Karl Pearson

Standard Name: Pearson, Karl

Connections

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Family and Intimate relationships	Amy Levy	In this, says biographer Christine Pullen, AL was switching her emotional dependence from Karl Pearson (who, she felt, had betrayed their friendship) to Lee, Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press. 98 who was personally charismatic as well as being a writer...
Family and Intimate relationships	Olive Schreiner	OS met Karl Pearson (later a noted academic and two years younger than herself) at the Men and Women's Club , which he founded. They became very close friends, attempting to treat each other as...
Friends, Associates	Amy Levy	Others among her friends were Ellen Wordsworth Crofts , who later became the mother of the poet Frances Cornford , and Karl Pearson , mathematician, eugenicist, and founder of the Men and Women's Club . Pullen, Christine. The Woman Who Dared: A Biography of Amy Levy. Kingston University Press. 115, 98
Friends, Associates	Olive Schreiner	In England she also formed close friendships and intellectual bonds with feminist and socialist intellectual Eleanor Marx , barrister and mathematics professor Karl Pearson , and socialist pioneer Edward Carpenter . Others she met in...
Friends, Associates	Emma Frances Brooke	EFB met Olive Schreiner either through the Fellowship of the New Life or the Men and Women's Club , where both were associates. Schreiner read but remained noncommittal about EFB 's unpublished paper, The Woman...
Intertextuality and Influence	Jane Hume Clapperton	JHC 's work influenced both the women's movement and advocates for social change generally. It became, according to Mohan Rao , the principal text of eugenics in the nineteenth century. Rao, Mohan. From Population Control to Reproductive Health: Malthusian Arithmetic. Sage Publications. 93 In his article Socialism...
Intertextuality and Influence	Isabella Ormston Ford	As her biographer June Hannam notes, IOF engages substantially with the work of Karl Pearson for Women and Socialism, especially his idea that there has never been a Labour Question without a Woman's Question...
Leisure and Society	Amy Levy	She confessed also that to live like Clementina Black and her sister, doing their own housework, did not accord with my own Philistine, middle class notions of comfort. Beckman, Linda Hunt. Amy Levy: Her Life and Letters. Ohio University Press. 255 She engaged, however, in socially provocative...
Leisure and Society	Henrietta Müller	Henrietta Müller joined Karl Pearson 's Men and Women's Club , a London circle of freethinkers which discussed topics including prostitution, sexuality, marriage, birth control, and women's emancipation. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press. 12
politics	Isabella Ormston Ford	In London in the early 1880s, IOF and her sisters became members of a precursor to Karl Pearson 's Men and Women's Club (lauched in October 1885). Referred to simply as a men and women's...
politics	Olive Schreiner	OS 's feminist and socialist involvement in London included joining the Men and Women's Club , an intellectual organisation that struggled with issues of moral change. The club stressed the intellectual equality of men and...
politics	Emma Frances Brooke	During this time EFB also became an associate of Karl Pearson 's Men and Women's Club , an intellectual group that formed in 1885 to debate the relations between the sexes. Although she never officially...
politics	Jane Hume Clapperton	JHC was an associate of Karl Pearson 's Men and Women's Club , which was formed in London to debate the relations of the sexes. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Feminism, Sex and Morality. Tauris Parke. 6, 78
Author summary	Olive Schreiner	OS was a political and social activist as well as a writer. Her biographer Liz Stanley says she was internationally probably the best-known feminist writer and theorist from the 1880s through to the 1930s. Stanley, Liz. “Encountering the Imperial and Colonial Past through Olive Schreiner’s <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland</span&gt”;. Women’s Writing, Vol. 7 , No. 2, pp. 197-19. 198
Textual Production	Henrietta Müller	Henrietta Müller presented a critique of Karl Pearson 's The Woman's Question at the Men and Women's Club , entitled The Other Side of the Question. Bland, Lucy. Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. New Press. 10-12

Timeline

1883

Karl Pearson , closest disciple

Heilmann, Ann. New Woman Strategies: Sarah Grand, Olive Schreiner, Mona Caird. Manchester University Press.

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of Sir Francis Galton (who took over Galton's Eugenics Record Office in 1907), published a lecture, The Ethic of Freethought, which endorses the limitations imposed on women by childbearing.

9 July 1885

Karl Pearson (then a solemn, rationalist young barrister) held the first meeting of a society designed to talk about sex in a spirit of high seriousness and sense of intellectual adventure:

Walkowitz, Judith R. “Science, Feminism and Romance: The Men and Women’s Club 1885-1889”. History Workshop Journal, Vol.

, No. 1, pp. 36-59.

the Men and Women's Club

Texts

Pearson, Karl. “Socialism and Sex”. To-day: Monthly Magazine of Scientific Socialism, Vol.

, pp. 42-55.