Edward Carpenter

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.

Her dedication, dated January 1920, addresses the socialist philosopher and sexual reformer Edward Carpenter with my love and gratitude; love for the privilege of your friendship, gratitude for all your work has taught me.

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. With...

In 1875 or 1876, IOF met the writer Edward Carpenter , who introduced her to socialist ideals.. Carpenter was in Leeds conducting a series of lectures on astronomy. Though Isabella was only twenty...

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

She became a close friend of Dr Louisa Garrett Anderson , of Hertha Ayrton , physicist and suffragist, and of Ayrton's daughter, Barbara Gould . These two women, mother and daughter, embodied a thread linking...

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...

KBG was influenced early in her writing career by authors such as Walt Whitman , Edward Carpenter , and Plato .

The title page of the pamphlet references works by both William Morris and Walt Whitman , while the text itself paraphrases Edward Carpenter .

Early in her writing career, IOF was influenced by the work of Edward Carpenter and Walt Whitman . Her experiences as a labour organizer also stimulated and encouraged her writing: she become even more...

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...

Nance is almost a colourless character apart from her capacity for passion. (In an apparently non-literary book, a tradition of steamy fiction is evoked when her desire to make Kitty sorry makes her think of...

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...

IOF 's upbringing led her at an early age to pledge to a friend to the improving of the state of the world. Unlike many women of her generation, however, she was unsatisfied with...

Fifty years later in her autobiography, EPL explains how, although Katherine Price Hughes never explicitly lectured on female equality, the expectations Katherine had for the women in the club introduced Emmeline to the influence and...