A New Eden
| Title | A New Eden |
| Year for Search | 1896 |
| Authors | Acworth, Andrew |
| Date Published | [1896] |
| Publisher | Ward and Lock |
| Place Published | London |
| Keywords | Male author |
| Annotation | Dystopia and a flawed utopia set in 2096. The human race has degenerated mentally and lost the science and technology of the past. There is a small island established in 1896 that has no government but has laws handed down by custom that everyone obeys. It is presented as dull, and the people are without emotion. Work only from 20-40. Technologically advanced. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 3-79. Editor's notes, 1, 201-02. |
| Holding Institutions | L, O, PSt |
| Author Note | Claeys says “Possibly Andrew Acworth (b. 1858), barrister and conveyancer” (201). |
| Full Text | [1896] Acworth, Andrew. A New Eden. London: Ward and Lock. Rpt. in Late Victorian Utopias: A Prospectus. Ed. Gregory Claeys. 6 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 2009), 6: 3-79. Editor’s notes, 1, 201-02. L, O, PSt Dystopia and a flawed utopia set in 2096. The human race has degenerated mentally and lost the science and technology of the past. There is a small island established in 1896 that has no government but has laws handed down by custom that everyone obeys. It is presented as dull, and the people are without emotion. Work only from 20-40. Technologically advanced. Claeys says “Possibly Andrew Acworth (b. 1858), barrister and conveyancer” (201). |
