“The Nation That Shall Be” - Rev. Oliver Huckel (1864-1940) (The New Nation, 1891)
Poem describing the eutopia that will be brought about by Nationalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nationalism. Or a System of Organic Unity, Individual Equality and Industrial Association, In Place of Our Present State of International [overstamped on cover Industrial] War and Wasting Competition - Sumner F[ranklin] Claflin Esq. (b. 1862) (Pub. by the Author, 1891)
Mostly an essay but includes a few pages of an 1888 Bellamy style eutopia entitled "Looking Backward From 1940" (28-31), and the author says that he was inspired to write by Bellamy's book. Ends with a poem "In the Land of Is-To-Be".
Part originally published in The Manchester [New Hampshire] Telegram.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A New Aristocracy - [Alice Elinor] [Bartlett] (1848-1920 (Bartlett Publishing Co, 1891)
Mostly on the struggles of a poor family, but regularly refers to the eutopia they hope to achieve. An industrial community and a movement for the alleviation of poverty are created.
Rpt. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1897.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Peculiar People - Samuel Phelps Leland (1839-1910) (Aust and Clark, 1891)
Written against communalism, including Robert Owen (1771-1858) and his followers and the experiment at New Harmony. Presents an intentional community as it fails.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Reign of Selfishness. A Story of Concentrated Wealth - [Samuel] [Walker] (M. K. Pelletreau, 1891)
Authoritarian, capitalist dystopia in which those in power can simply order the police to do their bidding.
Also entitled Dry Bread; or, The Reign of Selfishness. A Novel for Men. 2nd ed. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899. iv + 448 pp. https://archive.org/details/drybreadorreigno00walk/page/n6.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Rice Mills of Port Mystery - B[enjamin] F[ranklin] Heuston (1859-1907) (Charles H. Kerr, 1891)
Eutopia designed as an argument in favor of free trade. The first three chapters are on the physical glories of the Northwestern U.S. The next chapters are future history in which the Northwest is developed, and there are significant technological advances. An inventor of genius discovers how to create organic matter from inorganic matter; hence, the rice mills. Having a monopoly, the man became immensely rich, and the Northwest developed rapidly, but the man died young. His will gives his shipping interests to the men who worked the ships, the rice mill in trust to the State of Washington, and his other property to the city. But the whole thing was a fraud designed to hide free trade with other countries, which is what had actually enriched him.
2nd ed. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1892.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Six Thousand Years Hence - Milton W[orth] Ramsey (?1848-1906) (Press of Alfred Roper, 1891)
The protagonist visits the sun, finds various vaguely described eutopias, and then returns to earth six thousand years later and finds a society with a large population functioning well. Technology. Careful job placement.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Soul of Man Under Socialism" - Oscar [Fingal O'Flahertie Wills] Wilde (1854-1900) (The Fortnightly Review, 1891)
Essay and notes toward a utopia. The essay is a critique of both contemporary life under capitalism and authoritarian socialism, but throughout the essay Wilde projects an anarcho-socialism or at least a socialism with very little government that leads to individualism and creativity.
Repub. London: Chiswick Press, 1895. U.S. ed. Boston, MA: John W. Luce, 1900. Rpt. New York: Oriole Chapbooks/Oriole Editions, [1978?]; and in The Soul of Man and Prison Writings. Ed. Isobel Murray (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1990), 1-27 with Explanatory Notes on 198-206. Critical ed. as “The Soul of Man.” The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Ed. Ian Small. Volume 4 Criticism: Historical Criticism, Intentions, The Soul of Man. Ed. Josephine M. Guy (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2007), 231-68, with “The Textual Condition of The Soul of Man” (lxviii-lxxx), “A Note of the Text” (xci-xciv), and a “Commentary” (551-84).
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

A Strange Voyage. A Revision of The Key of Industrial Cooperative Government. An Interesting and Instructive Description of Life on Planet Venus - [Henry Francis] [Allen] (The Monitor Publishing Company, 1891)
Eutopia of industrial cooperation. Technologically advanced with engines that can use their own exhaust to produce more power. No money. Dedicated to the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union. The author says that in 1874 he published a poem in a Boston newspaper entitled "My Vision", which he describes as ". . . a typical forecast of the Equitable Industrial Era, as actually seen in a dream" (226). See 1886 also Allen.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Tales of a Great-Grandmother" - Ruth Ellis Freeman (The New Nation, 1891)
Eutopia set in 1888 Bellamy's world contrasted with an old woman's memories of the period before the eutopia was established. The single greatest emphasis is on the enhanced leisure, with a long vacation every few years, short vacations throughout the year, and free time daily. This allows people the opportunity to be creative (literature is stressed) and spend time in their gardens and doing other things they enjoy. A particular emphasis is on the way cooperative housekeeping frees women from onerous, unpaid labor to follow their desired pursuits.
Keywords: Female author

A Tramp in Society - Robert H. Cowdrey (Francis J. Schulte & Co, 1891)
Chapter XV “The City of Freeland” is a description of an industrial town and farm community run for the benefit of the workers. Land is free, and this is the key. Security in the land comes from improving it. No women or children in factory work. “Their natural protectors are able to support them and would feel disgraced if they had to ask their children to assist them in earning a living.” Employers and workers both benefit. Farmers supply the city; as a result, they are not under the heel of the railroads. “Here the farmer is the suburban resident of the city. His well-paved roads are but extensions of the city streets.” No saloons. Stress on the power of public opinion. Gets rid of the middleman. In the last chapter of the book, the Freeland model has extended to the entire country. Also includes “The Sequel to Robinson Crusoe.” Rpt. in The Nationalization News: The Journal of the Nationalization of Labour Society. Established to promote the System proposed in “LOOKING BACKWARD” 3.28 [January 1893: 1-3]) in which Crusoe exploits others through his ownership of the land, which produces a dystopia. Crusoe sees the light and free access to land produces a eutopia. The utopia Ten Men of Money Island (1884) by Seymour F. Norton (b. 1841) is a sequel, and according to Michael Flürscheim (1844-1912), he wrote his utopia The Real History of Money Island (1896) in response to the inadequacies of Norton.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Universal Republic! 1992. A History of the Past, Present, and Future of the United States - [Edwin Ruthwin] [Harris] (b. 1857) (Continental Printing Co, 1891)
The section, "A Prospective; or, A Sly Glance into the Future of the United States" (163-223), shows a United States, now called the Universal Republic, extending from the North Pole to Panama. The economic and political center of the country has moved West of the Mississippi, and St. Louis is the capitol. All Blacks have left the country and moved to South America.
Keywords: Male author

The Universal Strike of 1899 - William Oakhurst (Wm. Reeves, 1891)
Mostly on the strike but includes a brief eutopia at the end that makes it clear that while everything is better, more still needs to be done.
Rpt. as The Universal Strike (A Forecast of twenty years ago now in the course of fulfillment). London: Odham's Ltd., [1911].
Keywords: Male author

The Valley Council; or, Leaves From the Journal of Thomas Bateman of Canbelego Station, N.S.W. - Percy Clarke, ed. [written by] (Sampson Low, Marston & Co, 1891)
Authoritarian state socialism as a dystopia. Everyone tales turns as servant and master. There are daily changes in the President or Presidentess. When one of a married couple is high ranked the other is low ranked. Meals from the central kitchen. Houses changed at the state’s direction. Vegetarian. State can separate couples if it chooses. Children considered to belong to the state. No animals.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Vetulia: or, Going to the Bottom of Things - William Wye Smith (1827-1917) (Dudley & Burns, 1891)
Utopia based on long life, which is presented negatively, but other aspects of society are presented positively.
Part first published as "Vetulia." New Dominion Monthly (August 1875): 65-73. A note in the book says expanded in Advertiser (London, ON, Canada) (1880), but a search of this daily newspaper failed to find it. Rev. for book publication.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

The Vril Staff - X. Y. Z. [pseud.] (David Stott, 1891)
Eutopia. A man invents something like Vril from 1871 Bulwer-Lytton and forces world change, including European disarmament and a degree of European unification.

What Will Mrs. Grundy Say? or, A Calamity on Two Legs. (A Book for Men.) - Michael Rustoff [pseud?] (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. and Henry Glaisher, 1891)
Satire. Technically advanced civilization. Suicide at defined age. Calamity on two legs refers to women. Eugenics with a license required to marry. Very little privacy.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 221-313. Editor's notes, 219, 395-99.

"Woman in the Year 2000" - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Ladies Home Journal, 1891)
A restatement and expansion of Bellamy’s discussion of women in his 1888 Looking Backward. In 1897 Bellamy, he modifies his presentation of this position. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. Utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward are 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Year of Miracle; A Tale of the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) (George Routledge and Sons, 1891)
A plague is deliberately introduced into the world and decimates the population. But after the plague passes, there is a very brief depiction of the better world that has become possible based on the reduced population and the elimination of the poor, who were most affected by the plague.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

A.D. 2000 - Lieut. Alvarado M[ortimer] Fuller, U.S. Army (1851-1924) (Laird and Lee, 1890)
A sleeper wakes in 2000 and finds significant economic and political reform and major improvements in technology but little social change. The face of the United States has been changed by the sinking of the middle west and the formation of a central sea in its place and by the acquisition of all lands south to Panama and north to the Arctic. There is a 20% limit on profit, but the employer is allowed to set wages (no unions), which has raised wages. The government is largely financed out of excess profit. No one can hold more than 640 acres (1 square mile), and no foreigners may hold land at all. The government owns all the utilities and the railroad system. The profit on these activities also helps finance the government. No political parties. Juries abolished. The author says that he chose the title and theme in November 1887, before Bellamy's Looking Backward was published.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. with a different illus. Chicago, IL: Laird and Lee, 1892. Rpt. with a different illus. as Back to Life (A.D. 2000). A Thrilling Novel. No. 43 of Standard Library. Chicago, IL: Laird & Lee, [1911].
Keywords: Male author; US author

A.D. 2050. Electrical Development at Atlantis - [John] [Bachelder] (1817-1906) (The Bancroft Company, 1890)
The society of 1888 Bellamy is not working smoothly so some emigrate and form a much-reformed capitalist eutopia. Government provides businesses with power and materials and receives all profit over 10%. Most people own shares in the companies where they work. Government price control.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Angel and the Idiot; A Story of the Next Century (David Stott, 1890)
Near future eutopia of technological improvement and greater equality set one hundred years in the future.

"Architecture Under Nationalism" - J[ohn] P[ickering Putnam (1847-1917) (The American Architect and Builders News, 1890)
Part essay on architecture and sanitation; part description of future architecture, including an argument for cooperative living in apartment buildings. The author was born as John Amory Putnam but later took his father's name. He was a Boston architect, best known for pioneering apartment buildings, some of which still stand. See his "The Apartment House." The American Architect and Builders News 27.732 (January 4, 1890): 3-5.
Rpt. without the letters  Boston ,  MA : The Nationalist Educational Association, 1890.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Aurophone - Cyrus Cole (Charles H. Kerr & Co, 1890)
Communication with a scientifically advanced Saturn, which has demonstrated the existence of immortality. The initial result is peace and prosperity, with slavery abolished and temperance enforced through the death penalty, but with the social structure and division between the rich and poor unchanged. Later robots (called dummies) are invented and do all the work. The robots revolt, and after the revolt is defeated, it is decided that everyone must work. An industrial army straight out of 1888 Bellamy is established.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Brother": Splendor and Woe - Isaac Broome (1835-1922) (J.A. Craig, 1890)
Most of the novel is concerned with the dystopia of the nineteenth century, which brings about a collapse of world civilization. But this dystopia is framed by a future eutopia, which was brought into being by a small group of survivors in New Zealand, members of a small, isolated, egalitarian community. Forced from New Zealand by the growing threat of volcanoes, they settled in what had been New York and founded an egalitarian eutopia based on the teachings of Henry George (1839-97) and Edward Bellamy (1850-98). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Caesar's Column: A Story of the Twentieth Century - [Ignatius Loyola] [Donnelly] (1831-1901) (F.J. Schulte and Company, 1890)
Largely a social catastrophe novel but includes a populist eutopia at the end.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1894; Chicago, IL: J. Regan & Co., “Free Speech” Publishers, nd, with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly) and many errors Chicago, IL: M.A. Donohue & Co., [1918? is given by most libraries although Rideout suggests 1901 and some libraries give 1913], with the name given as Edmund Boisgilbert, M.D. (Ignatius Donnelly); ed. Walter B. Rideout. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1960; New York: AMS Press, 1981; and ed. Nicholas Ruddick. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” by the editor (xv-lv).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Coming Republic" - Edwin Harrow (New Zealand As I Have Found It; or, the Harro-ing Experiences of a Settler at the Lake, Auckland, N.Z, 1890)
A very brief description of a republic of "the English-speaking race" which all other countries will ultimately choose to join. Federal system. There will be a "floating palace" so that the head of the republic can visit all the members.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

Common-Sense Country - L[ouisa] S[arah] Bevington (1845-95) (James Tochatti. "Liberty" Press. Liberty Pamphlets, 1890)
Anarchist socialist eutopia. See also her “The Secret of the Bees.” Liberty: A Journal of Anarchist Communism (London) 1.4 (April 1894): 31 where the bees have the good life through the use of “common sense.”
Keywords: Female author

Concealed for Thirty Years Being the Narrative of Edward Grey - Edward Grey [pseud.] (Remington, 1890)
Lost race eutopia based on religiously enforced complete equality facing the problem of a sudden disparity in wealth caused by the discovery of silver.

The Conditions of Peace - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) ([Shaker Community], 1890)
Six-page pamphlet in which Evans outlines the basis for eutopia, including the franchise for women, vegetarianism, and Christian community. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Universal Republic.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Cosmopolitan Railway. Compacting and Fusing Together All the World's Continents - William Gilpin (1813-94) (The History Company, 1890)
Non-fiction describing a railroad around the world that the author believes will transform the world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“The Danger of Anarchy in the Twentieth Century” (The Open Court, 1890)
A report from the future of 1888 Bellamy’s Looking Backward, in which the asylums are full of thousands of cases of “atavism” or people who believe that the supposed utopia is deeply flawed. Congress has not met for thirty years and, at that point, voted to not meet for fifty years.

The Decline and Fall of the British Empire; or, the Witches Cavern - H[enry] C[rocker] M[arrriott] W[atson] (1835-1901) (Trischler & Co., 1890)
Socialism and a lack of both religion and authority cause the collapse of Britain. Britain failed to educate its people so that democracy could function correctly. Climatic changes brought about by the movement of the Gulf Stream away from Britain and the resulting colder weather led to mass immigration and the collapse of commerce. The class structure in Britain divides people. The protagonist visits Britain in 2990 and the Britain of the nineteenth century in a dream. Australia in 2989 is prosperous and healthy with religion and authority as seen in a tour of Australia taken in what is called an electric car but runs on a schedule and has a guard. The poor in Australia are given assistance as a right.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 59-217. Editor's notes, 57-58, 392-95. U.S. eds. as The Decline and Fall of the British Empire. By An English Premier [pseud.]. Minerva Series. No. 36. November, 1890. New York: Minerva, 1890; and The Witch's Cavern, A Realistic and Thrilling Picture of London Society. By One Who Knows [pseud.]. New York: Minerva, 1890.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Male author

“The Doll’s House--T’other Side” - [Ellen Battelle] [Dietrick] (1847-95) (Women’s Penny Paper, 1890)
Women take over from men with positive results, but, ultimately, they begin to feel sorry for the men in their inferior roles.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dorothy’s Experience" - Adeline Trafton (1842?-1920?) (Christian Union, 1890)
Social Gospel novel that includes a woman establishing a place for homeless young women to live.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard Publishers, 1890
Keywords: Female author; US author

"Dr. Leetes Letter to Julian West" - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) (The Nationalist, 1890)
Pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia. Julian West, the protagonist in Looking Backward, has become an unthinking and uninformed critic of the future Boston and starts a newspaper modeled on papers of the late nineteenth century to express his views. The letter explains why the newspaper failed so completely.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Dream of a Modest Prophet - M[ortimer] D[ormer] Leggett (1821-96) (J.B. Lippincott, 1890)
Eutopia set on Mars which is like Earth with a parallel history but more three thousand years more advanced. Religion is a way of life. World language.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Elixir of Life: or, Robert’s Pilgrimage: An Allegory - [Mrs.] [H. M.] [Stowe] (Np, 1890)
Fairly standard journey by a pilgrim in search of salvation visiting many cities based on religions, beginning with Pontifico and then many different Protestant denominations and the usual vices until arriving at the eutopian City of the King. In the city the Pilgrim advances through many mansions until he reaches the highest and Truth. The female author wrote other books on Christian Science.
Rpt. as The Progress of the Pilgrim. By Eleve [pseud.]. Chicago, IL: Eleve Publishing Co., 1891 124 pp.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"An English Tax-Day, June 15, 1927" - [Auberon Edward William Molyneux] [Herbert] (1838-1906) (The Free Life, 1890)
Individualist eutopia. Taxes are freely given not imposed.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Erudia, the Foreign Missionary to Our World; or, The Dream of Orphanos - William Allen (b. 1834) (Ptd. for the Author by the Publishing House of the M.E. Church, South, 1890)
The novel is mostly a critique of contemporary life from a Christian viewpoint noting the need for temperance, education, faith, and the Sabbath. Illustrates the reality of Heaven and Hell. It ends with a brief eutopia that is brought about by filling all these needs.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Farming in the Year 2000, A.D." - Edward Berwick (Overland Monthly, 1890)
Filling a gap in 1888 Bellamy. Discussion between Julian West and Dr. Leete. Vegetarian. Agriculture the most popular profession. City refuse used for fertilizer. Electricity runs all the machines.
Keywords: Male author

“The Girl of the Future” - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) (Universal Review, 1890)
A satirical essay that criticizes the current marriage system as marriage for the man and prostitution for the woman as well as the new education for women that cultivated their brains but neglected their bodies and, specifically, ignored sex. He then suggests the eutopia that would be possible if women were fully emancipated and given the sort of education that would prepare them for motherhood, mentally and physically.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Jamaican author; Male author; US author

Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 - Lady Florence [Caroline] Dixie (1855-1905) (Henry and Company, 1890)
The novel is concerned with the struggle for women's rights and includes a few pages (345-50) of a future eutopia in 1999 at the end. London countrified. Righteous government. Federated republic with an Imperial Assembly. No poverty.
U.S. ed. New York: Standard Publishing Co., 1892 (CaSt). There is a brief "An American Introduction" (xiii-xiv) to the U.S. ed. by George Noyes Miller, author of The Strike of a Sex (1890). Repub. under the title The New Woman, or The Revolution of 1900. New York: Holland Publishing Co., 1896. The New Woman does not contain the "Preface" (vii-x) or "Maremma's Dream. Introduction to Gloriana; or, A Dream of the Revolution of 1900" (1-4).
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

The God of Civilization. A Romance - Mrs. M. A. [Weeks] Pittock (Eureka Pub. Co, 1890)
Mostly a romantic adventure tale but includes a description of a South Seas island eutopia where the people are naturally good.
Keywords: Female author

God's Kingdom on Earth. Just Laws. Organised Work. The Religion of Jesus. Social Science Tract.--No 9 - R[ichard] Proctor (E. Tipper, Printer, 1890)
Pamphlet describing the eutopia that can be brought about through Christian socialism. See also 1932 Proctor. The author also wrote works in Biblical form advocating Christian socialism. See his The Epistle of Richard. A Late Addition to the English Bible. By the Author of the “New Evangel” [pseud.]. West Maitland, NSW, Australia: E. Tipper, Printer, 1893. 7 pp.; and The Second Epistle of Richard. By the Author of the “New Evangel” [pseud.]. West Maitland, NSW, Australia: E. Tipper, Printer, 1894. 8 pp. Other related works are his The New Evangel, According to Richard Proctor, Christian Socialist. Maitland, NSW, Australia: T. Dimmock, 1891; A New Religion [Sydney, NSW, Australia: Ptd. by Kingston Press], 1922; Reform or Revolution Which? Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Ruskin Press, [1926?]; and The New Evangel Way. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: The Ruskin Press, [1930].
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"God's Own Country" - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) (Lays and Lyrics. God's Own Country and Other Poems, 1890)
New Zealand as a eutopia. Origin of the word Godzone to describe New Zealand.
Rpt. in Ballads of Thomas Bracken (Palmerston North, New Zealand: The Dunmore Press, 1975), 13-17. Said to have been originally published in the Yea Chronicle [Yea, Australia 1890] and rpt. in the New Zealand Herald (May 28, 1892): 9, although the Herald says it was written especially for it.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Irish author; Male author

The Golden Lake or the Marvellous History of a Journey Through the Great Lone Land of Australia - Carlton [William Lanyon] Dawe (1865-1945) (Trischler and Co., 1890)
Typical lost race dystopia in which intrepid explorers discover a lost race, complete with the required beautiful blond woman, who they rescue and who marries one of the explorers.
Colonial Ed. Melbourne, Vic, Australia: E. A. Petherick, 1891.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

Gulliver in Mammonland: Being a Suppressed Chapter of Gulliver’s Travels - Richard Chandler, ed. [written by] (H. Grube, 1890)
Satire set on the Isle of Mammon where the inhabitants are described as mechanical beings driven by greed. Newspapers the Schemer’s Guardian and the Users Diurnal. Book The Whole Art of Diddling. Magazine The Gospel of Greed. The Great National Temple is the Stock Exchange. The “editor” says it is a fake in that the paper bears the watermark 1890.
Keywords: Male author

"A Hero of the Twentieth Century" - John Henry Barnabas (Overland Monthly, 1890)
Love story set in 1888 Bellamy's future.
Keywords: Male author

Humanitarian Government - Victoria C[alifornia] Woodhull Martin (1838-1927) (Np, 1890)
Eutopia that proposes a government of philosophers, control of the press, and other reforms. Some material on eugenics. A related text is Victoria Woodhull (Mrs. John Biddulph Martin). Humanitarian Money. The Unsolved Riddle. London: Np, 1892. 26 pp. See 1870 Woodhull.
Rpt. London: Blades, 1893. 68 pp.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

"The Ideal Newspaper" (Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 23.1719, 1890)
Brief satire on the problems of running the Daily Utopian.
Reprinted from the San Francisco Chronicle.

In Darkest England and The Way Out - General [William] Booth (1829-1912) (International Headquarters of the Salvation Army, 1890)
Mostly a reform scheme centered on the Salvation Army but includes the transformation of society through a series of city, farm, and overseas colonies. The city colonies were designed to get the poor off the streets. A factory in the city helped train them to work, and the city colony sent people to the farm colony which consisted of a cooperative farm and industrial and agricultural villages. These were then expected to send people to the overseas colonies. Some such schemes were established; see and Norman H Murdoch, “Anglo-American Salvation Army Farm Colonies, 1890-1910.” Communal Societies 3 (Fall 1983): 111-21; and Clark C. Spence, The Salvation Army Farm Colonies. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1985. For an attack on the Salvation Army, see 1890 Pope Booth.
6th ed. London: Charles Knight & Co., Ltd. 1970.
Keywords: English author; Male author

In Globe Democrat "A Strike in 2000. Results of Nationalism not seen by Edward Bellamy. Problems in Social Economy. What Would Happen in a State Unseconded by Individual Enterprise--Universal Mediocrity" - M. Maurice M.D. (Weekly Press (Christchurch, New Zealand), 1890)
The Sons of Individualism call a strike which brings about the downfall of the Nationalism of 1888 Bellamy.
It is possible that this is a reprint from a non-New Zealand newspaper called the Globe Democrat. The mostly likely paper appears to be the St. Louis Globe Democrat, a daily newspaper.

"In the Year '26" - Pauline Carsten Curtis (Overland Monthly, 1890)
The future of 1888 Bellamy's world in which competition and capitalism are re-established because Bellamy's future Boston was dystopian rather than eutopian. The change back has produced a capitalist eutopia.
Keywords: Female author

"In the Year Ten Thousand" - Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904) (Arena, 1890)
Technological utopia in a dialogue between two men of Manattia (formerly New York) on scientific and other advances far in the future. For example, on a hot day, people fly to the Arctic for a one-day break.
Rpt. in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 156-63.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“A Journalist’s Confession, Boston, A.D., 2001” - Julian West [pseud.] (The Open Court, 1890)
A criticism of the future of 1888 Bellamy in which Julian West reports that serious social criticism is repressed and unavailable and that neither books nor newspapers reach beyond a local area.

"Jubilee Day" - Thomas Bracken (1843-98) (Musings in Maoriland, 1890)
Poem. Future New Zealand as a eutopian part of the British Empire.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Irish author; Male author

King Squash of Toadyland - An Envoy Extraordinary [pseud.] (Field & Tuer The Leadenhall Press E.C./Simpkin Marshall & Co./Hamilton, Adams & Co./Scribner & Welford, 1890)
Satire on contemporary Britain. Problems include the Town of Gin. There is a revolution in which the House of Lords is reformed by eliminating party politics and the King is deposed.

"Lady Gwen, or, The Days That Are To Be" - A Welsh Nationalist [pseud.] (Cymru Fyad, 1890)
Detailed eutopia of Wales in 2000 inspired by 1889 Vogel. Wales is an independent member of the Imperial Empire with a young woman as Prime Minister. A reformed Calvinism played a significant part in bringing about the change.
Keywords: Welsh author

"The Last Sinner" - H. Elton Smith (Overland Monthly, 1890)
Anti-utopian story set some time into the future of 1888 Bellamy when Nationalism has become authoritarian. A throwback to capitalism rallies opposition, which leads to war.
Keywords: Male author

A Leap into the Future; or, How Things Will Be. A Romance of the Year 2000 - Donald McMartin (Weed, Parsons & Co., Printers, 1890)
Eutopia although much is a criticism of the past. Standard support of 1888 Bellamy using Bellamy's setting and characters, with his Julian West the protagonist. Technologically advanced with food from chemicals. Cemeteries have been abolished, the bodies disinterred and cremated, and the land turned into parks. Judges write the few laws needed. No lawyers. No appeal from the court's decision. Young men and women work in separate jobs because women working with men lose their femininity. Seen as still improving.
Keywords: Male author

Life in the Stone Age: The History of Atharael, Chief Priest of a Band of Al-Aryans; An Outline History of Man. Written Through the Mediumship of U.G. Figley - U.G. Figley (b. 1864) (U.G. Figley, 1890)
Lost race and spiritualist novel that includes a brief description of a eutopian future based on cooperation and democracy that will ultimately be followed by renewed war.
Keywords: US author

Life in Utopia; Being a Faithful and Accurate Description of the Institutions that Regulate Labour, Art, Science, Agriculture, Education, Habitation, Matrimony, Law, Government, and Religion in this Delightful Region of Human Imagination - John [Aloys] Petzler (1814?-1898) (Authors' Cooperative Publishing Company, 1890)
Fairly standard socialist eutopia. See also 1870 and 1876 Petzler, 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).
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

Looking Backward; and What I Saw - W. W. Satterlee ([Harrison and Smith], 1890)
Written against 1888-Bellamy and Henry George, the theorist of the single tax. The protagonist is R.E. Former and other names are similar. Proposes standard reforms of the times. For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: US author

"Looking Forward" (Liberty (Boston, MA), 1890)
Satire on the power of unions.

Looking Further Backward. Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to the Freshman Class at Shawmut College, by Professor Won Lung Li (Successor of Professor Julian West), Mandarin of the Second Rank of the Golden Dragon and Chief of the Historical Section of the Colleges in the North-Eastern Division of the Chinese Province of North America. Now, For the First Time, Collected, Edited and Condensed - Arthur Dudley Vinton (1852-1906) (Albany Book Company, 1890)
Anti-1888 Bellamy dystopia. The title indicates the situation; the future described by Bellamy proved weak militarily, and the Chinese successfully invaded.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Further Forward; An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy - Richard Michaelis (1839-1909) (Rand McNally, 1890)
Anti-1888 Bellamy. The author shows Julian West starting his teaching job and being confronted by the Professor he replaced, who is now a janitor because he did not follow the party line. The “real” future Boston is corrupt, class-ridden, and authoritarian. The final chapter, dropped in some reprints, depicts the murder of West, the professor and Dr. Leete and the abduction of Edith Leete, who had refused to marry the leader of the radical opposition. But in this version it had all been a dream, and West wakes up in nineteenth century Boston. 1891 Geissler is a response.
Rpt. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971; and Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Library Digital Collections, 1996 with Looking Further Forward [1890] on the cover. Also published as Looking Forward. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890; and A Sequel to Looking Backward or "Looking Further Forward." London: William Reeves, [1891]. This ed. drops the final chapter of the first ed. An Australian ed. was published as A Social Tangle. Being a Sequel and Reply to Bellamy's "Looking Backward". Melbourne, VIC, Australia: E.W. Cole, [1891]. In German as Ein Blick in die Zukunft, Ein Antewort auf Ein Ruckblick von Edward Bellamy. Chicago, IL: Rand McNally, 1890.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Looking Rearward” (Liberty (Boston, MA), 1890)
Satire on 1888 Bellamy in which all names have been abolished and replaced with a number that is tattooed on the forehead and the forearm.

The Marvelous Isles of the Western Sea - [E.E.] [Crandall] (np, 1890)
Pure, simple Christianity informing an advanced, democratic eutopia. Story of conflict over monetary policy arguing that paper money should be replaced with gold or silver. Those supporting the need for this policy win, and this is what produces the eutopia.

Miss Worden's Hero. A Novel - H[enry] B[arnard] Salisbury (G.W. Dillingham, 1890)
Standard socialist eutopia with stress on the revolution. The eutopia is described as similar to 1888 Bellamy. Money is in the form of a card which indicates the amount in units of hours, and change is given in coins that represent minutes and seconds. Machinery replaces most menial labor. Everyone is polite. Lots of gardens. It is said that there is no government, but that is not explained.
Rpt. under the author's original and preferred title as The Birth of Freedom; A Socialist Novel. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. 3rd. ed. New York: Humboldt Pub. Co., 1890. Also published as "The Birth of Freedom." The Nationalist 3.4 - 8/9 (November 1890 - March/April 1891): 217-42, 296-324, 380-97, 439-61, 511-57.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Modern Monk - The Author of "Confessions of an Actress," "Serpent Sin," Etc. [pseud.] (np, 1890)
Anti-religious science fiction erotica. Satire on religion by presenting a presumed eutopian religious community, with a male leader and attractive female followers.

Morgante the Lesser: His Notorious Life and Wonderful Deeds. Arranged and Narrated for the First Time - [Edward] [Martyn] (1859-1923) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1890)
Satire, including one on a trip to Hell.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

"The New Utopia" - Jerome K[lapka] Jerome (1859-1927) (Treasure Trove, 1890)
Satire. Equality achieved by limiting those better than the average.
Rpt. in his Diary of a Pilgrimage (And Six Essays). Illus. G. G. Frazar (Bristol, Eng.: J. W. Arrowsmith, [1891]), 261-79. U.S. ed. Illus. G. G. Frazar (New York: Henry Holt and Co, 1891), 337-60; and in the Tuapeka Times (New Zealand) 24.1802 (June 10, 1891): 5.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The New Utopia; or, Progress and Prosperity. An Exposure of the Evils Produced by Unwise Legislation, and A Suggestion of the Means Whereby They May Be Remedied - Alexander W. Johnston, M.A. (Turner and Henderson, 1890)
Mostly an essay but includes a section describing how the eutopian New South Wales will look after the adoption of his system, which then spreads around the world. No tariffs. Free rail transport. Free post and telegraph. Federated Australia with a State Bank. Single tax on land. The idea of a single tax on land originated with Henry George (1839-97). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"News from Nowhere; or, An Epoch of Rest. Being Some Chapters from a Utopian Romance" - William Morris (1834-1896) (The Commonweal, 1890)
Agrarian socialist eutopia. See also 1884, 1886-87 1887, and 1889 Morris.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Roberts Bros., 1890. The first U.K. ed. was London: Reeves & Turner, 1891 and was extensively revised. Rpt. London: Kelmscott Press, 1892 1892 with a facsimile ed. of the Kelmscott Press was published by London: Thames & Hudson/V&A, 2017, with an “introduction” by Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury (vi-xi); in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King's Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 1-211; ed. James Redmond. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970; ed. Krishan Kumar. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1995; ; and ed. David Leopold. Oxford, Eng: Oxford University Press, 2003. Chapters II-III rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 292-302.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“Number Five reads the story of her dream.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94) (Atlantic Monthly, 1890)
A satire on egalitarianism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Old Order and the New: From Individualism to Collectivism - J[ohn] Morrison Davidson (1843-1916) (William Reeves, 1890)
Mostly an analysis of contemporary society followed by a chapter on various reform schemes. The last chapter, "Freedom" (160-74), is a socialist eutopia.
4th ed. London: William Reeves, [1892].
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

One of "Berrian's" Novels - Mrs. C[harles] H. Stone (Welch, Fracker Company, 1890)
"This story, in part, takes the conditions in 'Looking Backward' as its setting, and it will be remembered that 'Berrian' was the novelist of that future time" (vi). Love story set in 1997 that sets out some of the personal problems that were faced in achieving the eutopia. The three mentioned are a woman who wanted to trade on her beauty rather than work, the need for "psychic" treatment for atavism, and a temporarily successful conspiracy against the emerging eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Plunge into Space - Robert Cromie (1856-1907) (Frederick Warne and Co, 1890)
Eutopia. Mars technically and aesthetically advanced. Older culture, less passion, and less government.
2nd ed. with a brief "Preface" (5) by Jules Verne. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1891. Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion, 1976.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Pope Booth: The Salvation Army, A.D. 1950 ([W. Lucas], 1890)
Dystopia with the Salvation Army dominant. Pope Booth refers to General William Booth (1829-1912), the founder of the Salvation Army. For Booth's utopia, see 1890 Booth.

“Saved by Nationalism” - H[enry] B[arnard] Salisbury (The Nationalist, 1890)
The story of a village under capitalism in which a few end up wealthy and the rest become poorer and poorer. This is contrasted, in a final section, with the same village under Nationalism twenty years later when it has been revitalized.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Scottish Home Rule--A Retrospect" - Alexander Dunbar (Blackwood's Magazine, 1890)
A letter written as if from Melbourne, VIC, Australia February 11, 1920. The MPs representing Scotland at the time William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98; Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1892) was in power were English and ignorant of Scotland. As a result, they supported Home Rule, which passed. Poor quality Scottish MPs were elected to the new Scottish Parliament, which quickly degenerated into corruption and demagoguery and impoverished Scotland. Home Rule has been withdrawn and some Scottish will return from Australia.
Keywords: Male author

The Song of Scent-em-lovely. (An Imitation) - S[elina] J[ulia] Hancock (Humffray, Printer, 1890)
A poem describing the environs of Dunedin, New Zealand in eutopian terms. It begins with the description of a river in the Kaikorai Valley with healthy, happy working people and continues with other areas, rich and poor, and ends with a dystopian vision of the city. "Stink-um-awful" is compared to the river "Scent-em-lovely." The next page is an ad for land for sale in Roslyn, which has been described as ". . . the pleasantest of suburbs--/The Belgravia of Dunedin,/Where the mansions of the wealthy,/Reared amid the glow of roses./Sheltered by their groves of blue gum,/Sun themselves in luxury" (7). The author also wrote a temperance story The Two Processions: A Dream of Bye-Law 2. Dunedin: Evening Star Job Printing Works, 1894. 12 pp.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Female author

A Strange Dream - S. M. Burroughs (Green, McAllan & Feilden., 1890)
Eutopia in which England is transformed by the single tax. The dream begins with a picture of the country before the introduction of the single tax showing the workers supporting the idle rich. This is followed by a depiction of the eutopia produced, with free travel, free education, full employment, and so forth. “It was the Liberal programme and the Single Tax that did it” (13). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.

The Strike of a Sex. A Novel - [George Noyes] [Miller] (1845-1904) (G.W. Dillingham, 1890)
Women go on strike for “ownership over our person,” specifically control of maternity. See also 1891 Miller. A novel set after the successful strike is 1892 Waisbrooker.
Later editions were published under the author's name with (Member of the Oneida Community) after the name. U.K. ed. London: W.H. Reynolds, 1891. Rpt. London: William Reeves, [1895]. Bellamy Library No. 12. Included in The Strike of a Sex and Zugassent’s Discovery, or After the Sex Struck (With Author’s Preface). New and revised ed. Chicago, IL: Stockham Pub. Co., 1905. The Strike is pp. 1-91. Zugassent’s Discovery or After the Sex Struck (93-119) is the first part of After. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974. Stockham was Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham, a sex reformer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sub Sole or Under the Sun. Missionary Adventures in the Great Sahara. By the Right Reverend Artegall Smith, D.D. With an Introduction by the Rev. Philip Norton - [Rev.] [Philip] [Norton] (James Nisbet and Co./Eben[enze]r Baylis and Son, 1890)
Lost race. The eutopia consists of two chapters (129-52) describing an isolated community of science and technology in Africa in which the Wandering Jew is converted to Christianity. The community is a remnant of the Ten Lost Tribes and holds the Ark of the Covenant. The community has something like Bacon's Salomon's House. Food and cloth are produced chemically from sand and gravel. Anti-Roman Catholic.
Keywords: Male author

"The Sunlight Lay Across My Bed" - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) (The New Review, 1890)
Hell is depicted as a seeming eutopia but revealed as a dystopia where everyone tries to injure everyone else. Some description of Heaven.
Rpt in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 133-82.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

The Talking Image of URUR - Franz Hartmann [M.D.] (1838-1912) (John W. Lovell Co, 1890)
A critique of religious movements based on reason and science using an imaginary country and from the point of view of Theosophy. See also 1887 Hartmann.
Originally serialized without most of the final chapter in Lucifer: A Theosophical Monthly 3.16 - 18 (December 15, 1888 - February 1889): 292-300; 365-71; 457-71 with an editor's note on 472.
Keywords: German author; Male author

Three Thousand Dollars a Year. Moving Forward; or, How We Got There. The Complete Liberation of All the People. Abridged from the Advance Sheets of a History of Industrial and Governmental Reforms in the United States, To Be Published in the Year 2001 - [Frederick U.] [Worley] ([J.P. Wright, printer], 1890)
Cooperative eutopia brought about peacefully through education. Public laundries, public kitchens, public heating and cooling, and high taxation, to which the public had agreed in order to produce the better life. After a few years the taxes were abolished. The banks, railroads, telegraph, and mines, followed by all industries, are nationalized. Racial equality. A new constitution is adopted.
Keywords: US author

Trials and Triumphs of Labor. The Needle's Eye of Legal Tender Money - G. B De Bernardi (Capitol Parlor Print, 1890)
Labor exchanges help create eutopia, and De Bernardi established some such exchanges. At such exchanges the unemployed could deposit surplus goods and get certificates of deposit or “labor checks” which could be used to purchase goods or services. On these exchanges, see H. Roger Grant, “Portrait of a Workers’ Utopia: The Labor Exchange and the Freedom, Kansas, Community.” Kansas Historical Quarterly 43.1 (1977): 56-66; and Grant, “Utopia Without Colony: The Labor Exchange Movement.” Communal Societies 1 (Autumn 1981): 43-54. See also 1897 De Bernardi and his The Equitable Industrial Association of America. A Beneficent Co-operative Association for the Employment of Idle Labor Through Mutual Exchange. Sedalia, MO: J.C. Parmerlee, 1888 (NN).
Later ed. has the subtitle The Text Book of the Labor Exchange. Independence, MO: Labor Exchange Publication, 1894.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Triumph of Freedom: A prospective History of the Social Revolution in Victoria" - J[ohn] A[rthur] Andrews (1865-1903) (Ms., 1890)
Anarchist eutopia. See his What Is Communism? Ed. Bob Jones. Prahran, VIC, Australia: Backyard Press, [1984?].
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Universal Republic: A Shaker Pronunciamento - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) (np, 1890)
Eutopia based on the teachings of the Shakers and Thomas Paine (1737-1809). Each child born is due education until its legal age, at which point it is given its portion of land, sufficient to support a family. Childbearing will be controlled by the women. Also suggests a higher order of celibacy and community of goods. See also 1888 Evans and 1890 Evans The Conditions of Peace.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The University of Utopia. An Address Delivered at the Commencement of the Ohio State University June 25, 1890 by Albert H. Tuttle of the University of Virginia - Albert H[enry] Tuttle (b. 1844) (Hahn & Adair, 1890)
Mostly a consideration of education in More’s Utopia as a way of critiquing contemporary higher education in the U.S. Co-education. Physical exercise.
Keywords: Male author; US author

What is Communism? A Narrative of the Relief Community. Common Property, United Labor, and Equal Rights to All, Will Immediately Displace all the Poverty, Vice and Crime of Society, and Secure to Eyerybody [sic]. The Greatest Plenty Purity and Peace - Alcander Longley (1832-1918) (Altruist Community, 1890)
Eutopia. Founding and development of an intentional community. Although Longley did establish such communities, this is fiction presented as non-fiction.
Rpt. New York: AMS Press, 1976
Keywords: Male author; US author

Willmoth, The Wanderer; or, The Man From Saturn. This Story gives the Life and Adventures of a Man who Lived for Millions of Years, and Explored three planets--Saturn, Venus and Earth. Although it is the Author's first effort, it will be found to Amuse, Instruct and Please the Reader from the first to the last Page in the Book. Very Respectfully Yours, The Author - C[harles] C[urtis] Dail (1851-1902) ([Haskill Printing Company], 1890)
A tour of Saturn followed by tours of Venus and Earth. Saturn is composed of many different countries, the first of which is a eutopia based largely on the ability to read intentions. The major crime is to think evil. Vegetarian. Stress on education. Polygamy because women outnumber men twenty to one. Venus is primitive. The tour of Earth follows its evolution from primitive times to the present. A sequel that purports to be the memoirs of Willmoth is The Stone Giant: A Story of the Mammoth Cave. New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1898 (HRC).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wreck of a World With a Preface by Sir John Brown, C.E., J.P. Knight of the Order of Maximilian of Mexico, etc., etc., etc. - [Reginald Colebrook] [Reade] (1853-1891) (Digby and Long, 1890)
The novel starts in what is presented in the first chapter as a flawed utopia that is technologically advanced but beginning to lose its moral center. There is a Pan-Britannic Confederation with all members having a President and Congress and the nobility gradually disappearing. But much of the novel is concerned with a revolt of the machines against the human race, which is almost eliminated. After a long conflict, humans win but are temporarily limited to one island where a small group begins to create a good society that is compared to More's Utopia. No money. Goods freely exchanged. Sequel to his A Mexican Mystery. London: Digby and Long, 1888 in which a train is given consciousness and turns into a monster.
Long's Albion Library, Vol. II. This ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 3: 5-163, with a brief note by the editor (1-3). The English Catalogue lists the 1st ed. as February 1890, but, due to ads in the book dated 1889, I.F. Clarke's Tale of the Future and some other bibliographies give the publication date as 1889.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Yea Fifteen Years Hence. A Vision" - The Prophet [pseud.] (Yea Chronicle (Yea, VIC, Australia), 1890)
Letter to the editor describing the author's vision of the town of Yea as a bustling, well planned town in the near future.
Keywords: Australian author

2,001 Anno Domini. A Sequel” - Sir Volius Juggle [pseud.] (Observer and Free Lance (Auckland, New Zealand), 1889)
Satire on 1889 Vogel in which the United States, which has rejected votes for women, defeats Great Britain and controls North America. While Vogel extolled Irish Home Rule, the Irish are defeated by the Emperor’s armies.

Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman's Destiny - Sir Julius Vogel K.C.M.G. (1835-99) (Hutchinson, 1889)
Detailed eutopia. Sexual equality. Includes a chapter on the eutopian results of Home Rule for Ireland (233-48). Satires on the novel include 1889 Juggle, Sir Volius and 1891 Williams, George Phipps and W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves. “Farming in the Future.”
Colonial ed., which is technically the 1st ed., has a picture of the author and different binding. 3rd and cheaper ed. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: Hutchinson, 1890 and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sydney</st1:city>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>: Edwards, Dunlop & Co., 1890. 331 pp. 4th and cheaper ed. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">London</st1:place></st1:city>: <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hutchinson</st1:place></st1:city>, 1890 has different cover, different ads in the back. Rpt. Auckland: Exisle Publishing, 2000. 184 pp.; which is rpt. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:place></st1:city>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Hawai</st1:placename></st1:place>‘i Press, 2002. It was adapted for radio by Dennis McEldowney and broadcast on New Zealand radio 3YC Christchurch May 9, 1962.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; English author; Male author

"Arcadia in Futuris. Dedicated to the Women of New Zealand" - Charles Patrick (Wanganui Herald (New Zealand), 1889)
A eutopia set in 2004 in which much larger, healthier people live in an Arcadian world. The process toward the eutopia begins with women in New Zealand getting the vote, which in fact they gained in 1893. A sub-plot that is not resolved is the isolation of China from the rest of the world and a plan to invade it.
Keywords: Male author

Beneath Your Very Boots: Being a Few Striking Episodes from the Life of Anthony Merlwood Haltoun, Esq. - C[harles] J[ohn Cutcliffe Wright] Hyne (1866-1944) (Digby and Long, 1889)
Society in the earth under Britain. There are eutopian elements to the society in that, for example, everyone dresses uniformly, lives comfortably in good housing, and has excellent medical care. The dystopian elements are stronger in that absolute power is held by a fake god who kills opponents without trial, and all homes are apparently bugged by the god.
2md ed. London: Digby and Long, 1889.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"The City Beautiful" - Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-90) (The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends, 1889)
Eutopia of a simple life with no personal or social display.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Event - A Parachutist [pseud.] (J. Broadbent & Co, 1889)
An independent Ireland as a eutopia. While Ireland is not mentioned directly it is pictured on the cover.

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - [Samuel Langhorne] [Clemens] (1835-1910) (Charles L. Webster, 1889)
Satire presenting a failed attempt to build a democratic, technological society in the time of King Arthur. Satire particularly aimed at government, technological innovations, and the Church.
Critical ed. ed. Bernard L. Stein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Rpt. with partial illus. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997 with an “Introduction (vii-xxv) and “Explanatory Notes” (358-60) by M. Thomas Inge. An excerpt was published as “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Century Magazine (New York) 39.1 (November 1889): 74-83. U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Discovered Country - [Carlyle] [Petersilea] (1844-1903) (Ernst von Himmel Publishing Company, 1889)
Heaven as eutopia. Birds, animals, and plants are immortal. Everyone looks young. People find their true soul mates in heaven. Jupiter is inhabited and is the better society Earth will one day become. No need for government or buying and selling.
Rpt. under the author's name Boston, MA: Colby & Rich, 1892.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Experiment in Marriage. A Romance - Charles J[oseph] Bellamy (1852-1910) (Albany Publishing Company, 1889)
Eutopia presented as a successful experiment in socialism and free love, although there is very little sex outside marriage and no marriage before age 22. Easy divorce. Women are financially independent, and children are raised communally with parents free to spend time with them. Both men and women work four hours a day. Land and houses owned by the state. Married women are allotted houses. Single people of both sexes live in what they call phalansteries or buildings where each person has a private room, and there are extensive communal facilities. See also 1884 Bellamy, The Way Out. Suggestions for Social Reform.
Rpt. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1977 with an "Introduction" by Joel Nydahl (v-xxviii).
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Fair Californian - [Helen Burrell] [D’Apery] (1842-1915) (Minerva, 1889)
A lost race of immortals has overcome all mortal passions. No children. Science and the occult are their concerns. No animals in the Sacred City of Seven. As with most lost race novels the eutopia hides a dystopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"A Feminine Iconoclast" - Mary H[anford] Ford (b.1856) (The Nationalist, 1889)
Fictional commentary on the position of women in 1888 Bellamy. The protagonist complains about how male Nationalists treat women as weaker than men and needing care even though she is supporting herself and her brother and living a vigorous, healthy life. Bellamy expanded his presentation of the treatment of women in “Woman in the Year 2000” (1891) and significantly modified it in Equality (1897).
Rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 149-54 with an editor’s note on 148; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 105-10 with an editor’s note on 104-05 and the author’s name as Mary H[anaford] Ford.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Gobi or Shamo; A Story of Three Songs - G[eorge] G[ilbert] A[imé] Murray (1866-1957) (Longmans, Green and Company, 1889)
Lost race novel with a eutopian Athenian society.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1978.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

God's Reign on Earth, or Social Science and Christian Government - Blackwell, William (Author, 1889)
Eutopia. God will set up a Court of Arbitration to which people can appeal from local law. People choose their own arbitrator. God will make decisions by people drawing lots when they cannot resolve disputes. There is a divine plan for reviving trade.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Graftons; or, Looking Forward. A Story of Pioneer Life - J[ohn] R[ankin] Rogers (1838-1901) (The Kansas Commoner (Newton, KS), 1889)
The bulk of the novel is concerned with the problems currently faced by farmers followed by the campaign to bring about change, but it ends with a brief description of a populist eutopia. A central issue is the usury that regularly put farmers into permanent debt. This will be made illegal although old debts will have to be paid (201-02).
Rpt. as The Graftons; or, Looking Forward. A Story of Pioneer Life. By S.L. Rogers [pseud.]. Chicago, IL: Milton George, 1893. Rev. ed. under the author’s real name as Looking Forward; or, The Story of an American Farm. Illus. [Tacoma, WA]: Spike Publishing Co., 1898.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great War Syndicate - Frank R[ichard] Stockton (1834-1902) (P.F. Collier, 1889)
Future war story that ends with the suggestion of a eutopia of peace and prosperity. As a war between the U.S. and Britain threatens, a war the U.S. will lose, a syndicate of rich capitalists agrees a contract with the U.S. to conduct the war, which they win by using new technology. Most of the book is about the war and the technology used.
Rpt. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1899. Rpt. in The Novels and Stories of Frank R. Stockton. Volume 6 The Great Syndicate, Etc. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1900), 3-128; and separately Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hiero-salem: The Vision of Peace. A Fiction Founded On Ideals Which Are Grounded In the Real, That Is Greater Than All the Greatest of All Human Great Ideals - E[veleen] L[aura] Mason (1838-1914) (J.G. Cupples, 1889)
Spiritualist novel mostly stressing the conflict between our higher and lower natures with some reflections on the better life that is possible. One section of the novel was expanded and published as An Episode in the Doings of the Dualized. Brookline, MA: Author, 1898. The “dualized” are “self-harmonized natures”, with both female and male characteristics. See also her Who Builds? A Romance: Completed in the Month of Addar (which is the last half of February and the first half of March). The “Protecting Deity of Addar--the Seven Great Gods.” The cosmogonic myth of Addar--“The return to the cultivation of the Earth after the cataclysm.” Dedicated to Brother Builders of the 32 o and 33 o of Ancient Scottish Rites and To Builders Yet More Ancient the World Throughout. Illus. Brookline, MA: Author, 1903; Mad? Which? Neither? Illus. Boston, MA: [G.H. Ellis], 1904; The Discovery of Discoveries, Climaxingly collated in the Month of Una and her lion (1908) inclusive of August: and fulfilling “The Message of Ishtar.” Dedicated to Reverers of Self-Poised Mothers of Self-Poised Men of Whatever Race or Era. Illus. Brookline, MA: Author, 1909, which was published as by Eveleen Laura Mason (Mrs. Auguste Francke Hermann Mason).
[2nd ed.] Boston, MA: J.G. Cupples, [1900]. The 2nd ed. differs only in including “Purpose of ‘Hierosalem’” (unpaged), a letter to the editor of the Woman’s Tribune (Washington, DC) dated March 21, 1900, that the author wrote in response to a review of this book and her earlier The Doings of the Dualized. In the letter she refers to Hierosalem, but on the cover and title page and in the “Preface” (v), it is Hiero-salem. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 140-47 with an editor’s note on 138-39.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“How Shall We Live Then?” - William Morris (1834-1896) (International Review of Social History, 1889)
Some details of what he sees as basic to the good life in the future that fit well with his 1890 News From Nowhere. Stress on maintaining a strong and healthy body. Includes a long list of occupations. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1887, 1888, and 1890 Morris.
There is a copy of the manuscript at http://www.iisg.nl/archives/morris/live15.php
Keywords: English author; Male author

John Wilholm’s Class Meeting; or, The Forward Movement: Christlike Christianity - Dr. T[homas] P[ennington] Lucas (1843-1917) (T. Barrett, 1889)
The novel is about how one group of Methodists come to themselves lead more Christian lives and their influence on the area where they live. While most of the book is on the developments within the group, it ends with a brief presentation of the eutopia that is coming into being with pubs closed and jails no longer full. The book is dedicated to Rev. Hugh Price Hughes (1847-1902), the founder of The Methodist Times and the Forward Movement in the Methodist Church, a movement to make the church more socially relevant. See also 1894 Lucas.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author; Scottish author

Koradine. A Prophetic Story; Also, Creative Life, A special letter to young girls - Alice B[unker] Stockham M.D. (1833-1912); Lida Hood Talbot (Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1889)
The book was designed to show the ideal growth and education of a girl from childhood to womanhood, including her sexual education. The novel, in letters from the girl Koradine, includes a description of an intentional community putting its ideals into practice. See the discussion in Beryl Satter, Each Mind a Kingdom: American Women, Sexual Purity, and the New Thought Movement (Berkeley: University of California Press, 138-45).
Rpt. as Koradine Letters. A Girl’s Own Story. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1893 without Creative Life. Some copies have one title on the cover and the other on the title page. Creative Life has been excised from all copies that I have been able to examine, but it was published separately Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham Co, 1896. It was then reprinted new, rev., and enl. ed. Illus. Bertha L. Corbett. Chicago, IL: The Progress Co., 1904 and partly concerns basic information on reproduction with illustrations of the uterus and the “mammary gland,” and partly on suitable activities for women, including occupations and exercise, with illustrations of the appropriate clothes. It is available at https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/007683219.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Ladies Triumph" - George Phipps Williams (1847-1909); W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (1857-1932) (Colonial Couplets: Being Poems in Partnership, 1889)
Satiric poem on the success of women getting the vote.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“The Lady of the Bush. The Dream of an English Traveller” - David Christie Murray (1847-1907) (Adelaide Advertiser (Adelaide, SA, Australia), 1889)
Australia in the future as a metropolitan eutopia. The eutopia is in the last paragraph only with the rest a vision of the Australian bush.
Also in the Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser (Grafton, NSW, Australia). The Adelaide paper says that it was written for the Advertiser. The Grafton paper says it was originally published in the Daily Telegraph.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Last American: A Fragment From the Journal of Khan-Li Prince of Dimph-yoo-chur and Admiral in the Persian Navy - J[ohn] A[mes] Mitchell ] (1845-1918), ed. [written by] (Frederick A. Stokes & Brother, 1889)
Dystopia in which a future expedition from Persia visits a devastated New York and Washington, DC. Much misinterpretation of what they find. In DC, they discover the three last Americans alive, and when one of the Persians tries to kiss the woman, a fight breaks out, and many Persians and all the Americans are killed.
Extract rpt. with illus. in The End of the World and Other Catastrophes. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 111-48, with an editor’s note on 109. Rpt. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1893. Exp. as Edition Deluxe. Illus. in Color by F. W. Read. With Decorative Designs by Albert D. Blashfield and illus. by the Author. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1902. 151 pp. Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House, 1970. U. K. ed. London: Gay and Bird, [1894].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Lesbia Newman - Henry Robert S[amuel] Dalton (1835-1902?) (George Redway, 1889)
Eutopia. Rights for women with training so they can exercise them effectively. Roman Catholic church allows priestesses.
Rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 4: 371-702, with a brief note by the editor (367-69).
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Looking Forward A D 1976" - C. Howard Wilson (Belford's Magazine, 1889)
Anti-capitalist dystopia.
Keywords: Male author

The Lost Inca; A Tale of Discovery in the Vale of the Inti-Mayu - [Alfred] [Sears] (1826-1911) (Cassell, 1889)
Lost Incan society with advanced technology presented as a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Marvelous Melbourne Twenty Years Hence." Silting Up of Hobson's Bay. Destruction of the Port. The Plague and Fire of Melbourne. Geelong the Capital of Victoria. [Reprinted from the Kew Mercury and Hawthorn Advertiser] (W. Mott and Co, 1889)
Presented as a newspaper article "From the Twentieth Century, a daily paper published at Geelong, January 1st, 1909" reporting the decline of Melbourne and the rise of Geelong. Melbourne was badly damaged by fire and never recovered. This material is on pages 1-6; pages 7-16 are a detailed critique of the port and piers at Melbourne and the "Sanitary State of the City in 1889".
Keywords: Australian author

Melbourne and Mars; My Mysterious Life on Two Planets. Extracts from the Diary of a Melbourne Merchant - Joseph Fraser, ed. [written by] (d. 1890) (Pater & Knapton, 1889)
Detailed eutopia based on abundance. No money. All goods free at a depot, but people must work, thus paying for the goods with labor. Free electricity does almost all the work. No private property except personal belongings. No crime. Altruistic democratic socialism. Not egalitarian; class based on occupation. Gender equality.
Rpt. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: E.W. Cole, [c1891]; and Parkville, VIC, Australia: Grattan Street Press, 2020, with an “Introduction” by Alexandra Roginski and Zachary Kenda (ix-xxi).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Metzerott, Shoemaker - [Katharine Pearson] [Woods] (1853-1929) (Crowell, 1889)
A Christian socialist experiment that produces a small eutopia that has to struggle with problems and internal conflicts but survives. The title character is a secular man who is instrumental in founding the community and is converted near the end of the novel.
U.K. ed. London: Cassell & Co., 1890.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Mossback Correspondence Together With Mr. Mossback's Views on Certain Practical Subjects, with a Short Account of His Visit to Utopia - Francis E[dward] Clark (1851-1927) (D. Lothrop, 1889)
Religious eutopia. Church carriages pick up people; no other vehicles allowed on Sundays. The wisest men are chosen as candidates for political office. ". . . in utopia it is the custom to put the best construction upon every action" (176).
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Mr. Stranger's Sealed Packet - Hugh MacColl (1837-1908) (Chatto and Windus, 1889)
Eutopia set on Mars. Mostly adventure. Technologically based abundance. For example, food is manufactured from basic elements. Equality. Socialism. All dress the same, except for different clothes for men and women. The people are described as having European features except for being "a delicate pale blue" (73).
Keywords: Male author; Scottish author

Nationalism - Crawford S. Griffin (C.S. Griffin, 1889)
Non-fiction eutopia based on 1884 Gronlund and 1888 Bellamy.
Keywords: Male author

New Amazonia; a Foretaste of the Future - Mrs. George [Elizabeth Burgoyne] Corbett (b. 1846) (Tower Pub. Co, 1889)
Feminist eutopia in a society of the far future in Ireland. After war and revolution women’s position worsened, and they colonized Ireland, founding New Amazonia. All government posts held by women, and for the most important posts they can never have been married. The story is about a woman and a man who re projected into the future, the woman experiencing the future as eutopia and the man unable to adjust to it. Detailed regulation of the economy, a national dress with no fashion changes. Stress on physical education and diet to ten, and then everyone learned a trade for four years. All earnings from the next five years taken by the state to reimburse it for educating and maintaining the individual. Advanced technology. It turns out to have been the woman’s dream. The “Prologue” (1-8) says that it was inspired by a feature in the Nineteenth Century opposing women’s suffrage. A humorous comment is L[inda] Timmel Duchamp, “Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett.” Missing Links and Secret Histories: A Selection of Wikipedia Entries from Across the Known Multiverse. Ed. L[inda] Timmel Duchamp (Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2013), 184-200.
Rpt. Seattle, WA: Aqueduct Press, 2014 with an “Introduction: A Foretaste of the Future, a Caution from the Past” by Alexis Lothian (1-23).
Keywords: English author; Female author

Oneiros or Some Questions of the Day - Christopher Yelverton [pseud?]. (Kegan Paul, Trench and Company, 1889)
Eutopia describing an authoritarian system for the benefit of the lower classes that results in a good society.

Oo: Adventures in Orbello Land - Charles Lotin Hildreth (1858?-96) (Belford, Clarke, 1889)
Children's lost race adventure novel in which a Roman eutopia is discovered.
Also published as The Mysterious City of Oo: Adventures in Orbello Land. Chicago, IL: Belford, Clarke, 1889. Rpt. New York: American Publishers, 1889; and Chicago, IL: W.B. Conkey, 1889; New ed. New York: F. Warne, 1893.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Secret of the Lamas (Cassell & Co., 1889)
The central part of the novel concerns a lamasery in Tibet with knowledge far in advance of the outside world. For the Lamas, the Lamasery could be considered eutopian, but the final test for initiation into the most advanced status creates a dystopian world for those who fail in that they become automatons.

"The Social Revolution Achieved. What Then?" (The Leisure Hour (UK), 1889)
Anti-socialist dystopia.

"The Society of the Future" - William Morris (1834-1896) (The Commonweal, 1889)
Essay with a eutopia similar to his 1890 News From Nowhere. See also 1884, 1886-87, and 1887, and 1890 Morris.
Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 453-68. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 453-68; and in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 142-55, with editorial notes on 206-09.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Speaking of Ellen - [Linn Boyd] [Porter] (1851-1916) (G.W. Dillingham, 1889)
A pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia brought about by activist women with most of the novel focusing on industrial strife. The last chapter in the first version is entitled "Looking Backward."
Rev. ed. under the author's real name as Riverfall. Illus. Louis F. Grant. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1903. U.K. ed. Illus. Louis F. Grant. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1903.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Story of Happinolande" - Oliver Bell Bunce (1828-90) (The Story of Happinolande and Other Legends, 1889)
Anti-egalitarian satire. When a freak of nature provides an abundance of gold and it is distributed equally, no one will work, and a generally good system collapses. When another freak of nature covers the gold, people must work and abundance returns.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"To Whom This May Come" - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1889)
Eutopia in which the ability to read minds brings self-knowledge and empathy. Bellamy is best known for his 1888 Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1886 Bellamy.
Rpt. in his The Blindman’s World and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), 389-415; his The Religion of Solidarity Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984), 44-59; 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 Apparitions of Things to Come: Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Ed. Franklin Rosemont (Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1990), 118-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Twentieth Century. A Prophecy of the Coming Age - D. Herbert Heywood (F.B. Heywood, 1889)
Something of a ghost. All that exists is a prospectus for a book that appears never to have been published. The prospectus indicates it would have been a utopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Two Lunatics. A Remarkable Story - [Charles] [De Medici] (Oxford Publishing Company, 1889)
Eutopia set near the South Pole that rejects equality in favor of equity. Genius, talent, and skill of all sorts are encouraged.
Keywords: Male author

“With the Eyes Shut" - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 1889)
A story that elaborates on the radio/phonograph that is important in 1888 Bellamy, Looking Backward. Here it is ubiquitous and portable. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Wonderful Dream of What May Happen in the Twentieth Century - Rev. Christopher Gaustad (1838-1927) (Author, 1889)
Technological eutopia.
The original text appears to be lost. A reprint of part of the text can be found in "Wonders Foretold--Remarkable Prophecies--A Work of 1888." The Manawatu Evening Standard (New Zealand) (November 20, 1937): 9. An article briefly describing the contents of the book is "Manuwatu Seer Foresaw all but the Moscow Moon." The Auckland Star (New Zealand) (November 1, 1957): 9.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

California 350 Years Ago. Manuelo's Narrative. Translated from the Portuguese - [Cornelius] [Cole] (Samuel Carson & Co./C.T. Dillingham, 1888)
Mostly an adventure story, but much of the novel is set among noble savages clearly living the good life.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Dawn of the Twentieth Century. 1st January 1901 (Field & Tuer/Simpkin, Marshall, 1888)
Monarchist eutopia. The book consists of a newspaper article and a series of reports from British government officials describing the state of the world at the beginning of 1901. Queen Victoria has stepped down and is now the Queen Dowager. Britain and the Empire are in excellent condition. Europe is cooperating. The British colonies have, at their request, become more closely integrated within the British system. India is now the Confederation of the Indian Empire and includes Siam (now Thailand) and the entire Malay Peninsula while remaining part of the British Empire. Includes plans to send the English poor to the colonies.

"For the Ahkoond" - A[mbrose Gwinett] B[ierce] (1842-1914?) (San Francisco Examiner, 1888)
Satire set in 4591 when the protagonist explores the remnant of the United States, which has been depopulated, with a monarchy remaining on the West Coast.
Rpt. in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 197-214. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 197-214; in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 94-100; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 172-79.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Glimpses of the Future: Suggestions as to the Drift of Things (To Be Read Now and Judged in the Year 2000) - David Goodman Croly (1829-89) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1888)
Predictions, although often fudged with an assertion that science will determine or it is unknowable, that add up to a generally better future. Many topics are covered.
Much originally published as parts of a regular column of predictions in the Record and Guide (New York) and revised here.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Irish "Wake" - One Who Was There [pseud.] (Clement-Smith, 1888)
Anti-Home Rule and anti-Irish satire that ends with a peaceful and prosperous Ireland part of England.

How She Did It or Comfort on $150 a Year - Mary Cruger (1834-1908) (D. Appleton and Co., 1888)
Novel that the author says is based on her experience creating a personal eutopia by building her own house, which is shown in the frontispiece, and living frugally. The book includes house designs, recipes, the cost of groceries, and other practical matters. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) (J. Stilman Smith & Co, 1888)
Eutopia based on the cooperation of capital, management, and labor. Management and labor get a salary, and capital gets a basic return, and each get one third of the profit.
Rpt. 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), 211-470; and rpt. without the subtitle New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. An early, short version was published with one illustration to the first installment as “Back to Back. A Story of Today.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 55.330 - 56.331 (November - December 1877): 873-84; 34-42; and rpt. as Back to Back; A Story of Today. Vol. 48 of Harper’s Half Hour Series. New York: Harper & Bros., 1878. A British ed. reversed the original title to Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens; or, How They Lived in Hampton. London: Cassell & Co., 1892.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In Trust for the People" Insuring a Reduction of Hours, Rents, and Prices - Dana Mansfield (Rand Avery Co, 1888)
Detailed eutopia brought about through a land trust, which would own all real estate, railroads, and telegraph. Cooperatives running businesses.

The Inner House - Walter Besant (1836-1901) (J.W. Arrowsmith/Simpkin, Marshall, 1888)
Dystopia. Overregulated and over-protective society based on science achieving near-immortality. Anti-socialist. People are generally bored, unwilling to take risks. Food is the only pleasure. No family ties. No children born to keep population in balance. The one child born (to replace someone killed by lightning) grows up romanticizing the past. Some follow her in leaving the society to reestablish that past.
Rpt. London: Greenhill Books, 1986, with an “Afterword” by Brian Stableford (199).
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ireland's Dream: A Romance of the Future. Dedicated, without permission, to Mr. Gladstone - Capt. E[dmund] D[avid] Lyon (1825-91) (Swan Sonnenschein, 1888)
Home rule produces a dystopia. Ireland is bankrupt, and it is effectively ruled by the Land League, which requires obedience to its decrees. Protestants are not allowed. No criticism of priests or the Church permitted. Corrupt politicians. Northern Ireland is a strong and successful as a Protestant country affiliated with Britain.
Rpt. 2 vols in 1. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowry, 1888.
Keywords: Male author

The Island: or, An Adventure of a Person of Quality - Richard Whiteing (1840-1928) (Longmans, Green, 1888)
A South Seas Island eutopia that depicts a romanticized Pitcairn Island with a series of laws designed to establish and protect a simple life. Mostly romance and adventure.
The 2nd ed. London: Grant Richards, 1889 has two added chapters and minor revisions throughout.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Kophetua the Thirteenth" - Julian [Stafford] Corbett (1854-1929) (Time, 1888)
Mostly romance but includes a eutopia, primarily in volume 1, called Oneira that had been established in Africa during the Renaissance. Based on reason. Tax system similar to that in 1656 Harrington results in wealth and the elimination of all taxes. Some satire on politics when there are no real issues. There is a dystopian enclave created deliberately to provide a place for those incapable of living a good Christian life. This is eliminated by the end of the novel.
Rpt. 2 vols. London: Macmillan & Co., 1889. One vol. ed. London: Macmillan, 1889.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Looking Backward: 2000-1887 - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Ticknor and Company, 1888)
The classic American eutopia in which both business and labor were nationalized. Quite a few works have been published responding to or elaborating on Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. He also wrote two utopias not directly connected to Looking Backward; see 1886 Bellamy and 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Canadian ed. Toronto, ON, Canada: William Bryce, [1888]. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1889. Rpt. as Looking Backward--If Socialism Comes 2000-1887. London: W. Foulsham, [1930]; and under the original title Vancouver, BC, Canada: The Totem Press, 1934. Critical editions include ed. John L. Thomas. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967, with an “Introduction” (1-89); ed. Alex MacDonald. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Press, 2003, with an “Introduction” (1-42) and appendices that include material by Bellamy and others; and ed. Matthew Beaumont. London: Oxford University Press, 2007, with an “Introduction” (vii-xxxvi) and “Explanatory Notes” (198-220), which includes notes on the changes from the first to the second edition. Chapters I-IX of the 1888 ed. rpt. in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 21-56. It was adapted as a play by C. Bernard Jackson that was first performed in April 1974 in Los Angeles, CA.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Margaret Dunmore: or A Socialist Home - J[ane] H[ume] Clapperton (1832-1914) (Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co, 1888)
Eutopia presented as the story of a successful intentional community established by a wealthy woman. Particularly concerned with the education of children. The story of the community is told mostly through the histories of its members. See also her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885; and her A Vision of the Future Based on The Application of Ethical Principles. London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1904, both of which develop her arguments at length.
2nd ed. London: Swan Sonnenschein, [1894].
Keywords: Female author; Scottish author

"The Next Centenary of Australia" (The Spectator (London), 1888)
Eutopia. "In 1988 Australia will be a Federal Republic, peopled by fifty millions of English-speaking men" (112) who will have become a separate type, recognizably Australian (112). Assumes that the Aborigines will have died out. Assumes that New Zealand will be part of Australia and that the Philippines and everything between it and the Australian continent will be controlled and cultivated by Australians. Australia will be strong enough to be threatened by no other country. Australians will be lovers of luxury, art, and wine and will need servants because the women will not work. Compares Australians favorably to Americans.

The Seventh Dream - [Mrs.] [Desmond] [Humphreys] (1860-1938) (F.V. White & Co, 1888)
Dreams that describe a city of the future inhabited by people who only speak the truth. Perfect health. Simple lives.
Rpt. bound with two other novels as The Seventh Dream (London: Hurst and Blackett, 1905), 1-84.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; UK author

Shaker Reconstruction of the American Government - Elder F[rederick] W[illiam] Evans (1808-93) (Office Register and Gazette, 1888)
Eutopia. Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY)  that first criticizes the policies supported by the New York Tribune and then proposes a revision of the U.S. Constitution based on Shaker teachings. Women will be full citizens. A class of celibate men and women, in separate houses (Senate women; House of Representatives men) will be the legislators. No individual or corporate land ownership with land becoming government owned on the death of the current owner and then distributed to the people. No private or religious education. No alcohol. See also 1890 Evans (2).
Appears to be a reprint of a letter to the editor of the Hudson Daily Register (Hudson, NY).
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Son of a Star; A Romance of the Second Century - Benjamin Ward Richardson (1828-96) (Longmans, Green, 1888)
Most of the novel is an adventure story set around Roman Britain and the relations between Rome and Palestine. Noviomagus or the state of the New Magicians is an enclave in Roman Britain that produces a eutopia by reversing the usual patterns. For example, every person holds an office except for one, who is designated the "Regular Citizen". The general commanding all the military is chosen for his peacefulness. The Treasurer must be able to write but not be able to read, which kept him from reading texts in political economy. See also 1876 Richardson.
Also published in an abr. one volume ed. New York: Longmans, Green, 1888; and London: Longmans, Green, 1889. The eutopia, "The Noviomagians", is found in volume II, Chapter 5 (66-96) and, in the one volume edition, Chapter XXI (187-202). The utopia was published separately as At Noviomagus: A Tribute of Affection to the Late Sir Benjamin Ward Richardson Fifteen Years Lord High President of the Noviomagians, 1881-1896. London: Chiswick Press, 1897.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder" - [James] [De Mille] (1833-80) (Harpers Weekly, 1888)
Lost race dystopia of reversal with satirical elements. The people seek death and separate from those they love. Poverty is preferred to wealth and has higher status, and those who anonymously give away money are punished when caught. Those who govern are despised. Stress on serving others rather than advancing oneself, The protagonist's name is Adam More.
Repub. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888. Serial version rpt. ed. Daniel Burgoyne. Peterborough, ON, Canada: Broadview Editions, 2011 with extensive appendices. Repub. New York: Arno Press, 1975. U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Another ed. New York: Harper & Brothers/London: Chatto & Windus, 1888. Canadian ed. Toronto, ON: Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1910. The first ed. under the author’s name was the 3rd impression New York: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Rpt without the illus. Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1969 with an “Introduction” by R.E. Watters (vii-xviii); ed. Malcolm Parks. [Ottawa, ON]: Carleton University Press, 1986 with the illus.; and Toronto, ON: Bakka Books Stone Fox Publishing, 2001. Extracts published as “The Kosekin.” The Oxford Anthology of Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Weaver and William Toye (Toronto, ON, Canada: Oxford University Press, 1973), 99-105. Canadian Broadcasting Co. Audio Adaptation by Crawford Killian, 1972.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

A Strange People - John M. Batchelor (J.S. Ogilvie, 1888)
Eutopia. Hidden race of people who use their minds to control themselves and their environment. Anarchist. No money. Anti-religious. See also his A Strange Conflict. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, 1888 [CU-Riv], which is set just before the eutopia and provides some background to it.
Keywords: Male author

Thoth: A Romance - [Joseph Shield] [Nicholson] (1850-1927) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1888)
Society intended by its founders to be a eutopia is a dystopia. Rule by reason alone with mixed result. Genetics produces a class system based on inbred talents and physical characteristics. Scientifically advanced. Most people are happy, but the founder hated women and upper class women are treated very badly. Plan to kill everyone else in the world.
2nd ed. Edinburgh, Scot.: William Blackwood & Sons, 1889 contains as an appendix a previously unpublished version of the first chapter as it had been originally written in 1876.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Three Dreams of Home Rule, viz.: I.—The Dream of Tim Flanagan of Poolaphoula, II.—The Dream of Father Tynn of Ballybullpost, and III.—The Author's Dream - William C[harles] Bonaparte-Wyse (1826-92) (Ptd. at the Union Offices, 1888)
Ballads. Humor opposing home rule for Ireland presenting a peasant who believes home rule will produce a Cockaigne, a priest who believes it will lead to complete control by the Roman Catholic Church, and the author who believes it will lead to civil strife.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

The Treasure of Montezuma - Rudolph Leonhart, A.M. (b. 1832) (Cassidy, 1888)
Country called Friedenstahl in an isolated valley in Mexico. Capital is Montezuma. Well-watered, unlike much of Mexico. Better society brought about by a man of wealth. Much of the novel is concerned with the efforts of his relatives from outside to undermine his activities so that they could get control of his money. At the end all the property goes to the people of Friendenstahl, with the land to be held in common.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Voyage of Will Rogers to the South Pole - Christopher Spotswood ed. [written by] (1813/14-90) (Ptd. at the "Examiner" and "Tasmanian" Office, 1888)
Lost race at a warm South Pole. People lead a simple, good life with few rules and almost no government. No money. Idleness is considered a crime but not directly punished.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

"A Week in the Future" - Catherine Helen Spence (1825-1910) (The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly, 1888)
ence, C[atherine] H[elen] (1825-1910). “A Week in the Future.” The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly 1 (December - July): 388-93; 468-79; 552-63; 657-65; 731-40; 828-32; 899-908 [A, ATL, PSt]. Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period  of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an “Introduction” by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia. A, ATL, PSt Eutopia set in London in 1988. Everyone lives in “Associated homes” and works a six-hour day mostly in cooperatives. Population limited, primarily through birth control. No pollution. Strict control on both immigration and emigration. Eugenics with feeble-minded children killed at birth and “criminal lunatics” euthanized (36-37, 115). Women work equally with men in all occupations. Ireland now part of the United Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland, but all four component units have some independent political institutions. Based in part on the writings of Jane Hume Clapperton, particularly her Scientific Meliorism and the Evolution of Happiness. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. See also 1888 Clapperton. See also 1879 and 1884 Spence.
Rpt. ed. Lesley Durrell Ljungdahl. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Hale & Iremonger, 1987, which is heavily illustrated with material from the period of the first publication; and Mt. Waverley, VIC, Australia: Aurealis Books/Chimaera Publications, 2010, with an "Introduction" by Lucy Sussex (ii-iv). The manuscript of the book is at the State Library of South Australia.
Keywords: Australian author; Female author; Scottish author

When Age Grows Young - Hyland Clare Kirk (1846-1917) (C.T. Dillingham, 1888)
Chapter 27 (271-81) includes a description of a small-town eutopia.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1979.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"White or Yellow? A Story of the Race-war of A.D. 1908" - [William] [Lane] (1861-1917) (The Boomerang (Brisbane, QLD, Australia),, 1888)
Racist dystopia. Heroic Australian whites fight the Chinese, whose immigration has produced the dystopia. See also 1892 Lane.
Keywords: Australian author; Canadian author; Male author; UK author

The Young Seigneur; or, Nation-Making - [William Douw] [Lighthall] (1857-1954) (Wm. Drysdale & Co., Publishers, 1888)
Mostly concerned with English-French relations in Canada and the building of both Canada as a nation and a Canadian national identity. Includes a short (126-33) plan for "The Ideal State" based on improved education that will produce better people, a fairer distribution of wealth, and the control of vice through censorship and the improvement of dress and manners.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians - [Franz] [Hartmann] [M.D.] (1838-1912) (Occult Publishing Co, 1887)
A Rosicrucian eutopia in the Swiss alps. See also 1890 Hartmann.
2nd ed. as With the Adepts: An Adventure Among the Rosicrucians. London: Theosophical Publishing Co., [1910]. Rpt. Berwick, ME: Ibis Press, 2003 with an “Introduction” by R.A. Gilbert (ix-xx).
Keywords: German author; Male author

Bellona's Husband: A Romance - [William James] [Roe] (1843-1915) (J.B. Lippincott, 1887)
Wide ranging satire set on Mars.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Capture of London - James Peddie [pseud?] (General Publishing Co, 1887)
Dystopia. A Channel Tunnel is the route for the invasion of Britain by France and Russia. Britain becomes a republic, which is overthrown at the end. Attack on Gladstone and his party. William Ewart Gladstone (1809-98) was Prime Minister four times between 1868 and 1892.

A Crystal Age - [William Henry] [Hudson] (1841-1922) (T. Fisher Unwin, 1887)
Future Arcadian society organized in large families. Detailed picture of the society. Appears eutopian but is not from the viewpoint of the protagonist.
[2nd ed.]. London: T. Fisher Unwin. 1906. 2nd ed. rpt. in British Future Fiction. Ed. I.F. Clarke. 8 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2001), 2: 375-696, with a brief note by the editor (371-73).
Keywords: Argentinian author; English author; Male author

"A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future" - Lillie Devereux [Umstead] Blake (1833-1913) (The Phrenological Journal (New York), 1887)
All women leave the United States to set up an independent republic. Events in the U.S. and in the women's territory are presented. Reconciliation between men and women when men capitulate and promise to reform.
Rpt. in her A Daring Experiment and Other Stories (New York: Lovell, Coryell & Co., 1892), 346-60; in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 95-103 with an editor's note on 94-95; and in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2015), 93-102 with an editor’s not on 93.
Keywords: Female author; US author

A Dream of the Days to Be - [John Mark S.] [Hunter] (F.H. Plummer, 1887)
Eutopia of the simple life. Everyone works. Craft guilds. Stress on education. Collective evening meal.
Keywords: Male author

The Gospel of Reason, Bible of Truth, Justice and Correctness, and the Monarch of Literature. The Key to Solve All the Perplexed Social Problems. The only Infallible Guide to True Humanity, Genuine Enlightenment and the Highest Civilization. Containing: A True Definition of Social Science and Irrefutable Principles and Doctrines of all Rights, Duties and Universal Reform. Designed to Effect an Absolute Remedy of Our Great Wrongs and Evils, secure a Durable Peace Among all Nations, Restore Harmony and Contentment Among all Classes, bring Lasting Love and Joy to Every Family, and Lead every Man to the Acme of Happiness - Joseph Wieser (Author, 1887)
No. 1 includes “The Constitution of the Communion of Mankind” (13-60). Among other things, he says that women will be equal in the organization. Everyone to be better educated. Marriage to be universal and obligatory, and that he will “introduce one government in the world, one universal language, one uniform standard of money, and uniformity of all other means of communication; abolish all standing armies and wars among nations” (15). No. 2 is mostly on religion. No. 3 calls of farmers to join. No. 4 calls on women to join. In no. 2 the author describes himself as the Founder and President of the Communion of Mankind. Other works include his The Universal League of Justice. Its Principle, Platform, Teaching, Purpose and Aim. Chapter 1. To be published in successive chapters. Price of each Chapter, Ten Cents. San Francisco, CA: Np, August 1887; and a broadside entitled Proclamation by the Prince of Rebels [San Francisco, CA: Author, [1880], where he calls himself “Fool of Fools, Crank of Cranks, Maniac of Maniacs!”
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Harmony in Deep Mourning” - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (his Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales, 1887)
Satire. Technological utopia. Marriages on short term license, the shortest being three months.
Keywords: English author; Male author

“How We Live and How We Might Live” - William Morris (1834-1896) (Commonweal, 1887)
Morris sums up his position as “First, a healthy body; second, an active mind in sympathy with the past, and the future; thirdly, occupation fit for a healthy body and an active mind; and fourthly, a beautiful world to live in” (Book 76). See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, 1890 Morris.
Rpt. in his How I Became a Socialist. Ed. Owen Holland (London: Verso, 2020), 56-77, with editorial notes on 184-86
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Island of Anarchy. A Fragment of History in the 20th Century - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) (Miss Langley, Lovejoy's Library, 1887)
An island of transported revolutionaries, mostly anarchists, is presented in mostly dystopian terms because there is conflict among them. Some are then converted to Christianity and the situation improves.
Rpt. Reading, Eng.: Two Rivers, 1997.
Keywords: English author; Female author

“A Lady and the Lords” - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales, 1887)
Satire on women getting the vote.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Letters from the Planets" - [Wladjslaw Somerville] [Lach-Szyrma] (1841-1915) (Cassell's Family Magazine, 1887)
The October 1887 story depicts Venus as an Athenian democracy. See also 1874 and 1883 Lach-Szyrma.
The stories from April and October are rpt. as “Letters from Mars.” in Lost Mars: The Golden Age of the Red Planet. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2018), 53-72 with an editor’s not on 51-52. The U. S. ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018 has the subtitle: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet. Series continued as "The Portals of the King of Day. A Journey To the Regions of the Sun." 14 (January 1888): 96-98; "Our Second Voyage to Mars." 15 (February 1889): 166-70; "Letters from the Planets--Canal Life on Mars." 16 (February 1890): 285-87; "A Trip to Jupiter's Moonlet." 18 (December 1891): 55-56; and "Corresponding With the Planets." 19 (June 1893): 403-05. Entire series rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket Reprints, 1972), 1-26.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Man Abroad: A Yarn of Some Other Century (G.W. Dillingham, 1887)
Mostly satire, but there is a description a community based on the principles, somewhat modified, of Henry George (1839-97), the theorist of the single tax. The modification is that while there is a tax on land no rent is paid to the government which put severe restrictions on what government could do.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.
Keywords: US author

Our Own Pompeii: A Romance of Tomorrow - [Samuel Middleton] [Fox] (1856-1941) (William Blackwood and Sons, 1887)
Satire on British high society focusing on a pleasure city on the Riviera.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Republic of the Future; or, Socialism A Reality - Anna Bowman Dodd (1858-1929) (Cassell and Company, 1887)
Anti-utopian, anti-socialist, and anti-feminist. Presents a socialist utopia as inevitably dull, boring, and extremely limited. Food requirements are determined by the Hygiene Board and provided from a central, national location. Advanced technology does all the work because the people will not work. Empowering women means that women dress like men and are ashamed of beauty but are more active than the men. Motherhood abolished; if children are born, they are raised by the state. To further equality, there is a law against learning. No religion.
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Literature House/Gregg Press, 1970.
Keywords: Female author; US author

“Strephon and Phyllis in 1920” - [William Ulick O’Connor] [Cuffe], The Earl of Desart (1845-1937) (Love and Pride on an Iceberg and Other Tales, 1887)
Satire of sex role reversal.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Tables Turned; or Nupkins Awakened. A Socialist Interlude - William Morris (1834-1896) (Office of "The Commonweal", 1887)
Play describing revolution and (briefly) the resulting eutopia which is presented at greater length in 1890 Morris. See also 1884, 1886-87, 1889, and 1890 Morris.
Rpt. in May Morris, William Morris Artist Writer Socialist. Volume the Second Morris as a Socialist With an Account of William Morris As I Knew Him By Bernard Shaw (Oxford, Eng.: Basil Blackwell, 1936), 528-67. Rpt. (New York: Russell & Russell, 1966), 528-67; and ed. Pamela Bracken Wiens. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1994.
Keywords: English author; Male author

"Three Dreams in a Desert" - Olive [Emilie Albertina] Schreiner (1855-1920) (The Fortnightly Review, 1887)
A very brief conclusion to a series of dreams depicting women's struggle for equality is set in a future of gender equality.
Rpt. in her Dreams (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1891), 67-85.
Keywords: Female author; South African author

Among the Têtchas of Central Asia (Southern Publishing Company, 1886)
Lost race satire on a matriarchal society. The founder of the society wrote 1800 folio volumes on the rights of women, which were designed to be an introduction to her major treatise. Men take their wife's surname with the suffix "ee". Technologically advanced.

Atla: A Story of the Lost Island - Mrs. J. Gregory Smith (Harper & Brothers, 1886)
Atlantis as a eutopia. Much romance and adventure. Atla is a child from the North who is born as her mother dies as the result of a shipwreck on the shores of Atlantis.
Keywords: Female author

"Bietigheim" (Funk & Wagnalls, 1886)
A story of a World War ends with a picture of a proposed radically reformed Europe, successful United States of Europe, and a reformed United States of America in two pages of eutopia.

"The Blindman's World" - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Atlantic Monthly (Boston, MA), 1886)
Eutopia on Mars based on foreknowledge about one’s own life, which brings serenity and good relations with others. Only Earth does not have this ability. Bellamy is best known for his 1888 Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. <st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Chicago</st1:placetype>, <st1:placetype w:st="on">IL</st1:placetype></st1:placetype>: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. <st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Chicago</st1:placetype>, <st1:placetype w:st="on">IL</st1:placetype></st1:placetype>: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. <st1:placetype w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Chicago</st1:placetype>, <st1:placetype w:st="on">IL</st1:placetype></st1:placetype>: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1889 Bellamy, “To Whom This May Come.”
Rpt. in his The Blindman's World and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin, 1898), 1-29; in his Apparitions of Things to Come: Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Ed. Franklin Rosemont (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1990), 29-45; and as "The Blind Man's World." In his The Religion of Solidarity (Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984), 27-43.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brotherhood of Rest - E[lizabeth] W[aterhouse] (1834-1918) (E. Langley, Lovejoy's Library, 1886)
A community where the overworked can go for a complete rest. Modeled on retreats.
Keywords: English author; Female author

The Centre of the British Empire - Henry Wentworth Monk (1827-96) (Author, 1886)
Eutopia. British-Israelism or the belief that the British are direct descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. Palestine as the capital of the British Empire. Suggests that the United States would join such a confederation. Advocates “. . . the immediate confederation of the English speaking peoples everywhere, with a view to the ultimate confederation of all nations and the abolition of warfare. . . .” United Nations of the world to follow. Home rule within the confederation for all nations. The author lived in Ottawa and came to believe himself to be the Messiah; there are quite a few such people in the history of utopianism. He published many tracts and pamphlets that are not utopian individually but accumulate to a vision of a better society. These include Electors of Ottawa. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1887 (6th January, 1887); [Campaign tract proposing himself as the most qualified candidate. Suggests that the Queen call a convention of European powers that will agree to cut armies five to ten percent per year for some years. This would produce immigration of able-bodied men to Canada and other British colonies as well as to the U.S.]; The Peace of the World and the Welfare of Canada. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1887. (10 February 1887) [Political campaign literature. Cut European armies by 10% and send the men to the colonies]; How To Do It; or, Canada to the Front! That The Foremost Colony of the Foremost Empire in the World may now Prove Worthy of an Honourable Position among the Nations of the Earth. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1890 (1st May 1890) [Tithe and then purchase Palestine. Construct a modern harbor in Palestine and railroads and roads to connect the world to Palestine]; “A Noise” and “A Shaking” or, Two Indispensable Agents for Effecting the Highest Advancement of the Whole Human Family. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1890. (14th June, 1890) [Universal government. Urges the clergy to act]; The People and the Policy; or, Ourselves, and What Is Expected of Us. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Ptd. by C.W. Mitchell, Free Press Office, 1890. (27th March, 1890) [Britain (and the U.S. because it is mostly composed of British people) are the predicted Ephraim (See Genesis 48:19).and should join together to abolish war by establishing a Supreme International Tribunal. Christians should stop being hypocrites and practice their beliefs. Christians should support him, and those not supporting him will be punished in the Second Coming. He argues that he is the predicted “man-child” of Revelation xii, 5]; “Awake, Awake”. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1893 (16 November 1893) [This is the only one of his works to be consistently catalogued as a utopia, although for no obvious reason. A plea to the comparatively poor to support him]; “Thy Light Is Come”. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1893 (26 January 1893) [This is the best statement of his personal position. Believes that he is identified in Revelation as the one who will “overcome” and introduce the Kingdom of God on earth. He had learned how to read the symbolic language of Revelation; he tried to teach others but was rejected. John Ruskin (1819-1900) paid for the publication of his Interpretation of Revelation in Edinburgh, paid for his period of living in Jerusalem, and paid for his passage to Canada]; The Great Modern Problem. (How to afford permanent peace and security for “all nations”.) about to be very effectually solved by the means of “A Nation Born at Once” A worthy capital for the whole world being thus provided, where every nation upon the earth may be fairly represented, in A Permanent International Tribunal, or Supreme Authority. Recognized and supported by the combined powers of the whole world; that the nations may thus be left without excuse for warfare thenceforth. Ottawa, ON, Canada: Author, 1896 (12 February 1896) [Purchase Palestine and make it the world capitol]. [All at Can]
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author

Cromwell the Third: or The Jubilee of Liberty. A Letter Written by Julius Boanerges to His Son - John Parnell (Author, 1886)
Authoritarian eutopia/dystopia set in A.D. 1951. Inhabited world in the center of the earth. Socialist revolution with good and bad results. There is a strong man named Tertius Cromwell. Money abolished. All royals, the clergy, and the English army imprisoned in "lunatic asylums for life." Ireland had disappeared in an earthquake in 1892 and later most of the United States is destroyed in another earthquake. Adam and all his descendants have returned causing over-population.
Keywords: Male author

"A Dream of John Ball" - William Morris (1834-1896) (The Commonweal, 1886)
John Ball (ca. 1338-81) was a priest who was involved in the in the Peasant's Revolt of 1381, and his dream is of the success of the revolt. See 1958 Fairburn for another eutopia focusing on Ball. See also 1884, 1887, 1889, and 1890 Morris.
First published in book form as A Dream of John Ball and A King’s Lesson (Reprinted from the ‘Commonweal’). London: Reeves and Turner, 1888. Rpt. in The Collected Works of William Morris With Introductions By His Daughter May Morris. Volume XVI New From Nowhere A Dream of John Ball A King’s Lesson. 24 vols. (London: Longmans Green and Co., 1912), 16: 213-88. L, L(NL)
Keywords: English author; Male author

Falsivir's Travels. The Remarkable Adventures of John Falsivir Seaman at the North Pole and in the Interior of the Earth With a Description of the Wonderful People and the Things Discovered There - Thomas Lee, ed. [written by] (Published for the Proprietor, 1886)
Mostly adventure, but some eutopia; for example, everyone charged with a crime is provided free defense.
Keywords: Male author

"Federation of the World Inevitable Before the Year 2000. And the progress of the world during the next hundred years from now enormous, astounding, and greater than that of all the previous centuries put together. The human race, after many ages of fitful, painful, and weary struggling, is now fast ripening to a united, beautiful, and majestic flower, the crowning blossom of earth" - E[dward] W[illiam] Cole (1832-1918) (Cole’s Fun Doctor: The Funniest Book in the World, 1886)
Eutopia presented as predictions. Much on inventions. English will be the universal language. Complete manhood suffrage.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

A Fortnight in Heaven; An Unconventional Romance - [James Howard] [Bridge] (1858-1939) (Henry Holt and Company, 1886)
Flawed utopia set on Jupiter, which is identical with earth except that the people are giants. Appears to be a good system, but flaws are revealed. For example, socialism, good on the surface, is corrupt.
UK ed. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1886.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Irish Rebellion of 1886, Retold by a Landlord (Harrison and Sons, 1886)
Anti-Irish satire. A brief attempt at independence is put down by Britain.
There were at least four identical editions published in 1886.

In the Light of the Twentieth Century - [Edward Heneage] [Dering] (1827-92) (John Hodges, 1886)
Authoritarian dystopia. Women's rights have made their lives worse. No religion; it has been replaced with social science meetings. Workers are moved about the country from time to time to keep them from organizing. Charity is illegal.
Keywords: Male author