SOURCE: Bellamy, Edward. “How I Wrote Looking Backward.” In Edward Bellamy Speaks Again! Articles—Public Addresses—Lectures, pp. 217-28. Kansas City, Mo: The Peerage Press, 1937.
In the following essay, originally published in the Ladies Home Journal in April 1894, Bellamy explains how he formulated his ideas about social reform and why he chose the novel form to express these ideas.
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