New Amazonia: A Foretaste of the Future

Transcriber’s Note:
The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
BY MRS. GEORGE CORBETT,
Author of “The Missing Note,” “Cassandra,” “Pharisee Unveiled,” etc.
PUBLISHERS:
London —Tower Publishing Company, 91, Minories, E.C.
Newcastle-on-Tyne —Lambert & Co., Limited, 50, Grey Street.
THE NEW AMAZONIA.
It is small wonder that the perusal of that hitherto, in my eyes, immaculate magazine, the Nineteenth Century , affords me less pleasure than usual. There may possibly be some articles in it both worth reading and worth remembering, but of these I am no longer conscious, for an overmastering rage fills my soul, to the exclusion of everything else.
One article stands out with such prominence beyond the rest that, to all intents and purposes, this number of the Nineteenth Century contains nothing else for me. Not that there is anything admirable in the said article. Far from it. I look upon it as the most despicable piece of treachery ever perpetrated towards woman by women.
Indeed, were it not that some of the perpetrators of this outrage on my sex are well-known writers and society leaders, I would doubt the authenticity of the signatures, and comfort my soul with the belief that the whole affair has been nothing but a hoax got up by timorous and jealous male bipeds, already living in fear of the revolution in social life which looms before us at no distant date.
As it is, I am able to avail myself of no such doubtful solace, and I can only feel mad, downright mad—no other word is strong enough—because I am not near enough to these traitors to their own sex to give them a viva voce specimen of my opinion of them, though I resolve mentally that they shall taste of my vengeance in the near future, if I can only devise some sure method of bringing this about.