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- Title: Vogel in Wales: Anno Domini 2000, 'Lady Gwen' and the Federated Empire (Julius Vogel) (Critical Essay)
- Author : JNZL: Journal of New Zealand Literature
- Release Date : January 01, 2003
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 192 KB
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Julius Vogel's utopian novel Anno Domini 2000 (1889), though not republished until 2000 (1), kept some reputation in New Zealand, especially for its visionary affirmation that 'Woman's Destiny' (its challenging subtitle) lies in women's future political and intellectual leadership. Its original sales were disappointing, however, and its British publisher Hutchinson wrote it off a year after publication as a 'big failure.' (2) There has been no consideration of its impact, if any, on readers in Britain. (3) In fact, the novel inspired an acknowledged imitation. 'Lady Gwen, or, The Days That Are To Be. By a Welsh Nationalist' openly appropriated Vogel's whole narrative of twentieth-century world history, and adapted his model of federated self-governing states and his feminist ideal to the nationalistic aspirations of Wales. Mainly polemical and discursive, using its slight story as a frame for the political material, the novel was published in the journal Cymru Fydd (literally, "Wales To Be'), which took its title from the home rule movement of that name. The story ran in English, though much of the journal is in Welsh, over eight installments, from June 1890 (Vol. 3, No. 6) to March 1891 (Vol. 4, No. 2), when the journal ceased publication, following the collapse of the first Cymru Fydd movement.