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Mrs. M. A. Pittock
An early American novelist best remembered for a bold feminist utopian tale, she published under the name Mrs. M. A. Pittock. Her surviving work offers a glimpse of late-19th-century ideas about gender, society, and freedom.
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The God of Civilization: A Romance
by Mrs. M. A. Pittock
About the author
Born Minnie Amelia Weeks in California, Minnie A. Weeks Pittock was an American novelist who wrote under the name Mrs. M. A. Pittock. She married publisher George Washington Pittock, and the couple had one son, Reuben Weeks Pittock.
She is known for The God of Civilization: A Romance (1890), a novel that has been described as a feminist utopian work. The book stands out for imagining social arrangements that move beyond rigid expectations for women and men, giving it an unusual place in early speculative fiction.
Although little of her writing is widely known today, her work has continued to attract interest from readers of utopian and feminist literature. She died on May 16, 1915, in Tucson, Arizona.