Mizora

Mary E. Bradley, later Mrs. Lane who also wrote under the pseudonym Princess Vera Zarovitch, was an American author. Mizora: A Prophecy is a utopian novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane and was first published serially in 1880-1881. In it an all-female "utopia" exists in the centre of the Earth. They reproduce through parthenogenesis, practice eugenics, and all of them are blonde "Aryan" types. As a utopian novel it did devote some time to the futuristic technology they had such as "videophones. " It is said men are more forgotten than they are hated. The "utopia" also "works" through universal education and "good examples" by the leadership. The author was nearly anonymous as Mrs. Lane did not want her husband to find out she was writing about the world being better off without men. Interestingly the book's full title is quite long. The full title is Mizora: A Prophecy: A Mss. Found Among the Private Papers of Princess Vera Zarovitch: Being a True and Faithful Account of her Journey to the Interior of the Earth, with a Careful Description of the Country and its Inhabitants, their Customs, Manners, and Government.