The Demetrian

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Title	The Demetrian
Year for Search	1907
Authors	[Kelly], [Edmond](1851-1909)
Tertiary Authors	Harding, Ellison [pseud.]
Pagination	315 pp.
Date Published	1907
Publisher	Brentano's
Place Published	New York
Keywords	Male author, US author
Annotation	Romance and adventure set in a collectivist eutopia with problems in 2004. All land owned by the state. No city versus country division; people changed residences from time to time and do physical as well as mental labor. Classical Greek culture plus Christianity. Political parties organized around principles with the main parties being the conservatives who support the current system and the radicals who want to reestablish private property. Eugenics. The novel focuses on the love between a man and a woman who had been “selected” to marry someone chosen by the Cult of Demeter, the consequences of which brought about violence and almost a revolution. The author also wrote Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not, What It Is, and How It May Come. Ed. Florence Kelly. New York: Longman, Green, 1910. In the section “What Socialism Is” (202-411) describes in detail the utopia that socialism could become including a lengthy discussion of the Farm Colonies (263-277) that play an important role in Demetrian. The author was a lawyer who spent most of his life in Europe and was, at his death, Lecturer on Municipal Government at Columbia University. Shortly before his death, he was planning to join Upton Sinclair’s (1878-1968) Helicon Hall community in New Jersey. The Penn State copy includes a photocopy of an excerpt from the chapter on Kelly in James Gilbert, “Edmond Kelly and the Socialism of Order.” Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 (Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 125-158, 301-303.
Additional Publishers	UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Info Notes	The Penn State copy includes a photocopy of an excerpt from the chapter on Kelly in James Gilbert, “Edmond Kelly and the Socialism of Order.” Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 (Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 125-158, 301-303.
Title Note	UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908.
Pseudonym	Ellison Harding [pseud.]
Holding Institutions	L, MoU-St, PSt
Author Note	The author (1851-1909) was a lawyer who spent most of his life in Europe and was, at his death, Lecturer on Municipal Government at Columbia University. Shortly before his death, he was planning to join Upton Sinclair’s (1878-1968) Helicon Hall community in New Jersey.
Full Text	1907 [Kelly, Edmond] (1851-1909). The Demetrian. By Ellison Harding [pseud.]. New York: Brentano’s. 315 pp. UK ed. entitled The Woman Who Vowed. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1908. L, MoU-St, PSt Romance and adventure set in a collectivist eutopia with problems in 2004. All land owned by the state. No city versus country division; people changed residences from time to time and do physical as well as mental labor. Classical Greek culture plus Christianity. Political parties organized around principles with the main parties being the conservatives who support the current system and the radicals who want to reestablish private property. Eugenics. The novel focuses on the love between a man and a woman who had been “selected” to marry someone chosen by the Cult of Demeter, the consequences of which brought about violence and almost a revolution. The author also wrote Twentieth Century Socialism: What It Is Not, What It Is, and How It May Come. Ed. Florence Kelly. New York: Longman, Green, 1910. In the section “What Socialism Is” (202-411) describes in detail the utopia that socialism could become including a lengthy discussion of the Farm Colonies (263-277) that play an important role in Demetrian. The author was a lawyer who spent most of his life in Europe and was, at his death, Lecturer on Municipal Government at Columbia University. Shortly before his death, he was planning to join Upton Sinclair’s (1878-1968) Helicon Hall community in New Jersey. The Penn State copy includes a photocopy of an excerpt from the chapter on Kelly in James Gilbert, “Edmond Kelly and the Socialism of Order.” Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in American, 1880-1940 (Chicago, IL: Quadrangle Books, 1972), 125-158, 301-303.