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A small collection of 19th century utopian fiction

19th century utopian novels by women

A small collection of 19th/20th century utopian fiction.

This collection was part of the research material for the interactive fiction story, Harmonia and is the subject of an article on early women's utopian fiction.

Contributions, corrections, and proofed new editions are very welcome; please issue a pull request against one of the Markdown files.

Installation

Requires:

  • pandoc to generate the HTML and EPUB output
  • epubcheck (optional) to validate the EPUB output

MacOS

Install brew and run brew bundle.

The current collection:

  • Three Hundred Years Hence by Mary Griffith (1836)
  • ArQtiQ by Anna Adolph (1899)
  • Mizora by Mary E. Bradley Lane (1889)
  • Moving the Mountain by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1911)
  • The Republic of the Future by Anna Bowman Dodd (1887)
  • Unveiling a Parallel by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant (1893)