Daring to Dream

Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950 (2nd ed.) is an anthology edited by Carol Farley Kessler.

Editions

• 1995: Syracuse University Press (2nd Ed.)
• 1984: Daring to Dream: Utopian Stories by United States Women, 1836-1919 (1st ed., Pandora: Boston, 1984)

2d edition contents (partial list)

• Lillie Devereux (Umsted) Blake, "A Divided Republic: An Allegory of the Future"
• excerpt from Martha S. Bensley Bruere, "Mildred Carver, U.S.A."
• Sarah Josepha, "Liberia: or, Mr. Peyton's Experiments"
• Winifred Harper Cooley, "A Dream of the Twenty-First Century"
• Annie Denton Cridge, "Man's Rights; or, How Would You Like It?"
• Mary H. Ford, "A Feminine Iconoclast"
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, "A Woman's Utopia"
• excerpt from Rosa Graul, "Hilda's Home: A Story of Woman's Emancipation"
• Marie Howland, "Papa's Own Girl"
• excerpts from Lilian B. Jones, "Five Generations Hence"
• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, "A Dream Within a Dream"
• Gertrude Short, "A Visitor from Venus"