Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

Carol Farley Kessler

The Story of Avis

This study of American utopian fiction by women before 1950 includes exerpts from seven novels. This second edition presents a feminist revision of Edward Bellamy's influential Looking Backwards and ends with a World War II interplanetary women-centred fantasy.

Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950

Daring to Dream

Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before, 1950

Her Progress Toward Utopia, with Selected Writings

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The first section consists of 12 selections of feminist utopian fiction including Annie Denton Cridge's Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It, Charlotte Perkins Gilman's A Woman's Utopia, and Gertrude Short's A Visitor From Venus, some excerpted and some in their entirety. Includes an annotated bibliography of US women's utopian fiction from 1836 to 1988. First edition originally published as Daring to Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919 by Pandora Press of Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, in 1984. Paper edition (2655-X), $17.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950, Second Edition

Daring To Dream

Carol Farley Kessler

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