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Three Hundred Years Hence

Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures, from the book that predicted the internet, to the world where men have been wiped out in a plague.

Comedian and author Viv Groskop explores five forgotten feminist futures; from the book that predicted the internet, to the world where men have been wiped out in a gender-specific plague.

Episode 1/5: Three Hundred Years Hence, by Mary Griffith, often described as the first utopian novel written by a woman, fifty years before the first female suffrage amendment.

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