In the Year One (A.D. 1888) of Home Rule de jure: A Drive in the West of Ireland. Is It Possible? Is It Probable? (W.H. Allen/William McGee, 1886)
Anti-home rule dystopia.

Inquirendo Island - [William James] [Roe] (1843-1915) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1886)
Satire on science and the certainties of mathematics presented through the device of presenting an island that worships the god Mathematics.
3rd ed. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1892.
Keywords: Male author; US author

John Bull's Divorce Suit (Richard Amer, 1886)
A satire on Gladstone's Home Rule Bill. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was Prime Minister of Great Britain four times between 1868 and 1892.

The Key of Industrial Co-operative Government - [Henry Francis] [Allen] (The Author, 1886)
Eutopia. Detailed exposition of a cooperative system. See also 1891 Allen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Locksley Hall Sixty Years After" - Alfred Tennyson (1809-92) (Locksley Hall Sixty Years After Etc., 1886)
One section of the poem (lines 155-74 in the Ricks edition) has the future of 1842 Tennyson facing overpopulation and the renewal of war.
Rpt. "Locksley Hall Sixty Years After."  Critical ed. in The Poems of Tennyson in three volumes. Second Edition Incorporating the Trinity College Manuscript. Ed. Christopher Ricks (London: Longman 1987), III: 148-59, with an introductory note (148-49) and textual notes as footnotes; and in Tennyson’s Poetry. 2nd ed. Ed. Robert W. Hill, Jr. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1999), 551-61.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Newry Bridge or Ireland in 1887 (William Blackwood and Sons, 1886)
Standard anti-home rule dystopia.
Rpt. from the St. James Gazette, a daily newspaper.

The Next 'Ninety-Three or Crown, Commune and Colony. Told in a Citizen's Diary - W. A. Watlock (The Leadenhall Press, 1886)
Anti-socialist dystopia.

Notes from Another World - Lord Granville [Armyne] Gordon (1856-1907) (Remington & Co Publishers, 1886)
A loosely connected stories sent back to a living person from one recently deceased and getting used to living in the underworld, which has heavenly and hellish subdivisions. Strongly influenced by Brave fra Helvede/Letters From Hell (1866) by the Danish author Valdemar Adolph Thisted (1815-1887), which was translated into English in 1866 and 1884.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Opening and Proceedings of the Irish Parliament: Two Visions - [G. H.] [Moore] (Reeves & Turner, 1886)
The first vision "Vision I. Ireland's New Parliament, 1887. (By the Dark Seer)" (3-12) is the standard attack on the Irish, and their inability to govern themselves (neither eutopian nor dystopian). The second vision "Vision II. The Irish Legislative Body, 1894. (By the Bright Seer)" (13-22) depicts the Irish eutopia brought about by Home Rule. Ireland remains linked to Britain but rules itself. Land is locally owned, and agriculture is good. There is good social order and little crime and the population is growing. There is no religious conflict.

Quintura; Its Singular People and Remarkable Customs - Joseph Carne-Ross, ed. [written by] (1844-1911) (John and Robert Maxwell, 1886)
Flawed utopia. Rational, egalitarian eutopia that has gone too far and rejected emotion. Stress on technology, health, and cleanliness. Hospitalization for drunkenness and illiteracy; police are also physicians. Intellectual women, who are all narrow-hipped, rejected child-bearing; men show an atavistic tendency to prefer unintellectual women, imported from outside, who will bear children.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 3-55. Editor's notes, 1, 391.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Reached at Last: A Romance of Nineteenth Century Science Chivalrous Endurance and Perseverance With a Sequel - R. H. Cutter (Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, 1886)
A simple, Christian, lost race eutopia in the North (called a utopia in the book). No real government; the people simply follow the moral laws of the Bible. The novel is mostly adventure; some of it, but not all, is designed as a boy's adventure book.

A Romance of Two Worlds - [Mary "Minnie"] [MacKay] (1855-1924) (Richard Bentley, 1886)
While the novel is mostly romance and spiritualism, it includes a tour of the solar system. Earth is the only planet where people doubt God. On Saturn people can talk with spirits, sickness and old age do not exist, and death is simply going to sleep. Venus is one great garden, and everyone is inspired by Nature and Art. Jupiter is an electrical civilization with everything done by electricity and part of the book is about Christ as an electrical being. "The Electric Creed" is on pages 229-44.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1976; and Alhambra, CA: Borden Publishing Co., 1986. New and rev. ed. London: Methuen, 1896 has an Appendix of letters received commenting on the book (326-38) and a Postscript (358-59) commenting on the discovery of what she calls the Röntgen Ray (X-Ray).
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Siege of Bodike: A Prophecy of Ireland's Future - Edward Lester (1831-1905) (John Heywood, 1886)
An anti-Home Rule tale of the future, but one that is sympathetic to Ireland's problems. The "Severance of Union Act" is passed and then repealed. The new regime established gives considerable power to localities, with each having a local board to "regulate tariffs, rents, and all technical and local matters" (137). More police. Absentee landlords heavily taxed. Money invested in improving agriculture, industry, and infrastructure. Education is improved, and a Roman Catholic university of quality is established, so that clergy will be better educated. Censorship is imposed as a means of improving education. Royalty visits regularly.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Utopia" - John M. Harvey (Progress: A Monthly Magazine, 1886)
Poem describing a lovers eutopia. Some background of the dystopian outer world.
Keywords: Male author

Voices from Many Hill Tops, Echoes from Many Valleys, or the Experiences of Spirits Eon and Eona, In Earth Life and Spirit Spheres, In Ages Past, In the Long, Long Ago, And their Many Incarnations in Earth Life, And On Other Worlds, Given Through the Sun Angels' Order of Light - [John B.] [Fayette] (1850?-1927) (Press Springfield Printing Company, 1886)
Mostly set in the past, but includes a number of eutopias on various planets. For example, one is a primitive Eden called Harmona. Spiritualism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Was it only a Dream?" - An Old Pauper [pseud.] (Our Commonwealth (Adelaide, SA, Australia), 1886)
Letter to the editor describing an agrarian eutopia and comparing it to the contemporary world.
Keywords: Australian author

After London; or, Wild England In Two Parts. Part I.--The Relapse into Barbarism. Part II.--Wild England - [John] Richard Jefferies (1848-87) (Cassell and Company, 1885)
aeturn to barbarianism is initially dystopian, with slavery, ignorance, and continuing warfare, but a strong leader brings unity and the possibility of eutopia.
Rpt. London: Cassell and Company, 1886; London: Duckworth, 1905; New York: Arno Press, 1975; Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1980; and ed. Mark Frost (Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press, 2017 with an “Introduction” (vii-l), Jefferies “The Great Snow (fragment 1876)” (194-98), and Jefferies, “[‘Alone in London’] (Untitled fragment, undated MS, British Library, Add. MSS 58817), which was originally published in the Richard Jefferies Society Journal 1 (1992): 2-3 (199-201). Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Part II, Chapters XXII-XXIX rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 148-58. Most reprints have the title as After London; or, Wild England.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Co-operation of Land, Labour, and Capital - W[illiam] L[ee] Rees (1836-1912) (Upton & Co, 1885)
Eutopia brought about through cooperation and the joint stock principle. Argues for the unity of interests of producers, consumers, and capitalists. The system produces general affluence, cheaper food and other commodities, and morals improve as poverty disappears. Growth in population. See also his From Poverty to Plenty; or, The Labour Question Solved. London: Wyman & Sons, 1888 (ATL), which is a study of the problem of poverty, an analysis of alternative solutions, and a suggestion that cooperation will be the best of these.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Fall of the Great Republic - [Abner] [Hitchcock] (1851-1936) (Roberts Brothers, 1885)
Standard anti-socialist dystopia set in the U.S. The importation of socialist ideas was a central problem, but this was made worse by Irish immigration. The U.S. collapses followed by defeat in a war with Europe. An Appendix (207-26) presents documents intended to show the reality of the danger to the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fool Killer - [Edward D.] [Coxe] (American Publishers' Association, 1885)
Detailed eutopia stressing cleanliness, honesty, high technology, and workers and capitalists working together.
Keywords: Male author

The Great Bread Riots and What Came of Fair Trade - [John] S[aint] L[oe] Strachey (1860-1927) (J.W. Arrowsmith, 1885)
Dystopia brought about by protective tariffs.
Serialized in The Daily Mail (1885). Rpt. with minor revisions and with the author's name as J. St. Loe Strachey as The Great Bread Riots: A Political Romance. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1903.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Statesman. A Few Leaves From the History of Antipodea Anno Domini 3000 - [Joseph Broadbent] [Holmes] (Edward Lee, Steam Machine Printer, 1885)
Detailed conservative eutopia brought about by a single leader. No votes for women. English the world language and Christianity the world religion. Australia inhabited only by Anglo-Saxons.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Modern Daedalus - Tom [Thomas] Greer (1846/7-1904) (Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh, 1885)
An Irishman builds an airplane and wins independence for Ireland. There is only the vaguest suggestion of a eutopia beyond independence.
Rpt. London: Griffith Farran, Okedean & Welsh/New York: E.P. Dutton, [1887]; and New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Keywords: English author; Irish author; Male author

The New Democracy; A Fragment of Caucusian History (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1885)
Lost race on an island called Caucusia. Gender equality, which is presented positively. Generally negative commentary on democracy. The Queen is a puppet operated by machinery; the upper house (the nobility) has no power; the lower house is controlled by an authoritarian party.

A New Moral World, and a New State of Society - James Casey (Author, 1885)
Eutopia founded on the ideas of Robert Owen (1771-1858). Money abolished. Industrial colleges are the basis of the new society.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Utopia, or England in 1985. A Lecture delivered in the Town Hall, Birmingham, on Sunday February 8th, 1885 - Rev. W[illiam] Tuckwell (1829-1919) (Birmingham Sunday Lecture Society, 1885)
Eutopia. Village society with trained farmers and all land owned by the state and rented to farmers based on their qualifications.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-Five; or 'When There's a Will, There's a Way'" - Debenham, L (Drama for the Drawing Room, 1885)
Satire with a woman Prime Minister and women police, barristers, and professors. The men revolt. The story suggests that there should be gender equality except in politics.

Perseverance Island or the Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century - Douglas Frazar (1836-96) (Lee and Shepard, 1885)
A Robinsonade in which the shipwrecked hero uses all the scientific advancements of the nineteenth century to produce a one man industrial island, and the book gives details of each discovery and invention, including a submarine, a steam yacht, gunpowder and a cannon. The Preface begins, “In all works of the Robinson Crusoe type, the wreck is always near at hand, the powder dry and preserved, and the days for rafting the same ashore calm and pleasant. This unfortunate had no such accessories.”
Rpt. London: Blackie & Son, 1902.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Radical Nightmare or, England Forty Years Hence - An Ex M.P. [pseud.] (Field and Tuer, 1885)
Anti-socialist dystopia. Corruption. Many police needed to enforce the law. People are dull, physically weak, and poor and everything is dirty.

Rational Communism. The Present and the Future Republic of North America - [Alonzo] [Van Deusen] (The Social Science Publishing Company, 1885)
Eutopia. All works of strictly public character owned by the government. Small communities. Very detailed.
Rpt. Np: General Books, 2009.
Keywords: Male author

The Things which I Saw in a Dream (The Biddeford Journal Office, 1885)
Temperance tract in fictional form. A eutopia becomes a dystopia due to drink The people appoint a committee, headed by a distiller, to solve the problem, but things only get worse. The city is divided by a large wall with the population choosing whether to live with or without alcohol. The city with prohibition becomes again the peaceful, prosperous place it had once been. The city with alcohol completely disintegrates and the starving inhabitants beg to be allowed back.

An Agnostic's Progress from the Known to the Unknown - [Catherine Helen] [Spence] (1825-1910) (Williams and Norgate, 1884)
Allegory which gives the impression of being a standard religious allegory, but it is written from the point of view of an agnostic. The City of Superstition, which believers call the City of Faith while disputing with those who believe differently, is home to the religion of Fear. The other city visited is Vanity Fair. Ends in the Land of Beulah, a eutopia of rest just before death, although it was all a dream. See also 1879 and 1889-90 Spence.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

Appendix to Sociology or The Scientific Reconstruction of Society, government and Property. Upon Principles of The individuality or separateness of ownership, the equality or equalness in quantity and perpetuity or entailment of the private ownership of life, manhood, government, the Homestead and the whole product of labor, by organizing all nations into states and townships of Self-Governed Homestead Democracies, Self-employed in farming and mechanism combined, giving all the liberty and happiness to be found on earth - Lewis Masquerier (b. 1802) (Lewis Masquerier, 1884)
Eutopia as outlined in the title. A note (28-29) traces the evolution of Masquerier's thought and says that he was influenced by George Henry Evans (1805-56). See also 1847 and 1877 Masquerier and his Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery; Classified Principles and Elements of Rights and Wrongs; Diagrams of Township and Village, and Revolutionary Hymns. New York: Ptd. by J.A. Lant, 1877 (DLC).
Rpt. in his Sociology. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ballymuckbeg. A Tale of Eighty Years Hence - [Edwin] [Hamilton] (1849-1910) (Griffith, Farran & Co./William McGee, 1884)
Satire. Under Home Rule Ireland has divided into two parts at a canal dug between Dublin and Galway. Above the canal retains the name Ireland; below it is Mud Island. Dublin is also divided into Dublin and Ballymuckbeg. England and Mud Island are at war. No English are allowed in Ballymuckbeg without surrendering all their property. English is forbidden except for begging.
2nd ed. London: Griffith, Farran & Co./Dublin, Ireland: William McGee, 1885. Another ed. London: Griffin & Farran, 1892 is recorded in Stephen J. Brown, SJ. Ireland in Fiction: A Guide to Irish Novels, Tales, Romances, and Folk-lore (Dublin: Maunsel and Co., 1919), 128, where it is credited to Hamilton, but it cannot be found.
Keywords: Male author

Bertha: A Romance of Easter-tide - W[illiam Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) (J. Burns, 1884)
A novel of spiritualism that includes a chapter (292-302) describing a proposed spiritualist intentional community planned for Texas. It will be democratic and cooperative.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Bohemian Society - Lydia [Brown] Leavitt (Times Printing and Publishing Co, 1884)
Begins with a simple, isolated, religious, small-town eutopia, which is ruined by contact with the modern world.
Rpt. Toronto, ON, Canada: Hunter, Rose, 1885.
Keywords: Canadian author; Female author

"The Child of the Phalanstery" - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) (Belgravia, 1884)
Satire directed at Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Presents a Fourierist phalanx in dystopian terms.
Rpt. in The New York Times (August 24, 1884): 10; in his Strange Stories (London: Chatto and Windus, 1884), 301-20; in his Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and An Intermezzo: Being Selected Stories (London: Grant Richards, 1899), 45-64; in his The Backslider (New York/London: Lewis Scribner, 1901), 313-42; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 92-107.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Jamaican author; Male author; US author

The Conquest: A Story of the Present, and Future, Real and Ideal. This Story Delineates in Part the Greatest Conception of the Age, and is the Most Important Work of Fiction Since "Uncle Tom's Cabin" - O[rson] H[arold] Truman (O.H. Truman, 1884)
Religious transformation and political organization achieve eutopia. Temperance. Enfranchisement of women. Wages sufficient for a decent life. One language. See also his The Seventh Angel’s Blast and Christian Government. A Lecture. Fairfield, NB: Author, 1903.
[Rev. ed.] without the second subtitle. La Crosse, KS: O.H. Truman, [1909].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coöperative Commonwealth in its Outlines. An Exposition of Modern Socialism - Laurence Gronlund (1846-99) (Lee and Shepard/Charles T. Dillingham, 1884)
Detailed essay picturing a functioning cooperative society. Related works by Gronlund include Our Destiny: The Influence of Socialism on Morals and Religion. An Essay in Ethics. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1891; originally published in The Nationalist (Boston, MA) 2.4 - 3.2 (March - September 1890): 2.4 - 8 [2. 4 - 6 (March - May) are separately paged as 1-65]; 2.7 - 3.2 (June - September): 239-62, 304-28; 55-72, 123-44. The New Economy: A Peaceable Solution of the Social Problem. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898; and “Socializing a State.” In Three in One: A Trinity of Arguments on Socialism (Chicago: The Social Democracy, [1898?]), 3-22
Rpt. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press, 1965 with an “Introduction” (vii-xxvi) by Stow Persons and Gronlund’s “Introduction to the Revised Edition, 1890” (3-4). Rev. and enl. ed. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1890. Authorized U.K. ed. as The Coöperative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Modern Socialism. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1886. 1890 ed. rpt. as The Coöperative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Modern Socialism. 3rd ed. Ed. George Bernard Shaw. London: William Reeves, [1897]. Gronlund repudiated this edition.
Keywords: Danish author; Male author; US author

Darkness and Dawn; The Peaceful Birth of a New Age (Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1884)
Eutopia. Christian cooperative commonwealth. All work but there is no night work, no child labor, and factories are concerned with the health of their workers. Homes provided for everyone. No class system.

Detroit of the Future - Lyman E. Stowe (Poetical Drifts of Thought or, Problems of Progress. Treating Upon the Mistakes of the Church--The Mistakes of the Atheist Infidel and Materialist--God Not the Maker of the Universe--Progress the Evidence of a Merciful, But Not All Powerful, God. Reconciliation of Science and Christianity. The Formation of a Solar System--Evolution--Human Progress--Possibilities of the Future--Including Spicy Explanatory Matter in Prose. Embellished with Nearly 200 Illustrations. Together With a Number of Fine Poems On Popular Subjects Including Sketches of the City of the Straits--Past, Present and Future, 1884)
Poem describing a eutopian Detroit of the future. There is an article on the book, Harry Massie, “Prophetic book envisions Detroit as Utopia in 2100.” Ann Arbor News (October 8, 1989): A9.
Keywords: Male author; US author

England in 1910 (Willing and Company, 1884)
Eutopia with considerable satire. Short history of a transformed society. Technologically advanced, no paupers, and no compulsory education. Home Rule in Ireland. Cremation. Limit on wealth; work for all. Every country must support its own poor, so there is much less immigration.
Also published as Glasgow in 1910. Glasgow, Scot.: Macrone and Company, 1884.

"A Factory As It Might Be" - William Morris (1834-1896) (Justice, 1884)
Depiction of an ideal factory with a garden tended by the workers, simple but beautiful buildings, and the workers doing useful work using the best machines and thus working shorter hours. The factory will also be a center of education for both its workers and any children in the area interested in its work. ​See also 1886-87, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris.
Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 130-40; rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 130-40); in his Political Writings: Contributions to Justice and Commonweal 1883-1890. Ed. Nicholas Salmon (Bristol, Eng.: Thoemmes Press, 1994), 32-35; 39-46; in A Factory As It Might Be with Colin Ward, The Factory We Never Had (Nottingham, Eng.: Mushroom Bookshop, 1994), 5-20; and in Utopia [Ed. Ross Bradshaw] (Nottingham, Eng.: Five Leaves, 2012), 34-43 with Colin Ward’s “The Factory We Never Had” on pp. 44-49.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - [Edwin Abbott] [Abbott] (1838-1926) (Seeley & Co, 1884)
Primarily an exercise in geometry using an imaginary country, but the novel includes commentaries, some satirical, on art, eugenics, religion, class, the position of women, and other contemporary issues. For a 21st century use of the idea, see Steve Tomasula, VAS: An Opera in Flatland. Barrytown, NY: Station Hill Press, 2002. A humorous comment is Anne Toole. “Secrets of Flatland.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multuiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 172-77. Others who have written sequels to Flatland include Dionys Burger, Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Space and an Expanded Universe. Trans. Cornelie J. Reinboldt. New York: Thomas J. Crowell, 1965 (Originally published in Dutch in 1957); Rudy [Rudolf von Bitter] Rucker (b. 1946), “Message Found in a Copy of Flatland.” The 57th Franz Kafka (New York: Ace Books, 1983), 224-34; and Rucker, The Sex Sphere. New York: Ace Science Fiction Books, 1983; A[lexander] K[eewatin] Dewdney, The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World. New York: Poseidon Press, 1984; and Ian Stewart, Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2001. See also 1907 Hinton and 1965 Calisher.
2nd and rev. ed. London: Seeley & Co., 1884. Rpt. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991; and illus. Frank Mayo. Norwalk, CT: The Easton Press, 1995, with an “Introduction” by Gregory Benford (ix-xxvii). See also The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions. With Introduction and Notes by Ian Stewart. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Publishing, 2002. Other recent eds. are ed. Rosemary Jann. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2006; and ed. William F. Lindgren and Thomas F. Banchoff with Notes and Commentary. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press/Washington, DC: The Mathematical Association of America, 2010.
Keywords: English author; Male author

History of the Decline and Fall of the British Empire - [Charles John] [Stone] (1837-1886) (Field & Tuer, Ye Leadenhalle Press; Simpkin, Marshall & Co.; Hamilton, Adams & Co, 1884)
Miscellaneous causes of decline of Britain. Hints at a current eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The King's Men. A Tale of Tomorrow - Robert Grant (1852-1940); John Boyle O'Reilly (1844-1890); John T[yler] Wheelwright (1856-1925); Fredric Jesup Stimson (1855-1943) (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1884)
Dystopia in which the English monarchy has been overthrown and moved to the U.S. and the aristocracy has been dispossessed. This leads to a Britain dominated by demagogues. Political struggle results in a return to a more balanced system. Mostly romance and political intrigue.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author; US author

Life and Labor in the Spirit World. Being a Description of the Localities, Employments, Surroundings, and Conditions in the Spheres. By Members of the Spirit-Band of Miss M. T. Shelhamer, Medium of the Banner of Light Public Free Circle - [Mary Theresa] [Longley] (1853-1928) (Colby and Rich, 1884)
Detailed eutopia of the spirit life which is presented as the writings from the spirit world of Ann Frances Kinsey (1856-77). Uses the language of Andrew Jackson Davis; see 1847, 1874 and 1878 Davis. Stresses gender equality, education, peace and beauty.
There is a later printing, sometimes cataloged as a second edition, with Second Thousand on the title page and the publication date of 1885, but it is otherwise identical.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Little of the Future of the North of Auckland" - [Edwin] [Fairburn] (1827-1911) (Prologue Written in 1884, 1884)
Description of the future of the area North of Auckland as a eutopia based on developing its agricultural potential. See also 1867 Fairburn. There is also a non-utopian The Ships of the Future. Being an Epilogue to The Ships of Tarshish. By "Mohoao" [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Np, [1889] (ATL).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Palingenesia; or, The Earth's New Birth - [Rev.] [Gideon Jasper Richard] [Ouseley] (1875-1906) (Hay Nisbet, 1884)
An extremely detailed eutopian picture of the City Four Square from Revelation 21:16. The text is represented as having been seen in three separate visions and parts in dreams and visions while apparently asleep.
The second volume has Palengenesia Diagrams on the cover and is composed of numerous fold-out plates and diagrams and, at the end, a few pages of designs for an altar and its furnishings. The first volume includes a list of the pages to which the material in the second volume refers.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Recognition of Friends in Heaven. Published at the Direction of the Cathedral Union, November 24th, 1884 - T. Gluyas Pascoe (Whitcombe & Tombs, 1884)
Eight page pamphlet in which two pages vaguely describe a classic "domestic" heaven where one is surrounded by friends and family.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Simiocracy; A Fragment from Future History - [Arthur Montagu] [Brookfield] (1853-1940) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1884)
Satire in which monkeys take over England, partially as a result of failures in education and partially due to political failures.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Socialist Revolution of 1888 - [Charles] [Fairfield] (Harrison and Sons, 1884)
Anti-socialist dystopia with a satirical strain that indicates weaknesses in capitalism (called individualism).
Keywords: Male author

Ten Men of Money Island, or The Primer of Finance - Seymour F[rancis] Norton (b. 1841) (Sentinel Pub. Co., 1884)
Eutopia brought about through tax reform. Possibly the most widely circulated Populist pamphlet presented as a sequel to Robert H. Cowdrey's A Tramp in Society. Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, 1891.  See the “Preface” to 1896 Flürscheim, where he says that over 500,000 copies of the  U.S.  ed. of Ten Men of Money Island had been sold. Flürscheim’s book was a response to Norton.
Rev. ed. Chicago, IL: Sentinel Pub. Co., 1891. Rpt. Chicago, IL: F.J. Schulte, [1891]; and Chicago, IL: The Schulte Pub. Co., 1895. Ariel Library Series, no. 5, June 1895 with an Appendix by Henry Seymour of the Free Currency Propaganda that criticizes Norton. Also published Girard, KS: Appeal Publishing Co., 1902; and, without the subtitle and not marked rev. ed. but with the “Appendix” (145-61) by Henry Seymour. London: William Reeves, [1895]. Bellamy Library No. 27. Parts were originally supposedly published in The Chicago Sentinel (1879) (Not found), and the first pamphlet ed. was supposedly published in 1884 (Not found), and it was serialized in the New York World that year.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia; or, The History of an Extinct Planet - Alfred Denton Cridge (1860-1922) (Winchester and Pew, printers, 1884)
Flawed utopia. Small communities of 100-300 families that own the industries of the town. National clearing house where all accounts are balanced every six months. Detailed constitution. Ends negatively in that the planet's ecology is destroyed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Way Out. Suggestions for Social Reform - Charles J[oseph] Bellamy (1852-1910) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1884)
Reform tract that uses the utopian form. Limit on profit. More equal income distribution. All need to work. Eight hour work week. Limited inheritance. No monopolies. Free legal system. No individual property in land. Free, compulsory education as part of the process of improving the political system. Improved health care. See also his 1889 An Experiment in Marriage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A World Divided. A Tale of Two Hemispheres. By An Observer in Mars, A.D. 2000” (Melbourne Punch (East Melbourne, VIC, Australia), 1884)
Satire starting with the Fenians, who succeed in splitting the world into two halves, intending that England and Ireland will be on separate halves, but they end up together. All Irish driven out of the U.S. Australia is split in two. The two halves of the world crash back together and destroy each other.
Keywords: Australian author

Aleriel; or, A Voyage to Other Worlds. A Tale - Rev. W[ladjslaw] S[omerville] Lach-Szyrma (1841-1915) (Wyman and Sons, 1883)
Eutopia. Continuation of his 1874 A Voice From Another World. See also his 1887 "Letters from the Planets." Includes a voyage around the solar system with visits to Mars and Venus (both eutopias), Earth, the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, and some of the moons of the latter two. The eutopias are both based on religion. He describes the eutopia on Venus as one of the perfection of "a future state" (i. e. heaven) and the one on Mars as "a more practical Utopia, implying the tendencies of human progress, and suggesting improvements for human society as it now exists" (viii).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Battle of Coney Island; or Free Trade Overthrown. A Scrap of History Written in 1900 - [William Elliot Smith] [Baker] (J. A. Wagenseller, 1883)
Protection had guaranteed high employment and good wages, which led to a better educated and better housed, fed, and clothed work force. Free trade was adopted by Congress and produced a depression, unemployment, and hunger. Protection is re-established, but the U.S. was weak militarily and was attacked by Yucatan, who landed on Coney Island. The American people responded, fought back, won, and thus guaranteed the eutopia possible through protection.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Battle of Moy or How Ireland Gained Her Independence 1892-1894 (Lee and Shepard, 1883)
Successful Irish revolution with a new government established modeled on the United States. Freedom of religion. All foreign owned land is taken over. According to Raymond Lincoln Kilgour, Lee and Shepard: Publishers for the People. Hamden, CT: Shoe String Press, 1965), 209, it was intended as a satire.

The Battle of Newry: or, The Result of Thirty Years' Liberal Legislation - Ulidia [pseud.] (Hodges, Figgis, and Co./Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1883)
Anti-Irish satire but with a bit more content than most that makes it at least borderline utopian. The House of Lords of Britain is abolished, and the land of the peers is confiscated. Most of the peers accept an invitation to settle in the U.S. The abolition of the House of Lords makes Home Rule in Ireland possible. Under Home Rule land is confiscated and civil war erupts. The King leads the Orange Army, which quickly defeats the Irish, and the House of Lords is re-established and everything is put right.
2nd ed. Dublin, Ireland: Hodges, Figgis, and Co./London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co. 1883.

Beyond the Gates - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883)
Heaven as a eutopia in line with the Swedish thinker Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and the American spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), who published descriptions of what he called the Summer Land in a number of books between 1847 and 1878. The Gates Ajar presents a heaven in which one is reunited with relatives and gives a glimpse of a more fulfilling life for the female protagonist. Between the Gates is the eutopia of the series in that it is explicitly a criticism of the current social order as it affects women and shows a Heaven in which women can lead fulfilling lives. The third volume, Beyond the Gates, focuses on a domineering man who is reformed in heaven. The Gates Ajar provoked considerable controversy. Attacks include J.S.W. Antidote to “The Gates Ajar”. London: Aylesbury, 1870. 2nd ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. U.S. ed. New York: G.W. Carleton, 1872; “The Gates Ajar” Critically Examined. By A Dean [pseud.]. London: Hatchards, 1871; “The Gates Ajar” Criticised and Corrected. By An Englishwoman [pseud.]. London: Geo. John Stevenson, 1872; E[dgar] Stanway Jackson, Faith or Fancy? An Examination of “The Gates Ajar”. London: Elliott Stock, 1871; Charlotte Elizabeth Tidy, The Door Was Shut: An Answer to “Gates Ajar”. London: William Macintosh, 1873; and Watching at the Gates. A Reply to “The Gates Ajar”. London: S.W. Partridge, [1871]. A defense is What Shall We Say About “The Gates Ajar”. Some Thoughts Suggested by the proposed “Antidote”. London: Elliott, [1871]. In her “Introduction.” Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), Nina Baym rejects the label utopian for the novels because “they lack the Utopian thrust toward realizable social reform” and places them in the context of spiritualism (viii). Carol Farley Kessler calls Beyond the Gates a utopia in “A Heavenly Utopia--Heaven for Women.” Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 20-42. So does Lori Duin Kelly in her “Phelps’ Religious Writings: Household Saints in a Feminist Utopia.” The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1983), 25-47.
U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Selections of Beyond the Gates rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 111-16 with an editor’s note on 104-06. The three volumes were published together as Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), with an “Introduction” by Nina Baym (vii-xxiii). The Gates Ajar is on 1-138, Beyond the Gates on 139-232, and The Gates Between on 233-340.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Buffalo Public Library in 1983” - Charles A[mmi] Cutter (1837-1903) (Library Journal, 1883)
A description of a eutopian library of the future in a wealthy Buffalo benefitting from electricity produced at Niagara Falls. The library is the center of the educational system and connected with libraries around the country.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Diothas; or, A Far Look Ahead - [John] [Macnie] (1836-1909) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1883)
Eutopia. The "Preface to the Second Edition" says it is a forecast. A pre-1888 Bellamy book set in the 96th century with a great emphasis on custom. Unlike Bellamy this eutopia includes a violent revolution in its past. Stress on morality. Religion rationalized, and the Roman Catholic Church has disappeared.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. [2nd ed.]. entitled Looking Forward; or, The Diothas. New York: [cover says London]: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890; and entitled A Far Look Ahead; or The Diothas. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1890. Both by Ismar Thiusen [pseud.].
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; US author

The Dominion in 1983 - Ralph Centennius [pseud.] (Toker and Company, 1883)
Canada as a eutopia in 1983. Fifteen provinces with a population of 93 million. No taxes. Only fifteen, unpaid Members of Parliament. Private charity. Technically advanced. The North has been settled by Caucasians. The U.S. has been defeated.
Keywords: Canadian author

The Drolleries of a Happy Island, or, Merry Utopia - [Charles Heber] [Clark] (1847-1915) (Ward, Lock, 1883)
Arcadia. Eutopia of simplicity that is disturbed by outside influences.
Rpt. beginning with a new page number and the title "Merry Utopia or The Drolleries of a Happy Island." [Table of Contents reads "The Drolleries of a Happy Island"]. In A Desperate Adventure and Other Stories. By Max Adeler [pseud.]. (London: Ward, Lock, [1886]), 1-176.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age - Mrs. H[enrietta] A[ugusta] Dugdale (ca. 1826-1918) (McCarron, Bird & Co, 1883)
Much of the novel is a criticism of the past, but it includes a detailed feminist eutopia. Stress on intelligence. Politically involved women brought about far-reaching changes. Strong family ties. Parents required to spend time each day teaching their children. Animals are well treated, and no leather is used. Advanced technology.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

"In the Wrong Paradise: An Occidental Apologue" - Andrew Lang (1844-1912) (The Fortnightly Review, 1883)
Satire in which a man is accidentally sent to the "wrong paradise". Travel through various heavens, including Native American Indian, Ancient Greek, Agnostic, and Islamic paradises plus a visit to hell. The "main occupation" of the Agnostics is "to read the poetry of George Eliot and the philosophy of Mr. J.S. Mill" (47).
Rpt. in The Living Age 160 (ns 45) (1884): 46-51; and in his In the Wrong Paradise and Other Stories (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1886), 109-35. New ed. (London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 189-), 111-35.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

King Bertie, A.D. 1900 - [Samuel Orchart] [Beeton] (1831-77); [George Rose] [Emerson]; [Mr.] [Doughty] (The Crown Pub Co., 1883)
Satire on British politics set slightly in the future plus a catalog of reforms that brings Britain from penury to wealth and peace. Introduction of paper currency. Channel tunnel. Constitutional reform with a limited monarchy. Nationalization and reclamation of the land allows Britain and Ireland to feed themselves. Immigration ends. Land given to people who will settle on it and use it. The Catholic Church gives up temporal power. Home rule for Ireland. Poem of thirty-four cantos.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Last Voyage of Lemuel Gulliver" (The World, 1883)
Satire on contemporary England in a journey to the Isle of Moralia.

The New Republic. Founded on the Natural and Inalienable Rights of Man, and Containing the Outlines of Such a Government As the Patriot Fathers Contemplated and Formulated in the Declaration of Independence, When Struggling for Liberty - E. J. Schellhous M.D. (Bacon and Company, 1883)
Essay including a detailed description of a revised political system that will bring about a better world. Stress on popular government, votes for women, publicly owned utilities, and limitations on corporations.
Also published New York: John W. Lovell & Co., 1883.
Keywords: US author

Politics and Life in Mars: A Story of a Neighbouring Planet - [Edgar Luderne] [Welch] (1856/7-1926) (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883)
Eutopia and satire on contemporary England; the main country on Mars is Ourownland, and many obvious parallels to England are pointed out. But Mars is republican; women are equal; there is a limit on personal property; and there are cooperatives owned by the workers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Society Sketches. A Visit to the Infernal Regions” - Our Very Special, Special Correspondent [pseud.] (Society (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1883)
Satire, particularly focused on the Christchurch area, in a series of short sketches in which a printer finds a paper from 1000 years in the future that reports on the visit of a reporter to Tartarus, which has undergone numerous changes. During his visit there is a revolution.

The Adventures of Halek: An Autobiographical Fragment - John H[enry] Nicholson (1838-1923) (Griffith and Farran/ E. P. Dutton, 1882)
Allegorical oriental tale set in a variety of eutopian and dystopian settings. A sequel was published as Almoni. Companion Volume to Halek. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1904. This continues the hero’s wanderings, but he finds true love at the end of the novel.
2nd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: A. J. Ross & Co., 1896. 3rd ed. as Halek. A Romance. Companion to "Almoni". Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Edwards, Dunlop, and Co., 1904.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Conscientia: or, Latter-Day Pilgrims - W[illiam] Alexander Smith (Alexander Gardner, 1882)
Allegory. The main character is Ernest Endeavour. Trip through the usual landscape with a standard set of characters. Conscientia is the goal and a eutopia. Even the air entering is heated to eliminate contaminants like "germs of Materialistic thought." The inhabitants of Conscientia include Common Sense, Industry, Solidity, True Genius, etc.
Keywords: Male author

The Dawn of the Twentieth Century. A Novel, Social and Political (Remington and Co, 1882)
Conservative eutopia with Ireland better off from having better English proprietors.

Garrison in Heaven. A Dream - William Denton (1823-83) (Mrs. E.M.F. Denton, Publisher, 1882)
The Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-79) goes to Heaven. He discovers that everyone he respects is in Hell, and admission to Heaven is based on the preference of the clergy on earth. He decides to empty Hell and reform Heaven.
Rpt. Wellesley, MA: Denton Publishing Co., 1884. U.K. ed. Liverpool, Eng.: J.J. Morse, 1890.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Little Pilgrim: In the Unseen. (For Easter)” - [Margaret] [Oliphant] (1828-97) (Macmillan’s Magazine, 1882)
Experiences after death in the first level of heaven where those arriving are introduced to their beautiful surroundings.
Rpt. with “The Little Pilgrim Goes Up Higher.” In The Little Pilgrim. Reprinted from Macmillan’s Magazine. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1882.
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The Monster Municipality; or, Gog and Magog Reformed. A Dream - [Edgar Luderne] [Welch] (1856/7-1926) (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1882)
Anti-democratic diatribe in the form of a dystopia which was brought about by rigging the electoral system so that a clear majority of radicals were elected. See also 1883 Welch.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Oahspe. A New Bible in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors. A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens of the Earth For the Past Twenty-four Thousand Years, Together with a Synopsis of the Cosmogony of the Universe; The Creation of the Planets; The Creation of Man; The Unseen Worlds; The Labor and Glory of Gods and Goddesses in the Etherean Heavens; With the New Commandments of Jehovih to Man of the Present Day. With Revelations From the Second Resurrection, Formed in Words in the Thirty-third Year of the Kosmon Era - [John Ballou] [Newbrough] (1828?-91) (Oahspe Publishing Association, 1882)
Includes a detailed eutopia presented as a holy book. Stress on education. Vegetarian. Celibacy or monogamy. Rotation of office. No constitution or by-laws. The book is the basis of Faithism, which now has believers in many countries.
2nd ed. Boston, MA: Oahpse Publishing Association, 1891, with a “Preface to Second Edition” (iv-vi), and an index, but drops the commentary. Later ed. as Oahspe. The Kosmon Revelations in the Words of Jehovih and His Angel Embassadors. A Sacred History of the Dominions of the Higher and Lower Heavens of the Earth for the Past Twenty-four Thousand Years, Being From the Submersion of the Continent of Pan in the Pacific Ocean, commonly called the Flood or Deluge, to the Kosmon Era. Also a Brief History of the Preceding Forty-five Thousand Years. Together With a Synopsis of the Cosmogony of the Universe; The Creation of the Planets; The Creation of Man; The Unseen Worlds; The Labor and Glory of Gods and Goddesses in the Etherean Heavens; With the New Commandments of Jehovih to Man of the Present Day. With Revelations From the Second Resurrection, Formed in Words in the Thirty-third Year of the Kosmon Era. Los Angeles, CA: Kosmon Press, 1935.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Utopia: Its Rise and all. A Farce (in two acts) - Kate Hope (Simpkin, Marshall & Co./W.J. Blacket, 1882)
Farce on aestheticism as a means of producing the utopian home.
Keywords: Female author

Pantaletta: A Romance of Sheheland (The American News Company, 1882)
Satire of gender relations set in the Republic of Petticotia, where the gender roles are reversed. A manly man from the outside undermines the system and marries the President.
Keywords: US author

The Revolt of Man - [Sir] [Walter] [Besant] (1836-1901) (William Blackwood & Sons, 1882)
Gender-role reversal. Women had taken political power, abolished the House of Commons, replaced the House of Lords with the House of Peeresses, abolished the monarchy, and introduced a theocracy based on rule by the ideal Perfect Woman. Men were uneducated, did most of the work while caring for their families, and generally had the attitudes traditionally assigned to women. A manly man and true love leads to the overthrow of the system, and women welcome the restoration of the right order of things.
New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1896. 9th ed (1890) rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 7-366, with a brief note by the editor (1-5). U.S. ed. New York: Henry Holt, 1882.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Seizure of the Channel Tunnel: A Tale of the Twentieth Century” - F. A. (Time: A Monthly Miscellany of Interesting and Amusing Literature, 1882)
The dystopia brought about by the defeat of Britain by France as a result of building a channel tunnel. Ireland becomes an independent republic. Gibraltar becomes a French protectorate, and Dover and the Channel Islands become part of France.

A Thousand Years Hence, Being Personal Experiences as Narrated by Nunsowe Green, Esq., F.R.A.S., F.S.S., Ex V.-P.S.S.U.D.S. (Ex Vice-President of the Shoreditch and Spitalfields Universal Discussion Society) - Nunsowe Green [pseud.] (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1882)
Eutopia. Overpopulated to the extent that the oceans have been filled in and ground transportation is not possible. Equality for women except that the state intervenes to ensure suitable marriages. Many technical advances. The Mormon church is the largest in the U.S. and expanding elsewhere.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 2: 95-311. Editor's notes, 93, 314-19.

1931; A Glance at the Twentieth Century - Henry Hartshorne (E. Claxton & Co, 1881)
Eutopia written as a projection stressing technology, general enlightenment, and democratization. Congress meets alternatively between Washington, DC and St. Louis with San Francisco to be added. Canada has joined the US as three states, and gradually the U.S. will incorporate the entire Western Hemisphere. Pollution controls. No capital punishment. No racial problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arimas - H. Peckwater A.M. (Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1881)
Satire but describes the group of islands that make up Arimas as a simple, agricultural country that is eutopian in its simplicity.

“The Boston Daily Globe Thursday Morning, January 1, 1981” (The Boston Daily Globe, 1881)
Mostly satirical stories depicting the future in one hundred years. There are comments on page 4 of the January 2 issue.

Contrasts in Spirit Life; and Recent Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in the First Five Spheres. Also a Thrilling Account of the Late President Garfield's Reception in The Spirit World. Written Through the Hand of Carrie E.S. Twing - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) (Star Publishing Co, 1881)
Domestic heaven. The five spheres are the stages that the spirit goes through after death if it is capable of becoming more and more refined. There are separate heavens for Chinese and Negroes. The spirit world also contains hospitals for sick souls. See also 1880 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. Being a History of England Between the Years 1840-1981. Written for the Use of Junior Classes in Schools by Lang-Tung, Professor of History of the Imperial University of Pekin and Tutor to Their Imperial Highnesses the Princes Sing and Hang. Translated into the English Language by YEA, Pekin, 2381 A.D. - Lang-Tung [pseud.] (F.V. White, 1881)
Satire--a degenerated England is now barbarian. Attacks on Ireland, women's rights, a republicanism.

Extracts from "The Decline and Fall of the British Empire." (To be) Published at Moscow A.D. 2080. Translated from the Russian by A. Dreamer - Ghostoff Gibbonowski [pseud.] (J. Burnet, Printer, 1881)
Dystopia. The growth of democracy undermined Great Britain, and it lost a war with Russia. The best British institutions did not get established in the colonies. In particular the failure to establish equivalents of the House of Lords, which could limit the move to extreme democracy, was important. The establishment of manhood suffrage and payment to legislators helped bring down the system. Comparisons are made to the successful aristocratic system of Russia. Tasmania is now a flourishing colony of Russia.

"The Fixed Period" - [Anthony] [Trollope] (1815-82) (Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1881)
A society is established with a voluntary fixed period for life, which is intended to produce a eutopia but problems arise as the first people reach that age. Set on an island near New Zealand.
Repub. with deletions restored. 2 vols. London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1882. Rpt. ed. R[obert] H. Super. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1990; and ed. David Skilton. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993. The Robert H. Super ed. rpt. illus. Elisa Trimby. London: Folio Society, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Great Romance - [Henry] [Honor] (Printed at the Daily Times, 1881)
Eutopia set in 2143. The focus in the eutopia is on the ability to read thoughts and its effect on behavior. Women are less able to control their thoughts than men. Crime becomes impossible. Marry young. Scientifically advanced. Much of both volumes is taken up with interplanetary travel; there is considerable material on the supposed flora and fauna of Venus including a brief description of a humanoid couple whose simple life could be considered eutopian. It is clear that a third volume was planned, but there is no evidence that it was published. In a number of articles, Alessio argues that it influenced Edward Bellamy’s popular U.S. eutopia Looking Backward (1888). Although these are remarkable volumes for their time and place, influence is doubtful.
Vol. 1 rpt. ed. Dominic Alessio. Science-Fiction Studies 20.3 (November 1993): 311-40; and Kotare: New Zealand Notes and Queries 1.1 (October 1998): 62-101. Vol. 2 rpt. ed. Dominic Alessio. Kotare: New Zealand Notes and Queries 2.1 (May 1999): 48-79. Rpt. together ed. Dominic Alessio. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Extract rpt. in Monsters in the Garden: An Anthology of Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy. Ed. Elizabeth Knox and David Larsen (Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University of Wellington Press, 2020), 53-60.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Hibernia's House: The Irish Commons. Assembled at Dublin. Extraordinary Debate. Amusing Scenes in the House. A Forecast (E.W. Allen, 1881)
A standard anti-Irish satire set in 1990.

"Housekeeping Hereafter" - J[ohn] V[an der Zee] Sears (1835-1926) (The Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1881)
Technological eutopia applied to the home. Sears was at the Brook Farm Community and wrote about his time there. See his My Friends at Brook Farm. New York: Desmond FitzGerald, Inc., 1912. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Ireland's War! Parnell Victorious. £10,000 Reward. Disappearance of the Prince of Wales (John W. Morrison, 1881)
Standard anti-Irish satire.

Land Ho!! A Conversation of 1933, on the results of the adoption of the system of "Nationalizing the Land of New Zealand," adopted in 1883 - [Alexander] [Joyce] (1840/41-1927) (F.L. Davis, 1881)
Eutopia based on Land Nationalization. Very detailed on the working of the system. See also his Land Ho! A Pamphlet Advocating the Re-purchase and Settlement of the Large Freehold Blocks.  Christchurch ,  New Zealand : Simpson & Williams, 1889 ( ATL, DU-Ho, VUW).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

A Peculiar People; or, Reality in Romance - William S[tevens] Balch (1806-87) (Henry A. Sumner & Company, 1881)
Christian eutopia in the Middle East of people who actually practice Christ's teaching. No rich or poor, no fashion, no idleness. Simple religious services. No theological controversies.
2nd ed. rev. Chicago, IL: Henry A. Sumner & Company, 1882.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Queen Tresoria and Her People - A. W. W. (E. W. Allen, 1881)
Britain under the Queen (Victoria) is a eutopia that is prosperous and strong. After the Queen retires to Scotland, Britain begins to come apart and becomes poorer and quarrelsome. The Germans undercut British goods by copying British business, and the Irish want Home Rule.

Three Hundred Years Hence; or, A Voice from Posterity - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) (Newman and Co, 1881)
Racist, socialist, sexist, technologically advanced society presented as a eutopia. Huge population growth. The oriental and Negro races have been exterminated. People live in and on the seas and in the air. Women have symbolic power but no actual power, and are described as mentally inferior.
Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 7-370, with a brief note by the editor (1-5).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

"A Walk Abroad (A Relation of Things Heard and Seen.) 1866" - James Thomson (1834-82) (Essays and Phantasies, 1881)
A dystopia in which the protagonist takes a trip around the solar system and sees extreme poverty everywhere and then returns to Earth to find the same situation.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Across the Zodiac; The Story of a Wrecked Record - Percy Greg (1836-89) (Trübner & Co, 1880)
Dystopia set on Mars. The society has some characteristics of the eutopias of the time (world government, one language, highly developed technology), but its lack of religion, the extreme inferiority of women, and the narrowness of intellectual outlook makes it a dystopia.
Rpt. in one volume Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974. Chapter III: The Untravelled Deep is rpt. in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 257-269.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Angel of the Prairies; A Dream of the Future - Parley Parker Pratt [Jr.] (1837-97) (Deseret News Printing and Publishing Establishment, 1880)
Tract presenting a future Mormon eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Century Hence" - W[illiam] M[cClary] Paxton (1819-1916) (A Century Hence and Other Poems, 1880)
Eutopia mostly based on technology. Weather controlled by individuals; flora and fauna of all the world wherever they are wanted; manned flight but individuals also have wings. The area from Egypt to China, including Australasia, is in ruins because people had abandoned all areas of "ignorance, vice and oppression" (11). St. Louis is the capitol of the U.S., which stretches from Panama to the North Pole
Keywords: Male author; US author

Decline and Fall of the American Republic. Confessions of a Repentant Politician. A Story of Fifty Years Hence. Time, A.D. 1930 - John McElroy (1846-1929) (Toledo Blade, 1880)
Political tract in favor of the Republican Party set in a dystopia created by Democratic policies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Doom of the Great City; Being The Narrative of a Survivor, Written A.D. 1942 - William Delisle Hay (b. 1853) (Newman & Co, 1880)
Catastrophe due to the dystopia that is contemporary London. Brief New Zealand eutopia of 1942 at the beginning.
Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 8: 17-68, with a note by the editor (1-16).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in Spirit Life; or, Life As He Now Sees It From a Spiritual Standpoint. Written Through the Mediumship of ----------. Westfield, N.Y. - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) (Star Pub. Co, 1880)
Heaven as eutopia but little changed. See also 1881 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Famous Victory (E.M. Kingdon/Hamilton Adams & Co., 1880)
Future eutopia based in large part on the nationalization of railways. No political parties, no taxes.

The Federation of the British Empire, or, From London to New Zealand in a Week - A Wellington Resident [pseud.] (Greville & Dryden, 1880)
A detailed, non-fiction description of a federation of Britain, Ireland, and all the other British colonies. Suggests that both British and colonial laws will have to be reformed in favor of the most advanced, which will often be the latter.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

Fifteen Months in The Moon; Giving a Full Description of Its Inhabitants; Their Appearance; Customs; Laws; Modes of Locomotion; Animals; Plants, & c - G. H. Ryan (Ptd. Goode Bros. and pub. G.H. Ryan, 1880)
Almost innocent eutopia but with technology. Constant laughter, good humor. No written laws because good sense means they are not necessary. No police except in areas where offenders are sent.

The Fortunate Island With an Account of Those Who Composed and Discomposed Its Inhabitants (Beeton's Christmas Annual, 21st Season, 1880)
Humorous South Seas Island utopia.

“Hy-Brasil” - [Thomas] Henry Kendall (1841-82) (Songs from the Mountains, 1880)
The Earthly Paradise.
Rpt. in The Poems of Henry Kendall (Sydney, NSW, Australis: Angus & Robertson, 1920), 163-64; in Selected Poems of Henry Kendall. Chosen by his son Frederick C. Kendall (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1930), 46-48; in Selected Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical and Critical Introduction by T. Inglis Moore (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1957), 199-200; in Australian Poets: Henry Kendal. Selected and Introduced by T. Inglis Moore (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1963), 62-63; and in Leaves from Australian Forests: Poetical Works of Henry Kendall (Hawthorn, Vic, Australia: Lloyd O’Neil, 1970), 146-48. A critical ed. is The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall. Ed. T. T. Reed (Adelaide, SA, Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966), 241-42.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Island of Shams; or, The Nation of Featherheads. Being an Account of A curious People Who Are Supposed to Have Inhabited an Island Lying Near the Continent of Atalantis. Transcribed for the first time from an ancient Irish MS (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1880)
The Featherheads are the Irish, who have empty heads and no backbones and are proud of it. Their national symbol is the "sham rock." Contrasted with the Island of Plums, or England, and its inhabitants, who are forthright, intelligent, and sturdy.

Last Days of the Republic - P[ierton] W. Dooner (1844-1907?) (Alta California Publishing Company, 1880)
Yellow war dystopia in which China conquers the United States.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Mars Revealed; or, Seven Days in the Spirit World: Containing an account of the spirit's trip to Mars, and his return to earth. What he saw and heard on Mars. With Vivid and Thrilling Descriptions of Its Majestic Scenery; Its Mountains, Its Mines; Its Valleys, Rivers, Lakes, and Seas; Its People, Temples of Learning, Worship, Religion, Music, Manners, Customs, Laws; Its Highly Cultivated and Productive Lands, Together With Its Beautiful Parks, and Its Delightful Paradise. Being a work full of diamonds of thought, and of absorbing interest. A thrilling poem, in beautiful prose - [Henry A.] [Gaston] (Pub. for the writer, by A.L. Bancroft and Company, 1880)
Eutopia. Spiritualism. Children taught politeness and grace and obedience to their elders. Useful knowledge is emphasized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mizora: A Prophecy. A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government. Written by Herself - [Mary E. (Bradley)] [Lane] (1844-1929?) (G.W. Dillingham, 1880)
Feminist eutopia in which science had solved all problems and there is no need for menial work. Men had become extinct. Teachers paid more than any other public position and education was free. No religion. Eugenics had eliminated anyone dark complected.
Rpt. as Mizora: A Prophecy. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975; as Mizora: A World of Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999; and as Mizora: A Prophecy. Ed. Jean Pfaelzer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 119-37 with an editor’s note on 117-18. Originally published as “Narrative of Vera Zarovitch” [subtitle beginning with Being is identical to that of the book]. Cincinnati Commercial (November 6, 12, 20, 27, December 4, 11, 18, 25, 1880, January 1, 15 [mis-dated the 14th], 22, 29, February 5, 1881): 3 cols. 5-7, 3 cols. 4-6, [November 20 and 27 and December 4 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, [December 18 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, Extra Sheet 3 col. 7, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 4-6, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 2 cols. 3-4 [ICN].
Keywords: Female author; US author

Revi-Lona; A Romance of Love in a Marvelous Land - Frank Cowan (1844-1905) ([Tribune Press], 1880)
Communal eutopia at the South Pole without love or kinship where big women ruled little men. No one could speak but had developed a variety of means of communication with flags and gestures and through smell and taste. The eutopia is thousands of years old. It is inadvertently destroyed by a large man encroaching from outside who the women instantly preferred to the men of the country. Much rather heavy-handed satire.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Thunderer London “For the Year 1981” (no. 1) (Np, 1880)
Satire. There is a House of Peeresses and a House of Ladies. Mentions a balloon crash.

The Times No. 61275 London, for the Year 1980 (Ptd. and pub. Edward Head, 1880)
Satire. A fake copy of The Times with ads and articles.

At the Back of the Moon; or, Observations of Lunar Phases - [Minot Judson] [Savage] (1841-1918) (Lee and Shepard/Charles T. Dillingham, 1879)
Fairly simple satire on the United States using a society on the back of the moon as the foil.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City of Progress and Signs of the Times (Alfred Holness, 1879)
Religious allegory depicting stages of social change. Reforms presented, but they are superseded as The City of Progress becomes the City of Rest.
Also pub. London: Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1879. Rpt. London: Alfred Holness, 1890.

Erchomenon; or, The Republic of Materialism - [Henry Crocker Marriott] [Watson] (1835-1901) (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879)
Eutopia/dystopia six hundred years in the future in which everyone lives in cities, there is a religion of humanity based on Auguste Comte (1798-1857), and children are raised by women other than their natural mother. The protagonist, from the past and a Christian, sees the society as a dystopia and at the end of the book is introduced to a "Christian Village", where the old, better ways are practiced. It all turns out to be a dream.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 275-347. Editor's notes, 273, 355-56.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

“A Glance into the Future; or, The World in the Twenty-Ninth Century” - E[lizabeth] T. Corbett (b. 1830) (Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), 1879)
Technological eutopia combined with satire on technology’s ability to create a utopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Good Spirit of Space; Or, an Unappreciated Genius” - J[ames] F. Sullivan (Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel, 1879)
Satirical poem on an overpopulation dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Hair Trunk or The Ideal Commonwealth: An Extravaganza - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94) (Humming Earth, 1879)
Satire on utopian projections.
First publication of an unfinished novel. MS at the Huntington Library, San Marino, CA HM 2411.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Handfasted - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) (Penguin Books of Australia, 1879)
Feminist eutopia focusing on trial marriage set in the US. The Commonwealth of Columba existing in an isolated valley has developed "handfasting" or trial marriage. The word handfasted comes from Walter Scott's novel The Monastery, where it was a promise of fidelity for a year and a day. In Columba it can be extended to two or three years and marriage cannot take place without it. Generally an egalitarian society. See also 1884 and 1888-89 Spence.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

Hope Mills; or, Between Friend and Sweetheart - Amanda M[innie] Douglas (1837-1916) (Lee and Shepard, 1879)
A eutopia brought about through cooperative factories.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard/New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1907.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Last African Explorer” - Eustace Hinton Jones (Hood’s Comic Annual for 1879. Thirty Pages of Illustrations By Eminent Artists Engraved By the Brothers Dalziel, 1879)
Satire on African exploration in which a man walks from London to Central Africa and comes across a eutopia. Government ministers are paid to think; other government officials are paid to propagandize and not think; murderers become army officers with those guilty of violent assaults forming the ranks; thieves are placed in the financial ministry or made tax collectors. Since no debt is recoverable by law, all transactions are in cash.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Life in the Future - H. R K. (G. Morrish, 1879)
Rapture (see see 1 Corinthians 15:52 and 1 Thessalonians 4: 15-17) in which the saved are lifted off earth preliminary to the Second Coming. Shows the punishment of those not raptured and, briefly, the life of those who are.
There is no record of a first edition.

“The New Inferno” - James Y[oung] Geddes (1850-1913) (The New Jerusalem and Other Verses, 1879)
Satire on Hell in which the protagonist of Geddes “The New Jerusalem” gets bored with Heaven and decides to visit Hell, which has been greatly modernized and has become business-like.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

“The New Jerusalem” - James Y[oung] Geddes (1850-1913) (The New Jerusalem and Other Verses, 1879)
Heaven as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Spirit World: Its Inhabitants, Nature, and Philosophy - Eugene Crowell, M.D. (1817-94) (Colby & Rich, 1879)
Heaven as eutopia presented as non-fiction. There are different heavens for different countries, a heaven for Native American Indians, and, within the U.S. heaven, a separate one for African Americans. There is also a hierarchy of heavens and people move up the hierarchy as they progress, and it is noted that the color of African Americans becomes lighter as they progress. Details are given of the cities and the housing including the furniture, but the higher heavens are more rural than urban. Robert Dale Owen (1801-77), the son of Robert Owen (1771-1858), is represented as communicating with the protagonist through a medium and, though he is in a lower heaven, he visits higher heavens and reports on them. The eighteenth heaven manufactures goods for the others.
2nd ed. Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1880.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Democracy By Telephone or Parliament a Year Hence (George Taylor, 1878)
Satire. Experiment in having people directly in touch with Parliament is tried and fails.

The Great Commune - Frederic Gregory Forsyth (1856-1925) (Author, 1878)
Essay proposing how the world should respond to the threat of socialism. A “universal order” needs to be formed based on chivalry. It will be male, armed, and hierarchical, with titles of nobility. Workers, who will be thrown out of work by machinery, should be stopped from breeding by taxing children, and no married man should be employed by any government or the order. Racist. Develops ideas put forth in his The Great Republic. Portland, [ME]: Author, 1878. 16 pp. There is emphasis is on government, with limits on citizenship and censorship of all publications. Important to have an order of nobility.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mental Travels in Imagined Lands - Henry Wright (1852-ca. 1940) (Trübner & Co, 1878)
Travels through Labourland, Fortuneland, and Nomunniburgh (the eutopia). The key to Nomunniburgh is the lack of money. All basic goods and services are provided in exchange for work from the populace. Education is the basis for all political advancement. Sex and morality education are provided. Only good literature is available.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 2: 3-91. Editor's notes, 1, 313-14.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Monks of Thelema. A Novel - [Walter] [Besant] 1836-1901; [James] [Rice] (1836-1901) (The World, 1878)
Mostly romance but presents a eutopian abbey based very loosely on the Abbey of Thélème of François Rabelais (1483?-c.1533). The inmates of this Abbey are attractive young men and women whose "vows are of permission to marry, to be rich, if the Lord will, and to live at liberty" (I: 2). Throughout the book much humor is directed at social reform, the communal movement, and attempts at "higher thought".
Vol. 2 has the subtitle An Invention. New ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1890.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Mr. Ghim's Dream (G.W. Carleton, 1878)
A eutopia based on a huge construction project, the building of first one and then a fleet of large ocean-going ships that have none of the problems of the ships of the late nineteenth century. The project provides jobs and revives the economy.
Keywords: US author

"Positivism on an Island: The New Paul and Virginia" - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) (The Contemporary Review, 1878)
Satire on Charles Darwin (1809-82) and Auguste Comte (1798-1857) in a vein similar to the author's 1877 The New Republic.
Rpt. as The New Paul and Virginia or Positivism on an Island. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode. Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Views of Our Heavenly Home. A Sequel to A Stellar Key to the Summerland - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) (Colby & Rich, 1878)
Heaven as eutopia. See also 1847 and 1874 Davis; “Traveling and Society in the Summer Land.” In his A Stellar Key to the Summer Land (Boston, MA: William White & Co./New York: Banner of Light Branch Office, 1867), 163-83; his “Social Centers in the Summer-Land,” “Winter-Land and Summer-Land” and “Language and Life in the Summer-Land.” In his Morning Lectures. Twenty Discourse, Delivered before the Friends of Progress in the City of New York, in the Winter and Spring of 1863 (New York: C.M. Plumb, 1865), 266-87 and 349-404. Earth is the Winter Land; and his The Grand Harmonia [Each volume has a different subtitle]. 5 vols. Boston, MA: Bela Marsh, 1852-56; and 5 vols.  New York : A.J. Davis, 1864-80. There were at least five editions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Age of Science; A Newspaper of the Twentieth Century - [Frances Power] [Cobbe] (1822-1904) (Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1877)
Satirical dystopia of science gone too far. The Age of Science is the name of the paper and the date given is January 1, 1977. Medicine is particularly powerful, and Parliament is composed entirely of medical people who act in their own interest. People are executed for such heresies against science as homeopathy, religion, and not getting vaccinated. There are so few servants that people must recruit them with excellent offers.The author published an essay along similar lines as “The Scientific Spirit of the Age” The Contemporary Review 54 (July 1888): 126-39. Rpt. in her The Scientific Spirit of the Age and Other Pleas and Discussions (Boston, MA: Geo. H. Ellis, 1888), 3-34. The author anonymously published a story on the nineteenth century as seen from the far future; see “The Nineteenth Century.” Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country 69.412 (April 1864): 481-94. There is very little on the future.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Irish author

Aliunde; or Love Ventures - Harry Julian [pseud?] (Charles P. Somerby, 1877)
Classic South Seas island eutopia with beautiful women and friendly natives plus some political satire.
Rpt. as by Harry Julian [pseud.] as Love Ventures. A Novel With an Affidavit.  New York : The Truth Seeker Co., 1888.
Keywords: US author

The Commune in 1880. Downfall of a Republic. - A. Spectator [pseud.] (The American News Co., 1877)
Anti-radical, anti-labor dystopia showing the negative effects of labor winning.

Diagram of Coming Events, and the Millennium - F. M E. (Ptd. by John Henry Field, 1877)
Pages 25-28 are a description of the millennium using Biblical texts.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Future Australian Race - Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke (1846-81) (A.H. Massina and Co, 1877)
Satiric essay describing a twentieth-century Australia, which will include all of the area to the North including Singapore and to the East including New Zealand. North of the middle of Australia will be an empire. South of it will be a republic with the capital in New Zealand, which the author considers to be the real Australia. In five hundred years the Australian race will be extinct.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Manatitlans; or a Record of Recent Scientific Explorations in the Andean La Plata, S.A. - [Elton Romeo] [Smilie] (1818-89) (Ptd. at the Riverside Press, 1877)
A particularly tedious and poorly written lost race novel focusing on pre-Christian settlers from Europe and Asia in the mountains of South America. The eutopian aspects focus on the Manititlan's education in purity and goodness. Continued in his Investigations and Experience of M. Shawtinbach, at Saar Soong, Sumatra. A Ret or Sequel to “The Manatitlans. San Francisco, CA: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1879. W3, 4996.
Also published Buenos Ayres, Argentina: Calla Derécho, 1877.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Pilgrim's Progress Purported to be Given By John Bunyan, Through an Impressional Medium - Alfred Deakin (1856-1919) (W.H. Terry, 1877)
Standard religious allegory including a number of eutopian and dystopian regions. After leaving the dystopias brought on by the passions, the pilgrim makes his way along the road of Progress to the City of Reason, which could be positive or negative, depending on the person. As the city grew and spread it had slowly eliminated the negative aspects and the dystopian areas faded.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The New Republic; or, Culture, Faith and Philosophy in an English Country House - W[illiam] [Hurrell] Mallock (1849-1923) (Chatto and Windus, 1877)
Conservative eutopia constructed over a country weekend. Much discussion, but little detail. The people involved have been identified as Matthew Arnold (1822-88), John Ruskin (1819-1900), Walter Pater (1839-94), Benjamin Jowett (1817-93), Herbert Spencer (1820-1902), John Tyndall (1820-93), William Kingdon Clifford (1845-79), Mary Montgomerie Singleton, later Lady Currie, who wrote as Violet Fane (1843-1905), and Mallock.
2nd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. 3rd ed. 2 vols. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877. New [4th] ed. London: Chatto and Windus, 1878. Rpt. ed. J. Max Patrick. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1950, with an "introduction" by the editor (xi-xxxvi); and Leicester, Eng.: Leicester University Press, 1975, with "Introduction" by James Lucas (7-37). Parts originally published in Belgravia 29 - 31 (June - December 1876), 514-43; 48-73, 133-51, 343-60, 434-49; 46-65; 189-209.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The New Utopia" - [Augusta Theodosia] [Drane (Mother Francis Raphael, O.S.D.)] (1823-94). (Irish Monthly, 1877)
A eutopia created on an estate, a eutopian monastery built, and labor reform. The emphasis is on religion, temperance, and hard work. Some Australian content.
Rpt. in the New Zealand Tablet 5.238 - 257 (November 23, 1877 - April 5, 1878): 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 11, 3, 5, 5, 5, 5, 3, 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 5, 5, 5. Repub. in book form under the author's name. London: Catholic Truth Society, 1898. Also rpt. with no author given as The Australian Duke; or, The New Utopia. Np: np., nd.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Sociology; or, The Reconstruction of Society, Government, and Property, Upon the Principles of the Equality, the Perpetuity, and the Individuality of the Private Ownership of Life, Person, Government, Homestead and the Whole Product of Labor, by Organizing All Nations into Townships of Self-Governing Homestead Democracies--Self-Employed in Farming and Mechanism, Giving All the Liberty and Happiness to be Found on Earth - Lewis Masquerier (b. 1802) (The Author, 1877)
Eutopia. Equality of the sexes. All land held in trust by the government. Atheist. Includes a model constitution. See also 1847 and 1884 Masquerier and his Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery; Classified Principles and Elements of Rights and Wrongs; Diagrams of Township and Village, and Revolutionary Hymns. New York: Ptd. by J.A. Lant, 1877 (DLC).
Largely published originally in the Boston Investigator. Rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1970 including a separately published Appendix, which had originally been published as Appendix to Sociology, or, The Scientific Reconstruction of Society, government, and Property. New York: Lewis Masquerier, 1884. The original publication includes, among other miscellaneous separately paged material, including, with no title page or publication data, Introductory. Era of Civilization” (12 pp), which repeats the utopian material in the main text; and his poem The Sataniad, or Contest of the Gods, for the Dominion in Heaven and Earth; and in which Is shown that his Godship, Satan, has been much calumniated, particularly by Milton, though the most potent, wise and benevolent of the Gods. By Theo Philomath [pseud.]. In Six Books. Book I [All published]. New York: Ptd. at His Majesty’s Royal Press, 1845 (26 pp). Rpt. under the author’s name Boston, MA: Author, 1877 with a two page Book II.
Keywords: Male author; US author

What May Happen in the Next 90 Days. The Disruption of the United States Or the Origin of the Second Civil War (Np, 1877)
Concerned with the 1876 presidential election in the U.S. between Rutherford B. Hayes (1822-93) and Samuel Tilden (1814-86) and predicts a civil war if the election is stolen from Tilden, as it in fact was, followed by an authoritarian dystopia.

1975; A Tradition - My Great Grandson [pseud.] (Edward West, and Simpkin, Marshall, 1876)
Mostly a moral tale of 1875, but it implies the eutopia that will be possible through a Christian education.

Adventures in New Guinea: The Narrative of Louis Trégance, A French Sailor: Nine Years in Captivity Among the Orangwöks, a Tribe in the Interior of New Guinea - H[enry] C[rocker] M[arrriott] W[atson] (1835-1901) (Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876)
Typical lost race dystopia. See also 1879 and 1890 Watson.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

"Beulah Land" - Edgar P. Stites (1836-1921); John R. Sweney (1837-99) (1876)
Heaven as a eutopia. Beulah Land is from Isaiah 62:4.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Coralia; A Plaint of Futurity - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) (Samuel Tinsley, 1876)
While the novel focuses on an unhappy immortal who attempts to find solace in life, Coralia is called "the land of happiness" (11), and, while it is beneath the sea, it is a sort of heaven. "Here life was not as what we know it, but a serene existence without insignificant and unworthy objects such as those of earth" (49). The novel ends with the unhappy immortal united with God.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Eden of Labor; or, The Christian Utopia - T[homas] Wharton Collens (1812-79) (Henry Carey Baird & Co., 1876)
Two societies are depicted, a Christian eutopia that recognizes that labor is the key to the production of wealth and where labor is fairly compensated and Nodland, which is a dystopia reflective of the current reality of selfish capitalism.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hygeia: A City of Health - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) (Macmillan and Co, 1876)
Very detailed eutopia in an address to the Health Department of the Social Science Congress describing the healthy city of the future. Pollution controls on fires. Roof gardens. No carpets. No one smokes or drinks alcohol and everyone exercises. Factories out of town. Public laundries under state supervision; public street cleaning. Burial without embalming or a casket. Low houses. Railroads and sewage underground; roads all paved. No rooms underground. Publicly supervised slaughter houses. Model hospital. The author was a scientist and a leader of the temperance movement as well as a sanitation campaigner. The author says that he is suggesting only what is now easily possible. See also 1888 Richardson.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Robert Pemberton's The Happy Colony (1854).
Keywords: English author; Male author

In Front of the World. A Novel - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) (Charing Cross Publishing Co., 1876)
A messianic figure attempts to bring about human unity, writes a new Bible, and creates a new religion through a group with telepathy.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Robinson Crusoe's Money; or, The Remarkable Financial Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Remote Island Community - David A[mes] Wells (1828-98) (Harper and Brothers, 1876)
An argument against the policy of printing more currency as a solution to economic problems presented as the history of an imaginary island that tries the policy and suffers the consequences. On the greenback movement, as the movement against paper money was called in the U.S., see Irwin Unger, The Greenback Era: A Social and Political History of American Finance, 1865-1879. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1964.
Rpt. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; New York: Harper and Brothers, 1896; and New York: Peter Smith, 1931. The 1896 ed. rpt. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1969.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice - [John Aloys] [Petzler] (1814?-1898) (Samuel Tinsley, 1876)
Non-fiction eutopia. The author summarizes the book as follows: "The guiding principles upon which this social demolition and reconstruction is to proceed, are chiefly the following:--1. Abolition of money, inheritance, and private property. 2. Restriction of the isolated household, and development of the associated home. 3. Freedom of sexual unions. 4 Compulsory and equal sharing of all physical labour. 5. Economical arrangements for the prevention of waste. 6. Organization of labour. 7. Equal division of the means of existence and enjoyment. 8. Universal diffusion of education, sciences, and arts" (80). Includes 1870 Petzler as an Appendix (423-39). See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L). In the "Preface" to the book Petzler says that he shared imprisonment in France with Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-65), the mutualist and anarchist theorist. After his release he was expelled to England.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

Angelic Revelations Concerning the Origin, Ultimation, and Destiny of the Human Spirit: Illustrated by the Experiences in Earth and Spirit Life of Teresa Jacoby, Now Known as the Angel Purity - [William] [Oxley] ? (T. Gaskell, J. Ledsham/W. Harrison, 1875)
Spiritualism. Primarily concerned with the life of the human soul before embodiment. Borderline but some utopian aspects.
Keywords: Male author

"The Curious Republic of Gondour" - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) (Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1875)
Satire (?) proposing additional votes based on education and wealth because universal suffrage resulted in giving power and office to "the ignorant and non-tax-paying classes". Every person has one vote, but extra votes are given for each level of education up to nine for a university education and for different amounts of property. Property votes could be lost if the property is lost; education votes are permanent, except in the case of insanity. Education is free. Women could vote and be elected to office.
Rpt. in America Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Etymonia (Samuel Tinsley, 1875)
Eutopia on an isolated island in the North Sea founded by an "exact geometrician". Physically the country is laid out in a strict, orderly pattern designed to provide easy access and equality. Technologically advanced. All people work at agriculture and at an appropriate trade. In exchange for this labor, they are provided with all their needs. Free love but with strict control of the size of the population. Stress on order and routine. Etymonia appears to be Ireland in that the old name for the island means Green and the size and shape of the island roughly correspond to Ireland.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 149-272. Editor’s notes, 147, 355.

Europa's Fate: or The Coming Struggle. A History Lesson in New Zealand, A.D. 2076 (Griffith and Farran/I. Arrowsmith, 1875)
Future war in Europe. Struggle with Communists. Britain moves imperial capitol to New Zealand, which has been enlarged through volcanic activity and earthquakes. Europe destroyed. Canada joins the United States.

In the Future: A Sketch in Ten Chapters (Ptd. by G.S. Jealous, 1875)
Flawed utopia. London has broad, straight, clean streets, no pollution, and good housing, but it is gradually revealed that this is the result of authoritarianism under a foreign king after a war and revolution. The eutopia is a very dull place. Women are in two castes, outdwellers who are free and indwellers who are veiled; men prefer the latter. All religion has been abolished, and this is the main theme of the novel, which depicts the struggles of believers to live in the kingdom and escape from it. Ireland and Russia are Christian and not part of the kingdom. Anti-Semitic.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975; and in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 67-146. Editor’s notes, 65, 349-54.

Official Correspondence between the Honorable the First Minister of Duffy and His Exalted Majesty Night Blooming Ceres, the Monarch of the Moon, Emperor of the Starry Isles, etc., etc., relative to the construction of the Imperial, Lunar Governmental Railway, also the Reports of the Chief Engineer, and the Draft Treaty in Relation to Same, with the Speech from the Throne. Printed in compliance with a Resolution of the House of the Gallery, dated March 31st, 1875 (Citizen Printing & Publishing Co, 1875)
While this is a satire on government involvement with railroads, the moon is presented as something of a utopia. People of the moon do not wear clothes. Mentions a spring of natural soda water and a stream of pure brandy. Gems given to children for playthings. Government oversees manufacturing of new ideas.
Keywords: Canadian author

Pyrna: A Commune; or, Under the Ice - [Ellis James] [Davis] (1850-1905) (Bickers and Son, 1875)
Eutopia called the Universal Community of Free Brethren located inside a glacier in Switzerland. While the institutions of the society are presented positively, there is a general sense that the people are too unemotional. Pyrna means "The Beautiful Home". Emphasis on the educational system. Gender equality. Highly refined. The people "looked upon eating as a disagreeable necessity. . ." (125/Claeys 57).
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 1: 3-64. Editor's notes 1, 349.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Skyward and Earthward - [George Theodosius Boughton] [Kyngdon] (1821-1916) (Samuel Tinsley, 1875)
Voyages by balloon to various locations beginning with an inhabited moon, which is presented as a satire on Earth customs. They then visit Mars that is a simple eutopia with friendly people, tame birds, and a diet of fruit. No government or laws. No disease or old age. After their return to Earth, the novel is one of adventure and romance.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Visit of Elidorus to the Fairy Kingdom Beneath the Bay” - R[obert] Rice Davies (The Cambrian Sketch-Book. Tales, Scenes, and Legends of Wild Wales, 1875)
The fairy kingdom is described as a eutopia with good food and health and without crime, deceit, or any of the problems of humans.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

"Wasted Faculties" - [Dupuy, Charles Meredith] (Penn Monthly, 1875)
Essay proposing the route to what he calls “this most wonderful Utopia, as some believe it to be” (6) based on full employment at good pay that will allow everyone to consume more. This will require regular investment, which requires a constant low interest rate. He ends by saying that “This is no Utopia. It is the channel toward which mankind is surely drifting” (6).
Rpt. separately paged as by Chas. [Charles] M. Dupuy. Wasted Faculties. Reprinted from Penn Monthly for November, 1875. [Philadelphia, PA: Np, 1875?] 7 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Annals of the Twenty-ninth Century; or, The Autobiography of the Tenth President of the World-Republic - [Andrew] [Blair] (1849-85) (Samuel Tinsley, 1874)
Mostly science but a beautiful eutopia of reason is vaguely described.
An excerpt illus. by Monica Burns is published in Shoreline of Infinity, no. 6 (Winter 2016/17): 94-101 with an introduction, “SF Caledonia,” by Monica Burns (88-93).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"The City of Dreadful Night" - [James] [Thomson} (1834-82) (The National Reformer, 1874)
Poem. Dystopia describing a city and its inhabitants. Borderline horror. Includes the City of Melancholy and its Queen Melancholy and the River of Suicides. Sometimes classified as horror.
Rpt. in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (London: Reeves and Turner, 1880), 1-55; in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1892), 1-73; in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903), 1-57; and in his The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems (London: Methuen & Co., 1932), 17-71, with an "Introduction" by Edmund Blunden (5-14) and a frontispiece by James McBey.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Diakka, and Their Earthly Victims; Being an Explanation of Much That Is False and Repulsive in Spiritualism - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) (A.J. Davis & Co., 1874)
Diakka is "a Garden of Eden . . . where the morally deficient and the affectionally unclean enter upon a strange probationary life" (7). See also 1847 and 1878 Davis; “Traveling and Society in the Summer Land.” In his A Stellar Key to the Summer Land (Boston, MA: William White & Co./New York: Banner of Light Branch Office, 1867), 163-83; his “Social Centers in the Summer-Land,” “Winter-Land and Summer-Land” and “Language and Life in the Summer-Land.” In his Morning Lectures. Twenty Discourse, Delivered before the Friends of Progress in the City of New York, in the Winter and Spring of 1863 (New York: C.M. Plumb, 1865), 266-87 and 349-404. Earth is the Winter Land; and his The Grand Harmonia [Each volume has a different subtitle]. 5 vols. Boston, MA: Bela Marsh, 1852-56; and 5 vols. New York: A.J. Davis, 1864-80. There were at least five editions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Dream within a Dream" - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) (Independent (New York), 1874)
A dream of an egalitarian marriage ceremony.
All but a small part of the text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 107-11 with an editor’s note on 104-06. Complete text 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), 63-67 with an editor’s note on 61-63.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The King of No-Land - B[enjamin] L[eopold] Farjeon (1833-1903) (Tinsley’s Magazine, 1874)
A king who would prefer not to be a king abdicates to a democracy and finds an idyllic life in the country. Invited back by the people, he creates a better society.
U.S. ed. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1875.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

The Last Inca; or, The Story of Tupac Amâru (Tinsley Bros, 1874)
The last chapter is an Incan socialist eutopia. Idleness is punished as a crime. All land is divided with a third belonging to the people, a third to the nobility, and a third to the Inca. Mines belong to the state. All men must bear arms and participate in the national games. Compulsory education for boys to 14; no girl is allowed to attend school past 7, but they are taught at home and examined every nine days.

Papa's Own Girl - Marie [Stevens Case] Howland (1836-1921) (John P. Jewett, 1874)
Eutopia. The two titles reflect the two main themes of the novel. Papa’s Own Girl reflects the desire of one of the main characters that his daughter grow up as a strong, independent woman, and she does. The Familistere is the name of the community in Guise, France, founded by Jean Baptiste André Godin (1817-88), which is the basis of the intentional community that is the other focus of the novel.
2nd ed. New York: John P. Jewett, [1885]. Later ed. entitled The Familistere. A Novel. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1918. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an Introduction entitled “The Familistere: Radical Reform Through Cooperative Enterprise” (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 98-103 with an editor’s note on 95-97; 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), 71-93.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Queen Krinaleen's Plagues; or, How a Simple People Were Destroyed. A Discourse in the Twenty-Second Century - [J. L.] [Collins] (American News Co, 1874)
Dystopia of the fall of America due to women's fashions.
Keywords: US author

Tales in Political Economy - Millicent Garrett Fawcett (1847-1929) (Macmillan & Co, 1874)
An island becomes a eutopia through free trade and the free market.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Transmigration - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) (Hurst and Blackett, 1874)
Volume two is set in a eutopia on Mars. The eutopia is a paradise caused in large part by a gas in the air that prolongs life and generally provides health and a good feeling. No money. The various planets are places where souls spend their lives after death or between reincarnations. Most of the volume consists of interactions among people from the past, mostly classical Greece.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Voice From Another World - W[ladislaw] S[omerville] L[ach]-S[zyrma] (1841-1915) (James Parker, 1874)
A Christian eutopia stressing science, art and religion. Little or no political, economic, or social material. Written in 1865. See also 1883 and 1887 Lach-Szyrma.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Another World; or, Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah - [Benjamin] [Lumley] (1811-75) (Samuel Tinsley, 1873)
Eutopia based on the correct cultivation of character.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Berrytown" - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) (Lippincott's Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), 1873)
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.
Rpt. as "Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown." In her Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.
Keywords: Female author; US author

By and By; An Historical Romance of the Future - Edward Maitland (1824-97) (Richard Bentley and Son, 1873)
Mostly adventure but includes a future technological eutopia as well as a description of a lower heaven as eutopia. Much discussion of the need for religion to recognize science. Stresses individualism. Racist, sexist, and imperialist. In the “Preface to New Edition” (iii-vi) the author says that the book was conceived and mostly written before The Coming Race and Erewhon and differs from them in outlining “a condition of things easily imaginable as resulting from the natural development of existing tendencies in knowledge and thought” and in indicating “the necessary future development of society” (iii). The author lived in New South Wales, Australia from 1849 to 1858 and some of the novel deals with the future of Australia.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1977. New ed. London: Richard Bentley, 1875.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Colymbia - [Robert Ellis] [Dudgeon] (1820-1904) (Trübner and Company, 1873)
A mixture of satire and reform in a society located under water. Given the mixture, it is difficult to be sure what parts the author means seriously. The author was a friend of Samuel Butler, and the book was his response to Erewhon.
Extract illus. Mark Toner. Shoreline of Infinity, no. 9 (Autumn 2017): 91-99, with an introduction “SF Caledonia” by Monica Burns (85-90), with a photograph of Dudgeon on 87.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

Cuttings from "The Times" of 1900 - J. N. (John Hodges, 1873)
Dystopian satire on unions and the lower classes in power.

"Fifth Voyage of Captain Lemuel Gulliver, Sometime of Nottinghamshire" - [Edward John] Mortimer Collins (1827-76) (Squire Silchester's Whim, 1873)
Satire. In Amazonia men are slaves and even dogs are considered superior to men. Women had left England after men had concluded that men were superior to women. Common stores. No money.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Franklin Bacon's Republic: Diary of an Inventor" - [Eustace Clare Grenville] [Murray] (1824-81) (Cornhill's Magazine, 1873)
Satire on the founding of an island community that the inventor hopes will be a eutopia but is in constant conflict.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In the Clouds; A Glimpse of Utopia. A Fairy Extravaganza - Gilbert [Arthur] A'Beckett (1837-91) (Samuel French, 1873)
Satire both on the idea of utopia and on specific reform movements, including women's rights. A military that does not fight. No votes for anyone. Government that does nothing. Only Shakespeare in the theatre. No newspapers. There is a well of the water of truth, and anyone exposed to it can no longer live in Utopia.
In vol. 100 of Lacy's Action Edition.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Jack Tubbs, or The Happy Isle" - John Francis Maguire, M.P. (1815-72) (Young Prince Marigold, and Other Fairy Stories, 1873)
Young adult eutopia about a boy who can communicate with animals. Much adventure.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Millennium: An Epic Poem - Edward Francis Hughes (1814-79) (Author, 1873)
Long poem describing all the stages of the millennium.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

A Narrative of the Travels and Adventures of Paul Aermont Among the Planets - [Benjamin F.] [Field] (1806-87) (Rand, Avery, 1873)
A variety of societies are depicted. These include one religious eutopia and a number of physically ideal eutopias. The religious eutopia is based on the idea that our next life will be based on our actions in this life, and all actions in this life will be known in the next one. Therefore, everyone behaves well and the result is a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The San Rafael Phalanstery" - Noah Brooks (1830-1903) (Scribner's Monthly Magazine (New York), 1873)
Satire on a community intended to be a eutopia, the problems it encountered, and its success, which led to boredom and closure.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Vision of Communism. A Grotesque" - [Bertha] [Thomas] (Cornhill's Magazine, 1873)
Anti-Communist story.
Keywords: Female author

Baron Grimbosh, Doctor of Philosophy and sometime Governor of Barataria. A Record of his Experience, Written by Himself in Exile, and Published by Authority - [Charles] [Mackay] (Tinsley Brothers, 1872)
Satire on utopian projections.
Keywords: Male author

The British Federal Empire. A Speech Delivered in a Certain Year of the Twentieth Century, in a Certain City of the Empire - An Octogenarian [pseud.] (Charles H. Clarke, 1872)
The eutopia brought about by an improved British Empire with federal institutions.

"The City of Rum" - Mr. Onyx [pseud.] (The City of Rum and Other Sketches by Mr. Onyx, 1872)
Satire on the problems of improving London's drainage and water supply.

The Coming Man; or, Fifty Years Hence - Vida Varrie (E. C. Markley & Son, 1872)
Sex-role reversal satire with strong minded women and effeminate men. Presented as a three-act play.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Crums of Thought from Harmonial Tablets, Served Up in the Author's Own Sauce and Dedicated To All Candidates for Aurelia, By an Impressional Medium - R[obert] F[luke] C[unningham] (To be Had of Terry, Bookseller, 1872)
Detailed egalitarian eutopia. Spiritualist. Much discussion of "Harmonial" life and thought, which is defined as "perfect unity--a happy oneness and accord in all its parts" (3). Cunningham was promoting a proposed communal settlement. See his The Articles of Association, Rules, Regulations, Manners and Customs of the Aurelia Co-operative Land and Labour Association. Thames: Printed by Hopcraft, M’Cullough and Co., [1873?] (VUW); and Prospectus of The Aurelia Co-operative Land and Labour Association. [Thames, 1873?] (VUW).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

"Dream of a Free-Trade Paradise. A Laissez Faire Tale" - Cyrus Elder (Dream of a Free Trade Paradise, and Other Sketches, 1872)
Satire on free trade set in the country of Laissez Faire where the rule is to do what is easiest. Thus, no children, no buildings, few crops, little production. The rest of the book is made up of short essays and stories that make the same point without using the utopian form.
Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An entirely new feature of a thrilling new novel! Entitled, the Social War of the Year 1900; or, The Conspirators and Lovers! A Lesson for Saints and Sinners - S[imon] M[ohler] Landis (1829-1902) (Landis Publishing Society, 1872)
Emphasis is on conspiracy and revolt, but an authoritarian constitution is provided.
The author published a dramatic version as A Thrilling prophetic drama, entitled The social war of 1900, or, The conspirators and lovers in five acts. [Philadelphia, PA]: S.M. Landis, 1873.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Erewhon; or, Over the Range - [Samuel [Butler] (1835-1902) (Trübner, 1872)
The classic utopian satire.
2nd ed. rev. and corr. London: Trübner, 1872. New rev. ed. London: Grant Richards, 1901. Rpt. as vol. 2 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew. London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Rev. ed. London: De La Mare Press, 1906. New and rev. ed. London: Fifield, 1910. Rpt. with woodcuts by Robert Gibbings and with an Introduction and illustrations by H. Charles Tomlinson. New York: Chesire House, 1931; with wood-engravings by Blair Hughes-Stanton. Montgomeryshire: The Gregynog Press, 1932; with an Introduction by Aldous Huxley and illustrations by Rockwell Kent. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1934 [Huxley’s introduction is rpt. in Aldous Huxley Annual: A Journal of Twentieth-Century Thought and Beyond 2 (2003): 49-54; with illustrations by Graham Byfield. [London]: Distributed by Heron Books, [1969]; without the subtitle, with an “Introduction” by Peter Mudford (7-24), a “List of Passages Butler added to the text of the 1872 edition” (261), and “Notes” (263-70). 150th Anniversary Edition. New York: Erewhon, 2022, with “Looking Backward to Local Utopia: An Introduction” by Octavia Cade (1-29) also includes the Prefaces to the 1st, 2nd, and revised eds. (xi-xv). Critical ed. ed. Hans-Peter Breuer and Daniel F. Howard. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1981, which reprints the 1872 edition and includes the later revisions in an appendix. Chapters XXIII-XXV of the 1872 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 57-72. Two parts were originally published as “Darwin Among the Machines.” Signed Cellarius. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.192 (June 13, 1863): 1-2; and “Lucubratio Ebria.” Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 8.847 (July 29, 1865): 2. These two parts are available in The Notebooks of Samuel Butler. Ed. Henry Festing Jones (London: A. C. Fifield, 1912), 42-53. Rpt. (London: Hogarth Press, 1985), 42-53; and in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. R[ichard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 179-94. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 179-94. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 208-20. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Butler also published the related article [“Darwin on the Origin of the Species. A Dialogue”]. Press (Christchurch, New Zealand) 3.93 (December 20, 1862): 2. This is also available, together with correspondence that followed, in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Ed. [Richard] A[lexander] Streatfield (London: A.C. Fifield, 1914), 149-78. U.S. ed. (New York: E.P. Dutton, 1915), 149-78. Rpt. as vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 184-207. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. The origin of the chapter “The Book of the Machines” is “The Mechanical Creation.” The Reasoner: A Political and Secular Review (London), no. 833 (July 1, 1865): 30-31, which is rpt. in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement and Other Early Essays. Vol. 1 of The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler. 20 vols. Ed. Henry Festing Jones and A[ugustus] T[heodore] Bartholomew (London: Jonathan Cape/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1923-26), 231-37. Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1968. Not in the Streatfield ed. An interesting oddity is the translation into Esperanto--Erevono. Trans. by Alec Venture. London: Alec Venture, 1978. The DU-Ho copy of the Esperanto translation includes a lengthy errata sheet. Three chapters were published separately as Book of the Machines. Illus. Corydon Bell. [Cleveland, OH]: Bonnar-Vawter Fanform Company, 1940.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author