The article discusses Irene Clyde's Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909), which is a work of utopian fiction which envisions "a world beyond gender" (268). In it the narrator arrives in an fantasy/science fiction country and "At the end of the novel [...] the narrator recognizes her love for one of her companions, whose permanent partner she intends to become" (267). Since "Scholars cannot cite forerunners of whom they are ignorant" (268) I felt it was important to add this item here, even though the novel in question is not discussed in great detail and I cannot therefore be certain what proportion of the plot is romantic. What is discussed in considerable detail is the identity and history of the novel's author.
The article discusses Irene Clyde's Beatrice the Sixteenth (1909), which is a work of utopian fiction which envisions "a world beyond gender" (268). In it the narrator arrives in an fantasy/science fiction country and "At the end of the novel [...] the narrator recognizes her love for one of her companions, whose permanent partner she intends to become" (267). Since "Scholars cannot cite forerunners of whom they are ignorant" (268) I felt it was important to add this item here, even though the novel in question is not discussed in great detail and I cannot therefore be certain what proportion of the plot is romantic. What is discussed in considerable detail is the identity and history of the novel's author.