Mizora: A Prophecy.(Review)

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From: Utopian Studies
Date: 20010101
Author:Jacobs, Naomi

Mary E. Bradley Lane. Mizora: A Prophecy. Edited and with a critical introduction by Jean Pfaelzer. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP, 2000. xi + 147 pp. $9.00.

THIS NEW EDITION of Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora is a welcome addition to the list of textbooks available for courses on feminist utopias and nineteenth-century American utopias. Thought to be the "first significant all-female utopia written in the United States" (xi), Mizora is an important precursor to Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland, Sally Miller Gearhart's Wanderground, and other works envisioning worlds well-ruled by ...

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