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Mizora

Mary E. Bradley Lane · 1890 · Novel

Setting: 19th century

Synopsis

"This new edition of Mizora, about an 1880's radical feminist utopia, includes a new, extensive introduction that provides a critical apparatus to appropriately place Mizora and author Mary E. Bradley in the cultural and historical context of the nineteenth century. A precursor to Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward, Mizora is the first all female utopian novel in American literature. The novel follows its heroine Vera Zarovitch, a stalwart, husky woman from the Russian nobility who, after exile to Siberia, withstands the rigors of the Arctic wastelands to become the first woman to reach the North Pole.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: FictionUtopiasWomenUtopias, fictionScience fictionWomen, united states, historyFeminismFiction, general

isfdb_id: 1006901

openlibrary_id: OL469079W

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