Herland(她乡)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Chapter 1A
Not Unnatural Enterprise
This is written from memory, unfortunately. If I could have
brought with me the material I so carefully prepared, this would be
a very different story. Whole books full of notes, carefully copied
records, firsthand descriptions, and the pictures—that's the worst
loss. We had some bird's-eyes of the cities and parks; a lot of
lovely views of streets, of buildings, outside and in, and some of
those gorgeous gardens, and, most important of all, of the women
themselves.
Nobody will ever believe how they looked. Descriptions aren't
any good when it comes to women, and I never was good at
descriptions anyhow. But it's got to be done somehow; the rest of
the world needs to know about that country.
I haven't said where it was for fear some self-appointed
missio…