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# Unveiling a Parallel
## By Alice Ilgenfritz Jones and Ella Merchant
### Published (1893)

  Originally published anonymously by ["Two Women of the
  West"](http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/two_women_of_the_west),
  this satirical novel depicts two women-centered utopian societies: one
  with total economic and sexual freedom for women, the other chaste but
  communally-supportive. Alice Ilgenfritz Jones (1846-1906) published
  other novels in her lifetime, including an intersectional novel on
  race called [Beatrice of Bayou
  Têche](https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/0679.htm); her writing partner
  Mary Ella Merchant (1857-1916) managed a large Cedar Rapids printing
  company and travelled extensively. See this article on [Unveiling a
  Parallel and Ella
  Merchant](https://lizadaly.com/pages/utopian-novels/unveiling-a-parallel.html)
  and the [critical edition by Carol A.
  Kolmerten](https://play.google.com/store/books/details?id=8GD9gU8Dlw4C&rdid=book-8GD9gU8Dlw4C&rdot=1&source=gbs_vpt_read)
  for biographies of the authors and analysis of the story.

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## Book cover
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Cover image generated by a computer program called [Random
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