Henry Richard Vassall Fox Henry Richard Vassall Fox i(A108577 works by) (a.k.a. Lord Holland; Baron Holland)
Born: Established: 21 Nov 1773 Wiltshire,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
; Died: Ceased: 22 Oct 1840 Kensington, London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,

Gender: Male
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1 5 y separately published work icon Account of an Expedition to the Interior of New Holland The Southlanders : An Account of an Expedition into the Interior of New Holland Richard Whately , Henry Richard Vassall Fox , Mary (Lady) Fox (editor), London : Richard Bentley , 1837 Z1415984 1837 single work novel fantasy science fiction

A politico-philosophical romance set in an ideal society, and which according to Everett Bleiler, contains some slight science-fiction elements. In his outline of the narrative, Bleiler writes:

The narrator and his friends decide to visit a thriving English-speaking state in the wilds of New Holland. After travelling inland across mountain ranges for several hundred miles they come to Southland [a loose federation of eleven states, which] is a prosperous land colonised by English dissenters during the Reformation, about three hundred years earlier. The travellers become acquainted with informed citizens, including several titled persons, and are instructed about the new land. The population is now of mixed origin, European and aborigine [sic], and there is no racial prejudice. Indeed, in some parts of Southland, one must prove partial aboriginal [sic] ancestry before qualifying for public office (p.262).

The book essentially serves to propose another possible society, and in this respect the authors consider the political structure of Southland in some detail.

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