@booklet {8006, title = {"The Passing of Niagara"}, howpublished = {The Independent}, volume = { 49.2556 }, year = {1897}, month = {November 25, 1897}, pages = {3-4}, abstract = {

Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910)} } @booklet {7509, title = {"Berrytown"}, howpublished = {Lippincott{\textquoteright}s Magazine (Philadelphia, PA)}, volume = {11-12}, year = {1873}, note = {

Rpt. as \"Kitty\&$\#$39;s Choice, a Story of Berrytown.\" In her Kitty\&$\#$39;s Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.

}, month = {April - July 1873}, pages = {400-11; 579-87; 697-707; 35-48}, abstract = {

Berrytown is described as a eutopia in which all contemporary reforms are being tried. The story has relatively little to do with these reforms but explores the role of women both traditionally and in the eutopia.

}, keywords = {Female author, US author}, author = {Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910)} }