Sir Julius Vogel, 1835–1899

Authors

  • Roger Robinson

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26686/knznq.v7i2.664

Abstract

Julius Vogel takes his place in literary history on the strength of one novel, written very late in life and with no previous experience in imaginative fiction. Yet Anno Domini 2000; or, Woman’s Destiny (1889) has a secure standing as a point of reference in histories of literary utopias, the women’s movement, and imperialism, especially but not only in New Zealand. Its curious status as a utopian classic that everyone knew about but few had read was somewhat modified by a new ‘commemorative’ edition in the actual year AD 2000, and its subsequent first American publication.

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Author Biography

Roger Robinson

References

Bohata, Kirsti, and Roger Robinson. ‘Vogel in Wales: Anno Domini 2000, “Lady Gwen” and the Federated Empire’. Journal of New Zealand Literature, 21 (2003): 140-146.

Dalziel, Margaret. ‘Vogel, Julius 1835-1899. Journalist, politician, premier, writer’. Dictionary of New Zealand Biography Volume One (1769-1869). Wellington, Ministry of Culture and Heritage, 1990, pp. 563-66.

McNaughton, Howard. ‘Drama’. The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature in English. Ed. Terry Sturm. Auckland: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 272-277.

Robinson, Roger. ‘Introduction’. Julius Vogel. Anno Domini 2000. Auckland: Exisle, 2000; Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press, 2002, pp. 11-21.

Robinson, Roger, and Nelson Wattie. ‘Science fiction’; ‘Utopian Literature’; ‘Vogel, Sir Julius’. The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, pp. 481-83, 555-56, 559. https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001

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Published

2008-06-07