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Astræa's Return or, the Halcyon Days of France in the Year 2440: A Dream: Translated from the French, by Harriot Augusta Freeman

1797-06 Subjects: Antislavery movements, Censorship, Social problems, Utopias Forms: Fiction Translation Status: Retranslation English London

Authors of source text

Louis-Sébastien Mercier

Contributions

Harriet Augusta Freeman: translator
Harriet Augusta Freeman: publisher
Hookham and Carpenter (James Carpenter): bookseller
Thomas Chapman: bookseller
Hookham and Carpenter (Thomas Hookham): bookseller

Related resources

is translation of: L'An deux mille quatre cent quarante. Rêve s'il en fût jamais: suivi de l'Homme de Fer, songe has translation
has paratext: Astræa's Return or, the Halcyon Days of France in the Year 2440: A Dream: Translated from the French, by Harriot Augusta Freeman paratext

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British Library

Notes

Review in the Monthly Mirror praises the translator for her 'uncommon fidelity and exactness'. https://books.google.be/books?id=w8sPAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA39&dq=Astr%C3%A6a%27s+return+or,+the+halcyon+days+of+France+in+the+year+2440&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjb56ucxYXyAhXIVsAKHe6yDeIQ6AEwA3oECAMQAg#v=onepage&q=Astr%C3%A6a's%20return%20or%2C%20the%20halcyon%20days%20of%20France%20in%20the%20year%202440&f=false.

An earlier translation of the original 1771 edition (without 'L'Homme de Fer, songe'), 'Memoirs of the Year Two Thousand Five Hundred', with translator's footnotes, was made by Dr. William Hooper in 1772. Hooper's translation was reissued in Philadelphia by Kelley in 1795, making it the first utopian novel published in the US.