floures of Philosophie (1572) by Hugh Plat and A Sweet Nosegay (1573) and The Copy of a Letter (1567) by Isabella Whitney (Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1982), unpaged; in Michael David Felker, “The Poems of Isabella Whitney: A Critical Edition.” Dissertation. Texas Tech University, 1990: 99-112 with “Notes on the Poem” (160-68); and in Isabella Whitney, Mary Sidney and Aemilia Lanyer: Renaissance Women Poets. Ed. Danielle Clarke (London: Penguin Books, 2000), 19-28 with “Notes” (291-98).
Keywords: English author; Female author