The Kingdom of Content - [Charles Beresford] [Painter] (1878-1946) (Mills & Boon, 1918)
Rule by trusts followed by revolution and war. A small group survive and create an Eden.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Meccania. The Super-State - Owen Gregory [pseud?] (Methuen & Co., 1918)
Authoritarian dystopia focusing on Germany (Meccania) written as if by a visitor from China. Every aspect of life is organized down to the smallest detail, the way one spends time must be reported weekly to the Time Department, and "The foundation of Meccanian law is that the private individual has no rights against the State" (42).

Mildred Carver, U.S.A. - Martha Bensley Bruère (1879-1953) (Ladies Home Journal (Des Moines, IA), 1918)
Eutopia. Universal service produces an egalitarian system. Each person must serve a period of time in some labor for the country, which turns them into patriots as well as producing public works. The focus is on two very wealthy people and the way they become truly useful citizens by serving their required time, interacting with people from varied backgrounds, and doing useful work.
Rpt. as Mildred Carver, U.S.A. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1919. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 218-32 with an editor’s note on 216-17; 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), 195-211.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Millennium: A Prophetic Message to the Native Tribes of South Africa - Johanna Brandt (1876-1964) ([Rustica Press], 1918)
Short version of a longer work. Brief description of the apocalypse, the Second Coming, and the millennium. Patronizing pamphlet directed at the Black majority telling them to not take advantage of the coming troubles to wreck revenge on the white minority. See also 1927 Brandt.
Keywords: Female author; German author; South African author

The New Moon: A Romance of Reconstruction - [George] Oliver Onions (1873-1961) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1918)
Postwar England has almost returned to a barbarian state. Stress on romance, but the rebuilding of a better society is also presented.
Keywords: Male author

“The Planeteer” - Homer Eon Flint (born Flindt, 1892-1924) (All-Story Weekly, 1918)
Earth is moved to near Jupiter to use Jupiter’s resources to replace Earth’s Depleted resources with, in the longer term, but only suggested, the creation of a eutopia. A sequel is “The King of Conserve Island.” All-Story Weekly 89.3 (October 12, 1918): 411-69 in which a group of people have chosen to isolate themselves on Earth with no contact with the changes brought about in the first story. It is suggested that they create a generally good society but, in the future, choose to contact the others.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Professor in Erin - L. [Charlotte Elizabeth] (known as "Lal" and Lilly) McManus (ca. 1850-1941) (M.H. Gill and Son, 1918)
Parallel history of Ireland as a eutopia developed from original Irish roots and based on the assumption that the Irish defeated the English at the Battle of Kinsale in 1602. As a result, Ireland becomes a eutopia with a monarchy. Much of the novel is mystery and romance
Originally serialized in Sinn Finn.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

The Tower - [Warwick Herbert] [Draper] (b. 1873) (Headley Bros, 1918)
Eutopia brought about by a religious revival. Reform of the church followed by a return to a simpler life and craftsmanship, but also technologically advanced for the time period. Heavily influenced by William Morris (1834-96).
2nd ed. entitled The New Britain. London: Headley Bros. Publishers, 1919.
Keywords: Male author

What Not; A Prophetic Comedy - [Emilie] Rose Macauley (1881-1958) (Constable and Co., 1918)
Satire on bureaucracy. A Ministry of Brains is established concerned, among other things, to implement a eugenic policy to produce the most intelligent children. Rational social policy is in conflict with human needs and differences, and the rational social policy fails.
Rpt. from a copy of the first edition. Bath, Eng.: Handheld Press, 2019, with an “Introduction” by Sarah Lonsdale (vii-xxx) and “Notes” by Kate Macdonald (187-95) including a note on 194-95 showing what was put in place of the original text. Rpt. without the subtitle from a copy of the second edition Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: Sordid Novels and Preposterous Masculine Fictions” by Matthew De Abaitua (xvii-xxviii) with no mention of the missing material beyond Macauley’s original vague note on xxix.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Women and the New Social State - John de Kay (1874-1938) (C.-A. Junger, 1918)
Non-fiction. Socialist eutopia with traditional roles for women. Stress on the importance of a strong League of Nations.
Keywords: Male author; Swiss author

"Worms of the Earth"Publisht on Mars by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 7654321 Publisht on Earth by Interplanetary Association Year of Reason 1 - [Simon] [Wardwell] (np, 1918)
Poem describing the reality of the backward, dystopian Earth from the point of view of a vaguely described technologically and morally advanced Mars.
Keywords: Male author

1920: Dips into the Near Future - Lucian [pseud.] (Headley Bros., 1917)
Satire on the possible effects of the attitude that World War I will be of long duration. For example, there will be involuntary euthanasia for the old in order to preserve the food supply. All of life subordinated to the continuing war effort.
First published as a series of articles without any general title and without the pseudonym in The Nation as follows: "The Aged Service Act: 1920." 22.1 (October 6, 1917): 10-11; "Reprisals in 1920." 22.3 (October 20, 1917): 89-91; "The Laboratory of War-Truth: 1920." 22.4 (October 27, 1917): 118-19; "D.O.R.A. in 1920." 22.5 (November 3, 1917): 155-57; "The Military Service (Females) Act: 1920." 22.6 (November 10, 1917): 185-87; "War-Bondage: 1920." 22.7 (November 17, 1917): 239-41; "War Aims: 1920." 22.8 (November 24, 1917): 266-67; "The New Jerusalem: 1920." 22.11 (December 15, 1917): 377-79.

20,000 Trails Under the Universe with the Cerebroscope. A Tale of Wonderful Adventures. A Protest Against the Principle of Death in Nature. The Gods, Nature and Man on Trial in God's Country - John J[oseph] Meyer (1873-1948) (Privately Ptd, 1917)
Humanity in touch with Heaven. Most of the book is taken up with criticisms of contemporary life. There is some fairly standard "domestic heaven" and a few pages (134-37) describing the eutopia produced on Earth. Nationalism has ended; the Universal Truth Church has replaced all denominations; and most enterprises are publicly owned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Australia A.D. 2000 or the Great Referendum - Sydney Glanville Fielding (1856-1930) (Wm. Andrews Ptg. Co, 1917)
Dystopia in which Australia rejects Christianity.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"By the World Forgot": A Double Romance of the East and the West - Cyrus Townsend Brady (1861-1920) (A.C. McClurg, 1917)
Primarily romance but includes a lost race on an island in the South Pacific. There are eutopian aspects to the society on the island, like abundance without much labor, but the race is degenerating (except for one beautiful girl).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Polity: A Study in Reconstruction - Victor [Verasis] Branford (1863-1930); Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) (Williams and Norgate, 1917)
First volume of a series concerned with post-war reconstruction. Most of the book is concerned with history, showing how the world has reached its current situation. The last chapter, “Summary and Conclusion--Regional Eutopias”, makes a distinction between Utopia and Dystopia and briefly develops a eutopia based on regionalism. That chapter and other material is dropped in the 2nd ed. This material is replaced with a section called “Practice,” which has three chapters, “The Renewing of Christendom,” “The Post-Germanic University,” and “From the Old State to the New,” with the last chapter proposing ideas similar to the “Summary” in the 1st ed. See also 1921 Branford.
New & enl. ed. London: Williams & Norgate, 1919.
Keywords: English author; Male author; Scottish author

The Eldorado of Socialism, Communism and Anarchism; or a Trip to the Planet Jupiter - Rev. John Hugh Reynaert ([Reporter-Star Pub. Co.], 1917)
Eutopia of Christian socialism.
Keywords: Male author

Federation of the World - Charles Conroy (Author, 1917)
Short essay that includes some utopian sections on the advantages of world federalism.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Her Invisible Spirit Mate: A Scientific Novel and Psychological Lessons on How to Make the World More Beautiful - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (Author, 1917)
Spiritualist novel in which other planets are depicted as higher spiritually and better than Earth and an improved Earth is predicted after the war.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Katharist Book of Perfection - George Bessonet (Katharist Publishing Society, 1917)
Eutopia in the form of a religious book that says that perfection is possible, but that perfection differs for adult and child, for men and women, and for “for each race and sub-race,” from which it follows that race mixing is to be avoided. Twelve “Laws of Perfection” are listed and most of the book elaborates on them.
Keywords: Male author

"The Limit" - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) (Red Magazine (London), 1917)
Satire. Gender-role reversal set in 2676. Having returned to a set of villages, London is presented in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Messiah of the Cylinder" - [Avigdor Rousseau] [Emanuel] (1879-1960) (Everybody's Magazine, 1917)
Scientific dystopia. A leader uses science and religion to take control of the world. A successful revolt frees people, and the ending suggests that a better world is being created.
Rpt. illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Chicago, IL: A .C. McClurg & Co., 1917; and illus. Joseph Clement Coll. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974, with an unpaged introduction, “A Neglected Masterpiece,” by Lester Del Rey, who characterizes it as an “anti-utopia (or dystopia,” written in opposition to H. G. Wells. U.K. ed. without the illus. as The Apostle of the Cylinder. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1918]. A few libraries catalog the U.K. ed. as [1919?].
Keywords: English author; Male author

Pleiades Club: Telegraphers’ Paradise on Planet Mars - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) (Multnomah Printing Co., 1917)
The spirits of past telegraphers meet on Mars on the occasion of Abraham Lincoln’s birthday, Lincoln presiding, the Fourth of July, when the discuss the future of the telegraph, which includes radically improved conditions for the workers (a five hour workday twenty days a month, three free meals a day, retirement at thirty with a pension for five years, and generally being treated decently by management), followed by a number of chapters which are devoted to telegraphers’ tall tales and comments on current affairs on Earth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Pretty Pass. A 30th Century Idyl" - [Robert Coutts] [Armour] (1874-1958?) (The Red Magazine (London), 1917)
Satire of gender-role reversal. Weak men are given a harsh physical regime so that they can be good mates. Men who fail are workers.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Social Problem Solved, Without Either Socialism or Capitalism. The Coming Golden Age. An Outgrowth of Remedying Rather Than Abandoning Our Industrial System - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (Author, 1917)
Eutopia will be achieved by following the author's monetary principles, which here he calls Proprietarism, which is a system in which everyone is their own proprietor and that requires that money be circulated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Unprecedented Invasion of Altruria - Don C[arlos] Seitz (1862-1935) (Rustic Press, 1917)
Laissez faire eutopia.
Supposed to have been reprinted from the New York Evening Post (April 7, 1917) but not found there.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia" - Eve [pseud.] (The Gazette of the 3rd London General Hospital, 1917)
A brief description of a eutopian hospital for the wounded of the First World War. It would be in a village in Sussex near the Downs and a river. It would be designed to attract the men out of the wards into the countryside. No telephones or girls so that the men could really rest.

The Utopian Way - Veiby, John (Author, 1917)
Eutopia based on religion and decentralization, with the county the basic unit of government. See also 1923 Veiby and his Jingo. South Bend, IN: John Veiby, 1927 which is an argument for a national religion.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Among the Immortals In the Land of Desire. A Glimpse of the Beyond - Mary A[nn] Fisher (b. 1839) (Shakespeare Press, 1916)
Mostly romance, but there is a description of paradise as a eutopia that includes a discussion of the social institutions of paradise. Young people who die can fulfill the potential they had but were unable to realize in life, and they can study with the greats of the past. Those who have not married in life can marry in heaven, those who die before their spouses can also marry, and women can have children. There are banks, publishers, and most of the activities of life are available in heaven.
Keywords: Female author

And It Came to Pass - [Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger] [Gull] (1874-1923) (Jarrold & Sons, 1916)
Essentially a religious novel, but a brief section (234-42) describes the conservative post-World War I eutopia brought about by the development of a "United Council of Empire" that brought the countries of the British Empire together. This eliminated liberal education, which was replaced by vocational education and common sense. Trade unionism eliminated. Piece-work and short contracts replaced union contracts; this produced prosperity for all. Feudalism reinstated.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Beyond Thirty” - Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875-1950) (All Around Magazine, 1916)
The work is set two hundred years in the future in which the U.S. stayed out of World War 1 and European had destroyed itself and returned to a barbarian state while the Americas had developed into a technological eutopia. Although no one from the Americas had passed the 30th meridian East of the 175th meridian West until a group of Americans did accidentally. After fighting the barbarians and being rescued by the Chinese, the world will in future be open again.
Rpt. Fantasy Press, 1955; in Beyond Thirty and The Man-Eater (1957), Lincoln, NB: Bison Books, 2001; and as The Lost Continent. Original title Beyond Thirty. New York: Ace Books, 1963.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Birth of Universal Brotherhood - Anna Ratner Shapiro (Barton Publishing Co, 1916)
A few pages of a eutopia at the end. Christianity, education. Some spiritualism.
Keywords: Female author

"Building a Socialist City" - A[lice] Constance Austin (1862-1955) (The Western Comrade (Llano, CA), 1916)
Detailed eutopia showing what the Llano Community was supposed to become.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Courtship Superlative" - C. MacLean Savage (All-Story (New York), 1916)
Mostly adventure and romance but set in a eugenically oriented future.

"The Dawn of White Australasia (Being the Remarkable Adventures of Peter Ecoores Van Bu)" - George Forbes (Daily Telegraph (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1916)
Includes a section (172-83 in the book) on two islands, one of men and one of women. Both islands follow the rules set down by the "wise ones" (men) who live of a mountain on the female island, sleep naked on the ground, and eat no meat, fish, or live vegetables. The men spend three months each year with the women on the women's island and the men provide their wives with all the necessities of life. Unmarried women did all the work on the women's island.
Rpt. as Adventures in Southern Seas, a Tale of the Sixteenth Century. Sydney, NSW, Australia: The Australasian Pub. Co., 1920. U.K. ed. London: Harrap, 1920.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Five Generations Hence - Mrs. Lillian B. Jones (1880-1965) (Ptd. by Dotson-Jones Company, 1916)
Eutopia. Mostly on race relations in the U. S. but includes a vision of a future Africa that is civilized and prosperous. The eutopia is brought about by African-Americans returning to Africa.
Rpt. ed. and annotated by the editor with notes on 96-102 in Recovering Five Generations Hence: The Life and Writings of Lillian Jones Horace. Ed. Karen Kossie-Chernyshev (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2013), 1-96. 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), 176-88 with an editor’s note on 175-76.
Keywords: African American author; Female author

"How They Were Denobled" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
Satire on the "servant question" in which twenty-five members of the nobility find themselves in a castle without servants.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Hundredth Wave. A Novel Written to Accomplish Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes - Grantly Standerson (Charles H. Kerr & Co., 1916)
The Society of Progress works throughout human history to build a religious eutopia that does not contradict science. It is particularly opposed to Mormonism, and Salt Lake City is destroyed in an earthquake. The first of the “Two Strongly Interlinked Purposes” is “to arouse spiritually thousands of devout, honest, followers of a false religion [Mormonism] to the real degradation of their religion, and the other as high a purpose as ever can move a human being” [the search for Truth] (5).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"If the Germans Came" - [Mary] [Carbery] (Irish Times, 1916)
Satirical dystopia. The first letter describes the general lack of welcome that the Governor received, except from Sinn Fein, which had supported the German invasion and now expected to be rewarded. On the principle "once a traitor, always a traitor" all Sinn Fein members and their families are immediately shipped to Germany and given small holdings or enrolled in the German Army. To clear the slums, all the patients in a large mental hospital are gassed and cremated, the slum dwellers moved into the hospital, and the slums torn down. The second letter includes such reforms as requiring all the Irish to rise early.
Rev. as The Germans in Cork: Being the Letters of His Excellency The Baron von Kartoffel (Military Governor of Cork in the Year 1918) and Others. Dublin, Ireland: The Talbot Press/London: T. Fisher Unwin, [1917].
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

"June 6, 2016" - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Colliers (New York), 1916)
A love story set in a technological eutopia that has greater gender equality but with many of the same issues remaining.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 72-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Meleager; A Fantasy - H[erbert] M[illingchamp] Vaughan (1870-1948) (Martin Secker, 1916)
Dystopia. Eugenics--defective children are killed. Hygiene. Class system (King, The Hierarchy, The Nobility, The Mercantile Class, The Populace, and Indentured servants or slaves). Women have no political rights.
Keywords: Male author; Welsh author

A Peaceful Revolution - Gentle Joseph [pseud.] (Ernest J. Adams, 1916)
Eutopia. State controlled economic system with thorough integration of women into an egalitarian society. Equal vote based on equal education.

State Socialism After the War; An Exposition of Complete State Socialism. What It Is: How It Would Work - Thomas J. Hughes (b. 1865) (George W. Jacobs and Company, 1916)
Eutopia. Detailed exposition of how a system of complete governmental ownership of property, except personal effects, would work.
Later ed. subtitled A Retrospect of Reconstruction After the War. Rev. ed. Dayton, OH: New Era Pub. Co., 1919. 2nd rev. ed. adds Embracing a Greater Democracy, and Founded on the Teaching of Christ to 1919 subtitle. London: John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, 1924.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Surplus Woman" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
A solution to what the women who are left without families, widowed, or without men to marry as a result of all the men killed in the war. The proposal is, like so many of Gilman's, is for women to go into business, with the difference here that they do into business together in a Women's Economic Alliance to provide services for a town and housing for the women. See also her "Women After the War." The Forerunner (New York) 7.7 (July 1916): 173-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Through Gates of Pearl: A Vision of the Heaven-Life - Augusta Albertson (Fleming H. Revell, 1916)
Heaven as eutopia as experienced by those who achieve it. Presented partially through the different gates by which it is entered, such as the children's gate, the martyr's gate, the gate of gentle service, etc. and partially through descriptions of the heaven entered.
Keywords: Female author

The United States of the World; An Utopian Essay Towards a Better Ordering of the Affairs of Men - Trygaeus [pseud.] (George Routledge & Sons, 1916)
Eutopia. Eugenics. World government. Stress on the means of avoiding war.

A Vision of the Future - Richard Marvin Chapman (The Cosmopolitan Press, 1916)
Eutopia of a future society based on science and eugenics.
Keywords: Male author

"With Her in Ourland" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1916)
Continuation of 1915 Gilman in which one of the couples tours and comments on world conditions and then more specifically on the U.S. The woman from Herland concludes that she could not have a child in the U.S. She wants to return to Herland and hopes for a boy.
Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 270-387. First book publication as With Her in Ourland. Sequel to Herland. Ed. Mary Jo Deegan and Michael R. Hill (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1997), 59-193. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 200-08; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 242-52.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Women of the Future - Meta Stern Lilienthal (1876-1948) (The Rand School of Social Science, 1916)
Pamphlet describing the better society that socialism will bring about emphasizing the changed position of women. With everyone a worker, everyone will be able to work at what most interests them and change work as their interests change, women will not be limited to the home, and most domestic work will be done collectively. Everyone will have a good education and the right training for their work. No children working. There will be no male sex privilege. Marriage will be based on love and divorce will be easy. High quality child-care readily available.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"1925": The Story of a Fatal Peace - [Richard Horatio] Edgar Wallace (1875-1932) (George Newnes, 1915)
Description of the dystopia that will come about if Germany is not completely subjugated after the war. Since Germany was not disarmed at the end of the war, it increased the armaments of its navy and plans to attack England and then America. The novel ends with the beginning of the invasion.
Rpt. as separately paged four-page supplements to The War of the Nations (London) 7.78 - 86 (February 19 - April 15, 1916) (AR, L). The War of the Nations was the author’s history of World War I, which was issued weekly. At the head of all installments is the following: “One of the most successful books of the War is Mr. Edgar Wallace’s ‘“1925’”: the Story of a Fatal Peace.’ The purpose Mr. Wallace, who is the author of ‘The War of the Nations,’ had in view in writing ‘1925’ was to bring home to readers the inevitable consequence of ending the war in any other way than by the complete defeat of Germany and the destruction of Prussian militarism. There are many people who are not alive to the certain terrible sequel of an unfortunate peace. The story is one of the most powerful and enthralling that Mr. Wallace has ever written. It will be continued in ‘The War of the Nations’ from week to week.”
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Air Trust - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Phil Wagner, 1915)
Dystopia. A trust gains control of the air and enslaves humankind, but it is overthrown. For a work using a similar idea, see 1897 Mills, “The Aerial Brickyard.”
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1976. Originally published in The National Rip-Saw (January - October 1915) as “The Story of the Air Trust.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Constitution for the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth (Johnston, Fear & Kingham, Printers, 1915)
An extremely detailed utopia based on the need for “an Industrial and Economic world-wide Constitution” (1). Proposes the gradual nationalization through purchase of industries as they grow “into a trust, monopoly or combine” (2) that will “own all the means of production and distribution” and “guarantee State employment State employment to all. . . (3). Same income to men and women paid in time vouchers with all goods priced on the time taken to produce them. Includes a description of a Parliament with a House of Industries and a People’s Chamber, a system of Boards of Management. Support for widows and children, free medical care, free education. Details on taxation. These details followed by a substantial section on Christ’s teachings (12-27).

A Drop in Infinity - Gerald Grogan (1884-1918) (John Lane The Bodley Head/John Lane Co./Bell & Cockburn, 1915)
Colonization of a new world with the novel all on the early stages of development, but it ends with something like a eutopia of a simple, fairly primitive life.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Fall of a Nation. A Sequel to the Birth of a Nation - Thomas [Frederick] Dixon [Jr.] (1864-1946) (D. Appleton and Co., 1915)
Dystopia in which the United States is defeated by Germany and internal subversion. The purpose the novel is to argue for military preparedness.
Originally published in The National Sunday Magazine (1915 - 1916), which was published with Sunday newspapers throughout the U.S.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Herland" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner (New York), 1915)
Feminist eutopia on an island inhabited only by women and girl children. Stress on sisterhood. Parthenogenesis. Deep concern for the physical and mental health of the children and educating them appropriately. No poverty. No punishment, which has been replaced by treatment. There are strong environmental themes, but animals have been generally eliminated. The novel is told from the point of view of one of three men who discover Herland and marry three Herland women. See also the sequel 1916 Gilman.
First book publication New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 150-269. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 189-99; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 229-41.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Ideal Army" - Strozzi [pseud.] (The Gasper, 1915)
Poem describing an ideal army without many rules, optional parades, automatic leave, packs held aloft by balloons, and so forth.

"John Jones's Dollar" - Harry Stephen Keeler (1890-1967) (The Black Cat (Boston, MA), 1915)
Scientific eutopia. Democratic Socialist. Some humor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King of Kulturia - W[illiam] Hugh Higginbottom (1881-1937) (The Walter Scott Company, 1915)
An anti-German satire describing an attempt to control artistic production. The Greek gods are awakened, wreak havoc, and are put back to sleep.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Mania of the Nations on the Planet Mars and Its Terrific Consequences. A Combination of Fun and Wisdom - [James Howard] [Calisch] (1863-1926) (The Denker Publishers, 1915)
Satire on human foibles using Mars. Religion. Focus on religion and nationalism.
Keywords: Dutch author; Male author; US author

"The Mark of the Beast" - Sydney Watson (W. Nicholson, 1915)
The rise of Antichrist and the dystopia produced, ending in Armageddon (See Revelation 16) and the return of Christ. See also his In the Twinkling of an Eye. London: William Nicholson & Sons, [1916]. Rpt. Edinburgh, Scot.: B. McCall Barbour, 1971, which shows the advent of the Antichrist.
U.S. ed. Los Angeles, CA: The Biola Book Room, Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1918. Rpt. New York: Fleming H. Revell, [1933].
Keywords: Male author

The Millionaire Socialist or the Cure for Poverty - [Joseph R.] [Renner] (Watkins, Tyler & Tolan, 1915)
Short didactic novel describing a successful socialist colony. Its success forces Britain and then the rest of the world to adopt socialism.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

"A Modern Gulliver's Travels: A Voyage to Babyland" - John R[ussell] Corydell (1848-1924) (Physical Culture (New York), 1915)
A crusty, puritanical descendent of Gulliver visits a eutopia where children are taught about their bodies from an early age.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Modern Paradise. An Outline or Story of how Some of the Cultured People will probably live, work and Organize in the Near Future - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Equality Pub. Co, 1915)
Another version of 1893 Olerich which has a considerable amount on the technology, the factory that the community will run, and the labor checks and how they are used. Heavily illustrated. The short version is mostly on the generation by wind and water, storage, and use of electricity.
Rpt. [Charleston, SC]: NABU Press, 2010. A short version (28 pp) was published as Modern Paradise: The Model Home.--Solutions of the Social Problem. Future Greatness of Electricity.--Proposed Experiment in Social Science.--An Earthly Eden and How to Attain It.--A Unique Power Plant. Wonderful System of Education. Elegantly Illustrated [Subtitle on the cover--Grandest Dwelling Place on Earth. Elegantly Illustrated]. Omaha, NB: Author, [1915].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Northland - L[ouis] P[ope] Gratacap (1851-1917) (Thomas Benton, 1915)
Lost race dystopia. Most of the book is represented on an added title page as Krocker Land: A Romance of Discovery. By Alfred Erickson, Prof. Hlmath Bjornsen, Antoine Goritz, [and] Spruce Hopkins. The Narrative of Alfred Erickson. Edited by Azaziel Link. This is the story of an exploratory trip in the North and the discovery of the luxurious Valley of Rasselas in Krocker Land, with its capitol city of Radiumopolis. Krocker Land has a large population described as Eskimos or Mongolians who are dominated by a population of small, highly intelligent scientists with large heads.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Paradise Found or The Superman Found Out in Three Acts - Allen Upward (1863-1926) (Houghton Mifflin, 1915)
Dystopian satire in which two hundred years in the future, George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) awakes in a world based on a misreading of his ideas. The British Empire has collapsed, and England is under a corrupt Indian Empire. Canada is part of the U.S. Australia is controlled by Aborigines. South African natives are cannibals. In England, doctors are in power, and the entire system is corrupt.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Reign of the Prince of Peace - Richard Hayes McCartney (Charles C. Cook, 1915)
160 page poem describing the eutopia brought about by the millennium and the Second Coming. See also 1921 McCartney.
Keywords: Male author

Romance in Starland: A Scientific Novel - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (New Herald Publishing Co, 1915)
Includes a visit to planets, including eutopias on Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter. On Venus there is no war or sin. Simple life. Women are unable to give birth to more than two children. Saturn is home to "angelic missionaries". On Jupiter there is no need for money and people communicate telepathically.
Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].
Keywords: Female author; US author

Uncle Sam Banker 1910-1940. Published by the Author - James A[rthur] Fulton (Hutchinson & Broadbent, 1915)
Eutopia in which a new public banking system brings general prosperity. Includes a "Summary of Legislative and Administrative Policies Outlined" (285-86) keyed to the text.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Upsidonia - [Arthur Hammond] [Marshall] (1866-1934) (Stanley Paul, 1915)
Satire of reversal in the tradition of 1872 Butler. In this case the reversal concerns wealth, which is considered undesirable. Those of high status life poorly and those of low status live in luxury.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Virgin’s Treasure: A Romance of the Tropics - [Amelia] Louise Gerard (1878-1979) (Mills & Boon, 1915)
The novel is mostly romance and adventure but ends in a religious allegory in which a man struggles past the Tomb of Buried Hopes, the Tomb of Dead Desires, and the Plain of Despair and gets temporarily lost in the Mountains of Self-Abasement before winning through.
Rpt. London: Mills & Boon, [1919?].  245 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The White Man's Burden, A Satirical Forecast - [Roger Sherman] [Tracy] (1841-1926) (Gorham Press, 1915)
Set in 5027 with Africa a completely Black and Christian eutopia. All the races have advanced except the Caucasian, which continues its old, dystopian ways and initiates a race war, which it loses.
Rpt. Freeport, NY: Books for Libraries Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Windmills: A Book of Fables - Gilbert Cannan (1884-1955) (Martin Secker, 1915)
Two utopias--the first starts as a Robinsonade in "Samways Island" but concludes as a eutopia stressing world peace as "Ultimus." The second, "Gynecologia," is a typical gender-role reversal story. Much heavy-handed satire in both.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Wireless Messages from Other Worlds - Eva (Love-Light) Harrison (L.N. Fowler, 1915)
Spiritualism with other planets more advanced than Earth.
Keywords: Female author

2010 - [Frederic] [Carrel] (1869-1945) (T. Werner Laurie, 1914)
Mechanical improvement of brains leads to eutopia. Stress is on the struggle to get the brains accepted.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"An Argument" - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (The Congo and Other Poems, 1914)
The argument is between "The Voice of the Man Impatient with Visions and Utopias" and "The Rhymer's Reply: Incense and Splendor" and is presented as two poems under those titles. The former takes an anti-utopian position, and the latter replies with the hope for a coming eutopia. See also 1909, 1913, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay.
Rpt. in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay’s drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 194-95.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Darkness and Dawn - George Allan England (1877-1936) (Small, Maynard, 1914)
Much of the novel is a post-catastrophe dystopia with a young couple apparently alone struggling to survive, then in conflict with other survivors, but the novel ends depicting the beginnings of a new egalitarian, peaceful eutopian society.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974 with unpaged “The Fantastic in Fiction” by the author, originally published as “Facts About Fantasy.” The Story World (July 1923). Originally serialized as “Darkness and Dawn.” The Cavalier 10. 4 (January 1912): 621-34; The Cavalier and the Scrap Book 11.1 - 3 (January 6 - 20, 1912): 169-85, 321-39, 521-33; “Beyond the Great Oblivion.” The Cavalier 24.1 - 25.2 (January 4 - February 8, 1913): 1-34, 215-32, 434-52, 645-65; 115-34, 272-92; and “The Afterglow.” Cavalier 29.4 - 30.3 (June 14 - July 5, 1913): 577-607; 71-100, 250-78, 495-519. All three were rpt. in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 2.3 (August 1940: 6-78; 3.2 (June 1941): 6-105; 3.5 (December 1941): 6-94.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dawn of Hope - Jas [James] Aggers (The Worker Print, 1914)
Mostly concerned with the problems of workers in contemporary New Zealand but includes a dream of Joshua Narrowgrove, a minister who has supported the wealthy and opposed socialism. The vision includes a brief description of a socialist eutopia. A sequel, Parson Narrowgroove, Socialist, was announced but apparently not published.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Elixir of Life or 2905 A.D. A Novel of the Far Future - Herbert Gubbins (1887-1950) (Henry J. Drane, 1914)
Contemplative, technological eutopia set a thousand years in the future. Described as an ". . . age of calm reflection and freedom from every form of physical exertion. . ." (73). Telepathy. Tablet food. Life-long clothes. Emphasis on electricity and solar energy (manufactured in concentrated form). International law. Accurate news. Trusts and syndicates control all the technology.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Equality Isle" - J. Brant (All-Story Cavalier Weekly, 1914)
Satire on women's rights in which two women and a man are shipwrecked together and the women end of fighting over him.

Equitania; or, The Land of Equity - Dr. W[alter] O. Henry (b. 1858) (Ptd. by Klopp & Bartlett, 1914)
Detailed eutopia. Equitania was founded by groups of Buddhists from India, Christians from the U.S., Muslims from Turkey, and Jews from England. Democracy. Freedom of religion. Traditional sex roles, but there is sex education. All natural resources and utilities owned by the government. Men earn enough to be able to comfortably support a family. Includes a constitution. The eutopia includes a lot on appropriate gender relations, the reasons for and dangers of prostitution, venereal disease, etc., mostly from the male viewpoint, and much on medical care.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Felicians - Isaac Carlson (np, 1914)
Eutopia. Advanced society on Mars. Scientifically far ahead of Earth. No nationalism; one language. Birth in laboratories. All children raised by the state. All food made in laboratories. Music and dance are important.
Keywords: Male author

The Flying Inn - G[ilbert] K[eith] Chesterton (1874-1936) (Methuen, 1914)
Humor--Europe is part of the Moslem Empire, as it is spelled in the book. Effect of the closing of the pubs on the British.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton. Ed. Iain T. Benson (San Francisco, CA: St. Ignatius Press, 2004), 7: 421-665. The songs found throughout the text were originally published in The New Witness as follows: “A Song Against Grocers.” 1.2 (November 14, 1912): 47; “The Song of the English.” 1.4 (November 28, 1912): 111; “A Song of Songs.” 1.7 (December 19, 1912): 207; “The Song of the Good Rich Man.” 1.9 (January 2, 1913): 271; “A Song of Strange Drinks.” 1.12 (January 23, 1913): 367; “Song of the Happy Vegetarians.” 1.13 (January 30, 1913): 398; “Song of the Temperance Hotel.” 1.14 (February 6, 1913): 436; “The Song of the Strange Ascetic.” 1.16 (February 20, 1913): 495; “The Song of the Second Deluge.” 1.17 (February 27, 1913): 527; “A Song of Dietetic Logic.” 2.45 (September 11, 1913): 591; “A Song of Temperance Reform.” 2.47 (September 25, 1913): 658; “The Song of the Alternative Explanations of the Curvature of the English Country Road.” 2.51 (October 23, 1913): 785; and “Song of the Dog named Quoodle.” 3.56 (November 27, 1913): 111.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Food": A Tragedy of the Future - William C[hurchill] de Mille (1878-1955) (Samuel French, 1914)
Farce. Food trust has so run up the price of food that there is a death penalty for killing a hen and even the rich eat little.
Keywords: Male author

The Forest Maiden - [Robert Ames] [Bennet] (1870-1954) (Browne & Howell, 1914)
A hunter discovers a Garden of Eden in British Columbia set up by a madman.
Keywords: Male author

On Heaven - [Joseph Leopold Ford Hermann Madox] [Hueffer] (1873-1939) (Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, 1914)
Poem ascribed "To V[iolet] H[unt] who asked for a working Heaven." Heaven for lovers.
Rpt in Ford Madox Ford, On Heaven and Poems Written on Active Service (London: John Lane, The Bodley Head/New York: John Lane, 1918), 79-110. Rpt. in The Bodley Head Ford Madox Ford. 5 vols. (London: The Bodley Head, 1962), 1: 359-72.
Keywords: Male author

Humanity and the Mysterious Knight - Mack Stauffer (Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1914)
Political novel set in a future of extremes of poverty and wealth. Battle between labor and capital. Capital does better in the battle.
Keywords: Male author

"In 1999"; A Problem Play of the Future - William C[hurchill] de Mille (1878-1955) (Samuel French, 1914)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Keywords: Male author

"The Man Who Rocked the Earth" - Arthur [Cheney] Train (1875-1945) (Saturday Evening Post, 1914)
Mostly war and political intrigue, but at the beginning of the novel war has produced a world-wide dystopia with nations collapsing and significant sections of the world destroyed. The inventor of a new power threatens world destruction if peace does not come. After much adventure, the final chapter describes a world at peace under a Law of Humanity with an international police force. All weapons abolished.
Repub. as by Train and Robert Williams Wood (1868-1955). Illus. Walter L. Greene and Woods. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1915. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Marriage of Souls: A Metaphysical Novel - Veni Cooper-Mathieson (b. 1867). (The Truth-Seeker Pub. Co., 1914)
Allegorical novel. Presents a future eutopian Australia based on religion.
Keywords: Female author

The Millennium: A Comedy of the Year 2000 - Upton [Beall] Sinclair (1878-1968) (Haldeman-Julius Co., 1924, 1914)
Eleven survivors of a catastrophe that kills everyone else in the world initially replicate the capitalist dystopia that is the U.S. in 2000, but most of the people come to reject that and by the end a socialist eutopia is suggested but not developed.
UK ed. London: T. Werner Laurie, 1929. Rpt. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2000 with an introduction by Carl Jensen (vii-xxvi). Originally published in The Appeal to Reason (1914).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nature City: The Ideal Commonwealth - James W. Bucklin, LL.B. (Author, 1914)
Democratic and single tax eutopia. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929. Includes brief comments on Plato, More, Bacon, Campanella, Bellamy, and Gronlund.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Once in a Blue Moon" - [Eimar Ultan] [O'Duffy] (1893-1935) (The National Student. A Magazine of Student Life. Conducted by the Students of University College, Dublin, 1914)
A slight satire on the relations between Britain (Buljohn) and Ireland (Iernia) in which the former oppresses the later until cajoled into changing his ways.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Paradise Found - M. A. Neff (Author, 1914)
A series of worlds, including two eutopias, are described. In the first eutopia, called Paradise, the people live a very long life, have learned how to fly using an artificial apparatus attached to each individual, and live in trees, usually in communities. Everyone has to be married. An abundance of food and drink is available at all times, and the weather is always warm and pleasant. The second eutopia, Square Land, where everyone gets a "square deal" is described in more detail. Work six hours a day three days a week. Everyone is given a lot on which to build a small house. Details given of the electoral system.

Perhaps: A Tale of Tomorrow - [Henry] Norman Davey (1888-1949) (Methuen, 1914)
A humorous novel describing the secession of the Isle of Wight from the U.K.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Practical Socialism! Demonstrated by Domestic Cooperation. A Sequel to Eureka! - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb (Excelsior Press, 1914)
Sequel to 1913 Ridgway. Community now to be founded in Palmyra, New Jersey. Later will move to a tropical island. Suggests running a summer hotel and, later, a winter hotel. In this book, Lamb identifies himself as living in Palmyra, NJ. Part 5 is called "A Model Community for Practical People."
Keywords: Male author

Social Harmonism: Human Rights Under Functional Government - Holmes W[hittier] Merton (Author/L.N. Fowler, 1914)
Detailed eutopia in essay form. Gender equality. Equality of opportunity. System of functional or vocational political representation. There are Departments of Science, Industry, Wealth, Arts, Letters, Culture, Marriage, Familism, Home, Commerce, Rulership, and Religion.
Keywords: Male author

"Votes for Men" - Percy Atkinson (All Story Cavalier Weekly, 1914)
Gender-role reversal satire in which any single man asked by a woman to marry her must do so or go to jail.
Keywords: Male author

The War of the Worlds: A Tale of the Year 2,000 A.D. - Frederick Robinson ([Author], 1914)
Eutopia and dystopia. This short novel focuses on the antics of one man who becomes fabulously wealthy, is rejected by the woman he wants, and in vengeance brings about a war with the U.S. attacked by the nations of the Earth and Mars. While the US, which has grown to include all of North and Central America, wins, New York City is destroyed. Early in the book, the world is depicted in eutopian terms both politically and technologically with New York City free of crime as a result of eugenic advances. All other nations are depicted as advanced and the only reason for their cooperation against the U.S. is that it is even more advanced. In a note To the Reader the author says that the book originated as a scenario he wrote in connection with a stage spectacle he was preparing.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Work for All. A Co-operative Commonwealth based on Ruskin's Teaching - Albert Ernest Taber (Arthur Wigley, 1914)
Cottage industry. Single tax. Little government. The first part is organized as a Platonic dialogue among past social reformers. Then the eutopia is shown by John Ruskin (1819-1900) to visitors from the past. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author

Allanforth Commune: The Triumph of Socialism - Findlay Watt (National Labour Press, 1913)
A successful socialist intentional community in Scotland established by a rich man.
Keywords: Male author

The American Emperor. A Novel - William Salisbury (b. 1875) (The Tabard Inn Press, 1913)
An ambitious American financier creates a dystopia with himself as sole ruler.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Angel Island - Inez Haynes Gillmore (1873-1970) (Phillips Pub. Co., 1913)
Isolated island with shipwrecked men showing the range of male attitudes toward innocent winged-women. The men capture some of the women and cut their wings off and clip them every six months so that they cannot grow back. Girl children are born with wings, and the men plan to cut theirs off when they reach adulthood. The women revolt and win. A boy with wings is born.
1913 Gillmore, Inez Haynes (1873-1970). Angel Island. Illus. John Rae. New York: Phillips Pub. Co. Rpt. New York: Holt, 1914; in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 10-90; New York: Arno Press, 1978; and New York: New American Library, 1988. U.K. ed. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1914.
Keywords: Brazilian author; Female author; US author

“Announcement. “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” and “A Fantasy. Abstract of One Chapter from Part I of Utopia” - Oscar Morrill Heath (Composts of Tradition: A Book of Short Stories dealing with Traditional Sex and Domestic Situations, 1913)
An announcement that a book entitled “A Twentieth Century Visit to Utopia” in the near future together with a synopsis of its three sections, “Utopia,” “Neutralia,” and “Atlantis” together with an excerpt from “Utopia” (302-303). “The most striking features of Utopia are its school system and its unique eugenic process of courtship and marriage. The most interesting feature of Neutralia is that the inhabitants are all sex-less. The climax of interest is in Atlantis, where the women hold two-thirds of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers and the men one-third” (300). The author says that the first part was published “about four years ago,” but I have been unable to find it. Most of the book, which is dedicated to “Hygienic Motherhood,” is composed of stories that comment on sex relations through the ages and on Neptune. In the Preface “The Apology of an Iconoclast” he proposes that the wealthy buy the land and build “model tenement houses. Throughout he contends that motherhood is women’s sole purpose and men’s sole purpose is to support them, which is what they do in Atlantis.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Bee Wise" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1913)
A group of women establish two communities, Beewise and Herways, which provide an economic base for transforming lives.
Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 226-34; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 211-19.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Between Eras: From Capitalism to Democracy. A Cycle of Conversations and Discourses with Occasional Side-Lights upon the Speakers - Albion W[oodbury] Small (1854-1926) (Inter-collegiate Press, 1913)
A fictional discussion people centering on a strike. Includes attacks on and defenses of capitalism with arguments about how to produce a better society. See George Mariz, “Towards a Socio-Historical Understanding of the Clerical-Utopian Novel.” Utopian Studies 14.1 (2003): 65-67.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brain City. A Fantasy - Marmaduke A. Prickett (Museum Arts & Letters Assoc, 1913)
Allegory on reason and science using an ideal rational city.
Keywords: Male author

The Coming Day: A Story of Inevitable Social and Industrial Progress - William T. Burkitt (Drane's, 1913)
Emphasis on the evolution to eutopia through the union movement with one union, reform, and control of the product of labor the means.
Keywords: Male author

"The Court of Infant Relations" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1913)
The Court of Infant Relations is an institution established in a future eutopia to protect the rights of children and ensure that parents are adequately trained in childcare.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Eureka! The Embryo of An Ideal Society - Dr. Ridgway H. Lamb (Excelsior Press, 1913)
Proposes a cooperative colony to be founded by members of the Society of Friends (Quakers) in the southern Philippines to be called Palmyra. Spiritualism.
Keywords: Male author

The Gay Rebellion - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (D. Appleton, 1913)
Satire on women's rights. Includes a women's community that tries to throw off male domination through the use of eugenics.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975. 298 pp. Parts published earlier in Hampton’s Magazine--“Amourette.” 26.5 (May 1911): 530-47; “A Matter of Eugenics.” 26.6 (June 1911): 675-86; “Pro Bono Publico: Further Developments in the Eugenist Suffragette Campaign.” 27.1 (July 1911): 19-30; “Lords of Creation.” 27.2 (August 1911): 131-43; and “A Daughter of the Revolution.” 27.3 (September 1911): 330-40 with 337-38 misnumbered as 339-336.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Goslings - J[ohn] D[avys] Beresford (1873-1947) (William Heinemann, 1913)
The novel describes the results of a plague that mostly affects men but not women. One focus is on a group of women who organize a generally successful community based on the principle that everyone earned a right through labor to a share in what could be produced. After contact is made with parts of the world less affected by the plague, the outlines are given of a future eutopia based on greater gender equality.
Rpt. Boston, MA/Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2013 with an “An Un-Cozy Atmosphere. Introduction” by Astra Taylor (13-17); and Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp. U.S. ed. as A World of Women. New York: Macauley Co., 1913. Rpt. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with the introduction by Astra Taylor retitled “Introduction: Out of the Wreckage (xiii-xx). xx + 318 pp.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"'Jesus is Here!'" - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) (The Christian Herald (New York), 1913)
Sequel to 1896-97 Sheldon with many of the same characters and set fifteen years after the events of that novel. In this novel, Jesus returns to earth and faces the same issues as the people did in In His Steps. But in this novel the issues are expanded to broader economic and political issues with an indication at the end the revitalized Christianity will bring about a worldwide eutopia.
Rpt. as “Jesus is Here!” Continuing the Narrative of In His Steps (What Would Jesus Do?). New York: George H. Doran, 1914. U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914. Rpt. Topeka, KS: Capper's Books, 1984.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Kingdom of Gold. Dedicated to "Whomsoever", November 1888. Rejected by the Builders of Books For a Quarter of a Century - Benjamin Fowler Carpenter (The Christopher House, 1913)
The novel describes an attempt to establish a eutopia in which the richest will rule on an isolated island and ultimately the world. Much romance and intrigue. Fails.
Keywords: Male author

The Laborers' Catechism: The Open Road to the New Utopia - Thomas Jefferson Sandford (The Society for the True Republic, 1913)
Literally a catechism with questions and answers. Proposes various reforms in the financial and political systems that produce a eutopia and provides apparently fictional examples of the results of specific reforms. A new voting system is designed to include all the proposed voting reforms of the time. New system of taxation at 2% per year on personal and real property.
2nd ed. The Laborers' Catechism: or The Wide Way to a New Republic. New York: The Society for the True Republic, 1914; 3rd ed 1916; 4th ed. 1928 New York with the 2nd ed. title.
Keywords: Male author

The Last Days; or, Time of the End! Nearness of "The Great and Dreadful Day." Tribulations to Come! Armageddon--A Descent on Palestine--The Dominions to the Rescue--Russia and Turkey to be Overthrown--"Babylon" and "The Beast"--Germany and Japan's Action. The Millennium! Christ's Coming--His Kingdom on Earth--Conversion of the Jews--"My Servant David" of England--His Reign at Jerusalem - J[ohn] Liddell Kelly (1850-1925) (Ptd. for the Author by The Wanganui Chronicle, 1913)
Eutopia of British Israelism with the Second Coming of Christ being a member of the British Royal Family. 1928 will be the end of the current age and the beginning of the Reign of Righteousness.
Rpt. in Heine and the Apocalypse. some poetry and prose by John Liddel Kelly. an edition prepared by F[rank] W[illiam] Nielsen Wright (Te Aro, Wellington, New Zealand: Cultural and Political Booklets, 1997), 55-103 with "An Afternote on Kelly's The Last Days by F[rank] W[illiam] Nielsen Wright" (104-111).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Scottish author

The Little Wicket Gate. An Experience ex nihilo - Petworth, Algernon (A.C. Fifield, 1913)
A eutopia with problems, primarily population pressure. Religion. Equality of the sexes. Marriage for life. Three-and-a-half-hours workday. No money. No prisons. Stress on self-expression.
Keywords: Male author

Looking Forward: A Study in Social Justice Looking to Co-operation as Offering the Solution of Difficulties - Isaac Roberts (Roberts & Co., 1913)
Cooperative eutopia presented through the reports of various conferences from the present until the establishment of the eutopia. Equal suffrage for women is the first step. Cooperation is seen as an expression of Christianity.
Keywords: Male author

Looking Forward. The Strange Experience of the Rev. Fergus McCheyne - Rev. Hugh Pedley B.A., D.D. (1852-1923) (William Briggs, 1913)
The United Church of Canada, which was created in 1925, has brought about eutopia by becoming deeply involved in the community and leading on both practical and moral issues.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Love of Meltha Laone; or, Beyond the Sun - David Leroy Stump (Roxburgh Publishing Company, 1913)
This is a much-expanded ed. of 1896 Stump at the end of which the protagonist's interest in Meltha Laone is mentioned but not developed. Detailed eutopia set on a planet on the opposite side of the sun. No money. Technology. “Everybody has all of everything they need and can use and consume. . .” (33). Stress on the family. No pets. Refers to a related work entitled A Romance of Two Planets that appears to be lost.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man Who Would Not Be King. Being the Adventures of one Fenimore Slavington, who was neither born great nor achieved greatness, but had greatness thrust upon him much to his own discomfort and the discomfort of many others - Sidney Dark (1874-1947) (John Lane The Bodley Head, 1913)
Socialist dystopia brought about by too great a desire for efficiency, exemplified for the author by Sidney Webb (1859-1947). He prefers the approach of Robert Blatchford (see 1906-7 Blatchford) and says, "I believe that the real business of man is to live--to throw stones into pools and watch the ripples, to dream, to loaf, to love, to play the fool, to begin and never to end, to read poetry (if he cannot write it), to grow roses" (viii-ix).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Methods from Mars - L. A. Mawson (Arthur H. Stockwell, 1913)
Detailed eutopia on Mars, which had gone through a history like Earth's. World government. No cities, and Mars is one large garden with all available land put to use. No organized religion. Scientific planning. Technology. Only one class. No large families. Efficient transportation system. Eugenics with imperfect children killed. Compulsory service system. No money. Marriage is a personal agreement to contract to produce children.

My Monks of Vagabondia - Andress [Small] Floyd (1873-1933 ([Author], 1913)
A series of stories about an intentional community called the Self Master Colony that works with people who are down-and-out. The stories are called "Fact-stories selected from the old files of Self master magazine" ([13]), and the magazine has many such stories including some not included in the book. The colony was established in Union Township, Union County, New Jersey in 1908 and lasted until 1938.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pages for Young Socialists With Prefaces by H. M. Hyndman and J. Keir Hardie and Illustrations by Walter Crane - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) (National Labour Press, 1913)
The book is a collection of essays and stories designed to describe socialism to children. Three of the stories. “The Stickleback” (74-78), “Red Tunic,” and “Thrift” (101-105) include brief descriptions of what a socialist eutopia would be like. In addition, there are essays on “Robert Owen” (183-87) and “William Morris” (194-97).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Paradise on Earth - Jeff W. Hayes (1853-1917) (Paradise on Earth, 1913)
Portland, Oregon as a eutopia in 1999. Many technological advances. The status of women has improved, they vote, are elected to public office, are judges, and serve in all public positions, with half the police force women. Women may keep their name hyphenated with her husband's. No longer any need for prisons. Improved health with doctors public employees. Lawyers salaried. No horses. Indians disappearing. No alcohol. One universal language. Cremation.
Book also entitled Portland, Oregon A.D. 1999 and Other Sketches. Portland, OR: F.W. Baltes and Company, 1913.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Reintribement. Or, Proposals for a New Departure for the Human Race - Marshall H[enry] Hudson (Wright & Jaques, 1913)
Detailed communal eutopia, described as a new tribe, including a provisional constitution. His The Standard of Reform: A Social-Economic Tale. By Multiplex [pseud.]. London: William Reeves, 1902 (DU-Ho) is a non-utopian exploration of social issues.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Shelter Island or The Power of God. A Novel. A Story of Truth - Ben H[iram] Pelton (b. 1854) (The Pelton Pub. Co., 1913)
Christian Science eutopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit - [Nicholas] Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) (Author, 1913)
Eutopian broadside with short poems and illustrations, each illustation depicting "the censers of angels" swinging over a Springfield, Illinois landmark. The eutopia suggests a socialist Illinois. See also 1909, 1914, 1920, and 1925 (2) Lindsay
Rpt. in his A Letter About My Four Programmes for Committees in Correspondence (Springfield, IL: Jefferson Printing Co., [1917]), 15-32. Also rpt. in his The Little Magazine both 2nd (1920) and 3rd (1925) imprints (49-64); and in The Poetry of Vachel Lindsay complete & with Lindsay's drawings. Ed Dennis Camp. 2 vols. (Peoria, IL: Spoon River Poetry Press, 1984), 1: 197-212.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Space: A Mirage - A[ndrew] W[illiam] Kerr (b. 1844). (R. Grant and Son, 1913)
Detailed eutopia stressing religion, the simple life, and the family. Anti-democratic and has a constitutional monarchy. Equality rejected. Property is held privately but seen as in trust. Set on a planet near Sirius called Eretha.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Tales of a Traveller: Land Aversion in Acirema (How America Would Look To a Rational People.)" (Everyman (London), 1913)
Satire on American institutions from the perspective of the single tax. The entire issue of the journal is devoted to the single tax. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

“What will Posterity Say of Us? An Address Delivered in the Darwin Hall, on October 1st, 1912” - The Hermit of Prague [pseud.] (Bedrock: A Quarterly Review of Scientific Thought (London), 1913)
The lecture is given by a visitor from another planet who says that human beings have evolved similarly on thousands of worlds. From his description, Earth is very early in the process in that in all cases social evolution ultimately produces an egalitarian, cooperative society. The key step is getting over the stage where people believe in invisible beings.

When William Came: A Story of London Under the Hohenzollerns - H[ector] H[ugh] Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) (John Lane, 1913)
Dystopia of life in England after a German conquest.
U.S. ed. New York: Viking, 1913. U.K. ed. rpt. London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1914; and Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin, 1941; in England Invaded: A Collection of Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Michael Moorcock (London: W.H. Allen, 1977), 79-245; and in The Battle of Dorking George Tomkyns Chesney & When William Came Saki. (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997), 49-182. An excerpt was rpt. in The Great War with Germany, 1890-1914: Fictions and Fantasies of the War-to-come. Ed. I.F. Clarke (Liverpool, Eng.: Liverpool University Press, 1997), 368-77.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The World Set Free; A Story of Mankind" - H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946) (The English Review, 1913)
Effect of abundant, cheap energy. Tremendous dislocation followed, in time, by a world-wide eutopia.
Three excerpts were published in Century Magazine--“A Trap to Catch the Sun” 87 (January 1914): 331-34; “The Last War in the World” 87 (February 1914): 566-85; and “The World Set Free” 87 (March 1914): 696-711. Repub. as The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind. London: Macmillan, 1914. Rpt. as The World Set Free. London: The Hogarth Press, 1988, with an  “Introduction” by Brian Aldiss [1-7]; and as The Last War. A World Set Free. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. U.S. ed. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1914. Rpt. The World Set Free: A Story of Mankind Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2022, with an “Introduction: A Crash Louder Than Thunder” by Sarah Cole (xv-xiv), a “Preface” by Wells from 1921 (xxv-xxvii), and an “Afterword: Shall We Play the Game” by Joshua Glenn (243-252), originally published as “War and Peace Games: H. G. Wells’s battle against kriegspiel.” Cabinet Magazine, no. 45 (Spring 2012). https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/45/glenn.php. Rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XXI The World Set Free and Other War Papers (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 1-249. Except for later critical editions, The Atlantic Edition is generally considered the best text of Wells’s works.
Keywords: English author; Male author

1960 (A Retrospect) - James [Scott] Marshall; Margaret Scott Marshall (J.F. Rowny Press, 1912)
Apartheid as a utopia with problems, but those problems are not related to the racial separation.
Also entitled World of Tomorrow. 3rd ed. Chico, CA: Author, 1954. First published in the Natal Advertiser (South Africa) (1912).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; South African author; US author

"As Easy as A.B.C.; A Tale of 2150 A.D." - [Joseph] Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) (London Magazine, 1912)
The future is presented with both eutopian and dystopian elements depending on one's perspective. The world is controlled by the Aerial Board of Control. People have rejected democracy and returned to an agricultural economy. A reduced birth rate means that the world population falling. See also 1909 Kipling, which is, in effect, Part I.
Rpt. as As Easy as A. B. C. London: A.P. Watt & Son, 1912. On the first page of the text, “Part II” is added after the title. Repub. without the subtitle in his A Diversity of Creatures (London: Macmillan, 1917), 1-44; book rpt. ed. Paul Driver (Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1987), 29-57. Rpt. as “As Easy as A.B.C. (1912)”. In The Mandalay Edition of the Works of Rudyard Kipling. A Diversity of Creatures Letters of Travel 1892-1913 (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925), 3-40 [The two volumes are separately paged in the reprint]. Rpt. as “As Easy as ABC.” The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories. Ed. Tom Shippey (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1992), 33-58; and with the original title in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 165-83. Rpt. from A Diversity of Creatures in With the Night Mail A Story of 2000 A.D. and “As Easy as A.B.C.” (Boston, MA and Brooklyn, NY: HiLo Books, 2012), 91-139 with “Thoughts About an Airship. Introduction” by Matthew De Abaitua (11-17) and “Down With The People. Afterword” by Bruce Sterling (140-44).
Keywords: English author; Male author

As It Is In Heaven - Alfred Clark (Sampson Low, Marston, 1912)
Domestic heaven written for children.
Keywords: Male author

Attraction of the Compass: A Romance of the North, Based Upon Facts of a Personal Experience - H[oward] L[ewis] Dodge (1867-1946) (Dove & Courtney, 1912)
Lost race eutopia emphasizing trial marriage.
2nd ed. with an additional chapter as Attraction of the Compass: or the Blonde Eskimo: A Romance of the North, Based Upon Facts of a Personal Experience. Long Beach, CA: Seaside Printing Co., 1916.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

The Bush - Bernard [Patrick] O'Dowd (1866-1933) (Thomas C. Lothian, 1912)
Poem. The section on pages 66-69 describes Australia as the potential eutopia that all utopias have dreamed of, but the point is explicitly made that work still needs to be done to fulfill its promise. “She is Eutopia, she is Hy-Brasil” (62).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Child of the Dawn - Arthur Christopher Benson (1862-1925) (Smith, Elder and Company, 1912)
Heaven as a eutopia. No sex. No property. Reincarnation. Each person enters heaven with the understanding with which they left life, and work in heaven involves helping other souls to advance. There are souls who try to stop others advancing. Hell is described as a meaningless round of pleasure that becomes less and less satisfying.
U.S.. ed. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. Rpt. Indian Hills, CO: Falcon’s Wing Press, 1957.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“The Child of the Future: When the Stains are Washed Away” - Margaret McMillan (1860-1931) (The Labour Leader, 1912)
A brief eutopia depicting healthy young girls in a future where children are fed right, get good health care, and learn how to correctly care for themselves. The author includes one-paragraph exhortation to the Labour Party saying that it needs to learn what needs to be done to produce the eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Female author; Scottish author

The Civil War of 1915 - J[ohn] Twells Brex (1874-1920) (C. Arthur Pearson, 1912)
Anti-socialist dystopia.
Originally serialized in The Sporting Times.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Crock of Gold - James Stephens (1882/4-1950) (Macmillan, 1912)
Fantasy in which traditional Irish folklore interacts with the contemporary world. Contrast between fulfilled desire, represented by the god Pan (imported by Leprechauns whose gold had been stolen) and happiness (represented by the god Angus Óg). Ends with the suggestion that a eutopia will be created.
U.S. ed. New York: Macmillan, 1912. With twelve illustrations in colour and decorative headings and tailpieces by Thomas Mackenzie. New York: Macmillan, 1926. Rpt. without the color illustrations. Dublin, Ireland: Gill & Macmillan, 1995.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Day That Changed the World - [Edward Harold] [Begbie] (1871-1929) (Hodder and Stoughton, 1912)
Through what may or may not be a miracle, people change their behavior so they behave as good Christians should, which at least begins the process toward eutopia.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Derelict Empire - [Henry Crossley] [Irwin] (William Blackwood and Sons, 1912)
An anti-socialist dystopia is the cause of the neglect of empire through abolishing the House of Lords, giving women the vote, giving Ireland Home Rule, and establishing a pension system, among other things.
Keywords: Male author

The Downfall of Grabbum: An Ulster Fable - [Adela Elizabeth] [Orpen] (1855-1928) (R. Carswell & Son, 1912)
Some satire, but the novel ends with a eutopia of peace and harmony brought about by forensic phrenology or reading the bumps on the heads of individuals.
Keywords: Female author; Irish author

Dr. Blair: or, Irish Protestants under Home Rule - Rev. P. P. O'Sullivan (1874-1918) (Ptd. by R. Carswell, 1912)
Set in 2010 and depicts the crisis of religion due to falling attendance. The Roman Catholic Church conspires to get control of Ireland and is expelled. Spiritualism. Revival of religion followed by a eutopia of non-denominationalism, prosperity, and technological advances.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Election Petition - J. Cargill (Samuel French, 1912)
Satire set in 1950. Women had won the franchise and disenfranchised men. Sympathy had begun to return to men, and there is a legal case brought after an election in which a woman supported by men was elected.

"A Flight to Freedom" - [Chancey Corey] [Brainerd] (1874-1922); [Edith Rathbone Jacobs] [Brainerd] (885-1922) (Munsey's Magazine 47.2 (May 1912), 1912)
Two couples escape to the countryside where they create a new Eden.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

"The Forecast" - Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1858-1919) (The Englishman and Other Poems, 1912)
Eutopian poem. World peace, eugenics, knowledge.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Freed" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
Eutopia brought about by the loss of memory of the past and the disappearance of legal records and most books, except in the sciences. Humanity then recreates itself, establishes a world language and frees women to become full participants in the creation of knowledge. Women chose to limit the number of children to the number that could be supported.
Keywords: Female author; US author

From Those in White - [Maud Lalita] [Johnson] (np, 1912)
Brief eutopia focusing on marriage and motherhood and emphasizing the continuing independence of partners. No private property. Simple life. Calls Utopia the land of realization.
Keywords: Female author

The Garden of Adam - Alf[red] Brunton Aitken (John Ouseley Ltd, 1912)
Includes a brief socialist eutopia for Britain and the Empire (219-20).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Great Analysis: A Plea for a Rational World-Order - [William] [Archer] (1856-1924) (Methuen, 1912)
Begins with an analysis of contemporary society by showing the effects on Yorkshire of a disaster that cuts it off from the rest of the world and illustrates how a better society could be built. The key is population control. This is then extended to the world.
[2nd ed.] under the author's name London: Williams & Norgate, 1931.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Great State: Essays in Construction (Harper and Bros, 1912)
Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other.
US ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, "The Past and the Great State" (1-46), also published as "Socialism." Harper's Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as "The Great State." In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), "The Great State and the Country-side" (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, "Work in the Great State" (67-119); Ray Lankester, "The Making of New Knowledge" (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, "Health and Healing in the Great State" (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, "Law and the Great State" (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, "Democracy and the Great State" (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, "Women in the Great State" (219-47); Roger Fry, "The Artist in the Great State" (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, "The Present Development of the Great State" (273-99); Conrad Noel, "A Picture of the Church in the Great State" (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, "The Growth of the Great State" (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, "The Tradition of the Great State" (357-78).
Keywords: English author; Female author; Male author

Heaven's Gate Opened. A Spirit's Message. A Series of Addresses given through the mediumship of E.M. Eldridge giving a brief description of the spheres beyond the earth - E. M. Eldridge (Clarke & Satchell, 1912)
Eutopia. Evolution through higher and higher spheres. Describes homes and occupations. Includes Hell as a dystopia.

"Her Memories" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
A eutopia in which a large apartment block in New York City is designed to include cooperative housekeeping, pre-school and early schooling, and places for public activities and entertainment.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 174-81.
Keywords: Female author; US author

An Individualist's Utopia - J[oseph] H[iam] Levy (1838-1913) (Lawrence Nelson, 1912)
Eugenics, technology, and the simple life. The eutopia is brought about by people choosing to have fewer children.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Lady Ermyntrude and the Plumber; A Love Tale of MCMXX - Percy [Arthur Perceval] Fendall (1850-1917) (S. Swift, 1912)
The Great Compulsory Work Act requires that everyone work. For example, the monarch is paid by the job for ceremonial duties, and the Queen takes in paying guests. No House of Lords. Illegal to give credit.
Rpt. London: S. Swift, 1919
Keywords: Australian author; English author; French author; Male author

Life--the Jade - Martin H[enry] Potter (1871-1955) (Everett & Co., 1912)
Dystopia brought about by the discovery of a substance that granted immortality. Set between its discovery in 1921 and the rediscovery of the need to love and bear children in 2021.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Lover’s Baedeker and Guide to Arcady - Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1912)
Humorous eutopia describing the joys and pitfalls of love. Arkady, the capital and chief city of Arcadia, is “the Mecca of all Lovers” (1). In Dan Cupid’s Heartware shop, broken hearts can be repaired while you wait (54).
Keywords: Female author

Myriam and the Mystic Brotherhood - Maude Lesseuer Howard (John Wurtele Lovell, 1912)
Occult novel in which a group of spiritually advanced people are invited to assist governments and help create a eutopia of peace and prosperity. Not much detail on the eutopia.
Rpt. Elkhart, IN: Occult Publishing Co., 1915.
Keywords: Female author

"The New Gulliver" - Barry [Eric Odell] Pain (1864-1928) (The New Gulliver and Other Stories, 1912)
Dystopia. Two class-society in which the lower class is bred as slaves to the upper class. The upper class is sexless, long-lived, and lives underground. Stress on moderation and safety. High technology. Live on pills and water.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Night Land: A Love Tale - William Hope Hodgson (1875-1918) (Eveleigh Nash, 1912)
Far future dystopia after the death of the sun. Generally classified as a horror novel. The remaining people live inside large, fortified redoubts that are surrounded by various horrors. The novel describes the adventures of a young man who rescues a young woman from a failing redoubt.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Ostrich for the Defense - William H. Hile (1869-1943) (Geo. H. Ellis Co, 1912)
Mostly adventure but includes a lost race eutopia depicting a cooperative system based on the principles of the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers for cooperation and other well-known cooperative schemes.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Philip Dru: Administrator. A Story of Tomorrow 1920-1935 - [Edward Mandell] [House] (1858-1938) (B.W. Huebsch, 1912)
Eutopia after a civil war in the U.S. between the corrupt plutocracy and those supporting the citizenry as a whole. The U.S. system is reformed under the leadership of a man who takes the title "Administrator of the Republic". Reforms include votes for women, a graduated income tax, national rather than state and local laws, radical reduction in the number of judges, and elimination of the ability of the Supreme Court to pass on the constitutionality of laws, among other things. Includes a new national constitution.
Rpt. Appleton, WI: Robert Welch University Press, 1998 with a "Foreword" (i-xi) by William Norman Grigg, "Publisher's Appendices" (251-75), and an "Index" (276-82). The added material presents the book as seriously undermining the U.S. political system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Picture of the Church in the Great State" - Rev. Conrad [le Despenser Roden] Noel (1869-1942) (The Great State: Essays in Construction, 1912)
Fiction set about 2000. The Church of England will encompass most Christian groups in England and will be more democratic. The church has been disestablished, but there is a movement to have it re-established. New saints include Thomas More (1478-1535), who was actually canonized twenty years later by the Roman Catholic Church, and John Ball (c. 1338-81), the English Lollard priest involved in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 (See 1886-87 Morris). The church stresses a balanced life, including a healthy sex life. There is a description of a cathedral, which includes chapels for different groups within the faith, including a Chapel of Our Lady of Health and a Chapel of Santa Claus, for children.
U.S. ed. as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Program of Radical Democracy" - J[ames] Mckeen Cattell (1860-1940) (The Popular Science Monthly (New York), 1912)
Essay outlining the basis for a eutopia with, among other provisions, universal suffrage, including children; the abolition of limitation on the powers of both national and state governments; progressive income tax on individuals and corporations; conversion of the army into local police and the navy into a mercantile marine; international arbitration; free medical care; pensions; and the eight-hour workday and minimum wage.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Prophet. A Novel - [H.E.] [Newman] (Broadway Pub. Co., 1912)
A standard anti-socialist dystopia is overcome through a religious revival. World federation.

The Red Hand of Ulster - [James Owen] [Hannay] (1865-1950) (Smith, Elder & Co., 1912)
Humor. Stress on conflict with Britain. Ulster wants independence but not "Home Rule". Britain wants to get rid of the Irish.
U.S. ed. New York: Hodder & Stoughton/George H. Doran, 1912. Rpt. Shannon, Ireland: Irish University Press, 1972.
Keywords: Male author

"The Rejected Planet: An Irishman's Story of a World Without a Woman" - John Fleming Wilson (1877-1922) (Pearson's Magazine, 1912)
Satire in which a man creates a new supposedly ideal planet with no women after he is rejected by the woman he loves. When she accepts him, he rejects the planet.
Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 28-34.
Keywords: Male author

Rosaleen O'Hara: A Romance of Ireland - Joseph Hocking (1860-1932) (Hodder & Stoughton, 1912)
Home rule will be temporarily Rome, rule but the real Ireland will emerge.
Keywords: Male author

Ruth's Marriage in Mars: A Scientific Novel - Rev. Mrs. Charles Wilder Glass (b. 1874) (Author, 1912)
Spiritualist novel in which Mars is depicted as a place where true love flourishes. The novel also describes various dystopian regions.
Bound separately paged in her Romance in Starland and Other Stories. [Los Angeles, CA: Author, 192?].
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Scarlet Plague" - Jack [John Griffith] London (1876-1916) (The London Magazine, 1912)
Post-catastrophe (pandemic/plague) dystopia in which the oldest survivor, who had been a Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, is still trying to tell his uncomprehending grandchildren of the wonders of the past. Resonates with 1949 Stewart.
Rpt. illus. Gordon Grant. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1915; illus. Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961) in Famous Fantastic Mysteries 10.3 (February 1949): 92-118; and in Curious Fragments: Jack London’s Fantasy Fiction. Ed. Dale L. Walker (Post Washington, NY: National University Publications/Kennkat [sic] Press, 1975), 156-97 with an editor's note on 155-56; and in The Science Fiction of Jack London: An Anthology. Ed. Richard Gid Powers (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975), separately paged.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Spectres of Night and Morning Light - J[oseph] E[dward] Paynter (1868-1960) (Every Where Publishing Co., 1912)
While mostly a love and mystery story wrapped up in discussions about religion and spiritualism, the novel also includes the hollow earth, which is the abode of angels, and a description of the Garden of Wisdom that followed upon Eden.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

"A Strange Land" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1912)
Eutopia about a country with the goal of making all people better and the country more beautiful. They reject capitalism.
Rpt. in Carol Farley Kessler's Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 182-85; and rpt. abbreviated as "A Certain Land." Woman's Journal (February 8, 1913): 42.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Superwoman" - Miriam Michelson (1870-1942) (Smart Set. A Magazine of Cleverness, 1912)
A typical, wealthy American male chauvinist ends up on an unknown island inhabited by Amazonian women and effeminate men, although, in this case, the women are presented positively. The editor compares the story to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "Herland" (1915).
Rpt. in The Superwoman and Other Writings. Ed. Lori Harrison-Kahan (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 2019), 55-135, with an “Introduction: Miriam Michelson, Frontier Feminist” by the editor (1-54).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Thaumát-Oahspe - J. Nelson Jones (J.C. Stephens Pty. Ltd, 1912)
Although there is some original material, the book is mostly a summary of 1882 Oahspe by John Ballou Newbrough (1828?-91), whose picture is the frontispiece. Oahspe is a eutopia presented as a religious text and was the basis of Faithism, which now has believers in many countries.
The cover says, "Partly reprinted from Articles that appeared in the Melbourne, VIC, Australia 'Harbinger of Light'."

A Trip to the North Pole and Beyond to Civilization - Dewitt F. Lewis (Industrial Exchange, 1912)
Eutopia. Almost all property owned by the Industrial Exchange Association in order to eliminate wasteful competition. Little government.
Keywords: Male author

Under Home Rule. A Novel - William Palmer (Baines & Scarsbrook, 1912)
Anti-Irish, but particularly anti-Roman Catholic, dystopia describing the horrors of Home Rule. Stresses the need to expel the Roman Catholic Church from Ireland and ends, that having been done, with Ireland now a "happy and prosperous" part of the U.K. (168).
Keywords: Male author

Utopia Achieved: A Novel of the Future - Herman Hine Brinsmade (Broadway Pub. Co., 1912)
Eutopia set in 1960. Many reforms, particularly in diet, which is primarily vegetarian. The Federal Bureau of Health provides education, ensures that food is pure, and offers free medical care with a stress on prevention. Advances in technology. Five-hour workday. Single tax ensures prosperity. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-1897). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

What Auckland Might Be Or; A Tribute From France - Mrs. S. V Irwin (J. Buelens & Co, 1912)
Redesign of Auckland to be like Paris.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

When Dreams Come True - Ritter Brown (Desmond FitzGerald, 1912)
Lost race Incan eutopia in the last chapter.
Keywords: Male author

5000 A.D. A Review and an Excursion. Read Before ye Sette of Odd Volumes at Oddenino's Imperial Restaurant on Jan. 24th, 1911 - Ralph [Sidney Albert] Straus (1892-1950) (Privately ptd., 1911)
Pages 39-56 presents a eutopia based on the samurai of 1905 Wells. Pages 9-39 gives a survey of previous literature on utopias.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Answer - William James Chidley (1860-1916) (Sydney D. Smith, 1911)
Natural food (fruit and nuts), no hot drinks, nudity. Has an odd notion of coitus, which should take place when the penis is not erect. No alcohol, tobacco, or opium. If we live his way, we will produce a eutopia. No war, no quarrels. Proposes gardens be set aside for young lovers in the Spring and early Summer. The poor, weak, criminal, and stupid "should be fed, sheltered, and treated with kindness and consideration" (195). "Class distinctions, money-making, ambition, violence, warfare and pride" are "a weakness or perversion" (195). The author was regularly imprisoned or incarcerated in mental hospitals for advocating his beliefs.
2nd ed. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney D. Smith, 1914. Rpt. in Bill Hornadge, Chidley’s Answer to the Sex Problem (Dubbo, NSW, Australia: Review Publications, 1971), 54-90. See also Chidley’s The Answer, or the World As Joy, An Essay in Philosophy (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney D. Smith, 1915), 155-205, which is reportedly an edition from between the first two.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Athonia or, The Original Four Hundred - H. George Schuette (1850-1935) (The Lakeside Company, 1911)
An odd novel in that a series of eutopias is presented, all of which fail. Four hundred people (200 men and 200 women) of ancient Athens discover America (Yucatan is suggested) and try a number of different social experiments. Initially they try equality without laws to regulate behavior; then they institute a number of laws; and then they institute inequality between men and woman. Ultimately most of the people choose to hunt and fish rather than establish a great civilization.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Centaur - Algernon [Henry] Blackwood (1869-1951) (Macmillan, 1911)
The novel is mostly adventure but includes, although without much detail, a eutopia of the Simple Life in contact with nature.
Rpt. Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1938.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Centaurians. A Novel - [Lottie F.] [Ambrose] (Broadway Publishing Co., 1911)
Lost race flawed utopia located near the North Pole. There are four societies in the area, with one, the Centaurians, the focus of this aspect of the novel. The Centaurians are advanced technologically and see themselves as having achieved perfection and no longer love or hate. The novel contains the standard love story with the man from outside falling in love with a woman who is considered almost divine and is known as the Priestess of the Sun and is wedded to the Sun. Although she is supposed no longer to be able to experience love, she does, but not him.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Columbus of Space - Garrett P[utnam] Serviss (1851-1929) (D. Appleton, 1911)
Science fiction novel about an extended stay on Venus. Mostly adventure, but Venus is inhabited by two peoples, one of which is generally good and the other of which is evil.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dawn of All - Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914) (Hutchinson, 1911)
Eutopia of the Roman Catholic Church completely dominant in sixty years. Democracy and equality eliminated. Socialism illegal. Monarchy re-established. Heretics are handed over to the state and executed. See 1907 Benson for an alternative dystopian future.
US ed. St. Louis, MO: B. Herder, 1911.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Day After To-morrow - [Minnie Warren] [Jones] (b. 1968) (F.V. White & Co., Ltd, 1911)
Romance but with a vaguely utopian background. America is a monarchy. Part is located in Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

The Electric Gun: A Tale of Love and Socialism - Harold Johnston (b. 1865) (Websdale, Shoosmith, 1911)
Most of the novel is a standard anti-socialist dystopia, with good ideas but an incompetent, corrupt administration. The novel ends with a brief description of the much better society created after the collapse of the socialist regime.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"The Fifteenth Episode. The Wand of Sa'aba" - Frank Morton (1869-1923) (The Yacht of Dreams, 1911)
Includes a brief description of a technological eutopia of peace and plenty that pre-dated earliest known times by ten million years. See also 1909 Morton and 1911 Morton, “The Seventeenth Episode."
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

"The Fool and His Inheritance" - James Edmond (1859-1933) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1911)
Satire using global warming and the last man theme. See also 1919 Edmond.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author; Scottish author

"The Great Lock-Out: What Happened when the Spooks took charge of the Printing Trade" - C[larence] [Michael] J[ames] Dennis (1876-1938) (The Lone Hand (Sydney, NSW, Australia), 1911)
Anti-capitalist humor in which the dead are put to work, but dead labor leaders organize them into a successful union.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Horroboos - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) (The Liberty Press, 1911)
Anti-capitalist satire. See also 1893 and 1903 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kalomera; The Story of a Remarkable Community - W[illiam] J[ohn] Saunders (1873-1928) (Elliot Stock, 1911)
Communist eutopia in which each town manages its own affairs under the supervision of the central government. Each town also provides some national service like producing goods for the national stores and working on construction projects. All people equal. Gender roles are fairly traditional but the head of state and the heads of all departments that concern both sexes rotate. Separate gender authority in those areas where only men or women work. Religion that teaches morality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kantsaywhere" - Francis Galton (1822-1911) (University College, London, Galton Papers 138/6, 1911)
Eugenic eutopia.
The work, which was significantly cut by Galton’s relatives after his death, is described and most of what remains is published in Karl Pearson, “Francis Galton’s Utopia.” The Life and Letters of Francis Galton. 4 vols. (Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1930), 3A: 411-425. Pearson published the corrected manuscript without indicating the changes made in the original draft. Pearson changed the paragraphing found in the original. A critical edition was published with the permission of University College as “The Eugenic College of Kantsaywhere. Critical Edition.” Ed. Lyman Tower Sargent. Utopian Studies 12.2 (2001): 191-209.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Laws of Leflo - [Beatrice May Butt] [Allhusen] (1853-1918) (John Ouseley, 1911)
Leflo is a lost colony in Africa that has been isolated for over a century. The community was established with very strict laws that were to be followed to the letter. The result was a peaceful community, but the negative effects outweighed the positive. An example is that at eighteen girls must choose to marry or not. They are provided for by the community whatever their choice, but if they choose not to they wear distinctive dress and can never marry. Much of the novel is romance.
Keywords: English author; Female author

"The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future" - Stephen [Butler] Leacock (1869-1944) (Nonsense Novels, 1911)
Humor on utopias.
Canadian ed. (Montreal, QC: Publishers' Press, 1911), 207-31. Rpt. (Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1963), 138-53.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Military Socialism - [Jacob W.] [Horner] (Author, 1911)
Authoritarian eutopia organized along military lines. For example, "Every man who attains the rank of major-general, through whatever channel, is by virtue of his rank, a member of parliament" (34). Racist, sexist.
Keywords: Male author

"Moving the Mountain" - Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) (The Forerunner, 1911)
Detailed feminist eutopia. "'Moving the Mountain' is a short distance Utopia, a baby Utopia, a little one that can grow. It involves no other change than a change of mind, the mere awakening of people, especially the women, to existing possibilities. It indicates what people might do, real people, now living, in thirty years--if they would" (6). No poverty, no pollution, no racial problems, no gender conflict, and little disease. A two-hour workday is required, but most work four.
Repub. New York: Charlton Company, 1911. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 37-149. This ed. compares The Forerunner version with the Clarion version and includes the brief "Preface" from the Clarion version that was not in The Forerunner (37). Excerpt published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 178-88; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 159-73.
Keywords: Female author; US author