[Ads-l] Antedating of "Dystopia"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Jesse's wonderful Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction has two
senses for the noun dystopia. The July 23, 1919 citation may fit sense
1: a work set in a dystopia.

https://sfdictionary.com/view/2228/dystopia
https://sfdictionary.com/view/159/dystopia

Garson


On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 5:38 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > dystopia (OED 1952)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
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