Produced by Richard Tonsing, Mary Glenn Krause, MFR, University of Massachusetts, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net NEW AMAZONIA: A FORETASTE OF THE FUTURE. 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. CONTENTS. PROLOGUE. CHAPTER I. CHAPTER II. CHAPTER III. CHAPTER IV. CHAPTER V. CHAPTER VI. CHAPTER VII. CHAPTER VIII. CHAPTER IX. CHAPTER X. CHAPTER XI. CHAPTER XII. CHAPTER XIII. CHAPTER XIV. CHAPTER XV. CHAPTER XVI. CHAPTER XVII. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE NEW AMAZONIA. PROLOGUE. 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.