"Herland"

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Title"Herland"
Year for Search1915
Authors[Gilman], [Charlotte Perkins](1860-1935)
Secondary TitleThe Forerunner (New York)
Volume / Edition6
Pagination12-17, 38-44, 65-72, 94-100, 123-29, 150-55, 181-87, 207-13, 237-43, 265-70, 287-93, 319-25
Date PublishedJanuary - December 1915
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

Feminist eutopia on an island inhabited only by women and girl children. Stress on sisterhood. Parthenogenesis. Deep concern for the physical and mental health of the children and educating them appropriately. No poverty. No punishment, which has been replaced by treatment. There are strong environmental themes, but animals have been generally eliminated. The novel is told from the point of view of one of three men who discover Herland and marry three Herland women. See also the sequel 1916 Gilman. 
Additional Publishers

First book publication New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Utopian Novels: "Moving the Mountain," "Herland," and "With Her in Ourland". Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 150-269. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 189-99; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 229-41.
Info Notes

Gilman wrote many utopias; see also 1894, 1895, 1907, 1908, 1909-10, 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1916  Gilman “How They Were Denobled” and "A Surplus Woman."  
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Author Note

Female author (1860-1935).
Full Text

1915 [Gilman, Charlotte Perkins] (1860-1935). “Herland.” The Forerunner (New York) 6 (January - December 1915): 12-17, 38-44, 65-72, 94-100, 123-29, 150-55, 181-87, 207-13, 237-43, 265-70, 287-93, 319-25. First book publication New York: Pantheon Books, 1979. Serial rpt. in Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Utopian Novels: “Moving the Mountain,” “Herland,” and “With Her in Ourland”. Ed. Minna Doskow (Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1999), 150-269. Excerpts published in The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader. Ed. Ann J. Lane (New York: Pantheon Books, 1980), 189-99; and in Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia With Selected Writings (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), 229-41. PSt

Feminist eutopia on an island inhabited only by women and girl children. Stress on sisterhood. Parthenogenesis. Deep concern for the physical and mental health of the children and educating them appropriately. No poverty. No punishment, which has been replaced by treatment. There are strong environmental themes, but animals have been generally eliminated. The novel is told from the point of view of one of three men who discover Herland and marry three Herland women. See also the sequel 1916 Gilman. Female author.