"The Island of Progress"

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Title"The Island of Progress"
Year for Search1893
AuthorsBramston, M[ary Eliza](1841-1912)
Tertiary AuthorsBramston, M.
Secondary TitleThe Wild Lass of Estmere and Other Stories
Pagination227-274
Date Published1893
PublisherSeeley and Co.
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsEnglish author, Female author
Annotation

Satire set five hundred years in the future about a future based entirely on science. Equality, but gender roles are unchanged with men working outside the home and women in it, but without servants, 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 (245-246). Criminals used in scientific experiments (242). Involuntary euthanasia where Extinguishers “extinguish anyone whose existence is hurtful to the progress of the Race” (242). 
Info Notes

Book available at http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003337E
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Author Note

(b. 1841)
Full Text

1893 Bramston, M[ary Eliza] (1841-1912). “The Island of Progress.” In her The Wild Lass of Estmere and Other Stories (London: Seeley and Co., 1893), 227-274. Appeared originally in the Christmas number of an unidentified periodical. L, Book available at http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_00000003337E

Satire set five hundred years in the future about a future based entirely on science. Equality, but gender roles are unchanged with men working outside the home and women in it, but without servants, 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 (245-246). Criminals used in scientific experiments (242). Involuntary euthanasia where Extinguishers “extinguish anyone whose existence is hurtful to the progress of the Race” (242). Female author.