Mizora: A Prophecy

This new edition of Mizora about an 1880s radical feminist utopia includes a new, extensive introduction--a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the work--that provides a critical apparatus to appropriately place Mizora and author Mary E. Bradley Lane 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,...