Gloriana: Or, The Revolution of 1900

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Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 (1890) is a novel by Lady Florence Dixie. A member of the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, Dixie believed in the emancipation of women through radical cultural and political change. Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900, a feminist utopian novel, is the story of a revolutionary hero who defies gender norms and fights for liberation by any means necessary. Gloriana pleads woman's cause, pleads for her freedom, for the just acknowledgement of her rights. It pleads that her equal humanity with man shall be recognized, and therefor that her claim to share what he has arrogated to himself, shall be considered. Gloriana pleads that in woman's degradation man shall no longer be debased, that in her elevation he shall be upraised and ennobled." Following this stirring introduction, Lady Florence Dixie tells the story of Gloriana de Lara, a woman who decides to put an end to patriarchy. Disguising herself as a man named Hector d'Estrange, she attends both Eton and Oxford and is elected a Member of Parliament. Meanwhile, she leads the revolutionary Woman's Volunteer Company on a campaign of violence against repressive authority. When a plot to reveal her identity is discovered, she is forced to go into hiding or else sacrifice years of painstaking work toward the liberation of women throughout the world. This edition of Lady Florence Dixie's Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900 is a classic of British literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Lady Florence Dixie (1855-1905) was a Scottish feminist, novelist, and war correspondent. Born in Dumfries, Scotland, she was the daughter of Archibald Douglas, Marquess of Queensberry, and his wife Caroline Margaret Clayton. As a girl, Florence was inseparable from her twin brother James and spent much of her youth swimming, hunting, and riding with her brothers. Following their fathers death from a possible suicide in 1858, the family moved to France with Caroline in the midst of a custody dispute with the Douglas family. Several years later, having retained custody of her children, Caroline returned to England, where Florence was first educated at home by a governess and then at a convent school. Soon, tragedy struck once morehaving completed the first ascent of the Matterhorn, her older brother Francis fell to his death while descending, leaving the family distraught and causing sensational headlines in newspapers around the globe. In 1875, Florence married Sir Alexander Beaumont Churchill Dixie, with whom she would raise two sons. Two years later, she published her first novel, Abel Avenged: a Dramatic Tragedy (1877), launching a career in literature. Important early works include Across Patagonia (1880), a travel narrative, and In the Land of Misfortune (1882), the result of her work as a correspondent during the First Boer and Anglo-Zulu Wars. In 1890, Dixie published her utopian novel Gloriana; or, The Revolution of 1900, the culmination of a lifetime devoted to feminist ideals.