Mizora

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Mizora: A World of Women is an utopian novel by Mary E. Bradley Lane and was first published serially in 1880-1881.

In it an all-female "utopia" exists in the center 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 book was rereleased by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Press. 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. Details of her life are therefore sketchy or unknown.

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."