M. L. Campbell 11 min read

After a lifetime of unreliable servants, John finally unveils his queer-looking invention, a mechanical maid-of-all-work with long windmill arms, ready to take over the housekeeping.

M. L. Campbell's 1893 story is a charming, prophetic early tale of a household robot. Witty, inventive, historically remarkable. Read it for a delightful nineteenth-century vision of domestic automation, an ancestor of every robot-servant story, told with warm domestic humor by a woman writer well ahead of her time.

In its time

Published in 1893, during the 1890s, wells arrives.

Reading it

11 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).