"The Island of Progress"
Title | "The Island of Progress" |
Year for Search | 1893 |
Authors | Bramston, M[ary](b. 1841) |
Tertiary Authors | Bramston, M. |
Secondary Title | The Wild Lass of Estmere and Other Stories |
Pagination | 227-74 |
Date Published | 1893 |
Publisher | Seeley and Co. |
Place Published | London |
Keywords | Female author |
Annotation | Satire set five hundred years in the future. Equality, science, eugenics, and technology. The physical condition of the race is the highest good. Arranged marriages based on physical characteristics and character. Highly refined. Placid--a phlegmatic mind is best; having an imagination is bad. Criminals used in scientific experiments. Involuntary euthanasia. |
Holding Institutions | L |
Author Note | (b. 1841) |
Full Text | 1893 Bramston, M[ary] (b. 1841). “The Satire set five hundred years in the future. Equality, science, eugenics, and technology. The physical condition of the race is the highest good. Arranged marriages based on physical characteristics and character. Highly refined. Placid--a phlegmatic mind is best; having an imagination is bad. Criminals used in scientific experiments. Involuntary euthanasia. Female author. |