Olerich, Henry
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1851-1927) US teacher and author of a series of Utopian novels, some barely fictionalized. A Cityless and Countryless World (1893), whose narrator has been taking dictation from a long=term visitor from Mars, fairly vividly presents a proposal to organize life on Earth as it is on the fourth planet, where women are financially and sexually independent of men (see Feminism). His remaining books – even The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence (1923) – fatally eschew narrative; the extent to which various titles are in effect revisions of one another has not been examined. [JC]
Henry Olerich
born Hazel Green, Grant County: Wisconsin: February 1851
died Omaha, Nebraska: 10 May 1927
works
- A Cityless and Countryless World: An Outline of Practical Co-operative Individualism (Holstein, Iowa: Gilmore and Olerich, 1893) [hb/nonpictorial]
- Modern Paradise: An Outline or Story of How Some of the Culture People will Probably Live, Work and Organize in the Near Future (Omaha, Nebraska: Equality Publishing Co, 1915) as by Professor Henry Olerich [hb/]
- Cause and Cure of the High Cost of Living: Reconstruction Program for Political, Social and Industrial Democracy (Omaha, Nebraska: Henry Olerich, 1919) [hb/]
- The Story of the World a Thousand Years Hence: An Interesting Scientific Forecast of the Important Progressive Changes That Will Likely Take Place on our Earth During the Next Thousand Years (Omaha, Nebraska: Olerich Publishing Co, 1923) as by Professor Henry Olerich [hb/]
- The New Life and Future Mating (Omaha, Nebraska: Olerich Publishing Co, 1927) as by Professor Henry Olerich [hb/]
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