"Sequel to the 'Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century'"

1848 [Appleton, Jane Sophia] (1816-84). “Sequel to the ‘Vision of Bangor in the Twentieth Century’.” In Voices from the Kenduskeag (Bangor, ME: David Bugbee, 1848), 243-65. The PSt copy has many of the authors identified. Rpt. in American Utopias: Selected Short Fiction. Ed. Arthur O. Lewis, Jr. New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1971. All items separately paged; and in Daring To Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919. Ed. Carol Farley Kessler (London: Pandora Press, 1984), 49-64 with an editor’s note on 49. Sales on the book were to support the Bangor Female Orphan Asylum. Appleton has been identified as the editor, but the contemporary notes suggest that it may have been edited by Mrs. Cornelia C. Barrett. MoU-St, PSt, W1,39

Eutopia written in response to 1848 Kent. Women are no longer dependent on men. Whether to marry or not is a free choice. Women have equal rights and opportunities. Women participate fully in the intellectual life of the community. Female author.