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Issue Details: First known date: 1883... 1883 A Few Hours in a Far-Off Age
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The unnamed narrator travels from the present day (1883) into the distant future, a utopian future. She observes a woman and her two late-teenage children, a girl and boy, as they travel through a museum that houses 'relics of what was once called the "Christian Era," subsequently designated by historians as the "The Age of Blood and Malevolence," the period from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The children are instructed on the gender inequalities of the past.

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'If you are under eighteen years old, close this book' : Henrietta Dugdale, the Suffrage and Science Fiction Gillian Polack , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 126 2019;
y separately published work icon Henrietta Augusta Dugdale : An Activist 1827-1918 Susan Priestley , Melbourne : Melbourne Books , 2011 Z1820210 2011 single work biography 'Pioneer feminist Henrietta Augusta Dugdale holds an important place in Australian history. Her witty, forceful campaigning helped bring women's rights to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century. This biography of a thrice-married woman, who was born in St Pancras, London, during the reign of George IV and died 91 years later at Point Lonsdale, Victoria, seeks to understand why and how she came to Australia, became a vegetarian, a secularist, initiated the first female suffrage society in Australasia and, in her late middle age, published a futuristic allegory titled A Few Hours In a Far Off Age.
y separately published work icon Henrietta Augusta Dugdale : An Activist 1827-1918 Susan Priestley , Melbourne : Melbourne Books , 2011 Z1820210 2011 single work biography 'Pioneer feminist Henrietta Augusta Dugdale holds an important place in Australian history. Her witty, forceful campaigning helped bring women's rights to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century. This biography of a thrice-married woman, who was born in St Pancras, London, during the reign of George IV and died 91 years later at Point Lonsdale, Victoria, seeks to understand why and how she came to Australia, became a vegetarian, a secularist, initiated the first female suffrage society in Australasia and, in her late middle age, published a futuristic allegory titled A Few Hours In a Far Off Age.
'If you are under eighteen years old, close this book' : Henrietta Dugdale, the Suffrage and Science Fiction Gillian Polack , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Aurealis , no. 126 2019;
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