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131: 22: 292: 503: 252:, its reabsorption into the Empire, and the ensuing marriage of Hilda and the Emperor. Several years later, the Emperor and his Empress find that their opinions about male primacy in royal succession have reversed themselves, when faced with a brilliantly competent princess and bookish, scholarly prince as prospective heirs apparent to the throne. 244:. However, Sir Reginald Paramatta, a villainous Australian republican, has his eyes set on the abduction and wooing of Miss Fitzherbert. Miss Fitzherbert foils the Republican plans and falls in love with Emperor Albert, the dashing young ruler of the Federated British Empire. 247:
Unfortunately, their plans hit a snag when the Emperor refuses the hand of the female US president's daughter, which precipitates an Anglo-American war, which the Empire wins, leading to the dissolution of the
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It has attracted posthumous recognition for its uncanny representation of New Zealand's female-dominated political, judicial and corporate executive hierarchies in 2000. It was reissued in 2001, and the
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as ""that unenviable kind of book that many have heard of but almost no one has read". His 2002 edition of the novel was published with the tagline, "The Utopian Novel That Got the Future Right".
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while he was in England. It anticipated a utopian world where women held many positions of authority, and in fact New Zealand became
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The novel describes the exploits of Hilda Fitzherbert, a 23-year-old Undersecretary for Home Affairs in a future where the
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with a retrospective chapter describing the origins of the book and the early newspaper reviews.
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has achieved both female suffrage (which New Zealand granted in real life in 1893) and become an
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published its first American edition in 2002. An ebook version was published in 2013 by
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This article about an 1880s science fiction novel is a
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