The Great State: Essays in Construction

1912 [Warwick, Francis Evelyn (1861-1938); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor; and H.G. Wells (1866-1946), eds.]. The Great State: Essays in Construction. By H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells (1866-1946), Francis Evelyn Warwick (1861-1938), L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, E. Ray Lankaster, C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes (1877-1949), Cecil Chesterton, Cicely [Mary] Hamilton (1875-1952), Roger Fry, G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, Conrad Noel, Herbert Trench, Hugh P. Vowles. London: Harper and Bros. U.S. ed. with the same pagination as Socialism and the Great State: Essays in Construction. New York: Harper & Bros., 1912. Includes H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “The Past and the Great State” (1-46), also published as “Socialism.” Harper’s Magazine 124.740 - 741 (January - February 1912): 197-204, 403-09; and as “The Great State.” In his An Englishman Looks at the World: Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters (London: Cassell and Co., 1914), 95-131; U.S. ed. as Social Forces in England and America (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1914), 112-54; rpt. in The Works of H.G. Wells Atlantic Edition. Volume XVIII The Passionate Friends. A Novel and Three Essays (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1926), 405-44. [Wells published many other utopias; see the Author Index for a list]; The Countess of Warwick (Frances Evelyn Warwick), “The Great State and the Country-side” (47-66), also published in The Fortnightly Review, ns 91 (March 1, 1912): 427-36; L[eo] G[eorge] Chiozza Money, “Work in the Great State” (67-119); Ray Lankester, “The Making of New Knowledge” (121-39); C[harles] J[ohn] Bond, “Health and Healing in the Great State” (141-80); E[dmund] S[idney] P[ollock] Haynes, “Law and the Great State” (181-94); Cecil Chesterton, “Democracy and the Great State” (195-218); Cicely [Mary] Hamilton, “Women in the Great State” (219-47); Roger Fry, “The Artist in the Great State” (249-72); G[eorge] R[obert] S[tirling] Taylor, “The Present Development of the Great State” (273-99); Conrad Noel, “A Picture of the Church in the Great State” (301-23), which, as fiction, is separately listed in this bibliography; Herbert Trench, “The Growth of the Great State” (325-56); and Hugh P. Vowles, “The Tradition of the Great State” (357-78). LLL, PSt, TxU

Essays by different authors describing aspects of a future eutopia. While they were written for this volume, they do not all agree with each other. Includes female authors.