Gilman

The first issue of Gilman's Forerunner (1909).

What seems to be the first book (rather than serial) edition of Herland.

Gilman herself.

Friedrich Froebel, sometimes credited with an important invention.

Images from the Smithsonian's Making of Homemakers collection

There is an essential womanhood but it's not this. Maybe it's this?

There is evolution but it's not this; maybe it's this.

Not quite what this guy thought.

Another familiar contrast between men's tastes and women's.

One analogy for Herland.

Another analogy. Who's the snake?

A future that came true.

A hard problem for Gilman's Utopian program to solve.

Naming a genre.

Using another genre.

Explicitly feminist sf: much later examples.

Looking for secondary sources? You can reach the Modern Language Association (MLA) bibliography through the main Harvard library site.



Hawthorne: a famous garden.

Hawthorne: Genesis 3, the Fall.

Hawthorne: the Roman god Vertumnus, a dude made in part of fruit.

Artificial selection gave us maize, or American corn.

The dark purple flower of doom.

Nightshade's purple flowers and dark fruit.



An apparently reliable academically sponsored reading edition of "Rappaccini's Daughter."