12 “I am particularly desirous” – Quoted in Bellamy, p. xxxi.
13 “debated by all” – Quoted in Franklin Rosemont, “Bellamy’s Radicalism Reclaimed”, in Daphne Patai, ed., Looking Backward, 1988–1888 (University of Massachusetts Press, 1988), p. 158.
14 “I suppose you have seen or read” – Fiona MacCarthy, William Morris: A Life for Our Time (Faber & Faber, 1994), p. 584.
15 “an exceedingly remarkable book” – Leo Tolstoy, diary entry, June 30, 1889. Толстой Л. Н. Дневники, 30.06.1889.
16 “the latest and best” – J. R. LeMaster and James D. Wilson (eds.), The Mark Twain Encyclopaedia (Garland Publishing, Inc., 1993), p. 69.
17 “Bellamy is the Moses of today” – Jean Pfaelzer, The Utopian Novel in America, 1886–1896 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984), p. 48.
18 “a child of the Bellamy ideal” – John Bew, Citizen Clem: A Biography of Attlee (Riverrun, 2017), p. 390.
19 “Bellamy’s Looking Backward in reverse” – Harry Scherman, quoted in Eugene Reynal letter to J. Edgar Hoover, April 22, 1949.
20 “the solidarity of the race” – Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000–1887 (Oxford University Press, 2007), p. 78.
21 “with some impatience” – Edward Bellamy, “How I Came to Write Looking Backward”, The Nationalist, May 1889.
22 “the sober and morally-minded” – Pfaelzer, p. 44.
23 “You have taken on an impossible task” – Quoted in Adam Roberts, The History of Science Fiction (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), p. 132.
24 “a cloud palace”, “stumbled over” – Bellamy, “How I Came to Write Looking Backward.”
25 “intended, in all seriousness” – Bellamy, Looking Backward, p. 195.
26 “the logical outcome” – Bellamy, p. 68.
27 “all Socialist thought” – Orwell, “What Is Socialism?”, January 31, 1946, CW XIII, 2876, p. 60.
28 “the hygiene, the labour-saving devices” – Orwell, Review of An Unknown Land by Viscount Samuel, The Listener, December 24, 1942, The Complete Works of George Orwell XIV: Keeping Our Little Corne Clean 1942–1943 (Secker & Warburg, 2001), 1768, p. 254.
29 “festering mass” – Bellamy, Looking Backward, p. 189.
30 “The only safe way” – William Morris, Commonweal, vol. 5, no. 80, June 22, 1889.
31 “deep-seated aversion” – Quoted in Milton Cantor, “The Backward Look of Bellamy’s Socialism”, Patai (ed.), p. 21.