[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dystopia"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Congratulations on your impressive antedating, Fred. Following your
lead, here is a citation a few months earlier in Plymouth, England.

Date: July 23, 1919
Newspaper: The Western Morning News
Newspaper Location: Plymouth, Devon, England
Article: New or Recent Books
Quote Page 2, Column 7
Database: Newspapers.com
https://www.newspapers.com/image/816090475/?terms=dystopia&match=1

[Begin excerpt]
ANYMOON. By Horace Bleakley. (John Lane, 7s net.)--Whether Mr.
Bleakley is a prophet in his own country or wishes to be regarded as
one is not very evident. He may not take his dystopia, if one may call
it so, any more seriously than Sir Thomas More took his provision of
the ideal future state.
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 6:56 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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> dystopia (OED 1952)
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> 1919 _N.Y. Times_ 19 Dec. 14/3 (Newspapers.com)  Under the august reign of Mr. TOWNLEY North Dakota has no use for such a guarantee or such a government.  For the moment it belongs to Utopia or Dystopia rather than these United States.
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> Fred Shapiro
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