The American Peasant; A Timely Allegory - T[homas] H[enry] Tibbles (1840-1928); [Elia Wilkinson] [Peattie] (1862-1935) (F.J. Schulte & Co, 1892)
Eutopia set in a temperate continent in the Arctic. Christian. Few laws because equality is more important than laws, but women are not yet considered capable of full citizenship. United States as a dystopia.
Also published Indianapolis, IN: Vincent Brothers Publishing Company, 1892.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The Coming Day - A[lexander] O'B[rien] (Bible & Tract Depot, 1892)
As Armageddon (See Revelation 16) approaches, the saved are taken from Earth. Violence, Jews are slaughtered, and those who could fled to Palestine. At the end of the violence the Second Coming occurs and the saved and the damned separated.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

“The Doom of London” - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler: An Illustrated Monthly, 1892)
The dystopia created in London when the combination of fog and smoke cut off oxygen at ground level and millions die, with the suggestion that the reduction in population plus advanced technology have produced a better life fifty years later.
Rpt. in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 7.1 (38) (July 1954): 25-34 with an editor’s note on 34; and in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Australian ed.) 6 ([February 1956]): 23-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Dream of an Englishman - Arthur Bennett (1862-1931) (Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Company, 1892)
Eutopia. World federation developed from Britain. Three stages--United Kingdom and Ireland form a federation; the empire is added; and then the entire world joins. Based on self-interest. . See also his letter to the editor, “Federation Made Easy.” Imperial Federation 8 (1893): 320-21. Bennett also wrote a utopia set in his hometown in the future; see 1900 Bennett.
Rpt. Warrington, England: "Sunrise" Pub. Co., 1893.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Dreams of the Dead - Edward Stanton Huntington (1841-95) (Lee & Shepard, 1892)
Complex spiritualist novel that includes both heaven and hell as eutopian and dystopia. Strongly influenced by Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772). Includes criticisms of Theosophy and Christian Science.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Earthquake; A Story of To-Day - Lucius A. Stockwell (Nonconformist Publishing Company, 1892)
Mostly a condemnation of capitalism from a populist perspective, but it includes a short description of desirable reforms and the procedures for achieving them.
Keywords: Male author

Fifty Years Hence; or, What May Be in 1943: A Prophecy supposed to Be Based on Scientific Deductions by an Improved Graphical Method - Robert Grimshaw (1850-1941) (Practical Publishing Company, 1892)
Eutopia. Detailed description of the Electrical Age. Universal language. Single world-wide currency. Tree planting is compulsory. Trial by jury has been abolished. Bathing is essentially compulsory under the health laws.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Future Commonwealth, or What Samuel Balcom Saw in Socioland - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) (True Nationalist Publishing Company, 1892)
Eutopia in Africa based on the ideas of Herbert Spencer (1820-1963). No taxes. Government ownership of land. Beginning at fourteen, all young people must serve a six-year apprenticeship, which can be served in a wide variety of occupations. All businesses coordinated by an overall Business Office independent of the government and the judiciary. See also 1897 Chavannes and his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. Chavannes wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Germ Growers. An Australian Story of Adventure and Mystery - [Robert] [Potter] (1831-1908) (Melville, Mullen & Slade/Hutchinson & Co., 1892)
Authoritarian dystopia with a hidden valley motif. Supernatural elements. Early example of aliens landing on Earth.
Also published with the subtitle The Strange Adventures of Robert Easterley and John Wilbraham. Ed. Robert Potter. London: Hutchinson, 1892.
Keywords: Australian author; Irish author; Male author

The Goddess of Atvatabar; Being the History of the Discovery of the Interior World and Conquest of Atvatabar - William R[ichard] Bradshaw (1851-1927) (J.F. Douthitt, 1892)
Lost race novel set inside the earth describing a flawed utopia that has a living goddess and a religion based on the “. . . worship of the human soul under a thousand forms. . . .” (84). Problems arise when the living goddess and the main protagonist from the surface fall in love.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Golden Bottle; or, The Story of Ephraim Benezet of Kansas - Ignatius [Loyola] Donnelly (1831-1901) (D.D. Merrill Company, 1892)
The "Preface" says that the book ". . . is intended to explain and defend, in the thin disguise of a story, some of the new ideas put forth by the People's Party. . . ." A man obtains a bottle that can produce gold. After a great struggle with vested interests, he is able to establish a eutopia on the basis of cooperation, free medical care, owner-occupied homes, cheap governmentally owned transportation, and the eight-hour day.
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: The Gregg Press, 1968.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Boo-Boo: A Tale of Fun and Fancy, Replete with Love, Wit, Sentiment and Satire. A Novel - Henry S. Wilcox (1855-1924) (J. B. Swinburne, 1892)
A mildly pornographic lost race dystopian novel that includes lesbianism and homoeroticism in which, in the King Monop’s island, a license is required to speak.
Rpt. without A Novel as part of the title. [Vancleave, MS]: Ramble House, 2019
Keywords: Male author; US author

"He Visits an Adamless Eden" - Arthur [William] A'Beckett (1844-1909) (The Member for Wrottenborough: Passages from His Life in Parliament, 1892)
Satire on women's franchise.
Probably originally published in a weekly newspaper.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Impending Judgments on the Earth; or "Who May Abide the Day of His Coming" - Dr. Beverley O[liver] Kinnear (James Huggins, 1892)
Millennium. British Israelism. Chapter XVI (182-89) is a brief description of the millennium, whose inhabitants are “All Israel, or the whole British race. . .” (186). Includes an “Introduction” by James B. Bell, M.D., Boston (xi-xix).
U.K. ed. has tipped over publisher London: Funk & Wagnalls, 1892.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Depths of the Dark Continent; or, The Vengeance of Van Vincent" - [Cornelius] [Shea] (1863-1920) (Brave and Bold, 1892)
Mostly adventure but includes two flawed utopias. The first is a “Paradise of Women”, but the women live in an all-female community simply because there are too many women in the larger community. The second is called “the African Utopia” which was established on the site of an earlier community founded by an extinct people and rediscovered by Egyptians in sixteenth century. It had grown to over two thousand people because no one ever left and now all modern languages are spoken there. No money. All worked and anyone who refused was fed to lions. Annual elections.
Rpt. as “In the Depths of the Dark Continent; or, The Vengeance of Van Vincent.” By the Author of “The Wreck of the ‘Glaucus’” [pseud.]. Brave and Bold, no. 109 (January 21, 1905). Entire issue. 32 pp.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"In the Year Ten Thousand" - William [Nathaniel] Harben (1858-1919) (Arena, 1892)
Sketch of a much-advanced people. Vegetarian. World unity without government. Thought communication. Common language.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Island of Fantasy; A Romance - Fergus[on Wright] Hume (1859-1932) (Griffith Farran and Company, 1892)
Greek Arcadian eutopia founded on an island by an Englishman. The entire social structure is based on early Greek forms.
One vol. ed. New York: Lovell, Gestefeld & Co., 1892. Rpt. New York: Fenno, 1905. New ed. London: Griffith Farran and Company, [1893]. Abridged ed. London: Holden & Hardingham, [1914].
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; English author; Male author

Looking Ahead! A Tale of Adventure (Not by the Author of "Looking Backward") - [Alfred] [Morris] (1859-1932) (Henry & Co, 1892)
Anti-socialist novel depicting the failure of a socialist revolution and the beginning of a new feudal system.
2nd ed. corr. and rev. with a brief "Preface to the Second Edition". London: Henry & Co., [1892]
Keywords: Male author

Looking Upwards; or, Nothing New. In Two Parts.--Part I. The Up Grade: From Henry George Past Edward Bellamy on to Higher Intelligences - [Arthur William] [Sanford] (1859-1932) (H. Brett, 1892)
Eutopia brought about through the nationalization of land and industry.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

The Lost Island - Edward J. Austen; Louise V[escelius] Sheldon (Fels Fund of America, 1892)
Satire in which a ship is wrecked on an unknown island that turns out to be owned by one of the sailors. He imposes a capitalist system until the others build a raft and leave him behind. On the single tax, see Henry George, Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Rpt. illus. in The Cosmopolitan 14.3 (January 1893): 365-84. Rpt. without the author’s names as The Lost Island with a Conclusion by William Lloyd Garrison as The Sterling Weekly 2.3 (February 13, 1897): entire issue with “Concluding Chapter” (31-35).
Keywords: Female author; Male author

A Maiden of Mars - General F. M. Clarke (Charles H. Sergel and Company, 1892)
Eutopia. Telepathy. Abundance. Technologically advanced. Spiritualism and adepts.
Keywords: Male author

"Marvellous Melbourne" - George Harold Willoughby (Marvellous Melbourne and Other Poems, 1892)
Poem describing the Melbourne of the time as a dystopia that had once been eutopian.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

The Melbourne Riots and How Harry Holdfast and His Friends Emancipated the Workers. A Realistic Novel - David A[ndrew] Andrade (1859-1928) (Andrade & Co., 1892)
A cooperative agricultural scheme, labor notes, and the gradual successful establishment of a cooperative village. The book includes commentary on utopian literature and communal experiments and includes ads for the author’s bookstore, circulating library, and vegetarian restaurant, all at the same address in Melbourne. See also the author’s Money: A Study of the Currency Question, Especially in its Relations to the Principles of Equity, Utility, and Liberty. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Co-operative Publishing Co., 1887, which begins with the statement “Money has a twofold function: exchange and robbery (1) and ends with a plea for labour notes or some other means of exchange that will help workers (9).
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Messages from Mars by the Aid of the Telescope Plant - Robert D[yer] Braine (1861-1943) (J.S. Ogilvie, 1892)
Science and technology bring eutopia. The Elixir of Life has been discovered. Government by the most intelligent. Crime is considered an illness. No money. No work except by volunteers as needed.
Rpt. Chicago: M.A. Donohue & Co, [1895?].
Keywords: Male author

"Moonblight" - Dan[iel Carter] Beard (1850-1941) (Moonblight and Six Feet of Romance, 1892)
Eutopia and how to bring it about. A man can see the true character of people, and he reforms a small mining area called Moonblight based on real equality of opportunity. He abolishes the company store and allows private enterprise in the area. All the rent from land goes to public works. Temperance. The sale of liquor cancels a lease. Structured so that the village will control the area after the current owner's death.
Rpt. (Trenton, NJ: A. Brandt, 1904), 17-197, which was rpt. (New York: AMS Press, 1976), 17-197.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Olombia or The New Political Economy. Grand Transformation of the United States, England and the World! The only Practical Solution of the Land, Money, Barter, Labor, Capital, and all other Questions of the Day. By Dr. William H. von Swartwout, Founder & President, of New Columbia United States of the World, or The Olombia Commonwealth. New Order of Builders and University; New York, London, Paris, Rome, Egypt, Palestine, Etc. (Inaugurated, September 29th, 1879) - Dr. William H. Von Swartwout (1836-1902) (New Columbia University Press, 1892)
Eutopia brought about by abolishing money. This can be done by simply changing the name of the country. Rejects competition and the whole money-based system. Proposes a six-hour workday, five days of work a week, twenty days of work a month, ten months of work a year, and twenty-nine total years of work (ages 21-49). Von Swartwout published a number of repetitive pamphlets and newspapers--see his Declaration of Principles and Proclamations of Emancipation by the President of the New Columbia United State of the World, Columbia University, Etc. (Founded New York, September 29th, 1879,) Being a Practical Solution of the Land, Money, Labor and Capital, and All Other Questions of the Day. Given in London, England, November 9th, 1886; December 24th, 1886, and August 7th, 1887. Illustrated. [in pencil on two copies at L--2nd rev. ed. 1892-3]. London & New York: Columbia University Press, 1887 [also published as Truthology with followed by the title as above]; The World’s Crisis and the Only Way Out. The Olombia Commonwealth Jubilee Proclamation and Declaration of Independence No. 2. New York: New Columbia University Press, 1890; Olombia or Utopia Made Practical by Dr. William H. Von Swartwout, Founder and President of The Olombia Commonwealth, New Order of Builders and University, Author of “The New Political Economy,” Etc., Solution of the Financial Problem. [Abbreviated and condensed from The New Political Economy]. New York and London: New Columbia University Press, 1893; The Olombia Commonwealth Hercules. Devoted to the Agitation of the Olombia Commonwealth Campaign; or to the Propaganda of a New Political Economy for the New Millennial Era of Justice, Liberty, Peace and Plenty with Free Land, Free Habitation, Free Material, Free Production, Free Transit, and a Free Use of all the Products of the Earth (New York and London) 1.1 (1894); Olombia Manifesto or Solution of the Social and Financial Problem. Addressed to the Congress and People of the U.S.A. and of the Whole World. New York: New Columbia University Press, 1894; An Open Letter to the Committee of Constitutional Convention at Albany, State of New York. [New York: New Columbia Press], 1894 (All L). See the book by his daughter--Janet Von Swartwout, Heads or The City of the Gods: A Narrative of Olombia in the Wilderness. New York: Olombia Pub. Co., 1895 describing the temporary establishment of Olombia Colony.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Pantocracy or The Reign of Justice - James Seldon Cowdon (Author, 1892)
Eutopia. Detailed reform proposed through a third political party. The reforms include the gradual elimination of the currency system, the end of credit, equal pay, guaranteed regular vacations, equal rights, a labor army, a changed federal governmental structure with each department designated to carry out specific improvements and test others to see if they will work, elimination of the military, and elected bureaucrats. The goal is a United States of the Earth.
Keywords: Male author

The People's Program; The Twentieth Century is Theirs. A Romance of the Expectations of the Present Generation - Henry L[exington] Everett (Workmen's Publishing Company, 1892)
Eutopia. A detailed labor colony scheme for the unemployed.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Philip Meyer’s Scheme: A Story of Trades Unionism - Archibald McCowan (J.S. Ogilvie, 1892)
While not a utopia itself, the novel is about how active trade unions will be able to bring about Bellamy’s Nationalism. See also his Christ, the Socialist. By the Author of Philip Meyer’s Scheme [pseud.]. Boston, MA: Arena Publishing Co., 1894.
Keywords: Male author

The Tableau; or, Heaven as a Republic - John George Schwahn (Press of Franklin Printing Co, 1892)
An allegory with one chapter (212-31) that details the eutopia achieved when reason and humanity final win over Christianity and ignorance. Everyone working and the use of steam and electricity to run machines ensures much leisure time.
Keywords: Male author; US author

That Island; A Political Romance - [Samuel] [Crocker] (Press of the Sidney F. Woody Printing Company, 1892)
Eutopia which begins with the contemporary United States as a dystopia and then details the reforms necessary to bring about eutopia, which include nationalization of the railroads, the eight-hour workday, and a graduated land tax.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Triumph of Woman's Rights. A Prophetic Vision - Tom [Thomas] Bracken (1843-98) ([W. McCullough], 1892)
Anti-women's rights satire. Women are described as pro-Bellamy and anti-Christian.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Australian author; Irish author; Male author

The Village Commune: A Labour Poem. Leaflets for the People. No. IV. For God and Home, Humanity, and Fatherland - [Robert Michael] [Cochrane] (1862-1933) (Queensland Social-Democratic Federation, 1892)
Poem in which the second part (10-16) describes a future communal eutopia.
Extracts were published in The Worker (Brisbane, QLD, Australia) 3.70 (September 3, 1892): 3; and the Bulletin (December24, 1892), 21.
Keywords: Australian author; English author; Male author

The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel - [William] [Lane] (1861-1917) (Edwards, Dunlop & Co, 1892)
Consistently treated as an early Australian utopia, probably because of its title, which is clearly ironic, but the novel does not fit any definition of utopia. Could be seen as describing Australia as a dystopia. The last page of the text (reproduced in the 1980 ed. on [78]) has an ad for a sequel that was never published, In New Australia: Being Nellie Lawton's Diary of a Happier Life. By John Miller [pseud.] which will present the eutopia to be found in the New Australia Co-operative Settlement Association. See 1888 Lane.
Rpt. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Sydney University Press, 1980, with an "Introduction" by Michael Wilding ([9]-[79]). Another edition with title on the cover as The Workingman's Paradise: An Historical Novel. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Cosme Publicity Co., 1948.
Keywords: Australian author; Canadian author; Male author; UK author

The Yorl of the Northmen; or, the Fate of the English Race; Being the Romance of a Monarchical Utopia - [Charles Wicksteed] [Armstrong] (1871-ca 1963) (Reeves and Turner, 1892)
Feudal eutopia brought about through eugenics. Cottage industries but a few factories are allowed under strict health regulations. Traditional gender roles. See also 1936 Armstrong, Paradise Found; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; his “A Eugenic Colony: A Proposal for South America.” The Eugenics Review 25.2 (ns. 6.2) (July 1933): 91-97; his The Only Way: A Suggestion as to the True Solution to the Problems of Over-population, Degeneration, Unemployment and the Menace of War. London: Edgar G. Dunstan, [1921?]; and his The Survival of the Unfittest. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1927. Rev. and enl. London: C. W. Daniel Co., 1931.
Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 3: 317-389. Editor's notes, 315, 399-400.
Keywords: Brazilian author; English author; Male author; Spanish author

'89 - [Albion Winegar] [Tourgée] (1838-1905) (Cassell & Co., 1891)
The novel follows one young man as he grows up, experiences the U.S. Civil War and its aftermath. and then turns to creating a new nation in the South, including Texas, that peacefully separates from the North and creates a society of white domination that is depicted as a eutopia. Much of the novel concerns the tactics used.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Account of an Extraordinary Living Hidden City in Central Africa and Gatherings from South Africa - William [Henry] Middleton (1825-1911) (King, Sell, and Railton, 1891)
Mostly non-fiction but includes a section entitled "A Living Hidden City in South Africa" that describes a democratic lost race. Population control. A form of gender equality has been achieved through separation. Free love.
Keywords: Male author

After the Strike of a Sex; or, Zugassent's Discovery with the Oneida Community, and the Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford - [George Noyes] [Miller] (1845-1904) (William Reeves, 1891)
Sequel to 1890 Miller which begins with a series of testimonies to the positive effects of the form of birth control practiced at the Oneida Community (1-36). That method is coitus reservatus, which requires the man to avoid ejaculation. That is followed by "The Oneida Community. A Dialogue By Henry J. Seymour, one of the original members" (37-80); and "The Perfectionists of Oneida and Wallingford" (81-107).
Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, [1895]; and as Zugassent's Discovery, or, After the Sex Struck. Chicago, IL: Alice B. Stockham & Co., 1895. Included in The Strike of a Sex and Zugassent’s Discovery, or After the Sex Struck (With Author’s Preface). New and revised ed. Chicago, IL: Stockham Pub. Co., 1905. The Strike is pp. 1-91. Zugassent’s Discovery or After the Sex Struck (93-119) is the first part of After. Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974. Stockham was Dr. Alice Bunker Stockham, a sex reformer.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Agnostic Island - F[rederick] J[ames] Gould (1855-1938) (Watts, 1891)
Agnostic eutopia stressing education and religious toleration. Considerable satire on religion and missionaries in particular.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Arcadian Life - S[ydney] S[avory] Buckman, F.G.S. (1860-1929) (Chapman & Hall, 1891)
Satire on rural life as an imaginary country.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Ben-Beor. A Story of the Anti-Messiah. In Two Divisions. Part I.--Lunar Intaglios. The Man in the Moon. A Counterpoint of Wallace's "Ben Hur." Part II.--Historical Phantasmagoria. The Wandering Gentile, A Companion Romance to Sue's "Wandering Jew" - H[erman] M[ilton] Bien (1831-95) (Press of the Isaac Friedenwald Co, 1891)
The first part (3-67) describes the prophet Elijah on a civilized moon where people go through various stages in preparation for salvation.
2nd rev. & imp. ed. Baltimore, MD: Press of the Friedenwald Co., 1892.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Better Days: or, a Millionaire of To-morrow - Thomas Fitch (1839-1923); Anna M[ariska] Fitch (1840-1904) (Better Days Publishing Company, 1891)
Eutopia brought about by the transformation of a city by one rich man. He creates a community of ideal apartment buildings within New York City with some cooperative housekeeping. He then reforms Arizona with better marriage laws and children born to those not married under the rules can be taken by the state as are any children born into extreme poverty. Women paid equally for equal work.
New rev. ed. Chicago: F.J. Schulte and Company, 1892.
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

Beyond the Bourn. Reports of a Traveller Returned from "The Undiscovered Country" - Amos K[idder] Fiske (1842-1921) (Fords, Howard and Hulbert, 1891)
Eutopia of perfected human beings after death. There seems to be no government, and the society operates on the basis of voluntary cooperation. Economic goods are distributed according to work. No jealousies and no desires which upset their reason.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Brethren of Mt. Atlas: Being the First Part of an African Theosophical Story - Hugh E[dward] M[illington] Stutfield F.R.G.S. (1858-1929) (Longmans, Green, & Co, 1891)
The novel is a theosophical adventure story that involves the discovery of a eutopian community in northern Africa led by adepts.
Keywords: Male author

The Christ That Is To Be. A Latter-Day Romance - Joseph Compton Rickett (1847-1919) (Chapman & Hall, 1891)
After a revolution, England returns to small, agricultural communities and a craft guild system. The Second Coming is ignored and rejected.
Keywords: English author; Male author

The Crystal Button or, Adventures of Paul Prognosis in the Forty-Ninth Century - Chauncey Thomas (1822-98) (Houghton, Mifflin, 1891)
Eutopia based on scientific advances and a eugenic policy that eliminated the unfit. Focus on mechanical and material developments. By the time of the novel, there is little change and custom is the rule in most things. The crystal button of the title is a symbol that the followers of the man who started the process of reform wear, and there is an emphasis on how the eutopia was achieved. In Houghton’s “Editor’s Preface”, he says that it was written between 1872 and 1878 and published as the result of the popularity of Bellamy’s Looking Backward (viii).
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975 with an "Introduction by Ormond Seavey" (v-xiii).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Farming in the Future. (By A Contemplative Cockatoo)" - George Phipps Williams (1847-1909); W[illiam] P[ember] Reeves (1857-1932) (Double Harness: Poems in Partnership, 1891)
Satire on 1889 Vogel focusing, as the title says, on farming and Vogel’s depiction of extremely fertile land that is currently unproductive.
Keywords: Aotearoa New Zealand author; Male author

History of a World of Immortals Without a God: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University - [James William] [Barlow] (1826-1913) (William McGee, 1891)
Eutopia set on Venus (known as Hesperia). Life is cyclical in that people grow old, grow young, and then grow old again, and society is based on this fact. No reproduction. No death from natural causes.
Later ed. under the author's name entitled The Immortals' Great Quest: Translated from an Unpublished Manuscript in the Library of a Continental University. London: Smith, Elder, 1909.
Keywords: Irish author; Male author

Human Republic - [Henry Robert] Heather Bigg (1853-1911) (David Stott, 1891)
Eutopia depicted in the interior of the human body with the emphasis on interdependence and equality.
Keywords: English author; Male author

Labor Town. An Address Delivered by Frederic Jones to the Presidents and Secretaries of New South Wales Trades Unions at the Temperance Hall, Sydney, September 15th, 1891, Mr. P.J. Brennan in the Chair - Frederic Jones (Printed by Higgs & Townsend, 1891)
Proposal for a socialist town of 5000 acres five miles from Sydney, including a map showing the precise location. The government is asked to lease the land to Labor Town for 99 years. The author proposes establishing a bank and building a tramline to connect with the already established lines. Most of the pamphlet consists of practical details of the proposed town.
Keywords: Australian author; Male author

Looking Beyond. A Sequel to "Looking Backward" by Edward Bellamy, and An Answer To "Looking Further Forward," by Richard Michaelis - L[udwig] A. Geissler (L. Graham and Son, 1891)
Pro-1888 Bellamy eutopia which follows on from Michaelis's 1890 sequel to Bellamy. In this book, the future Boston depicted by Michaelis is a nightmare and Julian West wakes up in the future Boston of Bellamy rather than that of Michaelis. In this future the demoted Professor deserved demotion, and all is fine.
UK ed. London: William Reeves, 1891. U.K. ed rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Colony - James F. Raymond (b. 1826) (T.B. Peterson & Brothers, 1891)
Much of the novel is concerned with family life in the American South before the Civil War and about events during the war, but about halfway through the focus sporadically shifts to an isolated island that is settled by a set of well-provisioned castaways, who had been deliberately marooned for opposing the Confederacy. The castaways were three men, including one stereotyped black man, who did the cooking and carried the provisions but is described as a friend. They sail to another island that has not had contact with the outside world since the early seventeenth century, speaks the English of that period, and has created a largely egalitarian eutopia. At twenty-one, a man gets a tract of land. Upon marriage, a house is built. Six-hour workday for men; no outside labor for women. No money. No alcohol. No crime. All change is prohibited, but the arrival of the outsiders poses problems.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Man from Mars; His Morals, Politics and Religion - [William] [Simpson] (1828-1910) (Bacon & Co, 1891)
Eutopia with Christianity and socialism combined, and church and state are one because moral and material questions cannot be separated. All land owned by the state. Three-hour workday. Absolute gender equality. Marriage is regulated by the health department, and everyone is required to have a periodic health exam, with the results made public.
[2nd ed.] San Francisco, CA: The Clemens Publishing Co., 1893. 3rd ed. under the author's real name with the added subtitle Revised & Enlarged by an Extended Preface and a Chapter on Woman's Suffrage. San Francisco, CA: Press of E.D. Beattie, 1900.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Meda. A Tale of the Future - Folingsby, Kenneth (Ptd. [by Aird & Coghill] for Private Circulation, 1891)
Eutopia. A sleeper awakes in three thousand years and finds a future world of fantastic intelligence. The human race has passed beyond the need to eat. Class system based on intelligence. Monarchy because every society needs a central focus.
Rpt. London: H.F. Mitchell, 1892.
Keywords: Male author

My Vacation; or, The Millennium - J[ohn] L. Fitzporter (Np, 1891)
Eutopia set on Venus which the protagonist visits traveling in his astral body. Vegetarian. Detailed reform stressing heath, practical education, and improved detached housing with numerous gardens located separately from both the business and manufacturing areas.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life in Utopia; Being a Faithful and Accurate Description of the Institutions that Regulate Labour, Art, Science, Agriculture, Education, Habitation, Matrimony, Law, Government, and Religion in this Delightful Region of Human Imagination - John [Aloys] Petzler (1814?-1898) (Authors' Cooperative Publishing Company, 1890)
Fairly standard socialist eutopia. See also 1870 and 1876 Petzler, his Die sociale Baukunst; oder Gründe und Mittel für den Umsturz und Wiederaufbau der gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse, besonders wie solche sich in neuester Zeit in England, dem grossen Musterstaat der modernen Civilisation, ausgebildet haben. 2 vols. Hottingen-Zürich, Switzerland: Verlag der Schweizerischen Volksbuchhandlung, 1879, 1880; and his Grosse Jubiläumsfeier und imposanter Triumphzug in Erinnerung des hundertjährigen Bestehens der social-demokratischen Staatsseinrichtung in Britannien. Nürnberg, Germany: Selbstverlag des Berfassers, 1897 (L).
Keywords: English author; German author; Male author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"To Whom This May Come" - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1889)
Eutopia in which the ability to read minds brings self-knowledge and empathy. Bellamy is best known for his 1888 Looking Backward. After publishing Looking Backward Bellamy became a social reformer and was involved with two journals, The Nationalist (1889-91) and The New Nation (1891-94), which he edited and published, and wrote many essays defending or elaborating his position; some of these have been collected in his Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles--Public Addresses--Letters. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1937. 2nd ed. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938; and Talks On Nationalism. Chicago, IL: The Peerage Press, 1938. 1897 Bellamy is a sequel to Looking Backward and 1889 Bellamy, “With Eyes Shut,” and 1891 and 1895 Bellamy are set in the same eutopia. A utopia not directly connected to Looking Backward is 1886 Bellamy.
Rpt. in his The Blindman’s World and Other Stories (Boston, MA: Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1898), 389-415; his The Religion of Solidarity Santa Barbara, CA: Concord Grove Press, 1984), 44-59; in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971 (All items separately paged); and in Apparitions of Things to Come: Tales of Mystery & Imagination. Ed. Franklin Rosemont (Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr Co., 1990), 118-33.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How They Lived in Hampton: A Study of Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) (J. Stilman Smith & Co, 1888)
Eutopia based on the cooperation of capital, management, and labor. Management and labor get a salary, and capital gets a basic return, and each get one third of the profit.
Rpt. in Sybaris and Other Homes To Which is Added How They Lived in Hampton. Vol. 9 of The Works of Edward Everett Hale (Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Co., 1900), 211-470; and rpt. without the subtitle New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. An early, short version was published with one illustration to the first installment as “Back to Back. A Story of Today.” Harper’s New Monthly Magazine 55.330 - 56.331 (November - December 1877): 873-84; 34-42; and rpt. as Back to Back; A Story of Today. Vol. 48 of Harper’s Half Hour Series. New York: Harper & Bros., 1878. A British ed. reversed the original title to Practical Christianity Applied in the Manufacture of Woollens; or, How They Lived in Hampton. London: Cassell & Co., 1892.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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