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== ''Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's destiny (1889)'' by Julius Vogel ==
[https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1v4/vogel-julius Julius Vogel] (1889). ''[http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/tm/scholarly/tei-AnnVoge.html Anno Domini 2000, or, Woman's destiny]''. London : Hutchinson.[https://nzhistory.govt.nz/media/photo/anno-domini-2000]
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'''Beresford, J. D.''' (1873-1947) ''Goslings (A World of Women).'' London : William Heinemann, 1913. OCLC 1062946870 [Gutemberg [http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/53611 online]]
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'''BOOK I. THE NEW PLAGUE'''
I. THE GOSLING FAMILY
II. THE OPINIONS OF JASPER THRALE
III. LONDON'S INCREDULITY
IV. MR BARKER'S FLAIR
V. THE CLOSED DOOR
VI. DISASTER
VII. PANIC
VIII. GURNEY IN CORNWALL
IX. THE DEVOLUTION OF GEORGE GOSLING
X. EXODUS
'''BOOK II. THE MARCH OF THE GOSLINGS'''
XI. THE SILENT CITY
XII. EMIGRANT
XIII. DIFFERENCES
XIV. AUNT MAY
XV. FROM SUDBURY TO WYCOMBE
XVI. THE YOUNG BUTCHER OF HIGH WYCOMBE
'''BOOK III. WOMANKIND IN THE MAKING'''
XVII. LONDON TO MARLOW
XVIII. MODES OF EXPRESSION
XIX. ON THE FLOOD
XX. THE TERRORS OF SPRING
XXI. SMOKE
'''EPILOGUE. THE GREAT PLAN'''
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=== Prologue. A.D. 1920 ===
Had not, it was asked, every human being the right to demand from a world which through PAGE 8the resources of experience and science became constantly more productive a sufficiency of sustenance?
Again the fate of George Sonsius became the familiar topic of the press. But the impression was not an ephemeral one.
The fierce spirit of discontent which for years had been smouldering burst into flames. A secret society called the "Live and Let Live" was formed, with ramifications throughout PAGE 10the world. The force of numbers, the force of brute strength, was appealed to.
A bold and outspoken declaration was made that every human being had an inherent right to sufficient food and clothing and comfortable lodging. Truly poor George Sonsius died for the good of many millions of his fellow-creatures. Our history will show the point at length achieved.
=== Chapter I. The Year 2000—United Britain ===
The strongest point of the century which has been the astonishing improvement of the condition of mankind and the no less striking advancement of the intellectual power of woman. (p.28)
The barriers which man in his own interest set to the occupation of woman having once been broken down, the progress of woman in all pursuits requiring judgment and intellect has been continuous; and the sum of that progress is enormous. (...) Progress has necessarily become greater because it is found that women bring to the aid of more subtle intellectual capabilities faculties of imagination that are the necessary adjuncts of improvement. The arts and caprices which in old days were called feminine proved to be the silken chains fastened by men on women to lull them into inaction. (p.29)
* Hilda Richmond Fitzherbert
was born in New Zealand and at twenty-two(*) she was elected to the Federal Parliament, and she had now become Under-Secretary of State for Home Affairs. (...) In lonely maidenhood I will live and die. (p.43)
(*) Every adult of eighteen years of age was allowed to vote and was consequently, by the laws of the Empire, eligible for election.
Hilda Fitzherbert was a thoroughly good, true-hearted, and lovable girl. Clever, well informed, and cultivated to the utmost, she had no disposition to prudery or priggishness. She was rather inclined to under- than over-value herself. (p.45)
* Mrs. Hardinge
was not only Prime Minister of the empire of Britain, but the most powerful and foremost statesman in the world.(...) the purest Irish blood ran through her veins.
Hilda Fitzherbert worshipped her; and Mrs. Hardinge, childless and with few relations, loved and admired the girl with a strength and tenacity that made their official relations singularly pleasant. (p.47)
The position of the Emperor was indeed a difficult one. (...) When the Imperial Constitution of Britain was promulgated, women were beginning to acquire more power; but no one thought of suggesting that the preferential succession to the direct heirs male should be withdrawn. (p.50)
Meanwhile women advanced, and in all other classes of life they gained perfect equality with regard to the laws of succession and other matters, but the custom still remained by which the eldest daughter of the Emperor A'ould be excluded in favour of the eldest son. Some negotiations had proceeded concerning the marriage of the Emperor to the daughter of the '''lady''' who enjoyed the position of '''President of the United States''', an intense advocate of woman's equality.
The increasing number of women elected by popular suffrage to all representative positions and the power which women invariably possessed in the Cabinet aroused the jealous anger of men.
[The bride of Emperor ] she was excessively firm in her opinions as to the superiority of women over men; and he strongly suspected she would be for ever striving to rule not only the household, but the Empire.
=== Chapter II. The Emperor and Hilda Fitzherbert ===
* Emperor 27 years old / chat with Hilda about the question of altering the nature of the succession.
=== Chapter III. Lord Reginald Paramatta ===
* Lord Reginald, brother of the Countess of Middlesex, brilliant officer and high political position in the Federal Parliament. Family from New South Wales.
=== Chapter IV. A Partial Victory ===
The Emperor desired that all reference to it should be omitted. He told Mrs. Hardinge frankly he had decided not to agree to an alteration, but he said his greatest pain in refusing was the consciousness that it might deprive him of his present advisers.
"I have resolved to break off the negotiations with the President of the United States for her daughter's hand. I do not think the union would be happy for either, and I take exception to the strong terms in which the President has urged a change in the succession of our imperial line." (p.86)
the proposal to change the law of succession within the imperial family
* Countess of Cairo (the leader of the Opposition) & Lord Reginald
He fully recognised that the immense progress of the world during the last hundred years was largely due to the intellectual advancement of women. He equally rejected the idea that women were unfitted to rule over a constitutionally governed empire.(p.93)
After some more debating a division ensued, and the resolution was lost by two votes only. (p.98)
=== Chapter V. Cabinet Negotiations ===
MRS. HARDINGE tendered the resignation of the Government to the Emperor, who at once sent for Lady Cairo, the leader of the Opposition. He asked her to form an administration...Mrs. Hardinge considered an insufficient parliamentary confidence.
She could not attempt to form a Government unless in combination with Lord Reginald, who moved the resolution. The animosity he had displayed to the Government made it probable, almost certain, that he would do what he could to aid her; it might even be expected that he would induce all or nearly all of his followers to come over to her;
=== Chapter VI. Baffled Revenge ===
* Maud Fitzherbert
HILDA'S most confidential secretary was her sister.
* Colonel Laurient
The Emperor's most devoted friend and to consider that in virtue thereof the members of the bodyguard regarded him as their head, because he stood to them in the place of the Emperor himself.
Complot desmontado.
=== Chapter VII. Heroine Worship ===
She turned the medallion, and on the back she found these words engraved; "Albert Edward to Hilda, in testimony of his admiration and gratitude." He must have had these words engraved during the night.
Hilda that the Emperor wished to do her public honour by making her a countess in her own right.(...)"It will lose me my seat in Parliament," she said. "No. You will only have to stand for re-election, and no one will oppose you."
Hilda represented Dunedin in the New Zealand Parliament (...) under the tutelage of Mrs. Hardinge, she had preferred entering into federal politics, though she continued in the New Zealand Parliament. (...) There was such an absence of friction between the federal and the separate dominion governments that no inconvenience resulted from the dual attention, while it led to a more intimate knowledge of local duties.
=== Chapter VIII. Air-Cruisers ===
aerial machines:
air-cruisers
Balloons
Aerial travelling was practicable in vessels considerably heavier than the air, by the use of quickly revolving fans. (...) The aerial mode of travelling was much employed by the adventurous, but hundreds of people lost their lives annually.
Inventors' Institution, this association offered a large reward for the best suggestion as to the nature of an invention to render aerial travelling safe, quick, and economical.(...)they constructed it on a commercial basis.
(...) The Institution offered twenty-five thousand pounds for a discovery on the lines indicated; and the Government offered seventy-five thousand pounds more on the condition that they should have the right to purchase the invention and preserve it as a secret, they supplying the material for civil purposes, but retaining absolute control over it for military purposes.
..the inventor or discoverer was PAGE 188a young Jewish woman not yet thirty years of age...She had a wonderful knowledge of ancient languages, and she searched for information concerning chemical secrets which she believed lost to the present day. She had a notion that the atomic structure of substances was better known to students in the early ages...The inventor did not patent her invention. After making an enormous fortune from it, she sold it to the Government, who took over the manufactory and its secrets;
...the inventor of this new form of power was the aunt of Colonel Laurient. She died nearly twenty years before this history, and left to him, her favourite nephew, so much of her gigantic fortune as the law permitted her to devise to one inheritor.
=== Chapter IX. Too Strange Not to Be True ===
The cruiser was beautifully constructed of pure aluminium. Everything conducive to the comfort of the passengers was provided. The machinery was very powerful, and the cruiser rose and fell with the grace and ease of a bird.
travel, gold in the river, fortune shared, broken friendship...
=== Chapter X. Lord Reginald Again ===
"I heartily congratulate you, dear Hilda, on the success of your grandfather's great undertaking. The Emperor summoned me and desired me to send you his congratulations.(...) He will now raise you to the rank of duchess, and suggests the title of Duchess of New Zealand;(...) Your re-election to Parliament will be a mere ceremony. I now beg you to enter the Cabinet as Lord President of the Board of Education, a position for which your acquirements peculiarly fit you. Your re-election to Parliament will be a mere ceremony.
(...) In less than two weeks Hilda, Duchess of New Zealand, was re-elected to Parliament by her Dunedin constituents.
...Hilda is the victim of a plot. (...) Lord Reginald either for his presence at the treasonable meeting, or for his attempted abduction of Hilda
Meanwhile the vessel raced on; but with a powerful glass they could make out that there was only one female figure on board, and that a male figure stood beside her. "Hilda," said Lord Reginald, bowing low, "forgive me. All is fair in love and war. My life without you is a misery."
(...) "It is the cruiser," she exclaimed aloud, with delight. "They are in pursuit."
(...) Hilda's immersion did her no harm...Colonel Laurient saved her...Hilda was untiring in her attention to Laurient; no sister could have nursed him more tenderly, and indeed it was as a sister she felt for him.
The sense of your presence is a consolation to me. No, I will not ask you. You know my heart, and I know yours. Your destiny will be a higher and happier one than that of the wife of a simple soldier."
"Hush!" she said. "Ambition has no place in my heart. Be always a brother to me. You can be to me no more." And she flew from the room.
=== Chapter XI. Grateful Ireland ===
...Immediately after the wedding Lord and Lady Montreal left in an air-cruiser to pass their honeymoon in Canada, and the Duchess of New Zealand at once proceeded to London, where she was rapturously received by Mrs. Hardinge.
Irland history at the declaration of the Empire, as the anniversary of the day on which the premiers of the six Australasian colonies, of the Dominion of Canada, and of the South African Dominion met and despatched the famous cablegram which, after destroying one administration, resulted in the federation of the empire of Britain.
=== Chapter XII. The Emperor Plans a Campaign ===
...as soon as my vessels have disembarked the troops they can proceed to destroy or capture such of the United States vessels of war as have dared to intrude on our Canadian waters.
=== Chapter XIII. Love and War ===
WE seldom give to Hilda her title of Duchess of New Zealand, for she is endeared to us, not on account of her worldly successes, but because of her bright, lovable, unsullied womanly nature. She was dear to all who had the privilege of knowing her. The fascination she exercised was as powerful as it was unstudied. Her success in no degree changed her kindly, sympathetic nature. She always was, and always would be, unselfish and unexacting.
Mrs. Hardinge caught Hilda in her arms, and embraced her with the affection of a mother. "Your Majesty," she said at length, "does Hilda great honour. Yet I am sure you will never regret it." "Indeed I shall not," he replied, with signal promptitude. "And it is she who does me honour. When I return from America and announce my engagement, I will take care that I let the world think so."
The railway and telegraph stations, public buildings, and newspaper offices were in the hands of the invaders. Colonel Laurient himself led the force to Washington. At about four o'clock in the morning between twenty and thirty air-cruisers, crowded with armed soldiers, reached that city. With a little fighting, the Treasury and Arsenal were taken possession of, and the newspaper offices occupied. About one thousand men invaded the White House, some entering by means of the air-cruisers through the roof and others forcing their way through the lower part of the palace. There was but little resistance; and within an hour the President of the United States, in response to Colonel Laurient's urgent demand, received him in one of the principal rooms. She was a fine, handsome woman of apparently about thirty-five years of age. Her daughter, a young lady of seventeen, was in attendance on her.
"Madam," he said, bowing low to the President, "my imperial master the Emperor of Britain, in response to what he considers your wanton invasion of British territory in his Canadian dominions, has taken possession of New York, and requires me to lead you a prisoner to the British flagship stationed off that city.
(...)The battle was stayed as speedily as possible; and the British and Canadian forces found themselves in possession of over one hundred and thirty thousand prisoners, besides all the arms, ammunition, artillery, and camp equipage. It was a tremendous victory.
=== Chapter XIV. The Fourth of July Retrieved ===
Mrs. Washington-Lawrence & daughter ; 2 marriages ; anexion
=== Chapter XV. Conclusion ===
True love seeks the happiness of the object it cherishes, not its misery.
If you truly loved me, you would have the strength to sacrifice your love to the conviction that it would wreck my happiness."
Their marriage was deferred for a month in consequence of Colonel Laurient's death, but the ceremony was a grand one.
=== Epilogue ===
The Princess was an accomplished linguist; and few excelled her in knowledge of history, past and contemporaneous. She took great interest in public affairs.
The Emperor and Empress loved each other as much as ever, but to both the discussion of the question of succession was fraught with bitter pain.
Many years since, Mrs. Hardinge died quite suddenly of heart disease; and Lady Cairo had for a long period filled the post of Prime Minister.
"I am grateful, Sir, for this assurance. Its memory will live in my mind. And now let me say that, having for a long while considered the subject with the utmost attention I could give to it, I am of opinion that the present law by which the female succession is partly barred is not a just one. I will not, however, say that it ought to be altered against a living representative; but I decidedly think that it should be amended as regards those unborn. The decision I have come to then does not depend upon the amendment in the Constitution which I believe to be desirable. It arises from personal causes. I believe that my sister Victoria is as specially fitted for the dignity and functions of empress, as I am the reverse.(...) Why I have dwelt on your fitness for the position, Victoria, is because I do not believe that I should be justified in renouncing the succession unless I could honestly feel that a better person would take my place." (...)
"Mother, I probably shall not marry; and if I do, my renunciation of the succession will justify me in marrying as my heart dictates, and not to satisfy State exigencies. I shall be well assured that whomever I marry will be PAGE 327content to take me for myself, and not for what I might have been. As to the children, they will be educated to the station to which they will belong, surely a sufficiently exalted one."
The Emperor now interposed. "You are young," he said, "to speak of wife and children; but you have spoken with the sense and discretion of mature years. I understand, that if you renounce the succession, you will do so in the full belief that you will be consulting your own happiness and not injuring those who might be your subjects, because you leave to them a good substitute in your sister."
"You have rightly described my sentiments," said the boy.
"Then, Albert," said the Emperor, "I will give my consent to the introduction of a measure that, preserving your rights, will as regards the future give to females an equal right with males to the succession. As regards yourself, I think the Act should give you after your majority a right, entirely depending on your own discretion, of renunciation in favour of your sister, and provide that such renunciation shall be finally operative."
p.328
Our history for the present ends with the passage of the Act described by the Emperor; an Act considered to be especially memorable, since it removed the last disability under which the female sex laboured.
p.329
First, it has been designed to show that a recognised dominance of either sex is unnecessary, and that men and women may take part in the affairs of the world on terms of equality, each member of either sex enjoying the position to which he or she is entitled by reason of his or her qualifications.
The second object is to suggest that the materials are to hand for forming the dominions of Great Britain into a powerful and beneficent empire.
The third purpose is to attract consideration to the question as to whether it is not possible to relieve the misery under which a large portion of mankind languishes on account of extreme poverty and destitution. The writer has a strong conviction that every human being is entitled to a sufficiency of food and clothing and to decent lodging whether or not he or she is willing to or capable of work.
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