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<sod>In 1890, Dixie published a [[utopia]]n novel, ''Gloriana, or the Revolution of 1900'', which has been described as a [[feminist science fiction|feminist fantasy]]. In it, women win the [[suffrage|right to vote]], as the result of the protagonist, Gloriana, posing as a man, Hector l'Estrange, and being elected to the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]]. The character of l'Estrange is clearly based on that of Oscar Wilde.<ref name=heilmann>Heilmann, Ann, ''Wilde's New Women: the New Woman on Wilde'' in Uwe Böker, [[Dick Corballis|Richard Corballis]], Julie A. Hibbard, ''The Importance of Reinventing Oscar: Versions of Wilde During the Last 100 Years'' (Rodopi, 2002) pp. 135–147, in particular p. 139</ref> The book ends in the year 1999, with a description of a prosperous and peaceful Britain governed by women. In the preface to the novel, Dixie proposes not only women's suffrage, but that the two sexes should be [[co-education|educated together]] and that all professions and positions should be open to both. In this preface, she goes farther and says:<ref name=gates>Gates, Barbara T. (ed.), ''In Nature's Name: An Anthology of Women's Writing and Illustration, 1780–1930'' ([[University of Chicago Press]], 2002) [https://books.google.com/books?id=QlUW4BQk2wcC&pg=PA61&lpg=PA61&dq=gloriana&source=web&ots=Rlx-3u-PYy&sig=j7OZWDh6XNij98kKcepmocrHS44&hl=en#PPA62,M1 pages 61–66] online at books.google.co.uk (accessed 9 March 2008)</ref> {{cquote|Nature has unmistakeably given to woman a greater brain power. This is at once perceivable in childhood... Yet man deliberately sets himself to stunt that early evidence of mental capacity, by laying down the law that woman's education shall be on a lower level than that of man's... I maintain to honourable gentlemen that this procedure is arbitrary and cruel, and false to Nature. I characterise it by the strong word of Infamous. It has been the means of sending to their graves unknown, unknelled, and unnamed, thousands of women whose high intellects have been wasted, and whose powers for good have been paralysed and undeveloped.}}<eod>