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What would a country look like if women held power and shared duty shaped every part of life?
In New Amazonia, Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett imagines a future country where women hold the offices of state and set the rules of public life. This science fiction novel takes you through a planned society built around the hope that women can govern with greater order, fairness and care.
The journey turns from government and work to marriage, family and women's freedom. Each part of this imagined world raises questions about the author's own society. What must change when women gain real power? What does a fair country ask of its people? Here, the argument matters more than the drama.
What you’ll discover
- Women at the helm Enter a country where women hold public office and decide how society should work.
- The shape of fairness Explore the novel's hope that power can serve order, care and a fairer public life.
- Freedom within the home Consider how marriage and the law shape women's choices, rights and place in society.
- A life of duty Weigh the appeal of a planned world where rules and shared duties guide daily life.
- A future questioning its present See how an imagined country challenges the limits placed on women in the author's world.
Who will love it
Readers who enjoy imagined futures, early feminist writing, satire of Victorian manners and debates about how a fair society could be built. It rewards anyone curious about the arguments behind votes for women.
What’s inside
The key ideas, in the 15-minute summary
- A dream begins in a strange garden
- Giants who cannot believe in men
- How Ireland became a land of women
- A state that mothers its people
- Youth, long life, and chilling logic
- A visitor tests the new world
Who’s who
- The narratorAn English writer who falls asleep angry about votes for women and wakes in 2472, hoping to understand a country she cannot explain.
- Augustus Fitz-MusicusA vain British dandy with a golden mustache and a boast of royal ancestry, who wants comfort, flattery and a way back home.
- Principal Helen GreyThe calm head of the college, a hundred and fourteen years old, who guides the narrator and explains her country's beliefs.
- HildaA nineteen-year-old student of chemistry, kind and strong, who takes the narrator into her own room and looks after her.
- DoraA seven-foot student who first finds the two strangers in the garden and mistakes them for children.
- John SavilleA modest young engineer honored for his work, who debates faith, work and government with the narrator.
- Mrs. SavilleJohn's graceful mother, who shows the narrator the Domestic Aid Society and explains how families live in New Amazonia.
- Professor WiseA senior teacher who helps decide where the visitors will stay and who goes with the narrator on her first tour.
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Nueva Amazonia
by Mrs. George Corbett · 1889
A woman wakes in a garden in 2472 where seven-foot women rule Ireland and a British dandy sits in a tree.
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New Amazonia is a feminist utopian novel by Mrs. George Corbett, who died in 1930.
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A dream begins in a strange garden
The book opens in the narrator's study. She is reading the Nineteenth Century magazine and is furious about an article, signed by well-known women, that claims women do not want the vote. She sorts her sex into three groups. There are ladies who live on the money and rank of their husbands, there are women who value independence and work, and there are slaves who have been taught to accept their lot. She cheers a counter-protest in another magazine, the Fortnightly Review, and then drifts into a pleasant fancy of women in Parliament before she falls asleep.
She wakes in a glorious garden. The flowers are brilliant, the birds sing overhead, and the fruit is far finer than any she has known. Then a voice nearby asks if she lives here or has been taking hashish. It belongs to a young man perched on a tree branch, baffled by how he got there.
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What is New Amazonia about?
A woman falls asleep over a magazine article against women's suffrage and wakes in Ireland in the year 2472. There women govern a healthy, orderly state, and she explores its laws, customs and beliefs with a comic English dandy.
When was New Amazonia written and by whom?
Mrs. George Corbett wrote it, and it appeared in 1889. She wrote it as a reply to a published protest against votes for women, and she wanted to picture a country where women ruled.
Who is Augustus Fitz-Musicus?
He is a conceited British dandy who wakes in an apple tree and claims descent from King George the Fourth. He serves as the book's comic foil, since he cannot accept that women could be stronger or wiser than men.
The author
Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett
1846–1930 · British feminist and novelist
Mrs. George Corbett was the pen name of Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett, a British author born in 1846. She lived in England and died in 1930. She wrote novels and worked as a journalist. Her books include New Amazonia, which was published in 1889. She was a feminist.
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