Dixie, Florence
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1855-1905) UK traveller, journalist (the first female war correspondent in the English language) and author whose nonfiction Across Patagonia: A Lady Combs the Pampas (1880) – the only woman in her party, she was its dominant figure – captures something of her Feminist urgency. In Gloriana, or The Revolution of 1900 (1890) a woman disguised as a man is elected Prime Minister of the UK and, though unmasked, establishes full equality between the sexes; by 1999, a woman-ruled UK beneficently dominates its Federated Empire. Aniwee: Or, the Warrior Queen: A Tale of the Araucanian Indians and the Mythical Trauco People (1890), a Young Adult tale, features an Amazonian leader, who figures in fantastic Patagonian adventures. Isola, or The Disinherited: A Revolt for Women and All the Disinherited (1903), a play, depicts the coming to Utopian plenitude of the society of Saxcoberland on the planet Erth, which is similar but not identical to Earth, while Izra: A Child of Solitude (1906) places its version of Utopia in Loveland, an advanced venue attainable by dreaming about it. [JC]
Lady Florence Caroline Dixie
born Kinmount, Dumfriesshire, Scotland: 24 May 1855
died Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland: 7 November 1905
works
- Abel Revenged: A Dramatic Tragedy (London: no publisher given, 1877) [play: hb/]
- Gloriana, or The Revolution of 1900 (London: Henry and Co, 1890) [hb/]
- Aniwee: Or, the Warrior Queen: A Tale of the Araucanian Indians and the Mythical Trauco People (London: Henry and Co, 1890) [hb/]
- Isola, or The Disinherited: A Revolt for Women and All the Disinherited (London: Leadenhall Press, 1903) [play: hb/]
- Izra: A Child of Solitude (London: John Long, 1906) [hb/]
about the author
- Catherine Barnes Stevenson. Victorian Women Travel Writers in Africa (New York: Twayne, 1982) [nonfiction: hb/]
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