[Gutenberg 24750] • Mizora: A Prophecy / A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch

[Gutenberg 24750] • Mizora: A Prophecy / A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch
Authors
Lane, Mary E. Bradley
Publisher
Bison Books
Tags
science fiction , women -- fiction , utopian fiction , classics , utopias -- fiction , feminist fiction , fantasy
ISBN
9780803279926
Date
1889-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.16 MB
Lang
en
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What would happen to our culture if men ceased to exist? Mary E. Bradley Lane explores this question in *Mizora* , the first known feminist utopian novel written by a woman. Vera Zarovitch is a Russian noblewoman—heroic, outspoken, and determined. A political exile in Siberia, she escapes and flees north, eventually finding herself, adrift and exhausted, on a strange sea at the North Pole. Crossing a barrier of mist and brilliant light, Zarovitch is swept into the enchanted, inner world of Mizora. A haven of music, peace, universal education, and beneficial, advanced technology, Mizora is a world of women.

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* Mizora* appeared anonymously in the *Cincinnati Commercial* in 1880 and 1881. Mary E. Bradley Lane concealed from her husband her role in writing the controversial story.