Herland

A Not Unnatural Enterprise This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would be a very different story. ...

Rash Advances Not more than ten or fifteen miles we judged it from our landing rock to that last village. For all our eagerness we thought it wise to keep to the woods and go care...

A Peculiar Imprisonment From a slumber as deep as death, as refreshing as that of a healthy child, I slowly awakened. It was like rising up, up, up through a deep warm ocean, nea...

Our Venture We were standing on a narrow, irregular, all too slanting little ledge, and should doubtless have ignominiously slipped off and broken our rash necks but for the vine....

A Unique History It is no use for me to try to piece out this account with adventures. If the people who read it are not interested in these amazing women and their history, they ...

Comparisons Are Odious I had always been proud of my country, of course. Everyone is. Compared with the other lands and other races I knew, the United States of America had always...

Our Growing Modesty Being at last considered sufficiently tamed and trained to be trusted with scissors, we barbered ourselves as best we could. A close-trimmed beard is certainly...

The Girls of Herland At last Terry’s ambition was realized. We were invited, always courteously and with free choice on our part, to address general audiences and classes of girls...

Our Relations and Theirs What I’m trying to show here is that with these women the whole relationship of life counted in a glad, eager growing-up to join the ranks of workers in t...

Their Religions and Our Marriages It took me a long time, as a man, a foreigner, and a species of Christian--I was that as much as anything--to get any clear understanding of the ...

Our Difficulties We say, “Marriage is a lottery”; also “Marriages are made in Heaven”--but this is not so widely accepted as the other. We have a well-founded theory that it is b...

Expelled We had all meant to go home again. Indeed we had _not_ meant--not by any means--to stay as long as we had. But when it came to being turned out, dismissed, sent away for ...