Mizora
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