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Edward Carpenter
Standard Name: Carpenter, Edward
Indexed Name: Edward Carpenter, 1844 - 1929
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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... |
Friends, Associates | Isabella Ormston Ford | In 1875 or 1876, IOF
met the writer Edward Carpenter
, who introduced her to socialist ideals. Hannam, June. Isabella Ford. Basil Blackwell. 23 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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... |
Timeline
1878: William Swan Sonnenschein and J. Archibald...
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1878
William Swan Sonnenschein
and J. Archibald Allen
formed a partnership in the publishing firm of Swan Sonnenschein and Allen
, at 15 Paternoster Square, London.
After 25 May 1895: Following the conviction of Oscar Wilde,...
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After 25 May 1895
Following the conviction of Oscar Wilde
, Edward Carpenter
's publisher broke his contract to publish Love's Coming of Age, after discovering that Carpenter had privately printed a pamphlet entitled Homogenic Love.
June 1897: The first issue of The Adult, a periodical...
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June 1897
The first issue of The Adult, a periodical from the Legitimation League
, appeared: it campaigned for the rights of the illegitimate and for sex education.
31 May 1898: George Bedborough, secretary of the Legitimation...
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31 May 1898
George Bedborough
, secretary of the Legitimation League
which sought to change the law to improve the position of illegitimate children, was arrested, largely in an attempt to damage the League through him.
July 1914: The British Society for the Study of Sex...
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July 1914
The British Society for the Study of Sex Psychology
was founded with Edward Carpenter
as its first president.
Texts
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