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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"Experiences of the A.C." - Bayard Taylor (1825-78) (Beauty and the Beast: and Tales of Home, 1872)
Satire on a utopian experiment called the Arcadian Club. The focus is on the individuals and their idiosyncrasies and hypocrisies.
Rpt. (New York: Garrett Press, 1969), 193-240.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Hour With the Angels or A Dream of the Spirit Life - A[lden] Brigham (Author, 1872)
Domestic heaven influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Heaven has class distinctions based on one's behavior during life. Stress on mercy rather than punishment. Change is the norm in Heaven.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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