“In the year 2026, England enjoyed peace and tranquility under the absolute dominion of a female sovereign.”-Jane C. It’s listed as Feminist Literature and she starts her novel by saying: But Loudon wrote her science fiction in 1827, 195 years ago-very futuristic for a female living during the Romantic era. Additionally, controlled flames adorn her female characters’ hair and they wear trousers, which makes me think of Katniss in Suzanne Collins’s Hunger Games. She predicted a type of internet in The Mummy. She even introduces a female ruler, and automaton surgeons and lawyers. Her novel reads like a prophecy of the future in science, and she packed it with uncanny accuracy about society, technology, and even fashion. Loudon was a pioneer in science fiction before the genre ever had a name. Her novel - The Mummy: Or A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century - was science fiction, not gothic horror. Webb (later she became Loudon) introduced the first fictional mummy in 1827. While researching for my creating monsters series, it surprised me to learn that The Mummy we know today varies greatly from the original Mummy, not only in name, but in appearance and purpose, as well.
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