TY - ABST T1 - "Jacob's Dream" Y1 - 1899 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Dystopia of a future in which corporations control the food supply and cut off England. 

JF - Cosmopolitan: A Monthly Illustrated Magazine VL - 26.3 N1 -

Rpt. in Temple Magazine (Silas K. Hocking’s Illustrated Monthly) 3 (December 1899): 202-11.

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Illus. H[enry] Pruett Share (1853-1905)

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Grant Allen [pseud.]

ER - TY - ABST T1 - “The Girl of the Future” Y1 - 1890 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

A satirical essay that criticizes the current marriage system as marriage for the man and prostitution for the woman as well as the new education for women that cultivated their brains but neglected their bodies and, specifically, ignored sex. He then suggests the eutopia that would be possible if women were fully emancipated and given the sort of education that would prepare them for motherhood, mentally and physically. 

JF - Universal Review VL - 7.25 U5 -

Hathi

ER - TY - ABST T1 - "The Child of the Phalanstery" Y1 - 1884 A1 - [Charles Grant Blairfindie] [Allen] (1848-99) KW - Canadian author KW - English author KW - Jamaican author KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Satire directed at Charles Fourier (1772-1837). Presents a Fourierist phalanx in dystopian terms.

JF - Belgravia VL - 54 N1 -

Rpt. in The New York Times (August 24, 1884): 10; in his Strange Stories (London: Chatto and Windus, 1884), 301-20; in his Twelve Tales, with a Headpiece, a Tailpiece, and An Intermezzo: Being Selected Stories (London: Grant Richards, 1899), 45-64; in his The Backslider (New York/London: Lewis Scribner, 1901), 313-42; and in Scientific Romance: An International Anthology of Pioneering Science Fiction. Ed. Brian M[ichael] Stableford (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2017), 92-107. 

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J. Arbuthnot Wilson [pseud.]

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DLC, L, PSt

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