Herland (Annotated‪)‬

Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, composed by feminist Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The book describes an isolated society composed entirely of women, who reproduce via parthenogenesis (asexual reproduction). The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. It first appeared as a serial in The Forerunner, a magazine edited and written by Gilman between 1909 and 1916. The book is the middle volume in her utopian trilogy; it was preceded by Moving the Mountain (1911), and followed with a sequel, With Her in Ourland (1916). It was not published in book form until 1979.


This edition has formatted for your reader, with an active table of contents.  It has also been extensively annotated, with additional information about the book and its author, including an overview, plot summary, major themes, significance, reception, publication history, biographical and bibliographical information.