"Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation"

Title"Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation"
Year for Search1896
AuthorsGraul, Rosa
Secondary TitleLucifer, the Light Bearer
Volume / Edition ns 13.3 - 3rd ser. 1.48 (whole nos. 613 - 87) [except ns 13.24 - 26]
PaginationSee Full text
Date PublishedJune 26, 1896 – December 1, 1897 [except November 20 - December 4, 1896]
KeywordsFemale author, US author
Annotation

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. 

Additional Publishers

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. 

Info Notes

Following this throughout the rest of 1897, all of 1898, and to April 1899 Lucifer includes discussion of the novel and agitation to get it published as a book.

Holding Institutions

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Author Note

Female author.

Full Text

1896-97 Graul, Rosa. “Hilda’s Home: A Story of Woman’s Emancipation.” Lucifer, the Light Bearer, ns 13.3 – 3rd ser. 1.48 (whole nos. 613 - 87) (June 26, 1896 – December 1, 1897) [except ns 13.24 - 26 (November 20 - December 4, 1896)]: 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 4, 3-4, 3, 3-4, 3-4, 3-4, 3, 3-4, 3-4, 3, 7-8]; 31-32, 38-39, 45-47, 55-56, 61-63, 71-72, 78-79, 86-87, 94-95, 103-04, 118-19, 126-27; 14-135, 141-43, 150-51, 166-67, 174-75, 182-84, 190-91, 197-99, 206-07, 214-15, 222-23, 230-31, 237-38, 246-47, 253-55, 262-63, 270-71, 286-87, 294-95, 302-04, 311, 319-20, 326-27, 334, 341-42, 350-51, 358-59, 365-66, 374-75, 381-82. Following this throughout the rest of 1897, all of 1898, and to April 1899 Lucifer includes discussion of the novel and agitation to get it published as a book. 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. PSt

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. Female author.