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An early feminist utopian novel, Mizora tells the story of a Russian noblewoman, Vera Zarovitch, who escapes from Sibera into Mizora, a hidden world of peace and happiness, run by (super)women. No men are in the world; women reproduce by parthenogenesis. It is explicitly racist. | An early feminist utopian novel, Mizora tells the story of a Russian noblewoman, Vera Zarovitch, who escapes from Sibera into Mizora, a hidden world of peace and happiness, run by (super)women. No men are in the world; women reproduce by parthenogenesis. It is explicitly racist. | ||
==Editions== | ==Editions== | ||
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* 1999: G. K. Hall, 1999 | * 1999: G. K. Hall, 1999 | ||
* 1999: University of Nebraska Press, as ''Mizora: A World of Women'' | * 1999: University of Nebraska Press, as ''Mizora: A World of Women'' | ||
==Further reading== | |||
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizora Wikipedia] | |||
* [http://www.sfsite.com/09a/miz88.htm SFSite review] | |||
[[Category:1881 publications]] | [[Category:1881 publications]] | ||
[[Category:Novels]] | [[Category:Novels]] | ||
Latest revision as of 12:07, 7 December 2010
Mizora (also published as Mizora: A Prophecy and Mizora: A World of Women) was a novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane.
An early feminist utopian novel, Mizora tells the story of a Russian noblewoman, Vera Zarovitch, who escapes from Sibera into Mizora, a hidden world of peace and happiness, run by (super)women. No men are in the world; women reproduce by parthenogenesis. It is explicitly racist.
Editions
- Mizora: A Prophecy: A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of Princess Vera Zarovitch: Being a True and Faithful Account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a Careful Description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners, and Government. (original publication, Nov. 1880-Feb. 1881 in the Cincinnati Commercial, under the pseudonym Princess Vera Zaravitch)
- 1890: Dillingham, New York
- 1975: Gregg Press, Boston, with introduction by Kristine Anderson and Professor Fulwer R. Blurth
- 1999: G. K. Hall, 1999
- 1999: University of Nebraska Press, as Mizora: A World of Women