Mary E. Bradley Lane

American feminist science fiction author and teacher

Mary E. Bradley Lane (July 3, 1844, St Mary's, Ohio – January 6, 1930, Hamilton County, Ohio) was an American feminist science fiction teacher and author. She was one of the first women to have published a science fiction novel in the United States.[1]

Her novel, Mizora: A Prophecy, was first published in 1880, as a serial in a Cincinnati newspaper, and has remained remarkable for the radicalism of the feminist utopia presented, against 19th century societal norms.[2][3] She published a second novel in 1895, entitled Escanaba, which however remains lost.[4]

Works

  • Mizora, Syracuse University Press; New edition (May 1, 2000) ISBN 9780815628392
  • Escanaba

References

  1. ^ "SFE: Lane, Mary E Bradley". sf-encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  2. ^ "Have sperm will travel. But what would an all-female planet look like? | Stephanie Merritt". the Guardian. 2019-06-25. Retrieved 2022-08-13.
  3. ^ Jacobs, Naomi (2001). "Review of Mizora: A Prophecy". Utopian Studies. 12 (1): 210–212. ISSN 1045-991X.
  4. ^ Pfaelzer, Jean (1984). The utopian novel in America, 1886-1896 : the politics of form. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 0-8229-3811-1. OCLC 10696472.
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