Wooldridge, C W
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1847-1908) UK physician and author, in USA from childhood. In his Near Future Utopia, Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History (1902), a charismatic figure resembling Theodore Roosevelt begins to transform America by setting the army – idle in 1913 because there are no wars about to happen – to the task of building the West on utopian lines. Their climactic achievement is a utopian City-state in California, which by 1947 features Weather Control, sustainable industries, Economic equality, and other virtuous outcomes. [JC]
Charles William Wooldridge
born Hull, Yorkshire: 22 May 1847
died Helena, Montana: 16 October 1908
works (fiction only)
- Perfecting the Earth: A Piece of Possible History (Cleveland, Ohio: Utopia Publishing Company, 1902) [hb/]
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