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

A Manless World - Agnes Bond Yourell (b. 1864) (G.W. Dillingham, 1891)
The dystopia that develops when men lose sexual desire.
Keywords: Female author; US 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

"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

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

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

Looking 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

“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

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

“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

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

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

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

The 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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The 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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

"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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Life and Labor in the Spirit World. Being a Description of the Localities, Employments, Surroundings, and Conditions in the Spheres. By Members of the Spirit-Band of Miss M. T. Shelhamer, Medium of the Banner of Light Public Free Circle - [Mary Theresa] [Longley] (1853-1928) (Colby and Rich, 1884)
Detailed eutopia of the spirit life which is presented as the writings from the spirit world of Ann Frances Kinsey (1856-77). Uses the language of Andrew Jackson Davis; see 1847, 1874 and 1878 Davis. Stresses gender equality, education, peace and beauty.
There is a later printing, sometimes cataloged as a second edition, with Second Thousand on the title page and the publication date of 1885, but it is otherwise identical.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

Beyond the Gates - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) (Houghton, Mifflin, 1883)
Heaven as a eutopia in line with the Swedish thinker Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772) and the American spiritualist Andrew Jackson Davis (1826-1910), who published descriptions of what he called the Summer Land in a number of books between 1847 and 1878. The Gates Ajar presents a heaven in which one is reunited with relatives and gives a glimpse of a more fulfilling life for the female protagonist. Between the Gates is the eutopia of the series in that it is explicitly a criticism of the current social order as it affects women and shows a Heaven in which women can lead fulfilling lives. The third volume, Beyond the Gates, focuses on a domineering man who is reformed in heaven. The Gates Ajar provoked considerable controversy. Attacks include J.S.W. Antidote to “The Gates Ajar”. London: Aylesbury, 1870. 2nd ed. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1871. U.S. ed. New York: G.W. Carleton, 1872; “The Gates Ajar” Critically Examined. By A Dean [pseud.]. London: Hatchards, 1871; “The Gates Ajar” Criticised and Corrected. By An Englishwoman [pseud.]. London: Geo. John Stevenson, 1872; E[dgar] Stanway Jackson, Faith or Fancy? An Examination of “The Gates Ajar”. London: Elliott Stock, 1871; Charlotte Elizabeth Tidy, The Door Was Shut: An Answer to “Gates Ajar”. London: William Macintosh, 1873; and Watching at the Gates. A Reply to “The Gates Ajar”. London: S.W. Partridge, [1871]. A defense is What Shall We Say About “The Gates Ajar”. Some Thoughts Suggested by the proposed “Antidote”. London: Elliott, [1871]. In her “Introduction.” Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), Nina Baym rejects the label utopian for the novels because “they lack the Utopian thrust toward realizable social reform” and places them in the context of spiritualism (viii). Carol Farley Kessler calls Beyond the Gates a utopia in “A Heavenly Utopia--Heaven for Women.” Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers, 1982), 20-42. So does Lori Duin Kelly in her “Phelps’ Religious Writings: Household Saints in a Feminist Utopia.” The Life and Works of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Victorian Feminist Writer (Troy, NY: Whitson Publishing Co., 1983), 25-47.
U.K. ed. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. Selections of Beyond the Gates rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 111-16 with an editor’s note on 104-06. The three volumes were published together as Three Spiritualist Novels by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The Gates Ajar (1868) Beyond the Gates (1883) and The Gates Between (1887) (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000), with an “Introduction” by Nina Baym (vii-xxiii). The Gates Ajar is on 1-138, Beyond the Gates on 139-232, and The Gates Between on 233-340.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

The New Republic. Founded on the Natural and Inalienable Rights of Man, and Containing the Outlines of Such a Government As the Patriot Fathers Contemplated and Formulated in the Declaration of Independence, When Struggling for Liberty - E. J. Schellhous M.D. (Bacon and Company, 1883)
Essay including a detailed description of a revised political system that will bring about a better world. Stress on popular government, votes for women, publicly owned utilities, and limitations on corporations.
Also published New York: John W. Lovell & Co., 1883.
Keywords: US author

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

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

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

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

Pantaletta: A Romance of Sheheland (The American News Company, 1882)
Satire of gender relations set in the Republic of Petticotia, where the gender roles are reversed. A manly man from the outside undermines the system and marries the President.
Keywords: US author

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

Contrasts in Spirit Life; and Recent Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in the First Five Spheres. Also a Thrilling Account of the Late President Garfield's Reception in The Spirit World. Written Through the Hand of Carrie E.S. Twing - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) (Star Publishing Co, 1881)
Domestic heaven. The five spheres are the stages that the spirit goes through after death if it is capable of becoming more and more refined. There are separate heavens for Chinese and Negroes. The spirit world also contains hospitals for sick souls. See also 1880 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

Experiences of Samuel Bowles, Late Editor of the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in Spirit Life; or, Life As He Now Sees It From a Spiritual Standpoint. Written Through the Mediumship of ----------. Westfield, N.Y. - [Carolinn] Carrie E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (b. 1844) (Star Pub. Co, 1880)
Heaven as eutopia but little changed. See also 1881 Twing, 1898 Bowles and Twing, Samuel Bowles, Spirit and Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing, Medium. Visiting in Heaven. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., 1909, which consists primarily of Bowles’s interviews with other spirits, and is only very marginally utopian, and her Henry Drummond in Spirit Life. Springfield, MA: Star Publishing Co., [1902] (MoU-St).
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

Mizora: A Prophecy. A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Being a true and faithful account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a careful description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners and Government. Written by Herself - [Mary E. (Bradley)] [Lane] (1844-1929?) (G.W. Dillingham, 1880)
Feminist eutopia in which science had solved all problems and there is no need for menial work. Men had become extinct. Teachers paid more than any other public position and education was free. No religion. Eugenics had eliminated anyone dark complected.
Rpt. as Mizora: A Prophecy. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975; as Mizora: A World of Women. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999; and as Mizora: A Prophecy. Ed. Jean Pfaelzer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2000. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 119-37 with an editor’s note on 117-18. Originally published as “Narrative of Vera Zarovitch” [subtitle beginning with Being is identical to that of the book]. Cincinnati Commercial (November 6, 12, 20, 27, December 4, 11, 18, 25, 1880, January 1, 15 [mis-dated the 14th], 22, 29, February 5, 1881): 3 cols. 5-7, 3 cols. 4-6, [November 20 and 27 and December 4 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, [December 18 missing], Extra Sheet 3 cols. 1-4, Extra Sheet 3 col. 7, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra sheet 2 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 4-6, Extra Sheet 3 cols. 3-4, Extra Sheet 2 cols. 3-4 [ICN].
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

“A Glance into the Future; or, The World in the Twenty-Ninth Century” - E[lizabeth] T. Corbett (b. 1830) (Godey’s Lady’s Book and Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), 1879)
Technological eutopia combined with satire on technology’s ability to create a utopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Hope Mills; or, Between Friend and Sweetheart - Amanda M[innie] Douglas (1837-1916) (Lee and Shepard, 1879)
A eutopia brought about through cooperative factories.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard/New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1880. 2nd ed. Boston, MA: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1907.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

Mr. Ghim's Dream (G.W. Carleton, 1878)
A eutopia based on a huge construction project, the building of first one and then a fleet of large ocean-going ships that have none of the problems of the ships of the late nineteenth century. The project provides jobs and revives the economy.
Keywords: US author

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

Aliunde; or Love Ventures - Harry Julian [pseud?] (Charles P. Somerby, 1877)
Classic South Seas island eutopia with beautiful women and friendly natives plus some political satire.
Rpt. as by Harry Julian [pseud.] as Love Ventures. A Novel With an Affidavit.  New York : The Truth Seeker Co., 1888.
Keywords: US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"A Dream within a Dream" - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844-1911) (Independent (New York), 1874)
A dream of an egalitarian marriage ceremony.
All but a small part of the text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 107-11 with an editor’s note on 104-06. Complete text rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 63-67 with an editor’s note on 61-63.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Papa's Own Girl - Marie [Stevens Case] Howland (1836-1921) (John P. Jewett, 1874)
Eutopia. The two titles reflect the two main themes of the novel. Papa’s Own Girl reflects the desire of one of the main characters that his daughter grow up as a strong, independent woman, and she does. The Familistere is the name of the community in Guise, France, founded by Jean Baptiste André Godin (1817-88), which is the basis of the intentional community that is the other focus of the novel.
2nd ed. New York: John P. Jewett, [1885]. Later ed. entitled The Familistere. A Novel. 3rd ed. Boston, MA: Christopher Publishing House, 1918. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an Introduction entitled “The Familistere: Radical Reform Through Cooperative Enterprise” (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 98-103 with an editor’s note on 95-97; and different selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories By United States Women Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 71-93.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Queen Krinaleen's Plagues; or, How a Simple People Were Destroyed. A Discourse in the Twenty-Second Century - [J. L.] [Collins] (American News Co, 1874)
Dystopia of the fall of America due to women's fashions.
Keywords: US author

"Berrytown" - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) (Lippincott's Magazine (Philadelphia, PA), 1873)
Berrytown is described as a eutopia in which all contemporary reforms are being tried. The story has relatively little to do with these reforms but explores the role of women both traditionally and in the eutopia.
Rpt. as "Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown." In her Kitty's Choice, a Story of Berrytown (Philadelphia, PA: J. B. Lippincott, 1874), 3-48.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

The Coming Man; or, Fifty Years Hence - Vida Varrie (E. C. Markley & Son, 1872)
Sex-role reversal satire with strong minded women and effeminate men. Presented as a three-act play.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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