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Unveiling a Parallel (1893) is a novel by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant. Alongside Mary E. Bradley Lane's Mizora (1890) and Elizabeth Corbett's New Amazonia (1889), Unveiling a Parallel is an important early work of feminist utopian science fiction. "Having launched my aeroplane on the current of attraction which flows uninterruptedly between this world and that, traveling was as swift as thought. My impression is that my speed was ...

A nineteenth century voyager travels by aircraft to the planet Mars, where he encounters two advanced civilizations of Martians. In Paleveria, women have taken control over men by adopting their tactics for violence and oppression. In Caskia, men and women have learned to live in harmony. Unveiling a Parallel is a novel by Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant.

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This book, despite its obscurity, is one of the most clever and humorous of novels published in late nineteenth-century America. Whether we label it a utopian novel, a sentimental romance, an astute satire of the limitations of late nineteenth-century genders roles and 'proper' spheres for women, or a feminist novel ahead of its time is inconsequential because the book is all of these things and more.

You know how certain kinds of music will beat everything out of your consciousness except a wild delirium of joy, how love of a woman will take up every cranny of space in your being, -and fill the universe beside, -so that people who are not en rapport with the strains that delight you, or with the beauty that enthralls you, seem pitiable creatures, not in touch with the Divine Harmony, with Supreme Loveliness. So it was with me, when I set m...

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Written in 1893 by two women from Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Unveiling a Parallel is a remarkable precursor of Twentieth-century feminist utopian novels like Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Herland and Marge Piercy's Woman on the Edge of Time.