A pioneering feminist utopia-bold, brilliant, and deeply conflicted First serialized in the Cincinnati Commercial (1880-1881) and published in book form in 1890, Mizora follows Russian exile Vera Zarovitch into a hidden, all-female civilization inside the Earth. In Mizora, chemistry replaces agriculture, teachers are society's elite, weather is engineered, and poverty is unknown. Lane's women reproduce by parthenogenesis, creating a society without men-and raising timeless questions about technology, equality, and the price of "perfection." Long overlooked, Mizora is now recognized as one of the earliest portraits of a self-sufficient female society and a cornerstone of feminist speculative fiction.