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Publishing | Rose Allatini | It is titled from a phrase in the book of Isaiah which is read by Christians as a prophecy of the persecutions awaiting the Messiah, or Jesus
Christ. Its dedication, To You Who Made Me... |
Reception | Rose Allatini | At this hearing (the second part of the prosecution, following a meeting on 25 September), the political content of the novel was the text, and the (homo)sexual content the subtext. Counsel for the defence pointed... |
Textual Features | Jane Hume Clapperton | Her almost innumerable sources include Charles Darwin
, Herbert Spencer
, Thomas Malthus
, Thomas Huxley
, Francis Galton
, Edward Carpenter
, John A. Hobson
, and Sidney Webb
. She was also inspired... |
politics | Isabella Ormston Ford | IOF
's upbringing led her at an early age to pledge to a friend to the improving of the state of the world. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 16 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Ormston Ford | Early in her writing career, IOF
was influenced by the work of Edward Carpenter
and Walt Whitman
. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 23-24 |
Reception | Isabella Ormston Ford | When it was published as a volume, a reviewer for the Saturday Review called it a clever and careful piece of work by an author new to fiction, “19th Century British Library Newspapers”. Gale: 19th Century British Library Newspapers. 1890 (27 December 1890): 3 |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | In 1875 or 1876, IOF
met the writer Edward Carpenter
, who introduced her to socialist ideals. Spartacus Educational. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 23 |
Cultural formation | E. M. Forster | EMF
made a visit to the sexual and social reformer Edward Carpenter
at Milthorpe in Northamptonshire which is thought to have been instrumental in forwarding his acceptance of his own homosexuality. Copley, Anthony. A Spiritual Bloomsbury. Lexington Boooks. 97 |
Intertextuality and Influence | E. M. Forster | The genesis of this novel probably dates from a visit which EMF
made in September 1913 to the socialist and homosexual activist Edward Carpenter
, whose lifelong campaign against prejudice and inequity were an inspiration... |
Friends, Associates | Mary Gawthorpe | MG
equally admired A. R. Orage
and Holbrook Jackson
, founders of the Leeds Arts Club
. At the Club she also met Edward Carpenter
, W. B. Yeats
, G. K. Chesterton
, George Bernard Shaw |
politics | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The contrast between the poor, work-worn protesters and the richly decorated, fashionable church deeply affected her conscience. The next day she presented herself at the Bristol Socialist Society
's headquarters, where Robert Weare
advised her... |
Friends, Associates | Katharine Bruce Glasier | Her involvement in socialist circles led her to acquaintance with Sidney
and Beatrice Webb
, Edward Hulton
(editor of the Sunday Chronicle), and Robert Blatchford
, for whom she wrote several articles. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 71 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | KBG
was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman
, Edward Carpenter
, and Plato
. Thompson, Laurence. The Enthusiasts. Victor Gollancz Limited. 69 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Katharine Bruce Glasier | The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris
and Walt Whitman
, while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter
. Glasier, Katharine Bruce, and John Bruce Glasier. The Religion of Socialism: Two Aspects. Labour Press Society Limited;Labour Literature Society. title page, 1 |
Literary responses | Dora Marsden | A number of comments on the journal and its legacy were highly laudatory. In about 1913, supporter and occasional contributor Edward Carpenter
wrote to Marsden: The Freewoman did so well . . . under your... |
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