New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future

Corbett (1846-1930) was an English feminist writer whose best known work was ‘New Amazonia’, a feminist utopian novel first published in 1889. The book was written in response to Mrs Humphry Ward’s ‘An Appeal Against Female Suffrage’, an open letter published in The Nineteenth Century magazine and signed by over a hundred other women against the extension of parliamentary suffrage to women. The novel envisages a successful suffragette movement eventually giving rise to a breed of highly evolved Amazonians who turn Ireland into a Utopian society.