Herland

Author: Perkins Gilman, Charlotte, Goody, Professor Alex

Fiction & related items

Published on 23 August 2022 by Flame Tree Publishing in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Foundations of Feminist Fiction' series.

Paperback / softback | 288 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white
128 x 198 x 22 | 206g

A lost-world fantasy in the tradition of Arthur Conan Doyle and the Utopianism of William Morris, Herland inverted expectations with its exclusively female society visited by three men from the Edwardian era. An early example of feminist science fiction, this utopian fantasy explores miracle births, role reversals and concepts of peace and freedom.

Flame Tree 451 presents a new series, The Foundations of Feminist Fiction. The early 1900s saw a quiet revolution in literature previously dominated by male adventure heroes. Both men and women moved beyond the norms of the male gaze to write from a different gender perspective, sometimes with female protagonists, but also expressing the universal freedom to write on any subject whatsoever. Each book features a brand new biography and a glossary of literary terms.