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The narrative frames a visionary dream in which a young woman, returning to wild childhood haunts, contemplates society's injustices and imagines a sweeping social revolution that grants women equal legal, political, and moral standing with men. Blending satire, romance, and polemic, it diagnoses social ills rooted in custom and law, sketches alternative arrangements for gender relations, and urges collective action to dismantle oppressive institutions. Through critique, allegory, and speculative scenes the work argues for female emancipation and suggests that gender equality would elevate public morality and social well-being.

GLORIANA;
OR,
THE REVOLUTION OF 1900.

GLORIANA;
OR,
THE REVOLUTION OF 1900.

BY
LADY FLORENCE DIXIE,
AUTHOR OF “REDEEMED IN BLOOD,” “THE YOUNG CASTAWAYS,” “ACROSS PATAGONIA,” ETC.
LONDON:
HENRY AND COMPANY,
6, BOUVERIE STREET, E.C.
1890.
Printed by Hazell, Watson, & Viney, Ld., London and Aylesbury.
TO
ALL WOMEN
AND
SUCH HONOURABLE, UPRIGHT, AND COURAGEOUS
MEN

As, regardless of Custom and Prejudice, Narrow-mindedness and Long-established Wrong, will bravely assert and uphold the Laws of Justice, of Nature, and of Right; I dedicate the following pages, with the hope that a straightforward inspection of the evils afflicting Society, will lead to their demolition in the only way possible—namely, by giving to Women equal rights with Men. Not till then will Society be purified, wrongdoing punished, or Man start forward along that road which shall lead to Perfection.