@booklet {217, title = {The Demetrian}, year = {1907}, note = {

UK ed. entitled\ The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.

}, month = {1907}, pages = {315 pp.}, publisher = {Brentano{\textquoteright}s}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

Romance and adventure set in a collectivist eutopia with problems in 2004. All land owned by the state. No city versus country division; people changed residences from time to time and do physical as well as mental labor. Classical Greek culture plus Christianity. Political parties organized around principles with the main parties being the conservatives who support the current system and the radicals who want to reestablish private property. Eugenics. The novel focuses on the love between a man and a woman who had been \“selected\” to marry someone chosen by the Cult of Demeter, the consequences of which brought about violence and almost a revolution. The author also wrote Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not, What It Is, and How It May Come. Ed. Florence Kelly. New York: Longman, Green, 1910. In the section \“What Socialism Is\” (202-411) describes in detail the utopia that socialism could become including a lengthy discussion of the Farm Colonies (263-277) that play an important role in Demetrian. The author was a lawyer who spent most of his life in Europe and was, at his death, Lecturer on Municipal Government at Columbia University. Shortly before his death, he was planning to join Upton Sinclair\’s (1878-1968) Helicon Hall community in New Jersey. The Penn State copy includes a photocopy of an excerpt from the chapter on Kelly in James Gilbert, \“Edmond Kelly and the Socialism of Order.\” Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 (Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 125-158, 301-303.

}, keywords = {Male author, US author}, author = {[Edmond] [Kelly] (1851-1909)} }