"'If I Were Dictator'" (St. Paul's Magazine, 1872)
Satire in which a sea captain is made dictator of England with absolute powers for six months. Includes proposals for, among other things, gradually eliminating the national debt, reducing expenditures, reducing the number of government employees, reforming the military, reforming the trade in food and drink, and establishing an Anglo-Saxon Confederation among Great Britain, the U.S., Canada, Australasia, and South Africa.

"John Mardon, Mariner: His Strange Adventures in El Dorado" - The Author of "St. Abe." [pseud.] (St. Paul's Magazine, 1872)
Poem of mostly dystopian adventures in El Dorado, which teems with dangerous animals and natives.

Kennaquhair: Narrative of Utopian Travel - [Henry B.] [Lee] (Chapman and Hall, 1872)
The author visits Utopia, which is peopled with the heroes and heroines of the fictions of the past, and who die when their popularity in fiction has passed. He meets characters from Dickens.
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Keywords: Male author

The Martyrdom of Man - [William] Winwood Reade (1838-75) (Trübner & Co, 1872)
Includes a section given the title in the Table of Contents of "The Future of the Human Race" (502-15) that includes a few pages of future projection that is a generalized eutopia (512-15).
15th ed. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, 1896.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

"Mrs. Strongitharm's Report" - Bayard Taylor (1825-78) (Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home, 1872)
Satire on the enfranchisement of women, who get the vote in one state and do nothing with it.
Rpt. (New York: Garrett Press, 1969), 307-40.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Nineteen Hundred and Seventy-two" - Jean Ingelow (1820-97) (The Little Wonder Horn, 1872)
Children's technological eutopia.
Rpt. in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 4.221 (April 25, 1872): 9. Repub. in Vol. 4, The Snowflake and the Water-lily and 1972 of her The Fourth Wonder of The Little Wonder Box. 6 vols. (London: Griffith, Farran, Okeden, & Welsh, 1887), 222-52. Rpt. in The Oxford Book of Children’s Short Stories. Ed. Jan Mark (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1993), 134-45.
Keywords: English author; Female author

Ranolf and Amohia: A South-Sea Day-Dream - Alfred Domett (1811-87) (Smith, Elder & Co, 1872)
Very long poem that is in part a romantic Aotearoa/New Zealand and South Seas eutopia presenting the Maori as both Noble Savage and just savage.
2nd ed. rev. with the subtitle A Dream of Two Lives. 2 vols. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1883.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

"Ultrawa" - Authwise, Eugene (The Overland Monthly (San Francisco, CA), 1872)
Eutopia. Hidden village of forty families. No formal government but informally led by the eldest man and woman.
Keywords: Male author

"What John Smith Saw in the Moon: A Christmas Story for Parties Who were Children Twenty years ago" - Fred H[arvey] Brown (The Workingman's Advocate (Chicago, IL), 1872)
Eutopia with satirical elements. Technologically advanced. No money.
Rpt. in his One Dollar's Worth. Illus. H. Mayer ([Chicago, IL]: Np, 1893), 5-44.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Zaphnath Paaneah, or, The Irish Parliament in 1876. Respice, Aspice, Prospice (T. Richards, 1872)
Typical depiction of the Irish unable to rule themselves.

The Coming Race - [Edward] [Bulwer-Lytton] (1803-73) (William Blackwood, 1871)
Classic utopia in the center of the earth. Highly rational winged people illustrating the strengths and weaknesses of reason. Each individual holds the power, called vril, of destroying any other individual and, as a result, all get along well. Some sex role reversal.
Rpt. as by The Right Hon. Lord Lytton. London: George Routledge and Sons, [1874]. Canadian ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Toronto, ON, Canada: Adam, Stevenson, 1871. US ed. as The Coming Race; or, The New Utopia. Reprinted from the English Edition. New-York: Francis B. Felt & Co., 1871. Also published as Vril. The Power of the Coming Race. Blauvelt, NY: Rudolf Steiner Publications, 1972; as The Coming Race. Quakertown, PA: Philosophical Publishing Co., 1973 with notes and commentary connecting it to New Age thought by Emerson M. Clymer; Santa Barbara, CA: Woodbridge Press Pub. Co., 1979; Stroud, Eng.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1995, with a “Biographical Introduction” by Julian Wolfreys; in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 1: 143-36; Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2002 with an "Introduction" by Brian W. Aldiss (5-11); ed. David Seed. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2005; and ed. Peter W. Sinnema. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008, with extensive appendices.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain" - John Ruskin (1819-1900) (The Works of John Ruskin, 1871)
Includes throughout the series, but particularly in Letters LVII and LVIII, a proposal for the Guild of St. George, which will provide land for workers. Other works of Ruskin have been included in lists of utopias, particularly “Unto This Last”: Four Essays on the First Principles of Political Economy. London: Smith, Elder, 1862, originally published as “‘Unto This Last.’--I. The Roots of Honour;” “‘Unto This Last.’--II. The Veins of Wealth; “‘Unto This Last.’--III. Qui Judicatis Terram; and “‘Unto This Last.’--IV. Ad Valorem.” Cornhill Magazine 2.8-11 (August - November 1860): 155-66, 278-86, 407-18, 543-64. There is a utopianism in much of Ruskin’s thought, and various intentional communities were founded on the basis of Ruskin’s ideas but without his participation.
Fors Clavigera is in vols. 27 - 29 (1907). Vol. 27 contains letters 1-36; Vol. 28 contains letters 37-72; and Vol. 28 contains letters 73-96. The letters were originally published separately and collected into volumes as follows: 1-12 (1871) Vol. 1; 13-24 (1872) Vol. 2; 25-36 (1873) Vol. 3; 37-48 (1874) Vol. 4; 49-60 (1875) Vol. 5; 61-72 (1876) Vol. 6; 73-84 (1877) Vol. 7; 85-96 (1878-84) Vol. 8 described as new series]; 85-87 (1878); 88-89 (1880); 90-93 (1884); 94-96 (1884); 85-90 issued as ns 1-6; 91-96 as ns 7-12. New ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1896. Second Small. ed. 4 vols. London: George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington, 1899-190?. Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Ed. Dinah Birch. The Whitehouse Edition of John Ruskin. Edinburgh, Scot.: Edinburgh University Press, 2000 is an edited selection from the letters.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Island of Atlantis. A Personal Narrative of the Travels and Wonderful Adventures of Lord Arthur A ...... Y, of Phantom Castle, Ben Nevis (np, 1871)
Near the beginning there is a brief dream of "'the island of the immortals, where there is neither death nor disease. Herein enter no evil passions or designs; but love, sweet and angelic, reigns supreme!'" (6). This is followed by notes on various imaginary utopian islands and the doings of alchemists. This is then followed by a visit to Atlantis, which is home to the Rosicrucian brethren. The island is operated by technology, some of which is used to avoid discovery. The island has no crime, death, disease or accident.

Kingcraft & Priestcraft in 1971; or, a Review of a Curious Old MS. Written by my Great-Grandfather. An Essay, Delivered before the Sunday Free Discussion Society, at the Masonic Hall, on New Year's Evening, 1871 - J. D. (Robert Bell, Printer, 1871)
Considerable progress has been made through science in the hundred years between 1871 and 1971, but the author says that perfection will never be reached. Australia is now a republic. Albion (England) is one of the few monarchies left, and the current king, Albert the Third, is a "democrat, deist, and philanthropist." World confederation has eliminated war. The pamphlet is mostly an attack on religion. In the future there is no clerical dress; the major belief systems are Deism and Catholicism; there is no religious education; the Pope is directly elected; and priests marry.

The Next Generation - John Francis Maguire, M.P. (1815-72) (Hurst and Blackett, 1871)
Satire largely on women in politics set 1891 and 1892 with women serving in Parliament. London reformed London and presented as middle class.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Other Life - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) (James Speirs, 1871)
Heaven as eutopia. Designed to popularize the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). See also 1869 Holcombe and 1870 Holcombe (2).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Around the World" - Edward Lear (1812-88) (Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets, 1871)
Mostly standard Lear nonsense, but many of the places the children visit have elements of a cockaigne, particularly concerned with food.
Rpt. in his Nonsense Books with all the original illustrations (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1921), 98-114; and in his The Complete Nonsense Book Containing all the Original Pictures and Verses, together with New Material. Ed. [Constance], Lady Strachey, 18th ed. (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1961), 149-65.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The Travels and Adventures of as Philosopher in the Famous Empire of Hulee. From an Old MS., A.D. 2070" (Fraser's Magazine (London), 1871)
Anti-socialist satire. Eugenics. All the officers of the state are from medicine, and they interbreed to produce more. The state takes all money. Technology. The country is an absolutely level plain.

Universal Equality, or, Jonathan Baxter's Peep into the Future - Julia Agnes Fraser (1841-1915) (John Menzies and Co, 1871)
Parody written partially in an Irish brogue in which a man visits the future France, Scotland, Ireland, America, and England in all of which he discovers that his ideal of universal equality produces a negative rather than a positive result.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Very Latest News, Communicated Through the Medium of Mr. J. Smith, Printer, &c. Edited for Contemporary Readers - Algernon Reginald Hillearn Mortimer Esq. (ed.) [written by] [pseud.] (William P. Nimmo, 1871)
Satire. New Zealand newspaper from 2871, The Hourly News, and New Otago Literary Chronicle. Phonetic spelling. Ads for J.S. Mill Chapel, trips to the moon, robotic housemaid, a woman barrister, and a play performed by machines, among others. The king is a robot. Includes a report from Hell. Planets are inhabited.

"The Wicked World: An Allegory" - W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert (1836-1911) (Tom Hood's Comic Annual for 1871, 1871)
Humor. The eutopia of the fairies makes contact with the real world.
Rpt. in The Lost Stories of W.S. Gilbert. Ed. Peter Haining (London: Robson Books, 1982), 143-56.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"1970" A Vision of The Coming Age - John Collins (1814-1902) (Np, 1870)
Eutopian poem describing a dream of the millennium in which Christianity is the world religion, and Christian morality is the rule. God has decreed that there will be no more damage by fires, floods, and storms and animals are no longer dangerous. No alcohol, tobacco, or theater. No disease. No hotels; all homes are open to anyone. No lawyers. No stock market. Technology has brought the world, and even the planets, close together. Environmental renewal.
Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Np [Ptd. Burlington, NJ: Enterprise Print]. 24 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Democratic Charter of the Future; or, Outlines of Progressive Reforms, in Government, Social Economy, Labour-Arrangement, Education, Law, Police, Military, Poor-Relief, Etc. - [John Aloys] [Petzler] (1814?-1898) (E. Truelove, 1870)
Non-fiction eutopia. Twenty page pamphlet giving a series of detailed proposals for the stages from the current situation to what he calls the "Communistic State". Includes all of the areas included in the title. See also 1876 Petzler, which reprints this text and 1890 Petzler. See also his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L).
Rpt. as an Appendix to his Social Architecture; or, Reasons and Means for the Demolition and Reconstruction of the Social Edifice. By An Exile from France [pseud.] (London: Samuel Tinsley, 1976), 423-39.
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

The Dream of Ubertus - [William Moore] [Ferrar] (J. Walch & Sons, 1870)
Allegory on British-French relations using imaginary countries. See also 1896 Ferrar.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

In Both Worlds - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) (J.B. Lippincott, 1870)
The novel is cast as an autobiography of Lazarus, who, when he dies, goes to the World of Spirits between earth and heaven that is a staging ground that everyone goes to before being assigned to heaven or hell. It is presented as a eutopia even though those spirits who will go to hell are there. There he meets his family, including his brother who died young and who has grown and married. They have all built magnificent homes. See also 1869 Holcombe, 1870 Holcombe, Our Children in Heaven, and 1871 Holcombe.
2nd ed. as Lazarus of Bethany: The Story of His Life in Both Worlds. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: George Robertson, 1872.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Man From the Moon (C.R. Brown, 1870)
Eutopia. Advanced civilization on the moon. Scientific, anti-religious. Vegetarian. Very long life the result of a scientifically correct diet. Irregular passions shorten life. Any needs not provided by nature are chemically produced. No money. No crime because no property. Women are generally slightly inferior to men and have stopped having children.

Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It? Comprising Dreams - Annie Denton Cridge (1825-75) (William Denton, 1870)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Rpt. in Woodhull & Claflin’s Weekly (New York) 1.17 - 25, 2.1 (whole no. 27) (September 3 - November 5, November 19, 1870): 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2, 2-3, 2-3, 2-3; 3-4. Selections rpt. without Comprising Dreams in the title in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 75-94 with an editor’s note on 74. Complete text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 5-60.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

Misopseudes: or the Year 2075. A Marvellous Vision (W.H. Williams, 1870)
Anti-religious, anti-communist, anti-Semitic. The future is better because none of these exist.
2nd ed. rev. as Misopseudes: A Vision "Auspicium melioris aevi" and Extracts from Letters. Np: Np, 1873.

The Moslem in Cambridge. A Liberal and Advanced Journal of Universal Scope, Views and Tendencies, Adapted to the Tastes of all Nations - [Gerald Stanley] [Davies] ed. [written by] (1845-1927) (The Moslem in Cambridge. A Liberal and Advanced Journal of Universal Scope, Views and Tendencies, Adapted to the Tastes of all Nations [An Undergraduate magazine], 1870)
Satire on a future Cambridge University that is no longer just Christian, admits women, has abolished tests, and is completely cosmopolitan.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Our Children in Heaven - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) (J.B. Lippincott, 1870)
Includes descriptions of the actual life in heaven reflecting the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Mostly essay. See also 1869 Holcombe, 1870 Holcombe In Both Worlds, and 1871 Holcombe.
U.K. ed. London: James Speiers, 1870. Also published in phonography but no copy found.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Page of American History. Constitution of the United States of the World. An Address by Victoria C. Woodhull. Delivered in Lincoln Hall, Washington, U.S.A., in 1870. The First Suggestion of its kind made in America, and commented on widely by the Press - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull (1838-1927) (Norman, Sawyer, 1870)
Eutopia presented through a detailed constitution, which the title suggests is to be world-wide but the details of which are limited to the U.S. The basic governmental structure is similar to that in effect in the U.S. at the time. The Constitution is egalitarian, with the only division of the population is that between adults, those eighteen and over, and minors. All over eighteen can vote with minor residence requirements. See also 1890 Martin and Victoria C. Woodhull, A Speech on The Garden of Eden; or, Paradise Lost and Found, delivered at Cooper Institute, New York City, December 30, 1875. New York: Woodhull & Claflin, 1876. A statement of the equality of the sexes. A completely different version was published in her Victoria C. Woodhull’s Life Sketches. Np: np, nd.  Their The Garden of Eden; or, The Paradise Lost and Found is a commentary on Genesis and Revelations on women with a brief comparison to the Vedas.
Rpt. in The Victoria Woodhull Reader. Ed. Madeleine B. Stern. Weston, MA: M S Press, 1974. [Items are separately paged]. Rpt. slightly rev. as A New Constitution for the United States of the World Proposed for the Consideration of the Constructors of Our Future Government. New York: Woodhull, Claflin & Co., 1872. Rpt. in We, the Other People: Alternative Declarations of Independence By Labor Groups, Farmers, Woman’s Rights Advocates, Socialists, and Blacks, 1829-1975. Ed. Philip S. Foner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), 177-201 with an editor’s introduction (177-80).
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

The Paradise of Birds: An Extravaganza in Modern Dress - William John Courthope (1842-1919) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1870)
Humans kill off most animals and then killed or drove away the birds. As a result, bugs destroy all the crops and starvation threatens. An expedition discovers the Paradise of the Birds at the North Pole and negotiates for their return. See also 1869 Courthope.
2nd ed. without the subtitle. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1873. 1st illus. ed. London: Hatchards, 1889. Another ed. London: Macmillan, 1895.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Railway in Utopia" - [Joseph E.] [Tuttle] (Hours at Home (New York), 1870)
Short sketch about an ideal railroad run on religious principles with the primary emphasis being on Sunday observance.
Keywords: Male author

State Contentment: An Allegory - Desborough, Robert (The Newsagents' & Publishing Co., 1870)
Dream of an egalitarian community in Australia. Common property. Racially mixed. No money. Everyone works and mental workers also do work that requires little thought. Eugenics; imperfect children killed at birth. Only the married can vote, and women both vote and hold office. Homes and factories are in different areas. No celibacy.
Keywords: Male author

"Ten Times One Is Ten; A Story in Eight Chapters" - [Edward Everett] [Hale] (1822-1909) (Old and New (Boston, MA), 1870)
Christian eutopia brought about by the each one teach one method.
Repub. as Ten Times One Is Ten: The Possible Reformation. A Story in Nine Chapters. By Colonel Frederic Ingham [pseud.]. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1871. Rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1885; and in Ten Times One Is Ten and Other Stories. Vol. 3 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1899), 3-110.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Brick Moon. From the Papers of Captain Frederic Ingham" - [Edward Everett] [Hale] (1822-1909) (Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1869)
Most of the story is taken up with the attempt to launch a satellite (made of bricks). After the accidental, but successful, launch with people inside, it becomes impossible to bring it back. The story ends with the people in the new moon creating a eutopia for themselves based on complete equality. The people on earth conclude that close ties among a small group may be the best way to live.
Rpt. in his His Level Best. and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1872), 30-124; in The Brick Moon and Other Stories. Vol. 4 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1899), 3-99; and New York: The Spiral Press for members of the Imprint Society, Barre, Massachusetts, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Four-Leaved Shamrock; or Erin's Glory" - [John] [Holloway] (Young Englishman's Journal and Illustrated Magazine for the Youth of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, 1869)
Includes a description of the future greatness of Ireland. Chapter VII "More About the Four-Leaved Shamrock" (Journal 176-78; Book 147-61) is about the traditional utopia of the Irish gods.
Rpt. as Kathleen, or The Four-Leaved Shamrock. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1871. Rpt. London: Charles H. Clarke, 1872.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

Ludibria Lunae; or, The Wars of Women and the Gods. An Allegorical Burlesque - William John Courthope (1842-1919) (Smith, Elder and Co, 1869)
Epic poem. Satire on women's rights following Aristophanes. Presented as beginning in a eutopia which has no rights for women. Women plan to travel to the moon, discover that it is inhabited by the old gods and goddesses, who they challenge. Women are defeated by love and vanity. See also 1879 Courthope.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Model Town; or, The Right and Progressive Organization of Industry for the Production of Material and Moral Wealth - [Edward Barnard] [Bassett] (Ptd. for the Author, 1869)
Eutopia of a Christian cooperative community with private property. Emphasis on education.
Keywords: Male author

"Mr. Oscar Preen in Japan and Laputa (Tinsley's Magazine, 1869)
A satire which shows the impact of Gulliver's voyage on Laputa. Discusses the role of women and, on the whole, women are considered valuable but difficult. A small number of women are similar to men and should be treated as such.

"My Visit to Utopia" - Elizabeth T. Corbett (b. 1830) (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1869)
Marital relations in Utopia.
Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 66-72 with an editor’s note on 65.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Peter Pipers Letters. Peter's Vision" - Old Peter Piper [pseud.] (Tuapeka Times (New Zealand), 1869)
Dystopia brought about by the land in Otago being broken up into small landholdings.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author

The Princess of the Moon: A Confederate Fairy Story - [Cora Semmes] [Ives] (Np/Ptd. by the Sun Book & Job Office, 1869)
A pro-Confederacy anti-Union novel set on the Moon, which has never known war. Much fantasy and fairy story is an accurate description, but the kingdom on the moon is described in eutopian terms.
Rpt. Louisville KY: Lost Cause Press, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sexes Here and Hereafter - William H[enry] Holcombe, M.D. (1825-93) (J.B. Lippincott, 1869)
Presents the teachings of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772), mostly in essay form. See also 1870, 1871, and 1872 Holcombe.
U.K. ed. London: James Speirs, 1869. Also with subtitle Printed in Phonography. London: Fred. Pitman/Bath, Eng.: Isaac Pitman, 1871.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Utopia" - C[harles] W[arren] Stoddard (1843-1909) (Overland Monthly (San Francisco, CA), 1869)
Poem describing an idyllic life on a South Pacific island that appears to be inhabited solely by the poet and his man Friday.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Utopia, or, Story of a Town As It Should Be, and Probably Will Be, When the Conditions Are All Righted. Put any person in right conditions, and he will do right as certainly as any other of God's creatures - [William] [Gould] (Illinois State Journal Steam Press, 1869)
Eutopia of a small village in mid-Illinois written by a broom maker. Democratic, egalitarian, no money, free love. Includes a description of the town and the large building at its center that is the focus of village life with dining and meeting rooms, a library, a music room with an organ, a post office, a telegraph office, a printing office, and a museum. There are also rooms on separate floors where men and women can retreat either on their own or "with a chosen friend" (6). There is a dormitory for children who do not have formal schooling but are educated through their life in Utopia. The people lead balanced, temperate lives.
Keywords: Male author; US author

After Death: or, Disembodiment of Man. The Location, Topography, and Scenery of the Spiritual Universe; Its Inhabitants, Their Customs, Habits, Modes of Existence; Sex After Death; Marriage in the World of Souls; the Sin Against the Holy Ghost, Its Fearful Penalties, Etc. - [Paschal Beverly] [Randolph] (1825-75) (Ptd. for the author, 1868)
Detailed description of the racially separate heavens with the white heaven the highest but with the souls in heaven evolving from their situation at death to higher states. African American author who is thought to have established the first U.S. Rosicrucian order. On Randolph, see John Patrick Deveney, Paschal Beverly Randolph: A Nineteenth-Century Black America Spiritualist, Rosicrucian, and Sex Magician. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997 with a “Foreword” by Franklin Rosemont (xiii-xx).
2nd ed. corr. and enl. Boston, MA: Author, 1868; 3rd ed. as After Death: the Disembodiment of Man. Boston, MA, 1869; 5th ed. [published before the 4th ed.] Boston, MA: Randolph Publishing Co., 1870, with a “Preface” by Freeman B. Dowd. Rpt. under the author’s name as After Death: The Disembodiment of Man. The World of Spirits, Its Location, Extent, Appearance; The Route Thither; Inhabitants; Customs; Societies; Also Sex and Its Uses There, Etc. Etc.; With Much Matter Pertinent to the Question of Human Immortality. 4th ed. rev., corr., and enl. Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1873; rpt. Toledo, OH: Randolph and Co., 1886; rpt. Mokelumne Hill, CA: Health Research, 1961.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

"My Visit to Sybaris" and "A Week in Sybaris" - [Edward Everett] [Hale] (1822-1909) (Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1868)
A quiet eutopia of gentle, good-humored people. Includes a variety of miscellaneous reforms.
Rpt. as “My Visit to Sybaris. From Rev. Frederic Ingham’s Papers.”  In his Sybaris and Other Homes (Boston, MA: Fields, Osgood & Co., 1869), 1-87;  in Sybaris and Other Homes To Which is Added How They Lived in Hampton. Vol. 9 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1900), 3-101; and in Sybaris and Other Homes (New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971), 1-87.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Philosophers of Foufouville - Radical Freelance Esq. [pseud.] (G.W. Carleton, 1868)
Satire on Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and his proposals for a phalanstery.
Keywords: US author

"The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama" - [Ariana Randolph Wormeley] [Curtis] (1833-1922); [Daniel Sargent] [Curtis] (1825-1908) (The Spirit of Seventy-Six; or, The Coming Woman, A Prophetic Drama, Followed by A Change of Base. And Doctor Mondschein, 1868)
Humorous gender-role reversal satire in which the women have forcefully replaced men, burned all books written by men, and after only a few years cannot even remember the previous order, although the men can. The usual man from outside and a young woman fall in love, an out-of-date emotion.
The book went through over twenty editions with the same pagination. Rpt. in On to Victory: Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement. Ed. Bettina Friedl (Boston, MA: Northeastern University Press, 1987), 55-82 with editor's notes on 15-18.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Travels by Sea and Land of Alethitheras - [Laughton] [Osborn] (1809-78) (Moorhead, Simpson & Bond, 1868)
Wide-ranging satire using made-up names for real places.
Another ed. with "A Key to the Names of Persons, Places Etc., in the Travels of Alethitheras" (383-90). New York: James Miller, 1868.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Two Thousand Years Hence - Henry [Nelson] O'Neil, A.R.A. (1817-80) (Chapman and Hall, 1868)
Picture of nineteenth century Britain from the point of view of a future in which Britain has been destroyed by a volcanic eruption and climatic changes. There is a world state centered in the Antipodes with one religion and English is the only language. Anti-democratic.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Eight Castles in Spain" - R[obert] B[arry] Coffin (1826-86) (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1867)
A series of daydreams and conversations about utopia, including "My Children's Utopia" (Harper's 465-67; book 26-31) and "Utopia Found" (Harper's 588-89; book 42-46). "My Children's Utopia" gives the visions of utopia of three children; "Utopia Found" is family life.
Rpt. as "Castles in the Air." In his Castles in the Air, and Other Phantasies. By Barry Gray [pseud.] (New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871), 3-46.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Republic: A Poem of the Sun - Thomas L[ake] Harris (1823-1906) (Brotherhood of the New Life, 1867)
Spiritualism with vaguely described paradises in a 261 page poem.  See 1854 Harris; his The New Republic: A Discourse of the Prospects, Dangers, Duties and Safeties of the Times. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountain Grove Press, 1891; and his Brotherhood of the New Life. Its Fact, Law, Method and Purpose. Letters from Thomas Lake Harris, with passing reference to recent criticisms. 1.2 of the Fountaingrove Library. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountaingrove Press, T.L. Harris, Publisher, 1891.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The History of the English Revolution of 1867 - [Frederick] [Gale] (P.S. King, 1867)
Satire. Britain collapses because a reform bill passed in 1867 abolished the monarchy, the House of Lords, and the standing army and established universal suffrage.
Keywords: Male author

The Rise and Progress of the Kingdoms of Light & Darkness. Or, the Reign of Kings Alpha and Abado - Lorenzo D[ow] Blackson (b. 1817) (J. Nicholas, Printer, 1867)
Christian allegory reflecting the battle between good and evil on earth and in the Celestial Country from the creation onwards into a future where good wins.
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

The Ships of Tarshish: A Sequel to Sue's "The Wandering Jew" - [Edwin] [Fairburn] (1827-1911) (Hall & Co, 1867)
Mostly romance and adventure, but the last chapter (103-04) describes the actions of a man who becomes rich by inventing a new form of battleship and saving England from invasion. He also who improves education and distributes land. It is suggested that a eutopia follows. See 1884 Fairburn. There is also a non-utopian The Ships of the Future. Being an Epilogue to The Ships of Tarshish. By “Mohoao” [pseud.]. Auckland, New Zealand: Np, [1889] (ATL).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Tree of Life; or, Human Degeneracy: Its Nature and Remedy, as Based on the Elevating Principle of Orthopathy. In Two Parts - Isaac Jennings, M.D. (Miller, Wood & Co., 1867)
Most of the book is on spiritual and physical degeneracy and the failures of both medicine and religion, but there are a few pages, mostly in the final chapter, describing a regenerated Oberlin, OH, which he calls a theo-democracy.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Two Angels, Or, Love-Led; a Story of Either Paradise; In Six Cantos - Thomas Clarke (Clarke & Bowron, 1867)
Poem. Canto III is description of heaven as eutopia where people lead fairly normal but purified lives.
Keywords: Male author

"The Women's Millennium" - [Charles Heber] [Clark] (1847-1915) (Daily Evening Bulletin (Philadelphia, PA), 1867)
Quite standard gender-role reversal story. n his note Ketterer says that this appears to be the first such story.
Rpt. in Science-Fiction Studies 15.1 (44) (March 1988): 83-86 "Introduced by David Ketterer" (82-83)
Keywords: Male author

De Histori ov Magnus Maha'rba and the Blak Dragun - [Nathan] [Brown] (1807-86) (Printed for de Filolojikal Gemána, 1866)
Fantasy history of the development of the U.S. with the U.S. presented in eutopian terms.
In standard English as The History of Magnus Maharba and the Black Dragon. By Kristofur Kadmus [pseud.]. From the Original Manuscripts. New-York: Ptd. for the Proprietor, 1867.
Keywords: Male author

"Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment! The Quintessent Value of Everything! All You Want" - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) (Titus Petronius Arbiter, The Satyricon; or, Trebly Voluptuous, 1866)
Free love eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864, the note there, 1865, and Blanchard, “The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art.”
Also separately paged (twice but with textual differences) in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Great Transformation. Human Nature Completely Unchained! Love in Earnest. Virtue and Vice Obsolete! Pleasure Without Measure. Everybody Perfectly Happy. The Crowning Triumph of Art" - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) (Secret History of a Votary of Pleasure. His Own Confessions, 1866)
While the book is presented as an autobiography, this section is a typical Blanchard eutopia. See also 1858, 1862, 1864 1865, and 1866 Blanchard, “Good, Rapturous Scenes. A New Way of Enjoyment!”
Also pub. bound in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867 but without separate publishing information.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Journey to the Sun - "Heliomanes" [pseud.] (A Journey to the Sun, 1866)
Utopian satire. For example, it is the tradition to elect the man whose hat is biggest and legislative decisions are made by the throw of the dice, which they say is as accurate as voting. Universal suffrage, including children, but votes are allocated based on weight.

The Monk of the Mountains; or, A Description of the Joys of Paradise: Being the Life and Wonderful Experiences of an Aged Hermit, Who Was Taken by His Deceased Friend to the First Heaven, and There Shown the Beauties and Happiness of the Spirit Land; With the Destiny and Condition of the Nations of the Earth for One Hundred Years to Come - The Hermit Himself [pseud.] (Downey and Brouse, 1866)
Mostly a standard domestic heaven. Children grow to maturity while in heaven. Sabbath in heaven. Includes a projection of a future world society. The capital of the United States is in the Midwest. The Republic of Africa is a white republic in the middle of Africa; most manual labor by Blacks. England collapsed. U.S. and Canada technologically developed. The U.S. attacks England and demands Irish independence with England paying Ireland a large reparation. In 75 years Ireland is prosperous and England is poor due to a lack of intelligent Irish immigrants and the lack of income from colonies.
Keywords: US author

St. Martin’s Summer - Anne M[aria] H[ampton] Brewster (1819-92) (Ticknor & Fields, 1866)
Some utopian elements. See Etta M. Madden, “Anne Hampton Brewster’s St. Martin’s Summer and Utopian Literary Discourses.” Utopian Studies 28.2 (2017): 305-26.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Yesterday, To-Day, and For Ever: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Edward H[enry] Bickersteth (1825-1906) (Rivington's, 1866)
Christianity in a long poem. Cantos II "The Paradise of the Blessed Dead", X "The Millennial Sabbath", and XII "The Many Mansions" present Christian eutopias. The poem looks at the damned and the saved and the Second Coming of Christ.
There were at least twenty-three editions. U.S. ed. New York: Robert Carter & Brothers, 1875.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Crisis Chapter on Government - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) ([Calvin Blanchard], 1865)
A pamphlet that includes a proposed constitution that has articles abolishing all constraints, appropriating sufficient money to raise all children born in the U.S., providing money for mothers during their lying in, and excluding all supernaturalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dragon of the Enchanted Valley: A Plain Sandwich of Facts in Odd Fancies for the Young of America. In Two Parts, with an Appendix. Part I. The Dragon in the Valley. Part II. The Conflict - Rev. O.C Dickerson (Franklin Printing Office, 1865)
Temperance fiction that includes in the second part the establishment of communities of the Brothers of Sobriety that lead the fight against alcohol and are shown as examples of the eutopia temperance will bring.
Keywords: Male author

"A Glimpse of Utopia" (The Eclectic and Congregational Review (UK), 1865)
The laws of the first five books of the Bible (the Pentateuch) as depicting a eutopia with "Good law, honestly administered, and honestly obeyed" (346) and a stress on duties rather than rights. For example, there is slavery for crimes against property where the thief cannot pay restitution and capital punishment for murder.

Archimago - [Francis] [Carr] (1834-94) (Ward & Lock, 1864)
Satire. Britain destroyed. The narrator is a member of a New Zealand tribe the Smeythies from around Taranaki. The novel begins with the narrator sitting on London Bridge surveying the ruins of London, the same image as the famous "Macauley's New Zealander" of 1840; see David Skilton, “Contemplating the Ruins of London: Macaulay’s New Zealander and Others.” Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London 2.1 (March 2004). http://www.literarylondon.org/london-journa/march2004/skilton.html. The Thames has recovered from its past pollution, but the city is rubble, as is Europe "from the Caspian Sea to the Galway Coast," mentioning that both St. Paul's in London and St. Peter's in Rome are ruins. But the novel goes on to satirize life in London as if little had happened, and much of the book is based upon communication with the spirit world.
The English Catalogue gives the subtitle as “: or, The New Zealander on the Ruins of London" and the publisher as London: Saunders & Otley, 1864.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The Art of Real Pleasure: That New Pleasure, for which An Imperial Reward Was Offered - [Calvin] [Blanchard] (1808-1868) (Calvin Blanchard, 1864)
Eutopia. Pleasure oriented society with a government whose "sole business" is to "satisfy all human desires." Currency represents useful production. No freedom to pollute or live in poverty. Blanchard was an advocate of free love and free thought and published many pamphlets advocating free love and science and opposing religion. See also 1858, 1862, 1865 and 1866 (2) Blanchard. Blanchard had a book store on Nassau Street in New York City which was noted for selling both radical and sexual publications. He was also a printer and publisher.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971, with an "Introduction" (i-x) by Arthur O. Lewis. Also, separately paged, bound in Life Among the Nymphs: A New Excursion through the Empire of Venus. New York: Calvin Blanchard, 1867.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The History of a Voyage to the Moon; with an Account of the Adventurers' Sub-Sequent Discoveries. An Exhumed Narrative Supposed to Have Been Ejected from a Lunar Volcano - [H.] [Cowen] (Lockwood, 1864)
Eutopia with a simple language, private property, and no corruption. Emphasis on moderation.

"A Night at the Club: or, Christchurch in 1963" - [Sarah] [Raven] (Literary Foundlings: Verse and Prose, Collected in Canterbury, N.Z., 1864)
Satire on evolution, technology (mechanical waiters and the like), marriage, sport, and government (there is only one man in Christchurch who is not a government officer).
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

The Positive Community: Glimpses of the Regenerated Future of the Human Race. A Sermon, Preached at Modern Times, Long Island, on Saturday, 24th Gutenberg, 75, (5th September 1, 1863) Being the Sixth Anniversary of the Death (Transformation) of Auguste Comte, Founder of the Religion of Humanity - Henry Edger (Modern Times Tracts, No. 3, 1864)
A Positivist sermon beginning with some utopian elements addressed to his "Beloved Disciples". The future society will be organized with governments regulating industry and labor and capital together.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sense & Sensation; or, The Seven Sisters of Thule. A New and Original Morality, in a Prologue and Seven Scenes - Tom Taylor (Thomas Hailes Lacey, 1864)
Satire using an imaginary country to attack the usual human foibles.
Keywords: Male author

The Republic of North America - Modtibolt [pseud.] (John Slater's Book and Job Printing Establishment, 1863)
Detailed eutopia in essay form emphasizing the administrative structure of government from national to local with details on the telegraph, newspapers (personal, family, district, county, state, and national), railways, libraries, etc. etc.

An Eye-Opener! A Real Liberty Song. Air, Down with Humbug - Calvin Blanchard (1808-1868) (Calvin Blanchard, 1862)
A version of Blanchard's eutopia. Non-fiction outlining the future glories of wealth, and freedom, particularly sexual freedom, with machines doing most of the work. See also 1858, 1864, 1865, and 1868 (2) Blanchard.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Times No. 55,567, Thursday, May 1, 1962 (np, 1862)
Satire. Monarchy in the U.S. House of Peeresses and a House of Ladies in London.

"The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for Land-Babies" - Rev. Professor Charles Kingsley (1819-75) (Macmillan's Magazine, 1862)
Famous children's book that includes the presentation of a cockaigne-like utopia (the Doasyoulike) which is punished for living without care. The Water Babies slowly devolve back into apes. In addition, St. Brendan's Island is described, and Laputa from Gulliver's Travels and other utopias are briefly mentioned. A strong anti-Irish prejudice is present in the two main utopias.
Rev. illus. Joseph Noel Paton (1821-1901). London: Macmillan, 1863. Rpt. illus. Linley Sambourne. London: Macmillan, 1886; and illus. W[illiam] Heath Robinson (1872-1944). London: Constable, 1915. U.S. ed. illus. Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935). New York: Dodd and Mead, 1916. Critical eds. include The Water-Babies. Ed. Brian Alderson. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxxvi), “Textual Variants” (185-95), “The Iconography of The Water-Babies (197-200), and “Explanatory Notes) (201-30) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Richard D. Beards. New York: Penguin Books, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (ix-xxiii) and “Explanatory notes (191-98) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with illus. from various editions]; The Water-Babies. Ed. Richard Kelly. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2008 with an “Introduction” by the editor (9-38) [This ed. reprints the 1863 ed. with the illus. from the 1886 ed. and the 1863 illus. It also includes some other nineteenth century children’s literature, reviews of The Water-Babies, and some of Kingsley’s essays.]; The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby. Ed. Brian Alderson with an Introduction by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (vii-xlix), “Textual Variants” (182-89), Kingsley, “The Wonders of the Shore” (190-201), and “Explanatory Notes” comp. by Alderson and rev. by Douglas-Fairhurst (203-35), [This ed. reprints the 1863 edition with its illustrations]. The book was advertized as the 150th anniversary ed., but this does not appear in the book.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The New Koran of the Pacifican Friendhood: Text-book of Turkish Reformers, In the Teaching and Example of Their Esteemed Master Jaido Morata - [John] [Vickers] (b. 1836) (George Manwaring, 1861)
Detailed conservative religious eutopia in the form of a holy book that includes "The Book of Labours," "The Book of Questions," "The Book of Counsels," and "The Book of Duties". Stress on the unity of all peoples. See also his The Book of Bander: A Scripture-Form Story of Past and Present Times, by The Author of “The New Koran” [pseud.]. London: Williams & Norgate, 1891.
Later ed. entitled The New Koran; or, Federan Monitor In the Teaching and Example of Our Esteemed Master, Jaido Morata [pseud.]. London: E.T. Whitefield, 1874.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

"Theres Nae Place Like Otago Yet" - John Barr of Craigielee (1809-89) (Poems and Songs, 1861)
New Zealand as eutopia.
Rpt. in An Anthology of New Zealand Verse. Ed. Robert Chapman and Jonathan Bennett (London: Oxford University Press, 1956), 1-2.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Scottish author

Constitution or Organic Basis of the Pantarchy - [Stephen Pearl] [Andrews] (1812-86) (Baker and Godwin, 1860)
Detailed constitution of the new spiritual government of the world. Andrews was involved in a variety of radical movements, including cooperative housekeeping, the Modern Times community, and marriage reform. See also his The True Constitution of Government in the Sovereignty of the Individual as the Final Development of Protestantism, Democracy and Socialism (1851). Rpt. as vol. 1 of his Science of Society. Boston, MA: Sarah E. Holmes, 1888; rpt. Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Excelsior; or, The Heir Apparent. Showing the Adventures of a Promising and Wealthy Young Man, and His Devoted Friends; and Presenting Entwined with the varying story, the Key to a Diamond United States, or a Vitally Consolidated Republic, A Perfect Union, Otherwise Kingdom of Heaven. Likewise Giving, in Picturesque Dramatic Dialogue, the Notorious Actions and Secret Lives of Two Celebrated Dictators of Party and Leaders in Political Conventions. The Whole Embodied in A Thrilling and Exquisite Poetical Romance - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] (Kennedy, 1860)
Mostly on current evils but includes a eutopia based on universal suffrage and everyone becoming their own landlord by buying property through rent in installments. Marriage at sixteen. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, The Road Made Plain and 1860 Lookup, Soldier of the People. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.
Keywords: US author

The Happy Islands; or, Paradise Restored - Rev. W[arren] F[elt] Evans (1817-89) (H.V. Degan & Son, 1860)
Christian allegory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Road Made Plain to Fortune for the Million: or, The Popular Pioneer to Universal Prosperity - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] (Kennedy, 1860)
"Politics is divulged in the light of God as the craft of the Devil, and the opposite of a useful science." Change is brought about by refusing to pay rents. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, Excelsior and 1860 Lookup, Soldier of the People. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.
Keywords: US author

The Soldier of the People; or, The World's Deliverer. A Romance - Alex[ander] Lookup [pseud?] (Kennedy, 1860)
Presented in millennial terms but contains the same elements of a eutopia as the other Lookup books. All the land belongs to God and cannot be taxed. Loaded with generalities and terribly written. See also 1860 Lookup, Excelsior and 1860 Lookup, The Road Made Plain. Two other works that are related but not specifically utopian appear to complete Lookup’s publications--Italy free, or Our hero abroad, representing the enlightened battle of the age, beginning at Rome and ending in a triumphal entry into Paris. New-York: Kennedy, 1859; and The granddaughter of the Caesars, or, The hag of the earth and the syren of the waters: containing, besides, a pathetic story of greed's victims and difficulty's brokers. New York: Kennedy, 1860. Excelsior, Soldier of the People, and The granddaughter of the Caesar’s are included, separately paged, in his Popular Romances for the Times. I. Excelsior; or, An interesting young man and his friends. II. The soldier of the people; or, The enlightened captain and liberator. III. The granddaughter of the Caesars; or, Hag of the earth and syren of the waters. New York: Kennedy, 1860.
Keywords: US author

An Act for the Reform and Regulation of Female Apparel, and to Amend and Refrenate the Customs relating to Crinoline and other Artificial Superfluities and the Profusion thereof, with the Powers, Provisions, Clauses, Regulations and Directions, Fines, Forfeitures and Penalties, to be observed, applied, practised and put into execution for securing the proper observance of the same. [Session 1859] - Jeremiah Rounce; Alfred Bar (William Coney, 1859)
Satire. Detailed provisions for controlling women's dress. The Australian edition specifies that it is for New South Wales. Women will no longer be allowed to choose their own clothes; husbands or parents must provide a certificate approving specific purchases. Husbands and parents can purchase clothes for their wives and children without a certificate as long as they conform to the act. No bustles or similar artificial constructions or undergarments allowed. Specific pattern and color restrictions for women over forty. Women under sixteen and over forty cannot wear heels over three inches, with other detailed restrictions regarding shoes and boots. Further restrictions apply to bonnets.
Keywords: Male author

The Air Battle: A Vision of the Future - Herrmann Lang (William Penny, 1859)
Mostly adventure and war in a far future where countries in Africa and South America dominate and whites are slaves. After a war finally brings the three dominant countries together, white slavery is ended in the name of Christianity and the world is unified. Advanced technology. Some anti-Semitic elements.
Rpt. London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972 with an "Introduction" by Charles H. Gibbs-Smith (unpaged).
Keywords: Male author

Blake: or the Huts of America - Martin R[obison] Delany (1812-85) (Beacon Press, 1859)
Much of the book is on the situation in Africa, Cuba, and North America, there are insurrections, failed and successful, by slaves and the published part of the novel ends with the results of the successful insurrection and the outlines of a nation of blacks, which the author had argued for in his other works. Given the trajectory at the end of the novel, the lost chapters may have made the utopia more explicit.
Originally published in part as “Blake: Or the Huts of America. A Tale of the Mississippi Valley, the Southern United States, and Cuba.” The Anglo-African Magazine 1.1 - 7 (January - July 1859): 20-29 [Chapters 28-30], 37-43 [Chapters 1-5], 69-79 [Chapters 6-9], 104-114 [Chapters 10-12], 129-39 [Chapters 13-16], 160-72 [Chapters 17-20], 192-203 [Chapters 21-23] and then with all but the last chapters, which are lost, in The Weekly Anglo-American (November 1861 - May 1862). For a critical edition, see Blake or, The Huts of America. A Corrected Edition. Ed. Jerome McGann: Harvard University Press, 2017, with the editor’s “Introduction” (ix-xxxii) and an “Editor’s Note” (xxxiii-xxxviii). Rpt. in Black Sci-Fi Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Stories (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2021), 48-143. Excerpts are published in Martin R. Delany: A Documentary Reader. Ed. Robert S. Levine (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003), 273-314.
Keywords: African American author; Male author

A Dream of The Day that must come - [Mrs.] [Anne Judith] [Penny] (1825?-93) (Wertheim, Macintosh, and Hunt, 1859)
The Last Judgement of a near future irreligious and decadent dystopia.
Keywords: Female author

The Far Future” - [Thomas Henry] [Kendall] (1841-82) (The Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope, 1859)
Australia as a future eutopia. Ends with the note “I hope the above will not be considered disloyal. It is but reasonable to imagine that Australia will in the far future become an independent nation — that imagination springing as it does from a native-born Australian's brain.”
Rpt. in The Poems of Henry Kendall (Sydney, NSW, Australis: Angus & Robertson, 1920), 243-44. Rpt. in Selected Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical and Critical Introduction by T. Inglis Moore (Sydney, NSW, Australia: Angus and Robertson, 1957), 190. A critical ed. is The Poetical Works of Henry Kendall. Ed. T. T. Reed (Adelaide, SA, Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1966), 155-56.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean - R[obert] M[ichael] Ballantyne (1825-94) (T. Nelson & Sons, 1858)
Children’s Robinsonade that closely follows the structure of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe (1718) but with three boys who are shipwrecked on an idyllic island.
Rpt. London: James Nisbet, 1863; and London: Thomas Nelson and Sons, 1883. Critical ed. Ed. J. S. Bratton. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990 with an “Introduction” by the editor (vii-xxvii).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

The Day After To-Morrow; or, Fata Morgana: Containing the Opinions of Mr. Serjeant Mallet, M.P. for Boldborough, on the Future State of the British Nation and of the Human Race - William De Tyne, ed. [written by] [pseud?] (G. Routledge and Co, 1858)
Similar to 1877 Mallock with a semi-fictional discussion during a country house vacation of the near future better world possible through modest reforms.
Keywords: Male author

Future Life; or, Scenes in Another World - George Wood (1799-1870) (Derby and Jackson, 1858)
Heaven but presented as a eutopia of art and beauty. "Michael Angelo" has built a new St. Peter's, and the people enjoy a new oratorio by Handel, ably assisted by Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Discussion of a wide variety of subjects with various saints and illustrious people of the past. One of the characters is Peter Schlemihl from 1848 Wood.
After Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar. Boston, MA: Fields, Osgood, 1868 proved popular, the book was rpt. as The Gates Wide Open or Scenes in Another World. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1869.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hell on Earth! Murder, Rape, Robbery, Swindling, and Forgery Covertly Organized! Cannibalism Made Dainty! An Expose of the Infernal Machinations and Horrible Atrocities of Whited Sepulcherism; Together With A Plan for Its Final Overthrow - [Calvin] [Blanchard] (1808-1868) (Calvin Blanchard, 1858)
Current reality as dystopia presented through a meeting of and speeches from the followers of Satan, including many priests, congratulating themselves on their control of religion, education, and law. There is also a feast of human meat and blood. There is a statement that they are doomed because change is coming through science, and the booklet ends with a play entitled "Scientific Redemption" where science has replaced religion. See also 1862, 1864, 1865, 1866 (2) Blanchard.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Provisional Constitution and Ordinances for the People of the United States - [John] [Brown] (1800-59) ([William Howard Day, Printer], 1858)
Proposed constitution for the United States which would eliminate slavery. It was adopted in a convention of a small group of abolitionists. See also 1988 Bisson.
Rpt. Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1969 with a "Preface" by Boyd B. Stutler (3-10) excerpted from the Lincoln Herald (Lincoln, TN) 50.4-51.1 (December 1948-February 1949): 17-25.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Imaginary History of the Next Thirty Years (Sampson Low, Son & Co./John Menzies, 1857)
A future tale that has some utopian elements such as public education and miscellaneous reforms, particularly to Parliament. U.S. slaves are freed but encouraged to emigrate.

"Labour's Utopia" - [William Thomas] [Thornton] (1813-80) (Modern Manicheism, Labour's Utopia, and Other Poems, 1857)
Poem depicting a eutopia of abundance and leisure in which people work at things they enjoy doing.
Published shortened under the author's name in his On Labour; Its Wrongful Claims and Rightful Dues. Its Actual Present and Possible Future (London: Macmillan, 1869), 434-39. 2nd ed. with a few pages of text added (London: Macmillan, 1870), 460-68.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Means Without Living (Weeks, Jordan & Co, 1857)
Satire on utopian proposals regarding the simple life.
Keywords: US author

Thorndale or The Conflict of Opinions - William [Henry] Smith (1808-72) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1857)
The eutopia is spread throughout the book. It is a fairly conservative one aiming at improved community and family life. As it appears it is critiqued by those, generally more conservative, who believe it impossible. The author’s Gravenhurst, or Thoughts on Good and Evil. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1862. 2nd ed. with the additional subtitle Knowing and Feeling. A Contribution to Psychology with a Memoir of the Author by his wife (3-121) and “Contributions by William Smith to Blackwood’s Magazine” (122-25). Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Son, 1875 supplements the positions taken. Gravenhurst (127-329) and Knowing and Feeling (331-442).
2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood and Sons, 1858. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: Ticknor and Fields, 1859.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Age of Progress; or, A Panorama of Time. In Four Visions - David A[lbert] Moore (b.1814) (Sheldon, Blakeman and Company, 1856)
The four visions include a general view of the new world; a vision of Mexico, which is the new home of emancipated slaves from the US; Hell in which the Demons explain to Satan how the eutopia has come to pass; and Heaven. The new society was brought about through education and Christianity. There is a limit on income. Includes a detailed world constitution.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Charades on Unpopular Subjects. No. 5" - [Sarah] [Raven] (The Lyttelton Times, 1856)
Poem with some New Zealand as eutopia.
Rpt. with “Railway” in the Table of Contents in The Book of Canterbury Rhymes [Ed. William Pember Reeves and J. Ward] (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ward and Reeves, Printer, 1866), 39-41. 2nd ed. as Canterbury Rhymes: With Notes and an Appendix. Ed. W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ptd by the ‘Lyttelton Times’ Co. Ltd., 1883), 26-28.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

"Esperanza. My Journey Thither and What I Found There" - [Thomas Low] [Nichols] (1815-1901) (Nichol’s Monthly: A Magazine of Social Science and Progressive Literature (Cincinnati, OH), 1856)
Eutopia detailing a communal system based on spiritualism, privacy, vegetarianism, and free love with little sex. Details of the way the community was both influenced by and departed from Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Nichols founded a community in the U.S. Due to his opposition to the Civil War, he moved to London in 1861. See also “Promise of the Future.” In his Woman in All Ages and Nations; a complete and authentic history of the manners and customs, character and condition of the female sex, in civilized and savage countries, from the earliest ages to the present time. New-York: H. Long and Brother, 1849), 204-38.
Rpt. Cincinnati, OH: Valentine Nicholson, 1860.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The New Age of Gold or the Life and Adventures of Robert Dexter Romaine. Written By Himself - [George] [Payson] (Phillips, Sampson and Co, 1856)
A couple are shipwrecked on an isolated island. They lead an idyllic life, but they are concerned about the education of their children and decide they need to leave. The discovery of gold also brings dissatisfaction. They return to the U.S. where the woman and their children die and the man sets off to re-discover the island.
Keywords: Male author

"Ode to New Zealand. A Growl in a Sou'-Wester" - [Rev.] J[ohn] R[aven] (1821-86); Dr. J[ohn] T[homas] R[ouse] (1832-84) (The Book of Canterbury Rhymes, 1856)
Poem that refers to New Zealand as the "Eden of the Southern Sea" with many examples of its eutopian nature and then shifts to a description of the winds, the poor placement of the cities, and so forth.
2nd ed. as Canterbury Rhymes: With Notes and an Appendix. Ed. W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (Christchurch, New Zealand: Ptd by the 'Lyttelton Times' Co. Ltd., 1883), 66-68. In the 2nd ed. Reeves identifies the author as Rouse, but two separate copies of the first edition identify the author as Raven. Originally published in a Christchurch newspaper (probably the Lyttelton Times) in November 1856.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Prue and I - George William Curtis (1824-92) (Dix, Edwards, 1856)
Seven stories from the point of view of a generally contented but poor man, most of which reflect on utopian themes, wishes and dreams of adventure, riches, and so forth, but they always return to his simple happiness with his wife Prue and their children.
Rpt. as Prue & I. Illus. Albert Edward Sterner. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1892; Illus. H[arry] C. Edwards. New York : T.Y. Crowell & Co., 1899 with an Introduction by M.A. DeWole Howe (xi-xxi); and London: J.M. Dent/New York: E.P. Dutton, 1910.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Races of Mankind; With Travels in Grubland - [Allen W.] [Gazlay] (Longley Bros, 1856)
Satire on the United States, called Grubland, that ends with the outline of an alternative eutopian organization stressing the need to educate for freedom noting that the old need education almost as much as the young.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Caen-Stone Dreams; or, The Harmony Between Individual and National Interests - David P[utnam] Holton (De Witt & Davenport, 1855)
The author dreams of a eutopia which describes a future U.S., focusing on New York and the Midwest, in which complex buildings have been erected to meet the needs of working people. Throughout the author stresses temperance and has much on advanced railway technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

["Description of a Community Plan"] - Thomas Atkins (Robert Owen's Address, Delivered At the Meeting in St. Martin's Hall, Lonc [sic.] Acre, London, On the 1st. of January, 1855, 1855)
Educational eutopia based on the ideas of Robert Owen.
Keywords: Male author

Heliondé; or, Adventures in the Sun - [Sydney] [Whiting] (d. 1875) (Chapman and Hall, 1855)
Religious eutopia. Money replaced by good sayings, the worth of which are judged by the shopkeeper. Language is "composed of groups of musical notes; and rhythm imparts all the variety of meaning" (36)
Keywords: Male author

The Inauguration of the Millennium May 14th 1855. Being the report of two public meetings with an introduction - Robert Owen (1771-1858) (J. Clayton and Son, 1855)
Speeches by Owen describing the Millennium State. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 Owen, Part VII.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; Welsh author

"Love Among the Ruins" - Robert Browning (1812-89) (Men and Women, 1855)
Poem set in the ruins of a city in which the rural life and love are the eutopia.
Rpt. In Men and Women. Ed. Paul Turner (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1972), 5-8, 312; Men and Women and Other Poems. Ed. J.W. Harper (London: J.M. Dent/Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1975), 1-3, 231; in The Complete Works of Robert Browning With Variant Readings & Annotations. Ed. Roman A. King, Jr. 5 vols. (Athens, OH: Ohio University Press and Baylor University, Waco, TX, 1981), 5: 163-66, 360; The Poetical Works of Robert Browning. Volume 5 Men and Women. Ed. Ian Jack and Robert Inglesfield (Oxford, Eng.: Clarendon Press, 1995), 3-8; and Robert Browning. Ed. Adam Roberts (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), 157-59.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Lucy Boston; or, Woman's Rights and Spiritualism: Illustrating the Follies and Delusions of the Nineteenth Century - Fred Folio (Alden and Beardsley/J.C. Derby, 1855)
Satire on women's rights and spiritualism.

“The Man of 1855 and the Man of 1955. A Dialogue Written for and Spoken at an Exhibition at Gould’s Academy, Bethel” - Melville C. Day (The Portland Transcript and Eclectic (Portland, ME), 1855)
A brief satiric sleeper wakes tale in which when women got the vote and political power, they forced bachelors to marry within thirty days. Women wear pants and smoke cigars. African Americans relocated to England with the English relocated to the Sahara which has been made fertile by constantly spraying it with water from the Mediterranean. Steam powered airplanes. Tunnel between Portland and London. Even skeletons can be revived and Noah lectures on his experiences.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Olympus - [Charles F.] [Howard] (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co, 1855)
Eutopia of reason and intellect among immortal spirits that primarily serves as an excuse for the discussion of a number of different topics.
Keywords: Male author

Part VII. of The New Existence of Man Upon the Earth. Including an Outline of the Principles and Government of the Millennial World. With an Appendix containing Correspondence and Spiritual Communication - Robert Owen (1771-1858) (Effingham Wilson, J. Clayton and Son, and Holyoake, 1855)
Owenite eutopia. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, 1846, and 1855 Owen, The Inauguration of the Millenium.
Part had been published as The Universal Permanent Government, Constitution and Code of Laws, Based on the Unchanging Laws of Nature, for the World, in Which there is but One Real Interest for all its Population, Wherever Situated and also for Each State or Nation Separately, Until They Shall Have Acquired the Knowledge and Wisdom to Unite in Federative Union. [Great Britain]: np, 1848.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; Welsh author

Perpetual Peace to the Machine by the Universal Millennium, or The Sovereign Bankocracy, and the Grand Social Ledger of Mankind - Baron Joseph Corvaja (1785-1860) (Author, 1855)
A series of letters to Robert Owen (1771-1858) that presents a eutopia in which reform of the savings banks will make more money available to the community.
Keywords: Italian author; Male author

Scenes in the Spirit World; or, Life in the Spheres - Hudson Tuttle (1836-1910) (Partridge and Brittan, 1855)
Heaven as eutopia. Spiritualism. Descriptions of both those who find happiness there and those still too attached to earth. Also describes Hell as dystopia.
Exp. ed. as Life in Two Spheres. Philadelphia, PA: Carter Pub. Co., 1892. [Rev. ed. on cover] as Life in Two Spheres, or Scenes in the Summerland. Sunderland, Eng.: Thomas Olman Todd, 1895. No obvious differences between the two revised texts.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Voyage to the Fortunate Isles: An Allegory of Life (Joseph Masters, 1855)
A series of allegories using the model of the fortunate isles with each followed by questions and answers to bring home their meaning. Designed for children.
Keywords: Female author

"The Avon" - Henry Jacobs (The Lyttelton Times, 1854)
Poem depicting New Zealand as a eutopia.
Rpt. in An Anthology of New Zealand Verse. Ed. Robert Chapman and Jonathan Bennett (London: Oxford University Press, 1956), 1.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Emigrants. An Allegory: or, Christians vs. The World - Rev. Wesley Cochran, A.M. (1814-1888) (William J. Moses, 1854)
Christian allegory of people immigrating from the country of Sin.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Encantadas” - [Herman] [Melville] (1819-1891) (Putnam’s Monthly Magazine, 1854)
See Jonathan Beecher, Variations on a Dystopian Theme: Melville’s ‘Encantadas’.” Utopian Studies 11.2 (2000): 88-95, who says “The Encantadas” “presents an image of nature as a wasteland utterly inhospitable to human purposes, of human beings as either predators of victims, and of existence as so painful that endurance is the sole virtue” (90).
Rpt. in The Piazza Tales (New York: Dix & Edwards/London: Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1856), 287-400; separately in a limited edition of 550 copies. Burlingame, CA: William P. Wreden, 1940; and in The Writings of Herman Melville. The Northwestern-Newberry Library Edition. Volume 9. The Piazza Tales Other Prose Pieces 1839-1860. Ed. Harrison Hayford (Evanston, IL/Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press and the Newberry Library, 1987), 125-173, with “Notes on ‘The Encantadas’” (600-617.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Epic of the Starry Heaven - Thomas L[ake] Harris (1823-1906) (Partridge & Brittan, 1854)
Spiritualism. Various vaguely described eutopias in the solar system, including an Eden, a material paradise, and "The City of God's Love".  A poem supposed to have been spoken by Harris over fourteen days while in a trance. See also 1867 Harris; his The New Republic: A Discourse of the Prospects, Dangers, Duties and Safeties of the Times. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountain Grove Press, 1891; and his Brotherhood of the New Life. Its Fact, Law, Method and Purpose. Letters from Thomas Lake Harris, with passing reference to recent criticisms. 1.2 of the Fountaingrove Library. Santa Rosa, CA: Fountaingrove Press, T.L. Harris, Publisher, 1891.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Happy Colony. Dedicated to the Workmen of Great Britain - Robert Pemberton (1788-1879) (Saunders and Otley, 1854)
A eutopia designed to be established in New Zealand and based on a reformed educational system. It was never established. There are two fold out designs showing the layout of the proposed colony and of the colleges.
Rpt. New York: Garland, 1985 bound with Benjamin Ward Richardson's Hygeia: A City of Health (1876).
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Book of Judgment, Showing the plan and Policy of two important Institutions to be established in this country. And the right principle and the true policy for Institutions in general - Ethan S. Wilson (Np, 1853)
Very detailed, highly structured eutopia. A city will be built between Saratoga Springs and Glen Falls, NY, and the book includes a chart of the city with a list of the buildings and their locations. Salaried lawyers and doctors. Doctors control access to alcohol and tobacco. Sabbath to be kept. Details of a civilian militia. Mutual fire insurance available from the author must be purchased. Schools must be built in every community. All religious denominations must agree. Cremation for both spiritual and environmental reasons. The author believes he is God.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Charles Hopewell; or, Society As It Is, and As It Should Be - John Patterson (Longley & Brother, 1853)
Cooperative and women's rights eutopia. Includes reformed (Bloomer) dress. The main female character started a school where she taught a course in physiology for women. The school was attacked by the locals, and she was forced to close it. Most of the book is concerned with an exposition of ideas and opposition to them, both from conservatives and other radicals.
Keywords: Male author

The Coming Struggle Among the Nations of the Earth: or, The Political Events of the Next Fifteen Years Described in Accordance with Prophecies in Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Apocalypse. Showing Also The Important Position Britain Will Occupy During, and At the End of, the Awful Conflict - [David] [Pae] (Houlston & Stoneman/Thomas Grant/W.R. M’Phun/George Herbert/W.M’Comb, 1853)
Standard dystopian future with the Biblical prophecies tied directly to contemporary European politics. The pamphlet caused considerable controversy, and there are a number of refutations and responses to them by Pae. There are two Canadian editions (Toronto, ON, Canada: T. MacLear, 1853 and 1854) by John Thomas (1805-71), the founder of the Christadelphians, in which he claims that Pae plagiarized his Elpis Israel: A Book for the Times: Being an Exposition of the Kingdom of God; With Reference to the Time of the End, and the Age to Come. London: Author, 1849 with numerous later editions published by the Christadelphians into the 21st century.
Keywords: Male author

A Few Things Worth Knowing About the Heretofore Unexplored Country of Theopolis (Hope and Company, 1853)
Detailed eutopia stressing church reform. Utopia Christiana is the name of one country.

The Great Southern Revolution: A Chapter in the History of the United States of South Africa. 1894-1934 - Jaapie Ahmet de Villers Smith (Darter Bros. & Walton, 1853)
Dystopia. Law passed disenfranchising all "coloureds"; law passed excluding English from schools; law passed requiring "coloureds" to have surgery to enhance their intelligence; law passed excluding all "coloureds" from school after age ten to force them onto the labour market. Coloureds became more attractive. Law passed that all students matriculated in university get the vote and coloureds enrolled. By 1930 a majority of voters are coloured. Discriminatory laws repealed except that brain enhancement was prohibited to whites because they had used their intellectual superiority poorly in the past.
Keywords: Male author; South African author

Liberia; or Mr. Peyton's Experiments - Mrs. Sarah J[osepha Buell] Hale, ed. [written by] (1788-1879) (Harper & Brothers, 1853)
The novel concerns the activities of a Virginian who wants to improve the lives of slaves. His first two schemes fail, but he discovers the American Colonization Society, which was founded in 1816 to send emancipated slaves to Africa and decides to work with it. The novel continues with the settlement of Liberia, the initial problems there, and its emergence as a eutopia. The book concludes with letters sent from Liberia and documents regarding Liberia and related activities, including excerpts from a Declaration of Independence and Constitution. .
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Blithedale Romance - Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-64) (Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852)
The classic novel based on the U.S. intentional community Brook Farm.
Critical ed. in The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ed. Fredson Bowers (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1964), 3: 1-298. This ed. rpt. as The Blithedale Romance: An Authoritative Text Backgrounds and Sources Criticism. Ed. Seymour Gross and Rosalie Murphy (New York: W.W. Norton, 1978), 1-228 with essays related to the novel; without the textual apparatus, ed. William E. Cain (Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 37-218 with material providing a context for the novel; Harmondsworth, Eng.: Penguin Books, 1983; and Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010 with an “Introduction” by Robert S. Levine (ix-xxix).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia; The Right of the Colonies, and The Interest of Britain and of the World - John Dunmore Lang, D.D., A.M. (1799-1878) (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852)
Non-fiction argument for Australian independence, but in the process the author discusses an at least partially eutopian future for the South Pacific. Specifically, he discusses opportunities for advancement for young men who would not be able to advance in Britain or in a colony and the room provided for more British poor to become self-sufficient. Freedom and independence will also lead to a more educated, moral, and Christian citizenry. In addition, he argues that Australia will provide raw materials for British industry and an increased outlet for its goods, and that both will be enhanced by freedom and independence. According to him, New Zealand would be bound to join the federation. See also his The Coming Event, or, The United Provinces of Australia: Two Lectures Delivered in the City Theatre and School of Arts, Sydney. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. and sold by D.L. Welch, [1850] (A, L).
2nd ed., greatly enlarged and improved. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. by F. Cunningham, 1857. Later ed. as The Coming Event! or Freedom and Independence for the Seven United Provinces of Australia. Sydney, NSW, Australia: John L. Sherriff, 1870. U.K. ed. London: Sampson, Low, Son, and Marston, 1870.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author; Scottish author

The Geral-Milco; or The Narrative of a Residence in a Brazilian Valley of the Sierra-Paricis With Map and Illustrations - A. R. Middletoun Payne (Charles B. Norton, 1852)
A detailed eutopia in the mountains of Brazil that was established by Aztecs and Incas fleeing the Spanish conquest and generally based on what was known of these civilizations at the time; somewhat romanticized.
Later ed. without the author's name entitled Rambles in Brazil, or, A Peep at the Aztecs. By One Who Has Seen Them [pseud.]. 2nd ed. New York: C.B. Norton, 1854.
Keywords: Male author; US author

How I Came to be Governor of the Island of Cacona: With a Particular Account of My Administration of the Affairs of that Island. Respectfully Dedicated To My Fellow Labourers in the Colonial Vineyard - [William Henry] [Fleet] (H. Ramsey, 1852)
Satire on colonial politics using an imaginary country but specifically referring to Canada in the 1830s.
Originally published in four parts (Part 1, pp. 1-48; Part 2, pp. 49-112; Part 3, pp. 113-60; Part 4, pp. 161-220). Rpt. as one vol. by the same publisher, 1853; and San Francisco, CA: Arion, 1989.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Island Home: or the Young Cast-aways - [James F.] [Bowman] (1826-82) (Gould & Lincoln, 1852)
An adventure novel for boys in which a group of young castaways face many trials and tribulations before meeting and assisting some friendly natives and leaving their isolated island to live with them.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Life and Adventures of Capt. Jacob D. Armstrong - [Nathaniel Cook] [Meeker] [supposed author] (1817-79) (DeWitt & Davenport, 1852)
Eutopia. A ship wrecks on the island of Nede, which is inhabited by simple people (with no secondary sexual characteristics), who live a happy life of idleness in complete equality. Vegetarian; work to grow food. Perpetual Spring. No snakes. No religion. An elaborate funeral ritual is described. The discovery of iron leads the shipwrecked sailors to introduce the dystopian modern world of work, money, theft, law, government, newspapers, and alcohol.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Reel in a Bottle, for Jack in the Doldrums; being The Adventures of Two of the King's Seaman in A Voyage to the Celestial Country. Edited from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt - [George Barrell] [Cheever] (1807-90) (Charles Scribner, 1852)
Standard Christian allegory using various imaginary countries en route to the eutopia of Heaven.
3rd ed. under the author’s name as A Voyage to the Celestial Country, Being the Reel in a Bottle, from the Manuscripts of an Old Salt; An Allegory. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1853. Later ed. under the author’s name as The Log-Book of a Voyage to the Celestial Country. A Christian Allegory of the Sea. New York: A.C. Armstrong and Son, 1885. U.K. ed. as Incidents and Memories of the Christian Life; Under the Similitude of a Voyage to the Celestial Land. Glasgow, Scot.: William Collins, [1852].
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Visit to the Moon" - Jocundus Steelnib [pseud.] (Freaks of Imagination; or, A Batch of Original Tales, Chiefly Facetious, 1852)
Eutopia with no money and no lawyers. People are presented as still having faults and problems.

Gulliver Joi: His Three Voyages; Being an Account of His Marvelous Adventures in Kailoo, Hydrogenia and Ejario - Elbert Perce (ed.) [written by] (1831-69) (Charles Scribner, 1851)
Gulliveriana. Kailoo is an Earth-like planet that travels very rapidly around its sun, and the people are also speeded up with lives that are correspondingly short, except for the royal family, which lives longer, to the equivalent of thirty. The Earth is Kailoo's moon. In Hydrogenia air is used like water on Earth, and water is a stimulant like alcohol. The people are much larger than humans. In Ejario women are stronger, more active, and braver than men.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hints From Utopian Schools. No. II. Unfolding Further Details of Their System (John Henry Parker, 1851)
Rules for a Christian education. See also 1850 Hints From Utopian Schools. Being Two Addresses Delivered by the Warden of a New Collegiate School in that Happy Land.

The Island of Life: An Allegory - [Frederic] [Gardiner] (1822-89) (James Munroe, 1851)
Christian allegory.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Peer (Thomas Cautley Newby, 1851)
Future dystopia in which machinery releases labor, causing widespread unemployment, social upheaval, and the abolition of the aristocracy and the monarchy.

Plan of a Proposed New Colony To Be Called Britannia - [Henry Godfrey] [Gouland] (1801-77) (Printed by I. Shrimpton, 1851)
A detailed proposal for an independent settlement on the South Island not under the authority of the New Zealand government.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Popery in AD 1900 - [John] [Macgregor] (Seeley, 1851)
Dystopia brought about by the success of the Papacy in England in 1900.
Keywords: Male author

Rambles in Chili, and Life Among the Auracanian Indians, in 1836 - [George] [Prince] (1817-1907) (D.J. Starrett, 1851)
The Indians are described in eutopian terms as Noble Savages.
Originally serialized in the Lincoln Miscellany (Thomaston, ME).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Vision of Our Country in the Year Nineteen Hundred" - Miss J[ane] A. E[llis] (The Western Literary Magazine and Journal of Education, Science, Arts, and Morals (Columbus, OH), 1851)
Eutopia set at Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. The U.S. includes all North and South America. Population growth through immigration and the country is well-settled. Churches everywhere but without denominational differences. More and better education, particularly at the post-secondary level. Equality. Invention and significant advances in the sciences. No prejudice. A congress of nations settles disputes among countries. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Voice from Australia; or An Inquiry into the Probability of New Holland Being Connected with the Prophecies Relating to the New Jerusalem and the Spiritual Temple - Hannah Villiers Boyd (Ptd. by Robert Barr, 1851)
The author argues that Australia is the New Jerusalem. Mostly Biblical exegesis but includes some fairly vague discussion of the future of Australia as a better society.
2nd rev. ed. London: Partridge & Co., 1856.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author

Britain Redeemed and Canada Preserved - F. A. Wilson, K.L.H., G.S.; Alfred B[ate] Richards Esq. (1820-76) (Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1850)
Non-fiction describing Canada incorporated within England and producing a eutopia for both.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Future of Victoria - [James] [Oakes] [Presumed author] (James Smith, 1850)
Victoria is presented as a future eutopia in which Christianity has produced a prosperous, well-educated, good population. Discusses commerce; the beauty of the city and its architecture, education, particularly religious education; agriculture; manufacturing; culture; and government, among other topics. The greatest obstacles, a poorly raised and educated younger generation and lack of religion, can be overcome by teaching children obedience and respect for their parents and God.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Hints From Utopian Schools on Prefects. Being Two Addresses Delivered by the Warden of a New Collegiate School in that Happy Land (John Henry Parker, 1850)
Two addresses by the head of a school in Utopia on the duties of Prefects. Based on religion and under religious direction. See also 1851 Hints From Utopian Schools. No. II. Unfolding Further Details of Their System.

"Melbourne as it is and as it Ought to be" (The Australasian, 1850)
Suggestions toward an ideal Melbourne based on the author's understanding of the way all good cities are laid out. Large open space near the center; wide streets, particularly around public buildings; river with quays and public and private buildings; and trees along boulevards circling the town. Mostly a criticism of Melbourne as it is.
Rev. ed. Geelong, VIC. Australia: J. Harrison, Printer, [1850].
Keywords: Australian author

"A Social Sketch, or, Everything in Common" - John Leech (1817-64) (Punch's Pocket Book for 1850, Containing Ruled Pages for Cash Accounts and Memoranda for Every Day of the Year; An Almanack; and a Variety of Useful Business Informations. The Illustrations by John Leech, Richard Doyle, and H.K. Browne, 1850)
Satire by means of a colored frontispiece showing the conflicts arising from common ownership.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Times newspaper as it may be in 1950 No. 333,379 Thursday January 6, 1950 (Np, 1850)
Satire. The U.S. is an absolute monarchy. In England there is a House of Peeresses and a House of Ladies.

The Voyages, Adventures, and Miraculous Escapes of Raphael Scott, Being a Full and Authentic Account of His Villainous Betrayal and Abduction (By His Uncle, Who had been Appointed His Guardian) on Board the Merchant Ship Gazelle, of Philadelphia, Which Vessel, After Being at Sea Twenty Days, Was Plundered by a Piratical Craft Commanded by a Widely Known and Much Dreaded Buccaneer Chief, Miles! Together With a Complete History of a Romantic Nation of Pirates!! Now Residing on a Beautiful Island, Called The Isle of Happiness, Situated South of Cuba. Also, a Correct Statement of the Long Imprisonment and Deplorable Sufferings of Miss Edda Cramer, a Young Lady of Extraordinary Personal Beauty, Who Was for Seven Months Missing From New York City, and of Whose Fate Nothing Could Be Learned, Until She Was Nobly Rescued By the Hero of this Truly Interesting Work. To Which Is Added, Some Startling Passages in the Life of Charles Scattergood, a Young Man Likewise Found Among the Pirates, By Whom He Was Picked Up in the Middle of the Ocean, Where He Had Drifted in an Open Boat, In Which He Had Been Placed by a Cold-Hearted, Unfeeling Brother - Raphael Scott [pseud.] (E.E. Barclay, 1850)
Includes a brief depiction of a pirate’s eutopia on an island in the Caribbean with the stress on their law to protect young girls.

Aurifodina; or, Adventures in the Gold Region - [George Washington] [Peck] (1817-59) (Baker and Scribner, 1849)
Eutopia. City of gold in the mountains of California inhabited by Caucasians where gold is treated as a common stone and for pots and pans and is used as building material. Religious. Hereditary monarchy. Common law. Everyone gets along.
Rpt. as Aurifodina or Adventures in the Gold Region a fantastical ’49er novel written by Cantell A. Bigly [G.W. Peck]. San Francisco, CA: The Book Club of California, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Kaloolah, or Journeyings to the Djébel Kumri: An Autobiography of Jonathan Romer - W[illiam] S[tarbuck] Mayo M.D. (ed.) [written by] (1812-1895) (George P. Putnam, 1849)
Chapter 48 (456-468) describes a eutopian city (Killoam) in Africa that is particularly concerned with health and cleanliness. Quadrangular houses of two stories with a central courtyard with a fountain and roof gardens. Streets are swept and washed daily (459). Elaborate sewage system (460-461). Food going to market inspected to ensure quality (461). Bathing is required at least once a month, and free municipals baths are provided (462) although there is a small charge for heated water. No overcrowded housing (462).
U.K. ed. London: George Routledge & Co., 1851. Rpt. as Kaloolah: The Adventures Of Jonathan Romer. The Framazudga Edition. Illus. Fredericks. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1887.
Keywords: Male author; US author

King Dobbs: Sketches in Ultra-marine - James Hannay (J. & D.A. Darling, 1849)
Wide-ranging satire on English manners and customs, with a section on the imaginary island of Somniata, which is settled by the officers and crew of a ship and the slaves they had rescued from another ship.
New ed. London: Routledge, 1856.
Keywords: Male author

Mardi: and A Voyage Thither - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (Harper & Brothers, 1849)
Mardi is the most complex of Melville's early novels and includes some elements of the South Seas island eutopia, fantasy, and political satire using thinly disguised imaginary countries.
U.K. ed. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1849. Rpt. ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Vol. 3 of The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston and Chicago, IL: Northwestern University Press and The Newberry Library, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Mellonta Tauta" - Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) (Godey's Lady's (Philadelphia, PA), 1849)
Satire on a future which is technologically advanced but with individualism and democracy gone.
Rpt. in Amazing Stories Science Fiction 8.7 (November 1933): 124-32; in Collected Works of Edgar Allan Poe: Tales and Sketches 1843-1849. Ed. Thomas Olive Mabbott with the assistance of Eleanor D. Kewer and Maureen C. Mabbott (Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1978), 1291-1305 with editorial notes on 1305-09; and in Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction. Ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2011), 69-72 with an editor’s note on 69.
Keywords: Male author; US author

National Evils and Practical Remedies, with the Plan of a Model Town. Illustrated by Two Engravings. Accompanied by an Examination of Some Important Moral and Political Problems - James S[ilk] Buckingham (1786-1855) (Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son and Co, 1849)
Eutopia proposes a communal experiment and gives detailed plans for it, including, at the front, a fold out depiction of the town and, at the end, a fold out a schematic design of it.
Keywords: English author; Male author

A Dream of Reform - Henry J[ohn] Forrest (1823-1899) (John Chapman, 1848)
Eutopia. A dream of a reformed society is described; the country is called Philotopia. Many of the reforms of the time, like the eight-hour workday, greatly improved hygiene, significant sanitary reform, a limit on wealth, and the elimination of monopolies, have been adopted. The basis of the changed society is education. Gender-roles and the class system have changed little, but the lower classes are better educated and better paid.
Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 389-490.
Keywords: Male author; UK author

The First and Last Days of Alcohol the Great, in the Empire of Nationolia; or, Manxman's Records of the Temperance Revolution - J[ohn] Cowen, N.I.M. (B.T. Albro, 1848)
Allegory that follows the history of Alcohol the Great from birth to domination, the successful revolution, the counterrevolution by Alcohol's followers, and his successful overthrow. The ending suggests that lapses of vigilance and apathy means that the struggle is ongoing.
Keywords: Male author

France and England: A Vision of the Future (H.G. Clarke, 1848)
Detailed eutopia of a unified Europe. Ascribed to Marie Louis Alphonse de Lamartine de Prat and purported to be a translation from the French. The translator's "Preface" indicates that a first edition was published anonymously in 1843. There is no evidence that this book was originally published in France or written in French by Lamartine or anyone else, and there is no evidence of an earlier English edition. Thus, it can be tentatively labeled as the first edition of an anonymous English work of 1848.

The Island of Liberty; or, Equality and Community - The Author of "Theodore" [pseud.] (Joseph Masters, 1848)
Novel presenting the development and failure of a communal experiment. A commune founded on the basis of liberty fails until law and order are introduced.
Rpt. in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 121-258.

Peter Schlemihl in America - [George] [Wood] (1799-1870) (Carey and Hart, 1848)
Mostly social commentary with a lot of material on religion, but also includes fictional Fourierist communities and discussion of Fourierism.
Some was originally published as by Peter Schemil [pseud.]. “Lights and Shadows of Fashionable Life.” The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 27.2 - 28.2 (February - August 1846): 128-38, 215-27, 319-35, 425-36, 485-501; 15-24, 115-32; and with some of the same characters as “On Oratorios in New York” by Frank Williamson [pseud.]. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine 30.6 (December 1847): 527-35.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Sequel to the 'Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century'" - [Jane Sophia] [Appleton] (1816-84) (Voices from the Kenduskeag, 1848)
Eutopia written in response to 1848 Kent. Women are no longer dependent on men. Whether to marry or not is a free choice. Women have equal rights and opportunities. Women participate fully in the intellectual life of the community.
Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 49-64 with an editor’s note on 49.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Triumph of Woman: A Christmas Story - Charles Rowcroft (1798-1856) (Parry & Company, 1848)
A man from a vaguely described ideal planet without women visits earth and experiences both the reasons for the prohibition of women on his planet and their attractiveness. An earth woman's attraction proves too strong for him, and he settles on earth.
Rpt., with The Triumph of Woman as the running head, as Trials and Triumphs, or Tales for All Seasons. Illus. London: Thomas Holmes, nd; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 259-387.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

"A Vision of Bangor, in the Twentieth Century" - [Edward] [Kent] (1802-77) (Voices from the Kenduskeag, 1848)
Eutopia presented as recording a dream of Bangor in 1978. Some satire. South America now part of the U.S., which has fifty-six states. No slavery. Temperance, traditional gender-roles. No writing. See also 1848 Appleton, which responds to Kent's treatment of women.
Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged. Also rpt. in Otherworldly Maine. Ed. Noreen Doyle (Camden, ME: Down East, 2008), 124-34.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Crater; or, Vulcan's Peak. A Tale of the Pacific - [James Fenimore] [Cooper] (1789-1851) (Burgess, Stringer and Company, 1847)
Mostly a dull adventure story that includes a conservative eutopia stressing a natural aristocracy.
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke & Co., [1880]; and as The Crater or Vulcan’s Peak. In The Works of James Fenimore Cooper. Otsego Edition. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, [1905]; and Ed. Thomas Philbrick. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1962. U.K. ed. as Mark’s Reef; or, The Crater. A Tale of the Pacific. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1847.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"'Oo-a-deen': or, the Mysteries of the Interior Unveiled' (Corio Chronicle and Western Districts Advertiser (Geelong, VIC, Australia), 1847)
Lost race eutopia located in the center of Australia. Oodeen, as it is written in the text, means Place of Perfect Rest. The people settled there about a thousand years ago. Stress on simplicity; closness to nature, with most animals tame. Patriarchal system.
Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin. (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1982), 7-27. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 7-27.
Keywords: Australian author

The Principles of Nature, Her Divine Revelations, and A Voice to Mankind. In Three Parts. Part First. Any theory, hypothesis, philosophy, sect, creed, morality will bloom with an or institution that fears investigation, openly manifests its own error. Part Second. Reason is a flower of the spirit, and its fragrance is liberty and knowledge. Part Third. When distributive justice pervades the social world, virtue and morality will bloom with an immortal beauty; while the Sun of Righteousness will arise in the horizon of universal industry, and shed its genial rays over all the fields of peace, plenty, and human happiness! - Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910) (Published by S.S. Lyon and Wm. Fishbough, 1847)
Includes a detailed eutopia based on cooperation at the end of an exposition of Davis's theology and world view. See also 1874 and 1878 Davis.
32nd ed. Boston, MA: William White & Co., 1871.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Scientific Division and Nomenclature of the Earth, and Particularly the Territory of the United States into States, Counties, Townships, Farms and Lots; for Promoting the Equality, Individuality and Inalienableness of Man's Rights to Sovereignty, Life, Labor and Domain, While at the Same Time it Constitutes a Scientific Geography of the Earth: Also a Constitution for Nebrashevil [Nebraska] or Any Other State: For the Consideration of National Reformers and Other Statesmen - Lewis Masquerier (b. 1802) (Office of "Young America", 1847)
Eutopia. The bulk of this brief pamphlet is concerned with nomenclature and the division of the world into equal areas, but it includes a short constitution that specifies, among other things, that each individual be given a plot of land and a plan for settlement. See also 1877 and 1884 Masquerier and his Premium Remedy for Hireling Slavery; Classified Principles and Elements of Rights and Wrongs; Diagrams of Township and Village, and Revolutionary Hymns. New York: Ptd. by J.A. Lant, 1877 (DLC). .
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sixty Years Hence - [Charles Frederick] [Henningsen] (1815-77) (T.C. Newby, 1847)
Largely a satire on the manners and customs of the near future but includes a dystopian element--a despotic government and its overthrow.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Social Re-organization" - John Orvis (1816-97) (The Harbinger, 1847)
Most of the material is a critique of the present, but it also details aspects of the eutopia that Association would produce.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Chronicles of Clovernook; With Some Account of The Hermit of Bellyfulle - Douglas [William] Jerrold (1803-57) (Punch Office, 1846)
Humor. Describes a eutopia of simplicity and no government or laws. Life is based on morality and kindness. Has an element of the Cockaigne with food and wine in abundance.
Rpt. in his A Man Made of Money and The Chronicles of Clovernook. Vol. 6 of The Writings of Douglas Jerrold. Collected Edition (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853), 229-344; and in Modern British Utopias 1700-1850. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1997), 8: 1-91.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dolores: A Novel of South America - [Paul] Harro-Harring (1798-1870) (Author/Libreria Hernandez/Marrener, Lockwood, 1846)
An eclectic novel giving the author's viewpoint on a wide range of subjects and including the outlines of an egalitarian eutopia.
Part I was published as New York: Author/Montevideo, Uruguay: Libreria Hernandez. Parts II - IV were published as Dolores: A Novel. New York: Marrener, Lockwood, [1846]. All parts say, “Complete in One Volume”.
Keywords: German author; Male author

Henry Russell; or, The Year of Our Lord Two Thousand (William H. Graham, 1846)
Future eutopia that begins in an intentional community based loosely on the ideas of the utopian socialist Charles Fourier (1772-1837) and ends by being established worldwide.
Keywords: US author

"Ireland. The Narrative of Malcom McGregor" - Malcolm McGregor [pseud.] (Northern Star and National Trades' Journal, 1846)
Satire on Irish politics and society in dystopian terms.

"The Life and Adventures of Miss Robinson Crusoe" (Punch or the London Charivari, 1846)
Satire on contemporary life in England.

Narrative of a Four Month's Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life - Herman Melville (1819-1891) (John Murray, 1846)
Eutopia set on an island in the South Pacific where Melville was held captive. It depicts the happy, seemingly innocent natives, who are also cannibals, and thus resonates with both Michel Montaigne's (1533-92) "De Cannibales" (1580) and Jean-Jacques Rousseau's (1712-78) argument against civilized behavior. Melville's Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) was presented as a sequel, but it has little that can be called utopian. See also his 1849 Melville.
Rpt. as Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas With Notices of the French Occupation of Tahiti and the Provisional Cession of the Sandwich Islands to Lord Paulet. 2 vols. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life. During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas; The Revised Edition, With a Sequel. 2 vols. in 1. New York: Wiley and Putnam/London: John Murray, 1846; Typee; or, A Narrative of a Four Month’s Residence Among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or, A Peep at Polynesian Life. London: John Murray, 1847; Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. With an Introduction by Raymond Weaver and Illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935; Typee: A Peep at Polynesan Life During a Four Months’ Residence in a Valley of the Marquesas. [Luke, MD]: West Virginia Pulp and Paper Co., 1962; Typee, a Peep at Polynesian Life. Ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker and G. Thomas Tanselle. Vol. 1 of The Writings of Herman Melville. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1968; and Typee: Complete Text with Introduction Historical Contexts Critical Essays. Ed. Geoffrey Sanborn. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2004.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Reasons for Each Law of the New Constitution Proposed to be Introduced First into The State of New York, Afterwards into Each State of the Union, and then from the Universal and Unchanging Truth of the Principles and Innumerable Advantages in Practice to all Other Nations. And, Also, A Contrast Between the Old and New Systems of Society - Robert Owen (1771-1858) (Np, 1846)
Constitution for a union of intentional communities. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1844, and 1855 (2) Owen.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; Welsh author

"Taranaki Song. Written by Mr. J. Hursthouse and sung at the Farmers' Club by Mr. Newland" - John Hursthouse (1811-60) (Wellington Independent, 1846)
The Taranaki region of New Zealand in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

1945: A Vision (Francis and John Rivington, 1845)
Eutopia of restored religion.

"The Book of Platonopolis: or, The Perfect Commonwealth. A Romance of the Future" - [John Goodwyn] [Barmby] (1820-81) (The Communist Chronicle, or Promethean Magazine, The Apostle of the Communist Church and the Communitive Life; Communion With God, Communion of the Saints, Communion of Suffrages, and Communion of Goods, 1845)
Clearly intended to be a communal eutopia, but the only section published is very general and is mostly about architecture. There will be many of what he calls communitarians. See also his "Marriage in the New Common World." The Communist Journal and Advocate of the Communist Church, no. 1 (July 1846): 9-11, which presents the details of marriage and divorce in his ideal community.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Christian Commonwealth - John Minter Morgan (1782-1854) (Chapman and Hall, 1845)
Eutopia. Proposal for a community to assist the poor with details on how they will be improved economically, morally, and religiously. Includes a plate depicting a "Self-Supporting Institution" accompanied by an explanation and description. See also 1826 and 1834 Morgan.
Rpt. in Owenite Socialism: Pamphlets and Correspondence. 10 vols. Ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Routledge, 2005), 8: 330-400. Exp. ed. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 with Extinction of Pauperism on the cover and with an additional plate but without the appendices. Bound with Colonie chrétienne. Traduit de l’Anglais. No translator given. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1849 (43-90); and Extinction du Pauperisme by Louis Napoleon Bonaparte. Reimprimée comme offrant des suggestions précieuses pour un état de transition dans le progrès de la société vers la réalisation d’une colonie chrétienne. No information given on prior publication (Separately paged as 1-27). And trans. from the French as Extinction of Pauperism. And Published, as Offering Some Valuable Suggestions for a Transition State in the Progress of Society Towards the Realisation of a Christian Commonwealth. No translator given (Separately paged as 1-23).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Margaret: A Tale of the Real and the Ideal, Blight and Bloom; Including Sketches of a Place Not Before Described, Called Mons Christi - [Sylvester] [Judd] (1813-53) (Jordan and Wiley, 1845)
Small town Christian eutopia. Margaret grows up an educated child of nature, meets a good Christian, and is transformed. Christianity and love are capable of producing eutopia, but they also had much wealth. Temperance.
Rev. ed. 2 vols. Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1851; rpt. Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1857. Rpt. in a one vol. ed. without the second subtitle. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1871; rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1891; and Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968.
Keywords: US author

"The Monster Mine (Written especially for the South Australian Odd Fellows' Magazine, Vol. 103, No. 5)" - PGM [pseud.] (The South Australian Odd Fellows'; Magazine [Each issue has the title Odd Fellows' Magazine, but the first page of the volume has the full title], 1845)
Technological eutopia one hundred years in the future brought about by the riches of a copper mine. Little social change.
Rpt. in Australian Science Fiction. Ed. Van Ikin (St. Lucia, QLD, Australia: University of Queensland Press, 1982), 4-6. Book rpt. (Chicago, IL: Academy Publishers, 1984), 4-6.
Keywords: Australian author

"One Hundred Years Hence. 1945" (The Millennial Star (Liverpool, Eng.), 1845)
Mormon millennium with Christ ruling directly.
Rpt. as “One Hundred Years Hence--1945.” Dialogue 4.1 (1969): 127-31; and as “A Glimpse of the Millennium.” LDS2: Latter-Day Science Fiction. Ed. Benjamin Urrutia (Ludlow, MA: Parables, 1985), 48-52.

“The Republic of Orissá; A Page from the Annals of the Twentieth Century” - Shoshee Chunder Dutt (1824-85) (The Bengal Hurkaru and India Gazette, 1845)
The story is set in the dystopia of colonial India with the government passing a law that supports slavery, which leads to a revolt in which the British are defeated but then ignore what they had agreed to do.
Rpt. in Bengaliana: A Dish of Rice and Curry, and Other Indigestible Ingredients (Calcutta, India: Thacker, Spink, and Co., [1878]), 347-56. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.91713/mode/2up; in Selections from ‘Bengaliana’. Ed. Alex Tickell (Manchester, Eng: Trent Editions, 2005), 149-59, with a Glossary on 164-38; and in Science Fiction in Colonial India, 1835-1905: Five Tales of Speculative Fiction and Resistance. Ed. Mary Ellis Gibson (London: Anthem Press, 2019), 133-41, with an editor’s introduction on 126-32.
Keywords: Indian author; Male author

The Book of the New Moral World, on Government and Laws. Part Sixth - Robert Owen (1771-1858) (J. Watson, 1844)
Owen's The Book of the New Moral World was published in seven parts between 1836 and 1844, each with a separate, different title page. The first five parts lay down and explain his principles, and the seventh part argues that his system will be adopted. This sixth part is the only explicitly utopian part in that it gives a detailed constitution and legal system for the Owenite eutopia, which differs from the text under the same title in 1830 Owen. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1843, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen.
Rpt. in Selected Works of Robert Owen. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 4 vols. (London: William Pickering, 1993), 3: 299-359.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; Welsh author

Emigration to the Tropical World, for the Melioration of all Classes of People of all Nations - John A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) (The Concordium, 1844)
One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology, in this case to be realized in Venezuela where, he says, he has obtained a grant of land. Here Etzler gives an address in London. Etzler also published a four page Synopsis of Etzler's Plan of Emigration to Venezuela. Newcastle, Eng.: W.W. Leighton, Printer, 1844; rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977 that summarizes the proposal. On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 Etzler and 1843 Etzler and 1844 Etzler Two Visions of J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

My First and Last Book. A Book for the Crisis and A Crisis for the Book - A Plain Man, A native of Massachusetts (Np, 1844)
All humans belong to one universal brotherhood. Marriage for life between one man and one woman. Sex only for reproduction. Extended childhood under parents' care. “The child then becomes a member of the common brotherhood or community, where through the whole there is impartial, social sympathy and equal love, and in which there is a perfect supply of all the wants of every member, and all the means essential to a perfect developement [sic] of character” (15). Common property. If people life correctly, they will have no need of doctors. Good food, fruit and vegetables being the best, clean air, regular exercise; mentions no corsets for women. No need for clergy. Lays out a new calendar (48-51).
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New State of Society: A Diologue [sic.] between Theophilus and Amida (Rational Tract Society, 1844)
Eutopia in a dialogue presenting new communities as the solution to social problems.

The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime - George Lippard (1822-1854) (G.B. Zieber & Co., 1844)
Mostly a sensational novel as reflected in the title, that, in the “Preface to this Edition,” the author says describes “all the phases of a corrupt social system, as manifested in the city of Philadelphia. There is a brief dystopia, “The Last Says of the Quaker City” (372-93), and a brief eutopia, “The Temple of Ravoni” (525-37). On these utopian dimensions, see Nathaniel Williams, “George Lippard’s Fragile Utopian Future and 1840s American Economic Turmoil.” Utopian Studies 24.2 (2013): 166-83.
Rpt. as The Quaker City; or, The Monks of Monk Hall. A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime. With Illustrations, and the Author’s Portrait and Autograph. Philadelphia, PA: Leary, Stuart, & Co., [1876], with the author’s “Preface to this Edition” (1-2). Rpt. as The Monks of Monk Hall. New York: Odyssey Press 1970 with an “Introduction by Leslie Fiedler (vii-xxxii). Rpt. ed. David S. Reynolds (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995 with an “Introduction” by Reynolds (vii-xliv).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Two Visions of J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler, (Author of the Paradise Within the Reach of All Men, By Powers of Nature and Machinery, and Other Writings Connected Therewith.) A Revelation of Futurity - J[ohn] A[dolphus] Etzler (1791?-1846?) (The Concordium, 1844)
One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology. These "visions" are very general and include considerable complaint about having been ignored. At the end he says that whether or not he gains support he will emigrate "to found a paradise in the tropical world". On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 and 1843 Etzler and 1844 Etzler Emigration to the Tropical World.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Dialogue on Etzler's Paradise Between Messrs. Clear, Flat, Dunce, and Grudge. By The Author of "Paradise within Reach of All Men, without Labour, by Powers of Nature and Machinery".-- Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers."--and the Invention of the Naval Automaton, Etc., Etc. - [John Adolphus] [Etzler] (1791?-1846?) (James B. O'Brien, 1843)
One of Etzler's pictures of eutopia through technology. Clear defends Etzler from attacks by the others.  On the technology, see also his The New World or Mechanical System, To Perform the Labours of Man and Beast by Inanimate Powers, That Cost Nothing, for Producing and Preparing the Substance of Life. With Plates. Philadelphia, PA: C.F. Stollmeyer, 1841. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977; and Description of the Naval Automation, Invented by J.A. Etzler and Patented in American and Europe. Philadelphia, PA: Ptd. by Gihon and Fairchild, [1841/42?]. Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adophus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. See also 1833 and 1844 (2) Etzler.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of John Adolphus Etzler. Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977. Items separately paged.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

"Rules and Regulations of a Community" - Robert Owen (1771-1858) (The New Moral World, 1843)
Detailed proposals for a series of communities to be established in Ireland. Based on lectures given in Dublin in 1823. See also 1813, 1830, 1839, 1841, 1844, 1846, and 1855 (2) Owen.
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author; Welsh author

"The Vision: A Fragment" - [John Logan] [Campbell] (1817-1912) (Southern Cross, New Zealand Guardian, Auckland, Thames, and Bay of Plenty Advertizer, 1843)
A short vision of Auckland, New Zealand in the future. Some eutopian; some dystopian.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author; Scottish author

The Amazonian Republic Recently Discovered in the Interior of Peru. By Ex-Midshipman Timothy Savage, B.C. Member of the Philosophical Society of Baltimore and of the Antiquarian Academy of Staten Island - Timothy Savage [pseud?] (Samuel Colman, 1842)
Primarily a utopian satire. A developed country with the government the same as the United States. Effeminate men. Some material on a new religion.
Rpt. as The Amazonian Republic (1842). A Facsimile Reproduction With an Introduction by Joel Nydahl (v-xvi). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976.
Keywords: US author