Under Which Master or the Story of the Long Strike at Coverdale: A Romance of Labor - W[illia]m V[icars] Lawrance (Abbey Press, 1901)
Dystopia. A strike that disables a city is finally defeated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"City of Tagaste" - [Elbert] [Hubbard] (1856-1915) (So Here Then Are the Preachments Entitled the City of Tagaste, and A Dream and A Prophecy, 1900)
Dystopian satire on contemporary America. Tagaste is city that abandons crafts for mass production and loses its soul, while polluting nature and destroying its workers. See also his 1900 "A Dream and a Prophecy," which suggests the eutopia that can be created.
A 50 copy ed. on Imperial Japan Vellum was illus. Etla Hubbs (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop, 1900), 3-9. Rpt. (East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1909), 3-9.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Dream and a Prophecy" - [Elbert] [Hubbard] (1856-1915) (So Here Then Are the Preachments Entitled the City of Tagaste, and A Dream and A Prophecy, 1900)
Follows from the dystopia of his 1900 "A City of Tagaste" and suggests the eutopia that can be created by returning to the countryside and the craft tradition.
A 50 copy ed. on Imperial Japan Vellum was illus Etla Hubbs (East Aurora, NY: The Roycrofters at the Roycroft Shop, 1900), 13-21. Rpt. (East Aurora, NY: Roycrofters, 1909), 13-21.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Fall of Utopia - Charles J. Bayne (Eastern Publishing Company, 1900)
A eutopia, seemingly More's, collapses due to indiscriminate immigration and selfishness, particularly desire for individual wealth.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Great Good Place" - Henry James (1843-1916) (Scribner's Magazine, 1900)
A man with extreme stress from overwork dreams of a eutopia of rest similar to a monastery.
Rpt. in The Novels and Tales Of Henry James. New York Edition.  vol. 16 (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), 222-63; The Short Stories of Henry James. Ed. Clifton Fadiman (New York: The Modern Library, 1945), 385-422, with "A Note on The Great Good Place" (413-15);  The Complete Tales of Henry James. 11 1900-1903. Ed Leon Edel (London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964), 13-42; and in his Complete Stories 1898-1900 (New York: Library of America, 1996), 152-77, with a Note on the Text (940) and Notes (943) by Denis Donoghue..
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Hallie Marshall: A True Daughter of the South - Frank Purdy Williams (b. 1848) (Abbey Press, 1900)
A reformed South presented as a eutopia that still has a form of slavery with overseers chosen by the slaves and families not split up. Schools set in parks that serve as playgrounds. Women are truly "feminine" and do not work outside the home. The North is compared unfavorably with the South.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Hermaphro-Deity: The Mystery of Divine Genius - Eliza Barton Lyman (Saginaw Printing and Publishing Co, 1900)
Eutopia. A novel describing a celibate, vegetarian intentional community placed in Benares, California, which suggest the connection to Eastern religions. The California community is a eutopia and expanding rapidly. Much on the doctrine. In her The coming woman: or, The royal road to physical perfection. A series of medical lectures (1880), the female author is described as a lecturer and teacher of anatomy, physiology, and hygiene.
Keywords: Female author; US author

His Wisdom, The Defender - Simon Newcomb (1835-1909) (Harper and Bros, 1900)
Eutopia. The inventor of an airship controls the world, forms one world nation, and abolishes war, armies, and navies. He acts as arbitrator in disputes and allows freedom to develop. Most of the novel is concerned with events before the briefly described eutopia. See also 1903 Newcomb.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1974.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

In Oudemon; Reminiscences of an Unknown People by an Occasional Traveler - Henry S[hipman] Drayton, ed. [written by] (1840-1923) (The Grafton Press, 1900)
An egalitarian, anarchist eutopia in an isolated valley in South America.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Kite Trust (A Romance of Wealth) - Lebbeus Harding Rogers (1847-1932) (Kite Trust Publishing Company, 1900)
A trust initially started by children who are only interested in making kites becomes world-wide and gradually comes to control the entire U. S. economy. As the children age and become aware of economic and social conditions, and one of them is elected President, they establish a eutopia based on equality.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last Man. A Novel - N[athan] Monroe McLaughlin (The Neale Company, 1900)
Set in 1926 when the U.S. has expanded to fifty states, and it is depicted in eutopian terms. African-Americans are presented as uneducated servants. In this case the last man is the last survivor of the Northern army in the U.S. Civil War, and the novel is primarily his life story. The novel includes one chapter (186-94) describing a colony established for ex-soldiers.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Let There Be Light; The Story of a Workingmen's Club, Its Search for the Causes of Poverty and Social Inequality, Its Discussions, and Its Plan for the Amelioration of Existing Evils - David Lubin (1849-1919) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900)
Religious belief and practice will bring about a eutopia based on equality and justice. The novel follows the trajectory of a workingman's club over eight months, reporting the talks given at the club.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Monarch of Millions; or, The Rise and Fall of the American Empire - [John] Grosvenor Wilson (1866-1948) (The Neely Company, 1900)
An emperor controls America through wealth, and there is a nobility based entirely on wealth. Political offices are sold to the highest bidder. Much romance in that a poor young man dedicated to the overthrow of the emperor falls in love with the emperor's daughter and she with him. Some advanced technology: a portable telephone and outdoor air conditioning are mentioned.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Philoland - Gilbert Lane Harney (1851-1925) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1900)
Detailed eutopia at the center of the earth. Perfected humans descended from the first Christians. No disease (147) or old age (152). Cooperative economic system. Technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Poliopolis and Polioland: A Trip to the North Pole - J[ames] M. Chaney (Author, 1900)
Mostly on astronomy and mechanical contrivances but describes a country at the North Pole that could be called a dystopia. The upper house of the legislature is based on wealth and the president is the person paying the most taxes and the entire tendency of policy is to enrich the wealthy and impoverish the poor.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Reinstern - Eloise O. Richberg (The Editor Publishing Co, 1900)
Detailed eutopia with an emphasis on parenthood and education. Spiritualism. Reinstern means "pure star" and is a planet whose people are at a “higher plane of existence” than those on Earth (11).
Keywords: Female author; US author

Solaris Farm; A Story of the Twentieth Century - Milan C. Edson (1839-1921) (Author, 1900)
Detailed picture of the development of a communal system. The farm should have at least five thousand acres and be incorporated as a joint stock company, and the there is much detail on farming methods. Two hundred and fifty couples to form the community. The cooperative farm provides a radical improvement of rural life through better living conditions, less strenuous work, and intellectual stimulation through a wide variety of clubs. Stresses the need to produce the best children and raise them to be healthy, well-educated adults. Mothers are not required to work on the farm, but many do because the work is light and enjoyable. Spiritualist and the dead are consulted about the plans for the farm.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Story of Zendos" - J[ohn] W[illia]m Lloyd (1857-1940) (Free Comrade, 1900)
Dystopia of slavery. See also 1902 and 1904 Lloyd.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sweepers of the Sea: The Story of a Strange Navy - Claude H. Wetmore (1862-1944) (Bobbs-Merril Co., 1900)
Adventure novel that ends with a chapter, “Ten Years After the Great Naval Engagement” (330-49) describing Incaland, which has won its independence and established itself as a modern country described in eutopian terms.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years” - John Elfreth Watkins Jr. (b. 1875) (The Ladies’ Home Journal, 1900)
A list of twenty-eight “prophecies,” all presented as entirely positive. No pollution with electricity produced by water-power and hot and cold air provided to homes. No mosquitoes and flies and wild animals only in zoos. People will get more exercise from an early age, and everyone will be expected to walk ten miles a day. Education through university will be free to all. Poor students will be provided with food, clothing, and housing. Medical care is provided free through schools.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Within an Ace of the End of the World” - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (McClure’s Magazine, 1900)
The dystopia produced when capitalists draw nitrogen from the atmosphere to produce food. See the discussion in Steve Asselin, “Apocalypse Inc. Incorporating the Environment into the Boom/Bust Cycle in Fin-de-Siècle Science Fiction.” CR: The New Centennial Review 19.1 (Spring 2019): 181-203. The author was born in Scotland, raised in Canada from age four, lived briefly in the U.S., and moved to England in 1881.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

A Woman of Yesterday - Caroline A[twater] Mason (1853-1939) (Doubleday, Page, 1900)
The novel follows the life of a Christian woman who wants to be a missionary in India but whose plans are regularly derailed. An underlying theme is what it means to be a good Christian, and a small part is a description of a religious community that fails.
U.K. ed. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1901.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz - L[yman] Frank Baum (1856-1919) (G.M. Hill, 1900)
Classic U.S. children’s book that was followed by thirteen others, including The Marvellous Land of Oz: being an account of the further adventures of the Scarecrow and Tim Woodman and also the strange experiences of the Highly Magnified Woggle-Bug, Jack Pumpkinhead, the Animated Saw-Horse and the Gump: the story being A Sequel to the Wizard of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill with end papers from life poses by the famous comedians, Montgomery and Stone. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904; Ozma of Oz: A Record of her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tik-Tok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1907; Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1908; The Road to Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909; The Emerald City of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910; The Patchwork Girl of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1913; Tik-Tok of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1914; The Scarecrow of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1915; Rinkitink in Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1916; The Lost Princess of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1917; The Tin Woodman of Oz: A Faithful Story of the Astonishing Adventure Undertaken by the Tin Woodman, Assisted by Woot the Wanderer, the Scarecrow of Oz and Polychrome, the Rainbow’s Daughter. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1918; The Magic of Oz: A Faithful Record of the Remarkable Adventures of Dorothy and Trot and the Wizard of Oz, together with the Cowardly Lion, the Hungry Tiger and Cap'n Bill, in their successful search for a Magical and Beautiful Birthday Present for Princess Ozma of Oz. Illus. John R. Neill. Chicago, IL: The Rand McNally Co., 1919; and Glinda of Oz: in which are related the Exciting Experiences of Princess Ozma of Oz, and Dorothy, in their hazardous journey to the home of the Flatheads, and to the Magic Isle of the Skeezers, and how they were rescued from dire peril by the sorcery of Glinda the Good. Illus. John R. Neill. Mattituck, NY: Ameron House, 1920. The first book is borderline as a utopia, but it has been treated as such; see Edward Wagenknecht, Utopia Americana. Seattle: University of Washington Bookstore, 1929; S.J. Sackett, “The Utopia of Oz.” Georgia Review 14 (Fall 1960): 275-91; and Andrew Karp, “Utopian Tension in L. Frank Baum’s Oz.” Utopian Studies 9.2 (1998): 103-21. Later volumes, beginning with The Emerald City of Oz, are  primarily adventure novels but have utopian elements and Ozma of Oz has elements of a Cockaigne, such as a Lunch Box Tree and a Dinner Pail Tree. After Baum’s death, Ruth Plumly Thompson (1891-1976) was hired to write sequels. She wrote twenty-one additional Oz books between 1921 and 1976, although the first, The Royal Book of Oz, was credited to Baum. Other Oz novels were published and illustrated by both illustrators with Denslow publishing Denslow’s Scarecrow and Tin-Man (1904) and a comic strip “Scarecrow and Tin-Man” and Neill publishing The Wonder City of Oz (1940), The Scalawagons of Oz (1941), and Lucky Bucky of Oz (1942). A film based loosely on the novel is The Wiz (1978) directed by Sidney Lumet (1924-2011) with the screenplay by Joel Schumacher (1939-2020) based on the play The Wiz by William F[erdinand] Brown (1928-2019) that ran for 1600 performances on Broadway. For other adaptations, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptations_of_The_Wizard_of_Oz.
Rpt. as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz with Pictures by W[illiam] W[inslow] Denslow. Ed. Susan Wolstenholme Oxford, Eng.: 1997), 1-263, with an “Introduction” (ix-xliii), “Note on the Text” (xliv-xlvi), “Select Bibliography” (xlvii-l), “A Chronology of L. Frank Baum” (li-lv), and “Explanatory Notes” (265-74); and in The Wonderful World of Oz. The Wizard of Ox The Emerald City of Oz Glinda of Oz. Ed. Jack Zipes (London: Penguin Books, 1998), 1-105 with an “Introduction” (ix-xxix), “Suggestions for Further Reading” (xxxi-xxxvii), “A Note on the Texts and he Illustrators” (xxxix-xli), and “Explanatory Notes” (359-77). For a critical ed., see The Annotated Wizard of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz By L. Frank Baum. Ed. Michael Patrick Hearn. Illus. W.W. Denslow. New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1973; Centennial ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2000, with a “Preface” by Martin Gardner (xi-xii).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The World a Department Store. A Story of Life Under a Coöperative System - Bradford Peck (1853-1935) (Bradford Peck, 1900)
Eutopia. The Cooperative Association of America converts the nation to a cooperative system in twenty-five years.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. U.K. ed. London: Gay and Bird, [1900].
Keywords: Male author; US author

Andree at the North Pole - [Julius Warren] [Lewis] (1833-1920) (G.W. Dillingham, 1899)
The novel is based on Salomon August Andrée (1854-1897) [the accent is not used in the novel], the leader of an actual attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon in 1897. The balloonists disappeared, which is how the novel ends, and the remains were only discovered in 1930. In the novel, which is mostly adventure and intrigue, the balloonists reach Polaria, a technologically advanced eutopia located in a huge (500,000 square miles) basin that exists at the North Pole and disappear on their return flight.
Most originally published in 1898 in the New York Evening World.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Arqtiq; A Study of the Marvels at the North Pole - Mrs. Anna Adolph (Author, 1899)
Lost race eutopia at the North Pole of an idealized people of gigantic size. Gender equality. Technologically advanced.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Barbarian" - [Edward] Bedloe Bedloe Mendum (b. 1875) (The Barbarian and Other Stories, 1899)
A satire on contemporary life through the imaginary country of Vulgaria.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The City of Thought - Hiram Henry Wilson (Author, 1899)
Brief eutopia that outlines six requirements for an ideal city and identifies an area that meets those requirements. The author is described as the "Author of 'Thought,' and 'Compiler of The New Bible'."
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Ely’s Automatic Housemaid” - Elizabeth W[hitfield Croom] Bellamy (1837-1900) (The Black Cat, 1899)
Satire on the servant problem.
Rpt in The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (Dover Publications, 2015), 44-52 with an editor’s note on 43-44; and in Menace of the Machine: The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction. Ed. Mike [Michael Raymond Donald] Ashley (London: British Library, 2019), 61-72, with an editor’s note on 59.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The End of the Ages; with Forecasts of the approaching Political, Social and Religious Reconstruction of America and the World - William Fishbough (1814-81) (Continental Publishing Company, 1899)
Eutopia based on the grand harmonies of love. There will be a UNIVERSAL AND HARMONIOUS REPUBLIC with an International Congress, but there will also be a highly structured series of governments down to the local. Representation based on occupation. The slogan is UNIVERSAL COOPERATION FOR THE UNIVERSAL GOOD.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Godhood of Man. His Religious, Political and Economic Development and the Sources of Social Inequality - [Nicholas] [Michels] (Author, 1899)
Eutopia. Mostly religion but also shows the human race in harmony with nature.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Awakening: The Story of the Twenty-second Century - Albert Adams Merrill (1875-1952) (George Book Publishing Company, 1899)
Eutopia. A colony, called the Money Republic, founded in Africa spreads around the world. It is based on the equal division of wealth among all who work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Impression Club. A Novel - John Henton Carter, Commodore Rollingpin (Carter & Bro., 1899)
Religious novel showing how lives can be transformed through religious belief, temperance, and the influence of women. The focus is on a group of individuals, but the novel suggests the eutopia that is in the process of being created.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Jacob's Dream" - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) (Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1899)
Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England.
Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Jamaican author; Male author; US author

Looking Ahead: Twentieth Century Happenings - H[enry] Pereira Mendes (1852-1937) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
Struggle among all religions for control of holy places with arguments for each religion and a decision by a council giving them to the Jews. In the buildup to the conclusion an Anglo-Saxon Confederation of the British Empire and Canada and the U.S. is formed with a federal constitution based on that of the U.S. Also, a document was drawn up by Christians and Jews that established the basis for the eutopia to come.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Forward; A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 - Arthur Bird ([Press of L.C. Childs & Son], 1899)
Eutopia stressing patriotism and the manifest destiny of the United States. The U.S. governs the entire Western Hemisphere, which is now known as the United States of the Americas and controls the Philippines. English is the universal language. The national capital moves to Mexico but is still known as Washington. The Papacy has moved to Rio de Janeiro. Technologically advanced. Racist with all Blacks transferred to Venezuela. Highly moral tone with, for example, cursing outlawed. Kissing prohibited as dangerous to health.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Through the Mists; or, Every Hearth Knoweth Its Own Sorrow - L. Norton Thomson (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
Mostly romance but includes a scheme to help the poor build a town and industries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Nequa or The Problem of the Ages - [Alcanoan O.] [Grigsby] (1837?-1925); [Mary Prather] [Lowe] (1858-1902) (Equity Publishing Company, 1899)
Standard communal eutopia. Country called Altruria in the interior of the world near the North Pole. Equitable exchange, democracy, education, communal houses. Gender equality.
Rpt. called 3rd ed. [Stevenson, WA?]: Green Snake Press, 2015, with an “Epilogue” (313-345) by Mark Esping. Originally serialized in Equity (Topeka, KS) (1899 - September 1901).
Keywords: Female author; Male author; US author

The No-Din': Romance, History and Science of the Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands With Illustrations - E[rastus] S. Curry (1837-1906) (Published by the Author, 1899)
Mostly adventure set in America in the time of the Biblical patriarchs. The world is dominated by the descendants of Cain. A small group of people establish a vaguely described eutopia that survives innumerable attacks. See also the author’s The Pre-Historic Races of America and Other Lands as Disclosed through Indian Traditions Comprehending also the Origin of Matter and the Formation of the World the Periodic Changes of the Earth the Glacial Periods and Astronomy Solving the Chronological Problems, Etc., Etc. In Five Volumes. Fully Illustrated. Volume I [only vol. published]. Christy, MO: Published by the Author, 1903.
Keywords: Canadian author; Male author; US author

Prince Timoteo - David Skaats Foster (1852-1926) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
Satire on lost race fiction. In the novel the lost race is found on top of a mesa in the middle of a lake in Tuscany, which they settled in the fifteenth century.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Son of Africa. A Romamce - Anna [Dunphy] Brémont comtesse de (1864-1922) (Greening, 1899)
Mostly an adventure novel, but it includes a short section in which the immortal Queen of Sheba prophecies a New Jerusalem to be founded in South Africa by Jews and Christians (96-111). Extremely unusual for the time, the novel depicts an interracial marriage positively.
Rpt. as Was It a Sin? London: Hutchinson, 1906.
Keywords: English author; Female author; US author

A Strange Discovery - Charles Romyn Dake (1849-99) (H. Ingalls Kimball, 1899)
Continuation of Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (New York: Harper & Bros., 1838). Eutopia near the South Pole controlled by "properly educated feeling" rather than reason. Lost race of Romans, with a monarchy and servants but also with liberty under a constitution.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Wreck of the South Pole" - Charles Curtz Hahn (1858-1934) (The Wreck of the South Pole or the Great Dissembler And Other Strange Tales, 1899)
Detailed eutopia located in a temperate area around the South Pole. Stress on purity in both men and women. "Mind power" allows a person to project themselves and to speak and act at a distance. The people call themselves theosophists or adepts in the occult sciences. Servants and lower classes do the work and fish by hypnotizing the fish. Hunters are licensed and required to work set hours to provide game for those assigned to them; they hunt by hypnosis. Class status determined by "mind power". Travel by astral projection; mail sent by astral projection. Weather made. Police prevent crime by reading minds, and those inclined to crime are treated by having thoughts projected into their minds rather than being punished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Zerelda. A Story of Love and Death - Louise F. Suddick (1856-1943) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1899)
An unusual heaven as a eutopia, but there are higher heavens. The inhabitants come from a variety of planets. Those who die young become adults. Marriage can occur in heaven, and marriage partners will find each other. In this one there is a city with parks, trees, and fountains and without dust, smoke, or unpleasant noises. People work, but even physical labor is not tiring. No harsh weather but some seasonal change. A second city is inhabited by people from many planets and has architecture reflecting those planets. No poor. Those who lived selfish lives are servants as a way of overcoming their past. Female author.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Anglo-Saxons Onward! A Romance of the Future - Benj[amin] Rush Davenport (Hubbell Pub Co, 1898)
Mostly adventure and romance in a setting of patriotism and racism reflecting manifest destiny. Commerce and Christianity are the keys to a better future. His Blood Will Tell: The Strange Story of a Son of Ham. Illus. J.H. Donahey. Cleveland, OH: Caxton Book Co., 1902 is an even more explicitly white supremacist novel.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Armageddon. A Tale of Love, War, and Invention - Stanley Waterloo (1846-1913) (Rand, McNally, 1898)
Dystopia. The world is constantly on the edge of war and the United States and Great Britain form an alliance against some European states, there is a brief battle, which the Anglo-Saxon alliance wins. The Alliance sets terms for peace and the construction of a very powerful weapon ensures that there will be peace. Strongly nationalist and racist.
Rpt. without the subtitle and with an "Introduction" by Richard Gid Powers (v-xviii). Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Awakening of Noahville - Franklin H. North (New York Publishing Co., 1898)
A satire, similar in some ways to 1889 Clemens, in which two Yankees visit a lost kingdom in North America that is still in the middle ages. Heavily illustrated.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Doctor Jones' Picnic - S[amuel] E. Chapman M.D. (1847-1930) (Whitaker & Ray Co., 1898)
The novel is primarily concerned with a voyage to the North Pole in an aluminum balloon, but there are discussions of the improvements in society and in medicine in particular.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Gloria Mundi” - Harold Frederic (1856-1898) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1898)
A romance and a depiction of English life but including a brief description of a community that can be thought of as utopian and a presentation of the emancipation of women. The American author was the London correspondent for The New York Times from 1884 until his death.
Repub. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1898. U.K. ed. London: William Heinemann, 1898. Rpt. ed. Larry Bromley as The Harold Frederic Edition. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1986, with a “History of the Text” (345-70), “Textual Introduction” (371-87), and “Textual Apparatus” (387-481).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Golden Gleams from the Heavenly Light - Samuel Bowles (Spirit) (1826-78); Mrs. Carolinn E[dna] S[kinner] Twing (Medium) (b. 1844) (Star Publishing Co, 1898)
Domestic Heaven. See also 1880 Twing, 1881 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

Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven - Rebecca Ruter Springer (1832-1904) (David C. Cook, Publishing Co, 1898)
Heaven as a eutopia of perfection where the author says she lived with her family members who had died.
[2nd ed?] with a "Supplemental Chapter" and bound with David C. Cook "Jesus the Resurrection Now Or, Our Loved Ones Given Back to Us Here." Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, nd. Rpt. As Within Heaven's Gates. New Kensington, PA: Whitaker House, 1984. Rpt. as Intra Muros or Within the Walls A Dream of Heaven. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1914 including a “Supplemental Chapter” (137-48) responding to comments and “Jesus the Resurrection Now; Or, Our Loved Ones given back to us here” (149-65) by David C. Cook. 165 pp. Rpt. London: Arthur F. Bird, 1922. Rpt. with one illus., but without the “Supplementary Chapter” or the Cook as Intra Muros: My Dream of Heaven. Forest Grove, OR: Book Searchers, nd. [
Keywords: Female author; US author

Ionia; Land of Wise Men and Fair Women - Craig, Alexander (E.A. Weeks, 1898)
Detailed eutopia. All land owned by the municipality. Mixture of public and private ownership of other property. Little government and laws are few and simple. No alcohol, and temperance is a major theme of the novel. Population kept low. Small family farms with no hired farm laborers. Eugenics.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Kingdom of Heaven is at Hand." A Text Book of the Better Civilization Within Reach, Which Is Identical with the Kingdom of Heaven as it Was Proclaimed by Jesus of Nazareth - C[harles] W[illiam] Wooldridge M.D. (1847-1908) (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Detailed utopia. Religious version of the cooperative commonwealth. Working four hours a day between 21 and 50 means that most of a person's life is under their own control, and the social system is designed to assist in the best use of that time. Direct democracy through the initiative, referendum, and recall. Municipal ownership of utilities. See also 1902 Wooldridge.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Last War or The Triumph of the English Tongue. A Story of the Twenty-Sixth Century, Compiled from the Official Notes of Newman, Reporter to the President of the United America - S[amuel] W. Odell (1864-1948) (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Eutopia of a united Europe, the Americas, and the rest of the English-speaking world dominated by white Anglo-Saxons that have followed the lead of the U.S., which, after the voluntary, supported migration of blacks to Africa, has established a reformed capitalism. Limit on wealth; corporations replaced by large cooperative industries; and everyone is a property-holder with a homestead. Temperance. Eugenic laws and the examination of morals make marriage more difficult, but divorce is easier. The causes of crime have been eliminated. The text, though, is mostly on the preparations for war with a new Holy Empire led by the Czar-pope of the Russian Empire, which the Anglo Saxons win.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Legal Revolution of 1902 - [Bert J.] [Wellman] (Charles H. Kerr, 1898)
Populist eutopia. The revolution takes place through calling a constitutional convention to amend the U. S. Constitution, with details given on the amendments. Direct election of the President, Vice-President, and Senate. Graduated income tax. Future amendments possible by a direct vote of the people. Proportional representation. All property held by an individual over $500,000 to revert to the government. Concern to create uniform laws across the country. Nationalization of agriculture with huge irrigated, technologically sophisticated farms.
Rpt. incorrectly attributed to William Stanley Child. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Modern Cooperative Colony (A Whimsey)" - J[ames] W[illiam] Sullivan (b. 1848) (So The World Goes, 1898)
Detailed description of an intentional community outside New York City with an easy commute by train to jobs in the city. No fences or telegraph poles. Separate houses built by individuals, so no uniformity. The people formed different cooperatives to undertake different activities, including building a town hall and running the school. No government; no police. Some satire on journalism.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mr. Jonnemacher's Machine. The Port to which we drifted - [Walter Doty] [Reynolds] (b. 1860) (Knickerbocker Book Company, 1898)
Dystopia in which machines put people out of work and only benefit the wealthy. Corrupt political system. Revolution. The book is written as if from a future eutopia, which is only alluded to in the preface and in the last chapter. In the eutopia machinery is used for the benefit of all under an honest political system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The [My on cover] Sovereign Guide; A Tale of Eden - William Amos Miller (Geo. Rice & Sons, 1898)
Short description of a eutopia inside the Earth called Eden, which is related to the Biblical Eden but is not identical to it. Perpetual summer with one rainy season. Language of thirty-six sounds. Hereditary monarchies, each with twelve counselors. National disputes settled by arbitration. Few laws. No capital punishment. Vegetarian. Christianity the only religion. No denominational differences. No fasting or penance but feast and enjoy.” Radical separation of church and state with no state law affecting the church and no church law affecting the state. Labor is compulsory for men between twenty and seventy-five; married woman cannot work outside the home if their husband is able to work.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mysteries of Destiny Island; or Champlain Valley and Settlers and Future - Alld, D. (Np, 1898)
The book is divided into four parts, with the third and fourth (45-82) describing the U. S. as a technologically advanced religious eutopia. Concerned with the dangers of “foreign” culture and religion. Set in the Champlain Valley of northeastern New York and western Vermont. Brief synopsis on page 2.
Keywords: US author

The New Gulliver - Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840-1907) (The Marion Press, 1898)
An American linguist is shipwrecked on the island of 1726 Swift's Houyhnhnms. After Gulliver had left, a large number of small, unintelligent animals without speech but shaped like the Houyhnhnms flooded the country and were only driven out with the help of the Yahoos. As a result, the belief in a Supreme Houyhnhnm became common, and this led to controversies and divisions. The Yahoos survive much as before. During a discussion of evolution, which is completely rejected by the religious Houyhnhnm, a disaster strikes and the island sinks.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Practical City. A Future City Romance; or A Study in Environment - [Warren S.] [Rehm] (Lancaster County Magazine, 1898)
Detailed authoritarian eutopia is presented in a small, 810-acre city in a square bordered on three sides with farmlands and a stream on the fourth. Land bought and sold by the city rather than individuals. Citizens vote on many issues with a two-thirds majority required for most decisions. Both men and women vote, although a certificate of education is required to be able to vote and to marry.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Rev. Josiah Hilton. The Apostle of the New Age - Farnell, George (Journal of Commerce Company, Printers and Publishers, 1898)
A novel about the needed transition between the present and the future of 1888 and 1897 Bellamy through an economy based on labor notes. Most of the novel concerns the conversion of the title character from supporting capitalism to opposing it.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Society of the Future - Leonard Dalton Abbott (1878-1953) (J.A. Wayland, 1898)
Essay that, while mostly concerned with and critical of contemporary conditions, also describes a socialist utopia that has eliminated poverty and child labor and radically reduced the hours of work.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

The Treasure of the Ice: A Romance - Eugene Shade Bisbee (1864-1933) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898)
A lost race novel depicting a classical Greek civilization near Antarctica as a eutopia. Mostly the type of adventure usual to lost race novels where conflict within the discovered society puts the discoverers at risk, and they must escape.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Vicious Virtuoso - Louis Lombard (1861-1927) (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898)
A romance and adventure novel that includes a story of an ancient Egyptian race that was greatly advanced both spiritually and scientifically and produced a society in which all lived well. Everyone had equal food and clothing. No money. No religion, no political factions, and no patriotism. Higher education only for the elite and women excluded because it made them "less fit to bear and nourish children" (111). Euthanasia encouraged. Eugenics. Divorce easy with remarriage within a year required. The eutopia is destroyed by organized religion.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Dana Estes, 1909
Keywords: French author; Male author; US author

Waiting for the Signal. A Novel - Henry O. Morris (The Schulte Publishing Company, 1898)
Mostly the story of a successful peaceful revolution in the U.S. against the "arrogant and vicious plutocracy" (v), but Chapter XL, "The Dawn of a New Day," presents a brief picture of the eutopia created. A constitutional convention is convened, which includes many of the well-known reformers of the time. The convention first drafts and adopts a new "Declaration of Independence" (335-36) and then a new Constitution (337-53). The constitution, which follows the basic structural outlines of the previous one, includes the Bill of Rights and previous amendments.
Keywords: Male author; US author

With Gyves of Gold. A Novel - Henry Athey; A. Herbert Bowers (G.W. Dillingham, 1898)
Eutopia. Much discussion of what the eutopia will look like and ends with a description of the Christian eutopia in operation. Believe in the nearness of the millennium. Spiritualism. Anti-egalitarian. Cooperation. With trusts/monopolies gone, business flourishes, wages rise, slums are cleared, and education improved. All other nations followed the lead of the U.S. Women's proper sphere is the home.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Colonizing in a Great City - [G. B] [De Bernardi] (Labor Exchange Publications, 1897)
Mutual aid checks improve society. The book is fiction describing the beginning of the system. . See also 1890 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).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Day of Resis - Lillian Frances Mentor (G.W. Dillingham, 1897)
Lost Egyptian race eutopia in Africa. All the people are tall, well-formed, and appear to be no older than middle aged. This is made possible by controlling what people eat and limiting work hours. Everyone above twenty-five is a teacher and everyone learns a wide variety of trades. All goods are free for the asking. At eighteen couples are assigned marriage partners after a detailed mental and physical examination. Animals larger and better formed than usual. Lots of gold, onyx, and jewels. On the Day of Resis, the only national holiday, all who have reached the age of sixty-five are put to death. Much of the novel is a standard lost race novel with adventure and the escape of the outsiders.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Equality - Edward Bellamy (1850-98) (D. Appleton, 1897)
Expansion and modification of the ideas found in his 1888 Looking Backward. The most significant changes are in women’s position, which is now clearly equal to men, and in the political system, which is international and much more democratic, including, in many circumstances direct votes by the people. Considerably more on the nineteenth century and on the revolution. 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. 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.”
Rpt. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Gregg Press, 1968; New York: Greenwood Press, 1969; and New York: AMS Press, 1970. Chapter 23 was often reprinted as The Parable of the Water Tank.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Seven--The Greater Nine; A Story for the People - Jno. [John] H[eber] Flood, Jr. (W.B. Conkey, 1897)
Struggle against monopolies is successful, and this brings about a better society with much of the novel on the dystopia created by the monopolies.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Henry Cadavere: A Study of Life and Work - H[enry] W[entworth] Bellsmith (1849-1926) (Commonwealth Company, 1897)
Eutopia presented through the story of a successful socialist intentional community. Emphasis on the period before the actual establishment of the community but includes statements about it after a year and after five years. Includes the "Constitution of the National Union of Co-operative Labor" (92-100). Separate households. A "matrons' guild" will be assigned "education of the young, the conduct of the supply and provision store, health medicine and amusement" (93).
Keywords: Male author; US author

In Brighter Climes, Or Life in Socioland. A Realistic Novel - Albert Chavannes (1836-1903) (Chavannes and Company, 1897)
Continuation of 1892 Chavannes. This novel traces the experience of a young couple from the U.S. fleeing unemployment, settling in Socioland, and gradually becoming integrated into its society. There are no rich and poor and all must work; there are few laws and both men and women vote directly on legislation; much land and most manufacturing owned in common; and local townships mostly control their own affairs within the general egalitarian structure. See also his The Concentration of Wealth: A Study of its Causes, Results and Remedies. New York: True Nationalist Pub. Co., 1893. He wrote and mostly self-published many works on economic issues and health.
Keywords: Male author; Swiss author; US author

"In the Deep of Time" - George Parsons Lathrop (1851-98) (English Illustrated Magazine, 1897)
A man is put to sleep for three hundred years and awakens in a technological eutopia in communication with Mars, which is in advance of earth. World federalism without democracy. No one lived in cities except by government draft. If a person is exceptional, the government chooses who they will marry. "Degenerates," on the other hand, were kept in asylums and not allowed to marry. The author's note says that the story is based on conversations with the inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931), and Edison provided notes to Lathrop, who wrote the story. Thirty-three pages of Edison’s notes for the story can be found in the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers University (http://edison.rutgers.edu/index.htm).
Rpt. in Worlds Apart: An Anthology in Facsimile [Cover subtitle An Anthology of Interplanetary Fiction]. Ed. George Locke (London: Cornmarket, 1972), 47-72.
Keywords: Male author; US author

John Harvey. A Tale of the Twentieth Century - [James M.] [Galloway] (Charles H. Kerr, 1897)
Socialist eutopia created within the United States by a wealthy man. Includes a diagram of the proposed city. People are required to work, and the community is required to provide work. Becomes national.
2nd ed. as Lock and Key. New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1899.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Loma; A Citizen of Venus - William Windsor (b. 1857?) (Windsor and Lewis, 1897)
Eutopia set on Venus and based on phrenology. Women and men are more nearly equal than they were at the time. Free love with the emphasis on love rather than sex.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lost Tribes And The Land of Nod. An Original Natural Gas Story - Artemus P. Kerr (1851-1901) (Press of the Indiana Newspaper Union, 1897)
Lost race eutopia in which people rarely ate anything but fruits and vegetables, and men and women wear similar clothing. Simple furniture. Ten large households. Little work needed; men fished, and women did spun and wove. Gold common. The visitor from the outside (brought by a tornado) establishes a school to teach English and then various technologies that introduce complexity and conflict.
Keywords: Male author; US author

New Era. Presenting the Plans for the New Era Union To Help Develop and Utilize the Best Resources of this Country. Also to Employ the Best Skill There is Available to Realize the Highest Degree of Prosperity for All Who Will Help To Attain It. Based on Practical and Successful Business Methods - [Charles Willard] [Caryl] (1858-1926) (Author, 1897)
Detailed eutopia. The New Era Union will provide capital so that workers can buy their own mines and so forth with the Union making a profit. Includes illustrations and detailed plans of the city.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. There is also, in the New York Public Library, a typescript by Caryl entitled "THE NEW ERA A PLAY INTRODUCING THE PLANS FOR A GRAND NEW ERA MODEL CITY TO BE THE MOST COMPLETE, WONDERFUL AND GRAND PERMANENT EXPOSITION AND EMPORIUM FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD IN ADDITION TO BEING THE GRANDEST AND MOST PERFECT EDUCATIONAL, AMUSEMENT, INDUSTRIAL AND RESIDENCE MODEL CITY OF THIS WORLD. ALSO REPRESENTING THE PLANS FOR AN ORGANIZATION TO BE CALLED 'THE NEW ERA UNION' THAT WILL UNITE UNDER THE MOST PERFECT SYSTEM POSSIBLE ALL HUMAN BEINGS IN THIS ENTIRE WORLD IN THE COURSE OF TIME WHO DESIRE THAT THEIR FELLOW MAN AS WELL AS THEMSELVES SHALL ENJOY THE MOST PERFECT PEACE, HAPPINESS AND PROSPERITY That is Possible Here on Earth Under the Laws of JUSTICE AND RECIPROCITY and who are willing TO DO ALL IN THEIR POWER TO ATTAIN THE SAME." © 1896. The "Introduction" to the book purports to reprint a lengthy article from the Rocky Mountain News of September 3, 1897, that discusses the project and the play, but September 3 is said to be Good Friday, which was April 18 in 1897, this is fiction.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Passing of Niagara" - Rebecca [Blaine] Harding Davis (1831-1910) (The Independent, 1897)
Satire on the technological utopia. The United States becomes entirely practical, focused on making money and producing consumption goods. Niagara Falls is eliminated; the tides are fenced off to produce electricity; the churches all taken over and turned into commercial colleges; veterans benefits abolished; libraries and art galleries sold; horses, dogs, birds, trees, and flowers eliminated; and food made into pills. It was so unsatisfying that everyone left the country.
Keywords: Female author; US author

President John Smith; The Story of a Peaceful Revolution - Frederick Upham Adams (1859-1921) (Charles H. Kerr, 1897)
Socialist eutopia including direct democracy with a new constitution for the U.S. (237-46), which specifies that the legislative power rests with the people and that the people directly elect the Cabinet rather than have it appointed by the President. The cover of the Library of Progress edition has "The right of a citizen of the United States to demand and obtain work at wages sufficient to support himself and his family shall never be abridged. It shall be the duty of the government to guarantee employment to all who demand it" (on 147 of the Unity Library edition).  See also his non-utopian economic novel. The Kidnapped Millionaires; A Tale of Wall Street and the Tropics. Boston, MA: Lothrop Pub. Co., 1901.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Another ed. adds (Written in 1920) to the title. No. 24 of the Library of Progress (August 1897). Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1897
Keywords: Male author; US author

What Christ Saw. . .: Sequel to If Christ Came to Congress - Congressman Milford W[riarson] Howard (1862-1937) (Author, 1897)
Most of the book is about the dystopia of contemporary conditions. It ends with the battle of Armageddon and one page of the eutopia that followed. See his If Christ Came to Congress. Washington, DC: [Howard Publishing Co.], 1894 which includes a one paragraph vision of the better society that would follow if Congress followed Christ’s teachings.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Yermah the Dorado - Frona Eunice Wait (1859-1946) (William Doxey, 1897)
Lost race novel describing a scientifically advanced colony of Atlantis located in what is now San Francisco. It is destroyed by an earthquake.
Rev. as by Frona Eunice Wait Colburn with the subtitle The Story of a Lost Race. New York: Alice Harriman Co., 1912. U.K. ed. of rev. ed. London: B.F. Stevens and Brown, 1913.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Zelma, The Mystic: or, White Magic, Versus Black - Alwyn M. Thurber (Author's Publishing Co, 1897)
The novel includes an Ideal city and has a letter supposedly from 1907 describing the first steps to it.
3rd ed. Illus. W.L. Wells and L. Braunhold. Chicago, IL: The Alliance Publishing Co. 1897. © by C.M. Loomis.
Keywords: Male author; US author

1900; or, The Last President - Ingersoll Lockwood (1841-1918) (The American News Company, 1896)
Dystopia in which the election of William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) as President causes the collapse of the American system.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Ether - W. Cairns Johnston (Author, 1896)
Balloon journey to a eutopian Mars (all jewels and luxury for departed spirits from earth) and to Jupiter which is heaven. Side trip to a Hell-like asteroid.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Beyond the Verge. Home of Ten Lost Tribes of Israel - De Witt C[harles] Chipman (1824-1910) (James H. Earle, 1896)
The ten lost tribes of Israel reside in a paradise in the center of the earth. Technologically advanced using knowledge of science and, particularly, of electricity. All live over 400 years. Chemists create most foods not grown; no animal food used.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Christmas Mystery - Charles O[scar] Boring (1846-1922) (The Forward Movement Publishing Co, 1896)
Short eutopia in which a reformed and revived religion based on The Forward Movement (which was part of the Social Gospel Movement) has brought about the eutopia. Set in 1949. No denominations (5-6). Church provides free food and lodging for all who need it (23-24) as well as a library and reading rooms and space for art, education, and physical culture (25). No saloons (9).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Daybreak: A Romance of an Old World - James Cowan (1870-1943) (George H. Richmond, 1896)
Christian, egalitarian, anarchist, suburban eutopia set on Mars, which had gone through a history directly parallel to that of Earth. Garden-like cities. Science. No private property. Gender equality. Christ had revealed himself on Mars, and the Martians took him seriously. Much adventure. Improved nature and even horses are born tame.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. 2nd ed. New York: George H. Richmond, 1896.
Keywords: Male author; US author

From World to World. A Novel - D[avid] L[eroy] Stump (World to World Publishing Company, 1896)
Detailed eutopia. Cooperative system. No money. Farming, manufacturing and distribution, and childcare discussed in detail. A sequel, A Romance of Two Planets. A Sequel to From World to World was scheduled to have been published in May 1897 by World to World Publishing. It either was not published or no copies survive. See also 1913 Stump.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation" - Graul, Rosa (Lucifer, the Light Bearer, 1896)
Eutopia of a successful communal home. Mothers are free to choose the fathers of their children. Women are taught the skills needed for motherhood. The "Publisher's Preface" to the book describes the author as "a poor, hardworking, unlettered woman" (ii).  See Joan E. Passet, “Reading ‘Hilda’s Home’: Gender, Print Culture, and the Dissemination of Utopian Thought in Late-Nineteenth-Century America.” Libraries and Culture 40.3 (Summer 2005): 307-23.
Rpt. rev. Chicago, IL: Moses Harman, 1899. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 194-204 with an editor’s note on 192-93. Different selections rpt. in Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction By United States Woman Before 1950. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler. 2nd ed. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 111-24.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"In His Steps. 'What Would Jesus Do?'" - Charles M[onroe] Sheldon (1857-1946) (Advance, 1896)
World changed by each person asking the question in the title before acting. See also 1913-14 Sheldon. Non-utopian sequels by Sheldon are In His Steps To-day: WHAT WOULD JESUS DO In Solving the Problems of Present Political, Economic and Social Life? New York: Fleming H. Revell, 1921; and In His Steps Today. Elgin, IL: David C. Cook, [1928].
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Advance Publishing Company, [1897]; and New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1935]. An ed. that reproduced most of the Advance series was published ed. John W. Ripley. Topeka, KS: Shawnee County Historical Society, 1967. A comic book version is Al Hartley, In His Steps. Old Tappan, NJ: Fleming H. Revell, 1977. Spire Christian Comics. A graphic novel version is Martin Powell. In His Steps. Based on the Novel by Charles M. Sheldon. New York: Marvel Comics, 1994.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Industrial Army - Fayette Stratton Giles (1842-97) (Baker and Taylor, 1896)
Detailed exposition of 1888 Bellamy's Industrial Army.
Keywords: Male author; US author

It Might Be: A Story of the Future Progress of the Sciences, The Wonderful Advancement in the Methods of Government and the Happy State of the People - H[erbert] E. Swan (H.E. Swan, 1896)
Technological eutopia. Machine-governed eutopia. Government buys and sells goods and guarantees quality. Restricted immigration.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Outland Journey - Walter Leon Sawyer (1862-1915) (Copeland and Day, 1896)
Children’s book that tells the story of a boy who visits a fairyland that is a satire on capitalism. All the fairies must work constantly.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Prophetic Romance; Mars to Earth - [John] [McCoy] (1857-1924) (Arena Publishing Company, 1896)
Eutopia brought about by votes for women. Rule by those especially trained for job but elected. All laws must be approved by the people (102-103). Essentially socialist. Paternalistic. Technologically advanced. Eugenics. Stress of health, and children are taught correct “eating, sleeping, drinking, exercising, and in toil, mental and physical, constant regard is had to getting the most and best out of life” (212).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Sixteenth Amendment - [Stephen Henry] [Emmens] (G. W. Dillingham, 1896)
Founding of the Legion of Labor which is similar to 1888 Bellamy’s Industrial Army. Under this system everyone will be able to exchange their “labor for a sufficiency of food, clothing, shelter and enjoyment” (83). There will still be private property. Plans to clear slums by moving the people to rural areas. The entire amendment is given on 221-29.
Keywords: Male author; UK author; US author

The Time Is Coming - W[illiam] B[revoort] Bolmer (1845-97) (G.W. Dillingham, 1896)
The novel focuses on the struggle for a reformed Christianity that is mostly a critique of the Christianity as it existed at the time. A religious revival led by the returned prophet Elijah aims at the fusion of Judaism and Christianity and a Jewish state in Palestine. There have been technological advances, but these are incidental to the novel. Within the novel, reform is defeated but hope is held out for the future.
Keywords: Male author; US author

“Utopia in a Nutshell” - [William Dwight Porter] [Bliss] (1856-1926) (American Fabian, 1896)
Brief Christian socialist eutopia set in Boston in 1946. Municipalization of most services, which are all free and paid for from the profits of the city-owned electric company. Six-hour workday five days a week. No work on Sunday with clergy working regular jobs. The author was a well-known Christian socialist minister, initially Congregational, then Episcopalian.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Altruria - Titus K[eiper] Smith (b 1859) (Altruria Publishing Company, 1895)
A Christian intentional community based on cooperation spreads around United States, creating a eutopia. Federal system. Annual elections. Referenda on all important issues. Technologically advanced. Those doing lighter work receive lower pay. See also 1932 Smith.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World - Castello N[ewton] Holford (1845-1905) (Arena Publishing Company, 1895)
Eutopia describing an alternative settlement of the Americas. The author says that it is based on More’s Utopia (88-92), but there are few similarities. The eutopia is based on Ralph Morton, one of the settlers of Jamestown, discovering a large gold deposit. Hiding his discovery from other settlers, he purchased land around the deposit and establishes a new colony that he names Mortonia (later changed to Aristopia) and appoints himself Governor for Life. He is presented as a benevolent dictator. Concerned to keep people from enriching themselves at the expense of others. Therefore, except for Morton, there is no private ownership of land, but land could be leased for a period of time determined by Morton. All buying and selling through public bodies and stores. Abolished primogeniture; limited inheritance. All roads and bridges public property. Laws proposed by an elected Congress but had to be approved by Morton. Widows over 30 could vote; women over 20 could vote for school officials. Reforming of criminals. Compulsory public education. Ultimately Aristopia comes to incorporate the rest of the U.S. and Canada.
Available as an audiobook at https://librivox.org/search?title=Aristopia%3A+A+Romance-History+of+the+New+World&author=HOLFORD&reader=&keywords=&genre_id=0&status=all&project_type=either&recorded_language=&sort_order=catalog_date&search_page=1&search_form=advanced.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Better World - E. B. Southwick (Truth Seeker Publishing Company, 1895)
Extraordinarily detailed eutopia in which the goal of life is happiness for all. The society was founded by women. Women are smarter than men and are generally the leaders, but men and women look and dress alike and are equally strong.
Keywords: US author

"A Brief History of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1895)
An incomplete history of a eutopia introduced in 1895 Walker.  Most of the story is concerned with the dystopian capitalist system that preceded the eutopia, which is led by intelligent, moral men who are dedicated to the interest of the society as a whole. Industry efficiently organized for use rather than profit.
Keywords: Male author; US author

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

The City of Endeavor: A Religious Novel devoted to the interests of Good Citizenship in the City of Brooklyn - Harold McGill Davis (Collins & Day, 1895)
Christian Endeavorists, a movement in which people strive to be good Christians, takes hold in Brooklyn, and transforms the city. Stress on prohibition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Coming Revolution - Henry L[aurens] Call (1867-1917) (Arena Publishing Co., 1895)
The book is primarily a critique of the existing system with one chapter presenting “The New Republic” (206-19) in which there will be no extremely rich or inheritance, which will result in the establishment of an equality of opportunity, no monopoly in land, government banking, publicly owned transportation and utilities, no speculation or trusts, and democratic government
Rpt. New York: Lovell Brothers, 1896.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Crankadom - Maud Daws (Jacob North & Co., Printers, 1895)
The novel describes a community established by self-described cranks, who create a eutopia in a fertile, isolated valley. The people re practicing Christians with no conflicts between Protestants and Catholics. Recruited the best “crank” teachers from around the U.S. and created an excellent educational system with a school in each district that boarded students.
Keywords: Female author; US author

"The Discovery of Altruria. Narrative of Sir Robert Horton" - [John Brisben?] [Walker] (1847-1931) (The Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1895)
Isolated eutopia established in 1641 in central Africa and called Virland. This story serves as the introduction to 1895-1896 Walker, which elaborates on the eutopia. Here there is mention of a rich country with many villages and two cities, advanced technology, and moral leaders.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Equalities of Para-Para, Written from the Dictation of George Rambler, M.D., F.R.G.S - Paul Haedicke (1852-1903) (The Schuldt-Gathmann Company, 1895)
Anti-union satire describing a country in which everyone is made equal in all things by disfiguring the favored. For example, everyone is bald. Exactly the same amount of food and water to everyone at the same time each day. No personal possessions or private life. Life led publicly at all times, including having sex in public.
Keywords: German author; Male author; US author

Etidorhpa or The End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey as Communicated in Manuscript to Llewellyn Drury Who Promised to Print the Same, But Finally Evaded the Responsibility Which was Assumed by John Uri Lloyd - John Uri Lloyd (1849-1936) (Pub. by John Uri Lloyd, 1895)
Occult novel of a trip through the underworld. Etidorhpa is Aphrodite spelled backwards. Borderline but included by both Arthur O. Lewis, Utopian Literature in The Pennsylvania State University Libraries: A Selected Bibliography (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Libraries, 1984) 113; and Glenn Negley, Utopian Literature: A Bibliography with A Supplementary Listing of Works Influential in Utopian Thought (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1978), 85-86. According to Negley some editions have Etidorpha.
2nd ed. Cincinnati, OH: Robert Clarke Co., 1896. 11th ed. rev. and enl. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1901. Rpt. as part of the series Inspired Novels, no. A-3 (Summer 1962) Mundelin, IL: Palmer Publications, 1962, and Albuquerque, NM: Sun Publishing Co., 1976. This ed. rpt. New York: Pocket Books, 1978.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Forty Years With the Damned; or, Life Inside the Earth - Charles Aikin ([Regan Printing House], 1895)
A eutopia inside the Earth discovered by a man and a woman escaping from slavery. In the eutopia, which had been established by Christ, everyone helps everyone else, but “It is a law of nature and the will of God that the black man serve the white; yet with us it is no servitude, neither is required of us if no one cares not to do it, there is no compulsion” (110). No politics, no commerce, and no death. There is, though, in addition, a brief depiction of Death, Sin, and the damned on their way to the Inferno.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Garden of Eden, U.S.A.: A Very Possible Story - W[illiam] H[enry] Bishop (Charles H. Kerr, 1895)
Eutopia with an emphasis on equality, particularly between men and women in North Carolina built by a wealthy man. Everyone one must work, but much work is mechanized. The author believes his Eden is possible, and there is an Appendix entitled "Why Not an Eden?" (357-69). A love story runs throughout the novel. No tobacco, no alcohol.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Great Social Boycott; or, Society Readjusted and the Causes Leading to its Establishment. This is a small Picture Gallery and your portrait hangs in it - A. B. Wilkes (Author, 1895)
Eutopia. A world without vice in 1905 brought about by women refusing to have anything to do with men who were in any way touched by vice. Complete gender equality: both men and women are bound by the same law of chastity.
Keywords: US author

The Inhabitants of Mars. Their Manners and Advancement in Civilization and Their Opinion of Us - Professor W[illis] Mitchell (C.E. Spofford & Co, 1895)
Eutopia of physical perfection, telepathy, and advanced technology. All food is manufactured, predigested, and delivered to homes in electric wagons. Can choose the gender of their children.  The author was a revivalist and a member of New England Evangelical Association, and much of the novel expresses his religious views through the Martian interpretation of Christianity.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Marshall Duke of Denver or The Labor Revolution of 1920. A Novel - [Ernest Hugh] [Fitzpatrick] (1863-1933) (Donohue and Henneberry Company, 1895)
Eutopia includes some reforms but mostly on the revolution to achieve the better society. Graduated income tax; tax on imported luxury items; free trade; government ownership of railroads and telegraph; municipal ownership of street railroads (201). All money replaced by script based on real estate (190-91). Standing army and a large navy. Capital punishment for murder a federal law.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Memorable Voyages of Rebel and Victory - Rev. A[lbert] B[arnes] King (1828-1914) (James H. Earle, 1895)
Bunyanesque Christian allegory with ships battling and visiting various countries.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Milltillionaire - [Albert Waldo] [Howard] (np, 1895)
Rational, scientific, statist eutopia established by a wealthy man. From 24 to 40 everyone must provide a minimum amount of labor.
Another ed. has subtitle or, Age of Bardization. Boston, MA: Author, 1898. Rpt. 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

"The Opening of the Chamber" - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (The King in Yellow, 1895)
After a series of conflicts and war with Germany, the United States has created a eutopian life, but the government begins to encourage suicide. No explanation is given.
Rpt. in The World's Shortest Stories: An Anthology. Ed. Richard G. Hubler (New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1961), 71-74.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Our Industrial Utopia and Its Unhappy Citizens - David Hilton Wheeler (1829-1902) (A.C. McClurg and Company, 1895)
Essay arguing that the United States is currently a eutopia although more free competition would make things even better.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Problem of Civilization Solved - Mary Elizabeth [Clyens] Lease (1850-1933) (Laird and Lee, 1895)
Eutopia but also racist. Tropical emigration by whites--". . . fifty million white families as planters on estates of 200 acres each, with three families of Negroes or Orientals as tillers of the soil" (17).
Keywords: Female author; US author

“The Repairer of Reputations” - Robert W[illiam] Chambers (1865-1933) (The King in Yellow, 1895)
The story begins with a detailed description of a eutopia set in 1920. The eutopia was brought about following the almost successful invasion of the U.S. by Germany. The country is prosperous, the cities are being systematically improved, as are the fine arts and the national park system. Religious toleration has been established. Voluntary euthanasia has been instituted. Elements of racism in that racial and ethnic problems have been solved by limiting immigration, expelling all foreign-born Jews, establishing a separate Negro state, and recruiting Indians into separate squadrons in the military. The story then shifts to the protagonist’s belief that he is the descendent of American royalty and that he is fated to rule.
Also, in Neely’s Prismatic Library (New York: F. Tennyson Neely, 1895), 9-54. Rpt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 1-44; and in Dystopia Utopia Short Stories: An Anthology of New & Classic Tales (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2016), 78-98.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Secret of Mankind With Some Singular Hints Gathered in the Elsewheres or After-Life, From Certain Eminent Personages As Also Some Brief Account of the Planet Mercury and Of Its Institutions - [Willis] [Brewer] (1844-1912) (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895)
The eutopia is on Mercury. Life is centered on the parish and in the parish on the communal hall, which is always open. Each hall has a library, museum, etc., and education takes place there through contact with educated people. Disputes are adjudicated there, contracts and marriages announced, plays performed, etc. Everyone works at a variety jobs. There are no taxes, no holidays, and estates vest in the parish on death. Only about 50% of the people marry. Marriage is seen as a partnership of equals and divorce is easy and frequent.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The State of Medicine in the Year 1945" - Albert Abrams (1863-1924) (Transactions of the Antiseptic Club Reported by Albert Abrams, A Member of the San Francisco Medical Profession, 1895)
Satire. Capsule food has eliminated most disease. The number of physicians limited by law. Prevention of illness was the responsibility of one group of doctors; another group consulted in cases of severe illness; another castrated those guilty of crimes (no capital punishment); and another practiced euthanasia when the illness was incurable. Novels included ads.
Rpt. (New York: E.B. Treat, 1902), 179-205.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Uncle Sam's" Cabins. A Story of American Life Looking Forward a Century - Benjamin Rush Davenport (The Mascot Publishing Company, 1895)
The novel begins in 1994 in a dystopia in which the military is used to control the poor and the poor are then enslaved. The U.S. produces very little that can be exported; an import tax supports the government and makes imported goods expensive. The U.S. has adopted primogeniture, and estates go to the eldest son. The solution, in about 2014, is to abolish serfdom, re-establish the original U.S. Constitution, and become a free trade nation.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Who Wrote It? A Cabinet Meeting" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Impress (San Francisco, CA), 1895)
Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Edward Bellamy, shows the leaders of a future eutopian society deciding how to make their society better. The President and many members of the Cabinet are women.
Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (January 12, 1895): 3; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 329-30.
Keywords: Female author; US author

'2894'; or, The Fossil Man (A Mid-Winter Night's Dream) - Walter Browne (G.W. Dillingham, 1894)
Gender-role reversal. Technology.
Keywords: Male author; US author

'96; A Romance of Utopia, Presenting a Solution to the Labor Problem, A New God and A New Religion - Frank Rosewater (1856-1934) (The Utopia Company, 1894)
Dystopia and eutopia. Three imaginary countries are presented: Lukka, a capitalist dystopia in which commerce is worshipped; Utopia, a communal system based on the labor theory of value; and a transformed United States of the period 1896-1930 also based on the labor theory of value and the success of the Free Labor Party. See also 1908 (2), 1917, 1920, and 1925 Rosewater.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. Also entitled Utopia; A Romance of Today Presenting a Solution to the Labor Problem, A New God and A New Religion. New York: F.T. Neely, 1897.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Dashed Against the Rocks: A Romance of the Coming Age - William [Wilberforce] J[uvenal] Colville (1862-1917) (Colby & Rich, 1894)
Spiritualism including a briefly described eutopia on Mars. The chief representatives of the twelve districts of Mars are twelve married couples who legislated with no strife. Martians cooperate for the good of all. Mars is scientifically advanced, and it is also religious in that they have knowledge of God.
Keywords: Male author; US author

From Earth's Center. A Polar Gateway Message - S. Byron Welcome (1861-1948) (Charles H. Kerr, 1894)
Decentralized capitalist eutopia with a tax of land values. The President is chosen by Congress.
Rpt. Chicago, IL: Charles H. Kerr, 1895.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Human Drift - King Camp Gillette (1855-1932) (New Era Publishing Company, 1894)
Eutopia brought about by founding a gigantic corporation which gradually absorbs the whole world economy. The book includes a number of plates showing the city and buildings. See also 1910 and 1924 Gillette and his The Ballot Box. Brookline, MA: Author, 1897. https://ia800503.us.archive.org/23/items/ballotbox00gill/ballotbox00gill.pdf. The author invented the safety razor.
A second issue with minor revisions (see page xxi in Roemer’s introduction to the Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints edition). Twentieth Century Library (January 1895). New York: The Humboldt Publishing Co., 1895. Rpt. as The Human Drift (1894). Delmar, NY: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 1976, with an Introduction by Kenneth M. Roemer (iii-xxiii).
Keywords: Male author; US author

"If Jesus Came to Boston" - Edward Everett Hale (1822-1909) (New England Magazine, 1894)
A response to 1894 Stead, If Christ Came to Chicago! in which Hale presents a Boston so much better than the reality in supporting immigrants and the poor, that it can only be called a eutopia based on charity and welfare. See also M.W. Howard's If Christ Came to Congress.  Washington ,  DC : Author, 1894; Howard, What Christ Saw: Sequel to “If Christ Came to Congress”. [Washington, DC]: Author, 1897; and Richard Marsh's A Second Coming. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, 1900, which present contemporary reactions to a supposed Second Coming.
Also published as a book. Boston, MA: J. Stilman Smith & Co., 1894. Rpt. Boston, MA: Lamson, Wolffe, 1895.
Keywords: Male author; US author

In the China Sea - Seward W[ashington] Hopkins (1864-1919) (Robert Bonner's Sons, 1894)
Eutopia and dystopia. Island of Talmooch in the China Sea. In the past it had been a eutopia with an elected monarch, peace and prosperity with no great differences of income, and low taxes. Naturally moral. The Chinese take over and create a dystopia. The Chinese are then overthrown.
Rpt. as A Chase for Love; or, In the China Sea. New York: Street & Smith, 1894.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Journey in Other Worlds: A Romance of the Future - John Jacob Astor [IV] (1864-1912) (D. Appleton, 1894)
Eutopia. Set in 2000 AD. The novel is mostly concerned with a journey to Jupiter and Saturn. Jupiter is essentially a prehistoric planet inhabited by dinosaurs. Saturn is inhabited by the spirits of the Earth's dead, who are waiting for the Second Coming. The eutopia on earth is one in which electricity does all the work. Canada and South America have joined the U.S.
Rpt. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Journey to Mars. The Wonderful World: Its Beauty and Splendor; Its Mighty Races and Kingdoms; Its Final Doom - Gustavus W[illiam] Pope M.D. (1828-1902) (G.W. Dillingham, 1894)
Eutopia but much of the novel is an adventure story. There is a linear city that is 2,000 miles long and 20 miles wide with a population of twenty-five million and eleven other slightly smaller linear cities. Universal language. One religion. Highly advanced technically and artistically. Monarchy with some living in luxury. There is differential wealth but no poverty. Three peoples with red, yellow, or blue skin color who are all equal. Pluto was once inhabited, and a few Plutonians survive on Mars.
Rpt. Westport, CT: Hyperion Press, 1974.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Labor As Money: A Story With a Purpose. Presenting a Practical, Automatic Currency of Stationary Value, Contracting and Relaxing According to the Demands of the Country for Exchange - John O[tho] Yeiser (1866-1928) (Arena Publishing Co, 1894)
Economic novel that includes a proposal for Labor Certificates replacing U.S. currency that is expected to lead to a eutopia. The Appendix (202-12) includes the proposed legislation.
Versions of the same argument were made in Automated Elastic Currency. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1915; Exp. as My Country! My Congress! Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1917. 69 pp.; and Debts of Today and Hell To Pay. Illus. Maps. Omaha, NB: National Magazine Association, 1918. 88 pp. An extract had been published in Successful Farming (Des Moines, IA) (February - March 1915).
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Land of the Changing Sun - Will[iam] N[athaniel Harben (1858-1919) (Merriam Company, 1894)
Lost race novel set inside the Earth. On the whole the society is presented positively and can be considered a technological utopia. The exception to the positive presentation is that dissidents are banished to a barren waste and almost certain death. At the end a natural disaster threatens to destroy the society, and the people choose to become Christians, divide their wealth equally, and return to the surface.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1975.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Lords of Misrule; A Tale of Gods and of Men - William C[urtis] Pomeroy (Laird and Lee, 1894)
A series of future dystopias. The excesses of capitalism are replaced by the excesses of state socialism, which collapses into simple rule by violence. Suggests that the United States in the 1890s was a eutopia.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Man and His Soul: An Occult Romance of Washington Life - T[heron] C[lark] Crawford, K.C. (Charles B. Reed, 1894)
Detailed eutopia. Stress on training for public life. On the Island of Nolos it is possible to see the ideal organization of life. Chapter XVII (166-71), “Picturing Ideal Possibilities of Our Future National Life,” describes the city of Washington. Chapter XVIII (172-83), “The Life of the Nation After Ideal Conditions Are Reached,” describes the noble profession of politics and the education provided for those planning on entering this profession, which includes travel to other countries, free mass education, including physical training, that is compulsory for the poor, with the children fed at need, every public building open 24 hours and usable as shelter by the poor, and the technological advances that provides free light and heat and food in liquid form but with exquisite taste at cost. Municipalities like companies with only property-owners having a say. Chapter XXII (213-22), “Showing the Future Government of Affairs in the United States,” describes, among other things, a Cabinet in which the highest post is that of Secretary of the Public Welfare, followed by the Secretary of the Liberal Arts. Other cabinet officers are the secretaries of Labor, Commerce, and Spiritual Development. In Chapter XXVIII (223-34) “The ideal President holds a conversation with the real President of the United States.”
Keywords: Male author; US author

“No Mean City” - Henry Demarest Lloyd (1847-1903) (In his Mazzini, and Other Essays, 1894)
The White City from the World’s Fair Columbian: Exposition in Chicago in 1893 is recreated and in response Chicago eliminated pollution and more generally rebuilt its infrastructure to be compatible with the beauty of the White City. Many people moved out of Chicago and, since they had to return to the city to work, the electricity-based transportation system was radically improved on moved out of sight. Municipally owned utilities. Improved housing for workers. Improved personal relations. More gender equality, including the franchise. No child labor. The remaining problem, a large body of unemployed, was solved by building No Mean City based on the principles of the reformed Chicago. Its great success led to no one living in the old Chicago, which was replaced by a great park full of museums, universities, places of worship, theatres, libraries, and so forth.
Rpt. in Henry Demarest Lloyd’s Critiques of American Capitalism, 1881-1903. Ed. Alun Munslow and Owen R. Ashton (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1995), 133-46.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"One Thousand Dollars a Day" - Adeline Knapp (1860-1909) (One Thousand Dollars a Day. Studies in Practical Economics, 1894)
Satire on egalitarianism. When every man and woman in the U.S. over eighteen is given one thousand dollars a day, they all quit working. Disaster followed by the voluntary establishment of a labor exchange. Finally, even the bankers and capitalists decided to work.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Product-Sharing Village - Walter Thomas Mills M.A. (1856-1942) (Civic Letters Co, 1894)
Mostly on the contemporary situation but includes a proposal for the collective ownership of a village (land, houses, machinery) and the sharing by the workers of the products their labor. Christian. Six-hour day would leave leisure time for education for both men and women. Women enfranchised and all public policy questions put to a direct vote. Initiative and referendum available. Traditional families. See also 1904 Mills.
Keywords: US author

Rest - William W. Wheeler (Arena Publishing Co, 1894)
Eutopia based on 1888 Bellamy. Adam and Eve appear in Springfield, Massachusetts, Bellamy's hometown, having paid their full penalty. Mental control of the physical world.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Revolt of the----: A Page from the domestic history of the Twentieth Century" - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 1894)
Gender-role reversal satire.
Rpt. in When Women Rule. Ed. Sam[uel] Moskowitz (New York: Walker, 1972), 62-71.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

The Traveler from Altruria - William Dean Howells (1837-1920) (Harper and Bros., 1894)
This and its sequel (see 1907 Howells) depict first the troubles of the contemporary United States and then an arcadia. Simpler life. Cities gradually disappear. Home and family central to Altrurian life. No money. Christian. Altruria equals altruism.
Rpt. ed. David W. Levy. Boston, MA: Bedford Books of St. Martin’s Press, 1996. Parts, in a different version, were first published as “A Traveller from Altruria.” The Cosmopolitan: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine 14 - 15 (November 1892 - October 1893): 52-58, 251-56, 341-47, 495-500, 633-40, 697-705; 39-46, 249-56, 305-10, 449-56, 635-40, 738-49. This version rpt. in Letters of an Altrurian Traveller (1893-94). Ed. Clara M. Kirk and Rudolf Kirk. Gainesville, FL: Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, 1961. Critical ed. as The Altrurian Romances. Introduction and Notes to the Text by Clara and Rudolf Kirk. Text established by Scott Bennett (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1968), 5-179. An extract from the first story was published in Edward Bellamy’s The New Nation (Boston, MA) 2.48 (November 26, 1892): 701-02.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Trouble of Living Alone - F[rederick] B. Hofman (Arena Publishing Co, 1894)
Lost race eutopia. The novel begins with the hero spending five years in a Robinson Crusoe situation before being discovered by a community of fifty English-speaking people who are the descendants of three couples who had survived another shipwreck. They live a simple, Christian life that combines individuality (separate homes and gardens) and community of goods administered by people who have been popularly elected. They then visit another eutopia with a simple government, with all government business conducted in public, and modest and moral people. This system ultimately becomes world-wide assisted by means of rapid communication.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"Who Wrote It? Five Girls" - [Charlotte Perkins] [Gilman] (1860-1935) (The Impress (San Francisco), 1894)
Part of a series emulating various writers. This example, modeled on Louisa May Alcott, shows the establishment of a successful cooperative housekeeping arrangement.
Rpt. in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 82-86. Gilman's note on the story can be found in The Impress (December 8, 1894): 5; and in The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories. Ed. Robert Shulman (Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1995), 327.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Women's Conquest of New-York. Being an account of The Rise and Progress of the Women's Rights Movement; of the Grant of Female Suffrage; of the Formation of the Area League; of the Capture by the Women Voters of the Government of New York by the Election as Mayoress of Bridget O'Dowd; and the Season of Female Despotism which thereafter ensued, and which was ended by an appeal to Primitive Natural Law - [Thomas Allibone] [Janvier] (1849-1913) (Harper & Brothers, 1894)
Satire. Anti-women's rights. Anti-suffrage, Anti-Irish.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Young West; A Sequel to Edward Bellamy's Celebrated Novel, "Looking Backward" - Solomon Schindler (1842-1915) (Arena Publishing Company, 1894)
Education in Bellamy's world but including considerable detail in addition to that on education.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

An Apocalypse of Life - W[alter] T[homas] Cheney (b. 1859) (Arena Publishing Co, 1893)
Spiritual eutopia that will come after death experienced by a spirit who returns to Earth to teach Christ’s message, which is spelled out in a long chapter (165-231) with detailed references to the Bible and other notes. Little detail on the life after death, but there is a stress on intelligence and spirituality. There is no material eating or drinking, and there is a universal language of thought.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Building of the City Beautiful - [Cincinnatus Hiner] [Miller] (1837-1913) (Stone and Kimball, 1893)
Christian rural or small town eutopia.
3rd ed. Chicago, IL: Stone and Kimball, 1894. Rev. Trenton, NJ: Albert Brandt, 1905. A note in the 1905 ed. says that three small, partial eds. were published in 1894 and the plates melted. The first ed. was actually published December 10, 1893.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Cityless and Countryless World: An Outline of Practical Co-operative Individualism - Henry Olerich (1851-1927) (Gilmore and Olerich, 1893)
Eutopia. Detailed description of a complete society without traditional city-country divisions or families. Everyone lives in large apartment blocks holding about a thousand people where everyone has their own unit and with a common kitchen, nurseries, and other cooperative amenities. While these buildings cover the landscape and are connected by an elaborate system of roads and railroads, there is enough land between them that everyone has immediate access to green space. Each building is a productive unit and trade among the buildings ensures that each building has all it needs. The book includes a number of charts laying out the organization of the communities. See also 1915, 1923 and 1927 Olerich.
Rpt. Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Conversations Between the Rabbi of the Boarding House and a Company of Intelligent Ladies and Gentlemen. Being a Series of Conversational Discussions, Pro and Con of the Labor Problem, Monopolies and Trusts, Mission of Machinery, Tariff, Fads in Schools, Official Incompetency, Posthumous Benefices, Newspapers, Patent Laws, the Coming Millennium, Sabbath Observance, the Silver Question, Single Tax, Paternalism, Etc. Etc. - Hon. H[arry] H. Young (D. Ramaley & Son, 1893)
In the discussion, which is mostly critical, a picture of a better society emerges.The idea of a single tax on land, which is opposed here, originated with Henry George (1839-97). ). For Henry George's explanation of the single tax, see his Progress and Poverty. An Inquiry Into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and Of Increase of Want With Increase of Wealth. The Remedy. San Francisco, CA: W.M. Hinton, 1879. Fiftieth Anniversary Ed. New York: The Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, 1929.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Earth Revisited - Byron A[lden] Brooks (1845-1911) (Arena Publishing Company, 1893)
Eutopia set in 1992. Technology, cooperation, and no idleness. Four-hour workday. Moral training. Air travel. Cooperative bank. Cooperative housekeeping with groups of homes employing housekeepers together. The New York area now called Columbia and Manhattan is all offices with the people living in Westchester County.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Either, Or - Rudolph Leonhart (b. 1832) (Roller Printing Company, 1893)
Satire on the US with a cooperative eutopia at the end. Considerable emphasis on the evil of trusts. Politically Congress only proposes laws that must be approved by the people. Economically interest is held to three per cent, only high-quality goods are produced, people mostly buy local production, and everyone has good, well-paid jobs. Education required until eighteen, and after that people must pass exams to continue and be admitted to the professions.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"The Fear of It" - Robert Barr (1850-1912) (The Idler Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, 1893)
Story describing a religious community that believes so deeply in heaven that it welcomes death. Simple, austere life.
Rpt. in his The Face and the Mask (London: Hutchinson, 1894), 30-40. U.S. ed. (New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1895), 25-33.
Keywords: Canadian author; English author; Male author; US author

"I Love To Dream of an Ideal City" - Albert Kimsey Owen (1847-1916) (The New City (New York), 1893)
Dream of the Topolobampo community (founded 1886) in Mexico written near the end of the struggle to keep it going. Owen, who was the founder of the community, left it in 1893 and never returned. For more detail, see his Integral Co-operation: Its Practical Application. New York: John W. Lovell, 1885. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: Porcupine Press, 1975 with an introduction entitled "Cooperation and New City Planning" (unpaged) by Robert S. Fogarty and including a number of charts showing the layout of the proposed city.
Rev. ed. as A Dream of an Ideal City. London: Murdoch, [1897].
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Isle of Feminine - Charles E[lliot] Niswonger (Press of Brown Printing Co., 1893)
Gender-role reversal. Anti-feminist imaginary voyage.
Later ed. under the author's full name New York: G.W. Dillingham, 1894.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"John Smith" - [Ambrose Gwinett] [Bierce] (1842-1914?) (Fun, 1893)
Utopian satire. The future has a very inaccurate version of the past. Refers to the current Smithocratic form of government, but it is never clarified beyond being a monarchy. Democracy is considered an odd aspect of the past together with women being free.
Rpt. as "John Smith, Liberator (From a Newspaper of the Far Future)." The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce. Volume 1 (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1909), 215-22. Rpt. (New York: Gordian Press, 1966), 1: 215-22; and in The Fall of the Republic and Other Political Satires. Ed. S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000), 88-90.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"June, 1993" - Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934) (The Cosmopolitan: a Monthly Illustrated Magazine, 1893)
Satire and eutopia. The satire focuses on the "sleeper awakes" form that was so popular at the time. The eutopia is based on advanced technology that allows people to live at a distance from their work. This results in everyone living on a plot of land of about ten acres, with the disappearance of most cities. Both industry and cultural institutions are grouped into eight locations, four and four, throughout the country.
Rpt. in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 187-97.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Ke Whonkus People: A Story of the North Pole Country - John O. Greene (Vincent Publishing Co., 1893)
Mostly an adventure novel but includes a lost race eutopia at the North Pole. Religious freedom. Criminals cured. Need approval for marriage; must be mentally and physically fit, of good character, and have adequate financial resources. Phonetic language.  Free, compulsory education with free textbooks. Says that mass education will eliminate superstition.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A League of Justice or Is It Right To Rob Robbers? - Morrison I[saac] Swift (1856-1946) (The Commonwealth Society, 1893)
Eutopia. A league of men who take from the rich and give to the poor gradually transform society. Start a free newspaper (first monthly, then weekly, then daily) in all the major languages of the world. Attack lawyers, abolish political parties, improve education, and bring about a revolution. See also 1903 and 1911 Swift, his Vicarious Philanthropy. [New York: np, 18?], and his The Evil Religion Does. Boston, MA: The Liberty Press, 1917.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Looking Within. The Misleading Tendencies of "Looking Backward" Made Manifest - J[ohn] W. Roberts (1824-1900) (A.S. Barnes, 1893)
Anti-utopia written against 1888 Bellamy. Life in Bellamy's Boston shown in an unfavorable light, with inequality, alcoholism, and violence common. People shirk work whenever possible.
Rpt. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Mary Anne Carew: Wife, Mother, Spirit, Angel - Carlyle Petersilea (1844-1903) (Colby and Rich, 1893)
Domestic heaven. Spiritualism. Reflects the ideas of Emanuel Swedenborg (1668-1772).
U.K. ed. London: James Burns, Progressive Library, 1893.
Keywords: Male author; US author

"A Message from the Stars" - Fred H[arvey] Brown (One Dollar's Worth, 1893)
Religious, technological eutopia. Stress on intelligence; after death the spirit joins only those of the same level of intelligence. Women will soon rule earth due to their superiority.
Keywords: Male author; US author

The Revolt of the Brutes. A Fantasy of the Chicago Fair - Hyland C[lare] Kirk (1846-1917) (Charles T. Dillingham, 1893)
The "brutes" [animals] meet in Chicago at the time of the Columbian Exposition to decide whether or not to destroy humankind in retaliation for its treatment of animals. It decides to and appear to be succeeding, but it turns out to be a dream.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Salome Shepard, Reformer - Helen M[aria] Winslow (1851-1938) (Arena Publishing Co, 1893)
Factory reform led by a wealthy young women transforms a town into a Christian Socialist eutopia. She starts by recognizing the union, builds a boarding house with for the young, unmarried workers, builds better houses for the married workers, establishes activities, classes, and entertainment intended to both provide education and training and alternatives to the taverns. She also established a profit-sharing system so that the workers benefited from the mill’s success.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Shadows Before or a Century Onward - Fayette Stratton Giles (1842-97) (No. 57 of The Twentieth Century Library, 1893)
Eutopia presented as a prediction. Capitalist with free trade among all “civilized nations, all of which are republics. Servants. No religion. Doctors paid to prevent disease, and they are not paid when their patients are sick. Technologically advanced.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Sub-Coelum: A Sky-Built Human World - A[ddison] P[eale] Russell (Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1893)
Eutopia. Emphasis on self-control and moderation to the extent that the people don't even snore. "To gain the mastery over themselves, by studying and practicing moderation, self-control, and humanity, was the prime of all personal and organized effort" (10).
Keywords: Male author; US author

Unveiling a Parallel: A Romance - [Alice Ilgenfritz] [Jones] (1846-1906); [Ella] [Merchant] (1846-1906) (Arena Publishing Company, 1893)
Eutopia stressing equality between men and women.
Rpt. ed. Carol A. Kolmerten. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1991. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 157-75 with an editor’s note on 155-56. Chapter 3 “The Aurora’s Annual” rpt. with Merchant’s name misspelled as Marchant (her husband was Lorenzo Stoddard Merchant) in The Book of Mars: An Anthology of Fact and Fiction. Ed. Stuart Clark (London: London: Head of Zeus/Apollo/Bloomsbury, 2022), 18-27.
Keywords: Female author; US author

["A Vision"] - B[enjamin] O[range] Flower (1858-1918) (Civilization's Inferno, or, Studies in the Social Cellar, 1893)
Short sketch which contrasts the horrors of present poverty, which is the focus of the book, with a brief vision of a eutopian future with a much-improved Boston with large apartment blocks that have many social amenities and large halls with a gymnasium, restaurants with “plain food at reasonable prices” (220), free reading rooms and lecture halls, a free night school, beautiful homes for orphans set in parks with excellent education, including learning a trade. All special privileges and laws favoring the upper classes have been abolished.
Keywords: Male author; US author

A Witch of the Nineteenth Century - W[illiam] P. Phelon M.D. (1834-1902) (The Hermetic Publishing Co., 1893)
Mostly spiritualism, but the novel contains a brief description of an underground eutopia that will be created by those advanced spiritually. It is also technologically advanced.
Keywords: English author; Male author; US author

Ai. A Social Vision - Charles [S.] Daniel (Miller Publication Company, 1892)
The beginnings of a eutopia set in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which the better society is brought about through cooperation, Christianity, and brotherhood with a stress on the need to recognize interdependence. The hero is a layman who becomes a Roman Catholic Bishop and leads a community to reform itself with the assistance of a number of wealthy people and people of other faiths. The need to stop the worst people from having children is mentioned. Chapter XVI is labelled "Suppressed" and consists entirely of an *, and Chapter XXIII is a page of nonsense words.
Rpt. Boston, MA: Arena, 1893; and New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971.
Keywords: Male author; US author

Al-Modad; or, Life Scenes Beyond the Polar Circumflex. A Religio-Scientific Solution of the Problems of Present and Future Life - [M. Louise] [Moore] (M.L. Moore and M. Beauchamp, 1892)
Includes a detailed cooperative eutopia with an emphasis on education. No government, no money. Large cooperative homes with art and music studies and so forth and lots of parks. One society forgot religion and degenerated.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

As It Is To Be - Cora Linn [Morrison] Daniels (b. 1852) (Pub. by the Author, 1892)
Heaven as eutopia described by a soul in Heaven to an individual on Earth. The beings in Heaven are spiritual and can experience whatever they will to experience. They do not have bodies in the way people on Earth do.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

The Dream Child - Florence [Chance] Huntley (Arena Publishing Co, 1892)
Heaven as eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

San Salvador - Mary Agnes Tincker (1831-1907) (Houghton Mifflin, 1892)
Very small, Christian, aristocratic eutopia in a hidden valley. Garden-like. Stress on personal character, and morals.
Keywords: Female author; US author

The Sex Revolution - Lois [Nichols] Waisbrooker (1826-1909) (Purdy, 1892)
Written in response to George Noyes Miller’s The Strike of a Sex (1890) in which women go on strike for “ownership over our person,” specifically control of maternity, with the action taking place after the successful revolution. Even though the strike was successful, men still make war, and the women say that if men go to war, the women will go with them. The ending suggests the possible that the better society brought about by the strike can be made even better, but it is all a dream. There is no mention of Miller’s After the Strike of a Sex (1891), which mostly describes the Oneida Community as eutopian. Her Nothing Like It: Or, Steps to the Kingdom. Boston, MA: Rich & Colby, 1875; rpt. New York: Murray Hill Publishing, 1875. 336 pp. has a dream sequence (234-37) that depicts the situation of women as chained by the state unless chosen by a man and chained to him plus some free women who are despised by all but desired by the men. And her The Wherefore Investigating Company. Topeka, KS: Independent Pub. Co., 1894. 313 pp. is an economic novel on the problems of the time that presents the control of land as the central economic problem.
2nd ed. Topeka, KS: Independent Publishing, Co., 1894. Rpt. Philadelphia, PA: New Society Publishers, 1985, with an “Introduction: Women in the Lead: Waisbrooker’s Way to Peace” (1-52) by Pam McAllister. Selections rpt. in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 178-91 with an editor’s note on 176-77.
Keywords: Female author; US author

Soulless Saints: A Strange Revelation - Bailey Kay Leach (American Publishing Co, 1892)
Satire using an imaginary country called Konko. The satire is based on religion but is extended to "society", politics, economics, and most other human institutions.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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

As It Is In Heaven - Lucy Larcom (1824-93) (Houghton, Mifflin and Co, 1891)
Heaven as eutopia.
Keywords: Female author; US author

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

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

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

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