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Mary Griffith

Three Hundred Years Hence

eBook ( Jan. 15, 2019)
Three Hundred Years Hence is a utopian science fiction novel by author Mary Griffith. It is the first known utopian novel written by an American woman. The novel was originally published in 1836 as part of Griffith's collection, Camperdown, or News from Our Neighborhood. The novel concerns a hero who falls into a deep sleep for 300 years and awakens in the Utopian states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.

Through this character, Griffith looks into the future of America from her time in 1836 as America's first known female utopian writer to project her protagonist into the future to encounter a vastly improved social order.

Writers of utopian fiction generally need to set their imagined societies either in a remote place (as in Sir Thomas More's original Utopia and many imitators), or in a different time.

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