@booklet {178, title = {"Sultana{\textquoteright}s Dream"}, howpublished = {The Indian Ladies{\textquoteright} Magazine (Madras, India)}, volume = { 5.3 }, year = {1905}, note = {

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

}, month = {September 1905}, pages = {82-86}, abstract = {

\“Sultana\’s Dream\” is a dream of Ladyland, which is a country of women brought about through education for women. Her Padmarag (Bengali 1924/English 2005) is mostly concerned with the conditions of women in India, but central to the novel is a community of women established by one woman to provide refuge for women, education for girls, and care for sick and poor women. The Essential Rokeya: Selected Works of Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932). Ed. Mohammed Quayum. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2013 translates and reprints other stories and essays by Hossain, including some essays on women\’s rights.

}, keywords = {Female author, Indian author}, author = {Mrs. R[okeya] S[akhawat] Hossan [Hossain] (1880-1932)} }